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Season 2 - Episode 149 - Courage · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Poop on this fine Memorial Day. I would like to talk to you
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  about courage because one of the most prevalent pieces about
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  Memorial day that I've always recognized is the fact that the
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  courage it takes to put yourself on the line and say, I'm going
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  to go out there and I'm going to, you know, honor and protect
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  our country is huge, it's beyond all measure and it's not
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  something that I personally have ever taken on.
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  I know that there are many women out there that do that and I
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  honor them for that. It's never something I've done
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  or thought of although when I was in high school, I was, you
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  know, repeatedly asked to join the Army and I repeatedly said,
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  no, because it was just not my thing, but I will say the fact
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  that there are so many people that we are blessed to have in
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  this country that sign up and to go and do this, their courage is
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  pal. Be able to do something like
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  that, going into the unknown and not knowing what it means for
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  you and signing up. And then just basically being at
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  the will of whatever the government tells you, you have
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  to do to me, that kind of Courage is something we can all
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  learn from, because it's really stepping into the unknown.
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  And saying, I don't know and I trust that the training I have
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  will carry me through it when it's necessary.
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  And to me that's the part that I really Wanted to hone in on
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  today is the training that they go through.
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  Is so intense and so difficult, but it has to be and it yields
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  amazing results. So when you stop you pause and
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  you really think about this this entire process that they go
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  through one, could really come back to the fact that once again
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  we're having a conversation about the habits and the way
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  things happen to layout and the habits It's that they create for
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  them to habits that they put into place for them.
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  They teach them certain things, they put them through these
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  experiences, that are difficult, really difficult, so that they
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  are prepared. And it's such a great metaphor
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  for life in general, because you have to, you know, look at it
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  and extrapolate from those things.
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  When you start to really think about it, right from doesn't
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  matter. Even if you're, if you're a
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  Cadet at West Point, or you're at, you know, Any any school
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  that's going to put you through that kind of training?
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  Think about that, it's not easy. Right?
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  From the very beginning, they make it hard, they make it hard
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  so that when you get there, it becomes easier, it's kind of
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  like the time I spent at Tony Robbins working there, they
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  would put you through these really difficult situations and
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  part of the reason that they did that was so that when you did go
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  out and you were in the world of coaching and you were doing
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  these things, your situations seemed far less intense than
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  your training. Therefore it was easy.
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  Easy there for you were prepared.
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  And I think a lot of that is exactly the mindset that the
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  military goes through, you know, the David Goggins book that
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  they're everyone's been talking about that particular piece of
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  the puzzle is always about the training.
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  The Mind Set the piece of it, you rely on the training.
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  So the question you have to ask yourself is is courage inherent
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  or is courage trained? Well, I think it's a little bit
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  of both. I think when you sign up, You
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  have the courage to step into the unknown, but then you have
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  the courage to continue. As you're going through it, you
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  have the courage to say, I'm going to stick it out, and I'm
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  going to have my training, help me, and that's the piece.
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  That's so important. You can train these things into
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  yourself here that you can train them into yourself habits, can
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  be trained. The that level of confidence can
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  be trained that level of Courage can be trained.
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  And but you have to be consistent and you have to stick
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  with it. It's really hard to ask other
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  people to do things that you're not willing to do yourself.
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  I think that's probably one of the biggest things for me and
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  coaching that I always remember is that I will not ask my
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  clients to do things that I myself am struggling doing.
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  That's why I keep such a, I guess in tents set up for myself
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  because I can't expect anybody else to do.
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  What Not willing to do and that's part of the mindset of
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  greatness, right? You're going to go in there,
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  you're going to set those goals. You're going to have courage
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  really work on them. Set the habits up to keep them
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  and then go for them, but it takes that initial piece of
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  courage. And on this day, you know,
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  everyone in this country remember is that it mean that
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  this holiday is interesting because it's been going on for a
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  very, very long time and it was not thought of as Memorial Day.
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  Originally it was thought of a decoration day where you would
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  go and decorate the graves back in the 1800's but it transformed
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  over time. And here we are with it now.
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  And and to me, one of the most important things about
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  remembering, all of this is to stop, pause and honor their
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  courage and thank them for being willing in the, not just for
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  their service. But in the beginning, just to
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  even make the decision, thank you for being so brave that you
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  would do something. I'm like that.
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  Thank you for your courage. So I hope that you find your
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  courage today. This week, this year and
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  whatever is going on. And I hope you have a blessed
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  day and say a prayer for all those that did this for us.
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  All right. My friends have a blessed day.
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  Bye.