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Season 3 - Episode 347 - When it doesn’t go as planned… · 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 garage.
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  Because you know what I'm going to say it's cold and it's dark
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  and I'm still not out there because it's they're not even
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  awake. It's too dark, too cold.
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  Anyway. So today we are talking about
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  the fact that this is the holiday season and we know we
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  all have plans in our head. We have these fantastical things
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  that we've created. These imaginations of ours are
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  so powerful and so wonderful and they really do help us so much.
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  And then there are times when, you know, I know I can speak for
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  myself with this. My imagination is my best
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  friend. And sometimes it's my worst
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  nightmare because it just goes on and on and on.
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  And one of the things that I, I really know right now is that I
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  can make things up about how I am going to create the
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  absolutely perfect Martha Stewart Christmas and all of a
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  sudden something's going to happen.
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  And then what do I do? What do I do when my plans are
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  not working out? How do I handle this?
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  Well, typically in the past, I have always said, you know, it's
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  OK. And I just, I act fine on the
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  outside. But inside I'm like, I'm trying
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  to manage my state, which I do very well.
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  And most people don't know what's going on.
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  But then I have to deal with me. That's the crazy part.
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  I have to deal with me. And over time, I've really had
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  some adaptations to it. And this year I'm going to do it
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  again because I'll tell you so. My daughter and her husband are
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  coming here for Christmas Day, so it will just be the five of
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  us. And I am cooking.
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  I'm cooking. Now, any of you who know me and
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  follow me regularly, No. I like to bake, but cooking is
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  always a challenge. I have to really like follow
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  recipes. I need to feel really engaged in
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  it. I can't be distracted because my
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  imagination gets in the way and then I start, well, I don't know
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  why they're putting that in. Or maybe I should put a little
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  bit more of this in or that with baking, I always knew from the
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  time I was little with my grandmother, you follow the
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  rules in baking and you don't deviate because if you deviate,
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  you're really not going to get what you wanted.
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  As opposed to when you're cooking.
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  You can deviate and you can still end up with something
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  that's edible. It just might not taste the same
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  way, but it, it doesn't look like such a disaster.
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  With baking, it can look like a disaster.
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  You know, you make one calculation different and you
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  don't have cookies. You have a pan of dough that
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  doesn't even look remotely like a cookie.
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  In any event, I digress. Let's go back to the point of
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  the story. So Needless to say, I am cooking
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  and I am making lasagna and I got it into my head that I was
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  going to make lasagna. Now I I am a big fan, as
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  everyone knows of Martha Stewart and I am also a huge fan of
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  Joanna Gaines and their cookbooks.
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  I love them, love them, love them.
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  And when I do choose to make something and I go into one of
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  these cookbooks, I always feel like I'm going to be able to be
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  successful. So I started looking through the
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  Joanna Gaines books for lasagna. So of course I found a Dutch
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  oven lasagna and I was like oh okay, I'm going to do that.
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  And then I remembered, OK, well wait, I've got to do 2 versions
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  of this because my daughter is completely gluten free.
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  She has celiac, so I have to do a separate set of it.
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  So now I've got to figure out I'm all right, I'm going to
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  double the recipe. And then I was looking in all of
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  the cookbooks she had just to see what else was there.
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  And I found a white chicken Alfredo lasagna.
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  And I was like, OK, I'm going to do that too because I don't
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  really love lasagna. I, I, I'll eat it, but I don't
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  love it. But I do love like white pizza
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  and things like that. Now ironically, my love of
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  tomatoes does not always extend to sauce on pasta.
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  I don't know why, but my tomato Love Is All about other things
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  with tomatoes, but just not always pasta sauce.
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  So I figured all right, I'm going to do these.
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  So I get it into my head. Now I'm doing 3 different
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  lasagnas and I'm going to do a white bean pasta.
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  I mean a white bean dip for the beginning with vegetables and
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  garlic bread. And then I'm doing a brownie ice
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  cream dessert. OK, so now you've got the whole
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  menu laid out. Now here's the thing.
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  What happens if people are late? What happens if my daughter and
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  my son-in-law are late Because these these types of foods have
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  to be eaten right when they're ready.
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  They can't be sitting around. Also, what happens if one of
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  them bombs and it's no good? What happens if someone says,
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  oh, I don't like the taste of that?
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  Or what happens if something else?
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  So I can run all these imagination things in my head
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  about the what ifs, the what ifs, the what ifs, the what ifs,
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  which is fine. And I, and I'm, and I've done
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  that, but the real thing, the real question of what if that
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  happens? OK, great.
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  And how am I going to choose to handle it?
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  So I'm handling all those objections upfront for myself.
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  I'm following the hardcore rules of sales and influence.
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  When something is out there, you handle it upfront, handle the
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  hardcore objections upfront. So as I'm saying this, I'm
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  telling you, put down if you think there are things that
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  could go wrong, whether it's a person talking to you, a person
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  being there, a person being late, you messing up a recipe,
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  something not going right, Run the objection in your head and
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  figure out how you're going to handle it ahead of time.
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  Don't just run like, oh, that might happen, but say, how am I
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  going to handle it? Because that's going to help
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  you. I know I will be and I'm going
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  to be out today getting all my supplies and everything that I
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  need to so that I can make sure I do set myself up to win.
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  And when you do that, it works out way better.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.