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Season 4 - Episode 250 - What is your next move? · 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.
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  To. Teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of. Thinking.
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  And just bring some joy into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey everybody, good morning from
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  the chicken coop Question of the day.
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  Is there something in your life that is confusing you where you
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  don't know what your next move should be?
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  Happens to everybody. We go through it.
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  I'm going through it with something right now and I don't
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  know what my next move should be in this situation yet.
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  So I'm in a contemplative state now.
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  The reason we're bringing this up is because it's so important.
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  Everybody goes through this and it can be a small thing or it
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  could be a big thing, but when you are trying to figure
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  something out, the strategy is very important that you start
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  with first. It's that you can't keep looking
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  at the problem and expect to just have the answer like plop
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  into your lap. Sure, every so often that might
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  happen, but what's really beneficial is to get your mind
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  quiet first. Get the question that you want
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  to have answered. So literally write the question
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  that you are contemplating on a piece of paper and have it in
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  front of you and then fold the paper down and quiet your mind.
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  Say I've got the question and I'm going to quiet my mind and
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  I'm going to get very still. Now for those of you who are
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  like me and say I can't quiet my mind.
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  My mind is like chaos all the time and everyone on my bus is
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  always talking and I wish they would shut the hell up.
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  I understand. I feel your pain and there the
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  way to quiet it down is to you, typically, you know there is
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  something that does quiet your mind.
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  So for some people it's actually watching a movie that's all
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  consuming because during that time you're not thinking about
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  anything else. You're just hunkered down in the
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  movie. For some people, it's
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  meditating. I'm not one of those people.
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  For me, it's gardening because when my hands are dirty of any
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  way, shape or form, it really just settles my soul down.
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  Once you get yourself quiet and you're in that space, you can
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  come back and say, OK, now let me unfold the paper and read the
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  question and then close the paper back down.
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  Then go do something else. Don't keep just every, every so
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  often throughout the day you read the question.
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  You could read the question up to 20 times in the day, but
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  you're not obsessing on it. You're just getting the question
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  in, getting the question in, getting the question in.
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  And then the trick to this whole thing is reaching a point where
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  at before you go to bed, you're going to just pause and say, I
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  am so grateful that that is settled.
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  I'm so grateful it's settled. I'm focused on it being settled,
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  feeling settled, even though you may not have the answer.
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  Because when you go to bed, your subconscious mind is going to
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  ruminate on that question that you've embedded all day.
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  And now you're seeing it as if it's settled and magically good
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  things are going to start to happen.
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  You're going to start to have clarity.
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  This might take a couple of times doing it, you know, a
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  couple days in a row. But I promise you, when you do
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  it, you start to get clarity. You start to get less frenetic
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  about it. You start to get less nervous
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  and all of a sudden you start to feel more empowered because
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  you're working towards the solutions.
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  You're not just working towards being all amped up because
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  there's a problem. But it takes time and patience.
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  And if you are not willing to be be patient with yourself, that's
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  when you get frustrated. Like right now, they're very
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  frustrated with each other. They're all fighting over
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  something. Who knows what they've got.
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  But the point is you have to allow yourself that space.
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  And you can't keep ruminating consistently on the question
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  because if you do, you start to get more amped up about the
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  problem. And as Einstein said, it has
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  occurred me repeat many times, the mind that created the
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  problem is not the mind that can solve the problem.
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  You must change your mind, and changing your focus changes your
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  mind. Unfortunately, changing our
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  focus is not easy for humans. We like to stay focused on that
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  one thing that's driving us crazy.
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  And we like, oh, yeah, I'm going to stay right here.
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  And I'm going to keep thinking about it and drilling it down
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  like a, you know, a dentist with a drill right into the tooth
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  until I get an answer. But that you can't force an
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  answer. So that's what I have for you
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  today. Try that exercise, see if it
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  helps you. Run it for a number of days if
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  you have to. But works for me, my friends.
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  OK, I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.