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Season 5 - Episode 19 - Doing the same thing and expecting different results · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop, and
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  let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody good. Afternoon from the chicken coop.
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  Well, you'll listen to this in the morning, but you get the
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  point. We have a chicken who
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  consistently puts herself in the same situation day after day,
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  week after week, month after month.
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  She's one of my original chickens.
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  She is a Brown coaching and she is absolutely terrible at
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  getting herself down from the rafters and she does the same
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  thing every day. She climbs the little ladder to
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  go up to the rafters. She gets up there and then she
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  won't come back down the ladder like the rest of the chickens
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  do. She sits up there and she just.
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  Goes ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba.
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  Like she needs help. So every day I come out and I
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  help her get down by climbing the ladder and taking her down.
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  And it got me thinking because today it was pouring and I had
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  said to Mark this morning, can you please take the chicken down
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  for me when you go out to take care of your animals?
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  And he said yes, I said it was too early, it was dark, it was
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  cold and we were leaving. So can you please take her down?
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  Yes. And then he forgot.
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  So she was up there for a good chunk of the till early
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  afternoon. And no, nothing happened to her.
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  Of course, nothing happened. She's just up, up in the
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  rafters. But my point is this, how often
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  do we as human beings do this to ourselves where we keep putting
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  ourselves in the same situations that we know are not good.
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  Now mind you, this chicken has multiple spots she can sleep
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  because I do have a couple other ones that do not like to go up
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  into the rafters. And they will sit on the ladders
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  and they like it. They absolutely, because it's
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  actually like stairs more than ladders, but they will sit on
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  the stairs rather than go up. And this one goes all the way
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  up, way into the back and puts herself in this horrible
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  situation. And she does it again and again
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  and again and again. And it never ceases to amaze me
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  how much she does this and how much she causes so much grief
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  for herself. If she would just stop and not
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  do that, she wouldn't have the problem that she has.
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  But guess what? She does it everyday and we as
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  humans, we do the same things. We put ourselves in the same
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  situations. It's like if you're deciding,
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  OK, I am going to be at the beginning of this year, I'm
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  going to be so good and I'm not going to eat sweets.
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  And then all of a sudden you keep putting yourself into the
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  position where you see the sweets or you keep going and
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  getting sweets for your house. Like you're out, you're buying
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  groceries and you know, you're, you say, well, I have to have
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  some sweets in the house. I have people in the house.
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  I have other, you know, my kids, my husband, my wife.
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  They may want those sweets, whatever it is.
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  And you do it. And then you realize like, Oh my
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  gosh, they're there and they call you.
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  It's just like the chicken. And all of a sudden, before you
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  know it, you're eating the damn cookie.
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  So the point is you have to look and say, what situations am I
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  putting myself in that are just not good for me?
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  Where am I? Where is this showing up in my
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  life? And I'm using the cookie as an
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  example, but it could be anything.
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  It could be something as stupid and as silly as saying, you know
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  what? I keep putting myself in at the
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  gym at the same time every day, even though I get aggravated
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  because I know there's no other equipment and it's the only time
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  I can go. Well, really, if you want to
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  make it work, you can find a different gym.
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  You can find another way, work around it.
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  You can come up with something that will give you an ability.
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  I am the person that cannot stand going to the gym.
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  So I figured out, well, if I just walk and I just keep
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  walking, I'm going to lose the weight I wanted to lose, get in
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  shape, have great cardio health, and I did it all by walking.
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  Literally wore out pairs of sneakers walking that much.
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  But guess what? It works.
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  You can find a way around these problems when you are committed
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  to them. But you can't do it if you keep
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  repeating the same actions that you've always done.
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  You have to stop doing what you've always done and start
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  doing what you want to do to create the new version of your
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  life and yourself. It's really that simple.
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  So I'm going to challenge you to look and say, where is this
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  showing up? Where am I, the chicken that's
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  in the rafter, sitting there doing the same damn thing and
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  then screaming for help every day and not considering I don't
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  have to go to that spot. I can do something different.
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  I can change my approach. I don't need to be horrified
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  into doing it this way because it's not helping me get where I
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  want to go. All right, my friends.
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  PP. I'll see you tomorrow.