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Season 2 - Episode 257 - Incremental wins really do matter · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and master mindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
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  Hey, everybody. Good morning from the chicken
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  coop. So I recently heard that there
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  was a person, a speaker out there, talking about how you
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  know, incremental progress is a waste of time and that you have
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  to go out there and you have to stop yourself and you have to go
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  in massive directions to get things done.
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  And I cannot tell you how much I disagree with this.
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  Sure, you can do something like that if you feel compelled to do
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  it, but what you What can you do consistently is what it's all
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  about. Consistency is the key.
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  Consistency is what we need because we don't realize how
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  things add up when we do something consistently.
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  And that's for the good, the greater.
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  Better part of yourself as well as the dark side, the bad part
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  of ourselves. So let's just say you think,
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  okay, it's no big deal if I have, you know, you know, sugar
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  every day, and sugar by itself one day is not a problem.
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  But when you do it every single day over the course of a year,
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  it adds up to pounds and pounds and pounds and when you realize
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  how much sugar you've taken in your like, holy cow in a year,
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  I've done that. You know, my big distinction
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  with this is steps and how they add up with my Fitbit and what
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  can be done with it. So last week was a I was very,
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  very booked and I was walking a lot, every single day.
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  And every day I walked just under 12 miles a day.
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  And you just think, well, that's one step at a time and I'm
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  adding up those steps and I'm up to 26,027 thousand, 28,000 steps
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  and I'm like okay, okay. And at the end of the week you
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  look and you're. Like, I'm 50 miles.
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  I walk 50 miles. That's insane when you start to
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  think about it. But they add up.
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  So think about it this way. If you ink, if you make a
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  decision that says I'm going to pay attention to the increments,
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  paying attention to the increments is the key.
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  If you read 20 pages a day, that may sound like a lot.
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  But guess what? You've read 30 books.
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  The average number of pages in a book.
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  You've read 30 books in a year. So it doesn't even have to be 20
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  pages. If you read 10 pages a day, you
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  would read 15 books in a year. When's the last time you read 15
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  books in a year? Think about that.
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  How many? How many of you can even say you
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  read two books last year because you've been so busy?
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  You probably listened to books. You probably listened in the
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  car. I could easily say I've listened
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  to 15 books, but I can't sit there and tell you.
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  I've even sat down and read that many books.
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  Because I don't. Because I don't sit still.
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  If you think about it, where you go, okay.
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  If I save $10 a day now that's a trip to Starbucks.
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  For most of us, you'll save $36150 in one year.
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  If if you just start to contemplate if you run a mile a
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  day, you're going to have run 365 miles in a year.
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  And if you break it down even a little bit further and you say,
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  OK, if I just improved myself by 1% every day, which, how would
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  we quantify that? Well, it's personal.
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  So you have to kind of figure it out on your own.
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  But 1% a day gives you 37% better version of yourself by
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  the end of the year, 1%. I mean, that's crazy.
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  When you start to think about how much that could shift.
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  And when I had to go through this process of, like, getting
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  my health back under control and really, like, losing the weight,
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  getting my feet to stop killing me, all of that, it was one step
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  at a time. It legitimately started off as
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  one step at a time. I'm just gonna start walking one
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  step at a time and I'm gonna see where it takes me.
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  And it was the smartest thing I've ever done doing this
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  podcast. I'm just gonna do 5 minutes.
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  When I started off with it, if if somebody's new and don't,
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  doesn't know the story, I said to myself, you know what?
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  When I came up with the idea, I was like, this is crazy.
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  I'm gonna just do it. I'll record, I'll record it and
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  I'll see what happens. And I'll just record 5 minutes
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  and 5 minutes every day and see where it goes.
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  And now here we are, you know, almost two years later.
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  And we are. You know, in this position where
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  we listened in 20 countries, we've got 10s of thousands of
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  downloads. We have messages coming in, all
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  because I decided to do 5 minutes a day in a chicken coop.
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  Crazy, right? But that's what happens.
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  So stop taking yourself out and stop thinking you have to take
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  massive action. All those little steps add up
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  every single day and. It it matters.
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  It matters to the greater good. A compliment, a shift, a hug.
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  You know, the reading, doing whatever it takes 1 little bit
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  at a time will change the way you are moving forward.
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  It will change the trajectory. It will give you a different
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  outcome. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.