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Season 3 - Episode 328 - Building your character · 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 mastermindset
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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 coop.
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  So today we are talking about character and character building
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  for ourselves. So what do I mean when I'm
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  talking about this? Well, oftentimes we believe that
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  someone's character is just set. It's just something that's in
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  stone already, and what you have is what you have.
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  But I think most of us who have experience with children
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  understand that we can cultivate this and we try to build their
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  character. We often use that phrase in
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  reference to children, but how often do we use it for
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  ourselves? Like I want to do things that
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  are character building. I want to push myself.
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  Well, one of the things that I have really been this year, you
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  know, as we come to, you know, we're in December now as we come
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  to the end of the year, one of the things that I have really
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  been pushing myself for is to build my character for teaching
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  content. I do that with all of my clients
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  and I do it when I write books. But you know, putting myself on
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  video has always been very hard for me.
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  And this year I made it a commitment to say I was going to
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  really build that and develop that for myself because I
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  believed that that was going to help a lot of people.
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  But it also really elevates my character.
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  It lets me put myself out there and force that part of myself
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  that says this is something I really want to do, but it does
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  make me uncomfortable. And I think for a lot of people,
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  being on video makes us uncomfortable.
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  It's just one of those things that we didn't.
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  If you didn't grow up with it, it's not something that you are
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  comfortable with often. I didn't grow up at the time
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  when you instantly had a phone. You could take it out of your
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  pocket and have a video. I did grow up at a time when you
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  were able to buy a video camera, but it was giant.
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  It was like the size of a toaster oven when they came out.
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  And I remember thinking that was the coolest thing.
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  And it was the big VHS one that you could stick the VHS in and
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  then you had these stacks of VHS everywhere.
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  Then slowly they work their way down.
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  You get the little Sony and it's got the little microtapes and
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  all of that stuff. And now look, here it is in our
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  phone. It does it all very much
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  different than we ever thought it would do.
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  But I didn't grow up with it. I grew up with the books.
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  I grew up with the recording. I had the the recorder.
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  I used to go around and use my little recorder all the time,
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  but not the camera. So as part of, you know,
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  building my character, building the teacher part of me, it was
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  like, no, that is something I want to be able to teach.
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  I want to be able to go out and put myself out there, not to so
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  that I can get attention, but so that I can help people.
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  That's part of my character. And I believe that.
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  I have always believed since I was a very little girl that I
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  was a teacher. I mean, you don't go to school
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  for six hours, 7 hours a day and come home and spend 2 hours
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  playing school every day if you don't believe you're a teacher.
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  So it it's just part of my makeup.
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  And I really wanted to cultivate that even further.
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  And as I reflect on this year, I can say without a doubt, it was
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  hard. It was hard to get me in the
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  rhythm. Am I still in the rhythm of
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  doing the videos? No, I'm not.
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  I have to really put myself out there.
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  My team has to actually say to me, you have to shoot more
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  video. My daughter, who you know, is
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  part of that team is like, mom, I need more videos.
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  And I'm like, yes, I know. So it, it's a, it's another big
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  part of it. But when I separate it and I
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  make it a task, it's very much of a hard thing for me to, to,
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  to do. When I say this is part of your
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  character, you're a teacher. I don't have as much trouble
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  picking up the videos. So I want you to understand this
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  part of it at from my perspective.
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  So you can say, wait a minute, I share this with her.
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  This is something and it might not be that you want to be a
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  teacher and it might not be that it's the video thing that you're
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  talking about, but there's another part of it that you can
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  relate back to your character because and then makes you move
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  sooner, makes you move more. So when you think of it that
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  way, it it gives you an opportunity to view it from a
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  different perspective from a different angle.
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  Now really think about this for a second.
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  So if I'm saying to myself, hey, you need to shoot video so that
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  you can get out there and help people.
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  It it feels like, yeah, OK, OK, it's a it's a box I have to
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  tick. But when someone says, OK, I I
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  really want to do this because it's part of my character.
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  This is part of I am a teacher, this is part of my character,
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  and this is character building for me to do this.
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  And it enhances the identity of being a teacher.
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  Now all of a sudden I have much more of a compelling story
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  that's going to move me forward to do it.
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  Otherwise I'm being incongruent with my own personality, my own
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  character, and my own outcome of being a teacher.
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  So do you see how that loop comes right back around?
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  That's why this is so important. That's why this is something you
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  have to entertain. So your assignment is going to
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  be thinking about what parts of your character do you want to
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  build? Is it that part of the teacher?
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  Do you want to be consistent? Do you want to raise your game?
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  Do you want to have higher standards?
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  Whatever it might be, go out and figure out what that is.
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  Because this is the great month to start planning it, my
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  friends. And I'm going to be talking
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  about these things a lot this month because this is the month
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  when we start really getting creative and figuring out what's
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  coming up next year. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.