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Turning your weaknesses into strengths · 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 for 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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  It's a little quiet in here today because most of the
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  chickens, as soon as I open the gate took off.
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  Because there are a lot of bugs around outside had a lot of
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  rain. Lots of bugs mean, chickens are
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  hunting for bugs, but of course, I've got my one girl here,
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  Winnie with me, who likes to stick by my side.
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  So today, we are going to be talking about turning your
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  weaknesses into a strength. You know, I think that when I
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  ever I go and I talk leadership with people and we do these deep
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  dives into their styles of leadership.
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  And again every leadership is relevant to everybody because if
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  you can't lead yourself you're never going to be able to lead
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  anybody and you got to start with yourself and had a client
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  recently. Say to me, I can't even leave my
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  dog. My dog is terrible.
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  My dog doesn't have any manners and I started laughing.
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  And I said, well that's because you're not being the leader for
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  yourself first and then the dog will follow.
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  And it's so true. We have to have the cognitive
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  awareness to stop and say okay. What am I not doing?
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  Well and often when we have weaknesses don't like to look at
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  them. We like to sweep them under the
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  rug. We don't like to talk about them
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  and when them when someone brings them up it is very weak.
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  It become evasive to it. It's not it's just something we
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  don't want to deal with. We don't want to talk about, we
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  don't want to entertain it. We just want to kind of ignore
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  it and move in a different direction, because he'll heck,
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  it's our weaknesses, right? Why do we want to engage
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  ourselves and talk about our weaknesses?
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  Because it seems So silly and I don't need to talk about my
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  weaknesses, I can ignore them and they'll go away, but they
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  won't they just seem to Fester when we do that kind of stuff.
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  So looking at a weakness is for me, I kind of think of this.
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  And this is a personal take on it.
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  Just even outside of the coaching thing getting into
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  personal development. Many years ago was because I
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  recognized that I had weaknesses and I didn't have answers for
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  the weaknesses and I really wanted answers and I really
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  wanted to figure You're out how to get past them, but I couldn't
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  do it on my own. I couldn't just randomly figure
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  it out. So I had to I had to kind of
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  seek out different tools and different strategies that I had
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  not been, you know, exposed to and that was how I entered into
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  the world of self development. And one of my big weaknesses is
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  the time was that I didn't? Like at all.
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  I owned a business. I did not like it all going out
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  and talking to people and trying to get them to use our services.
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  It mean, it was, it was maddening to me.
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  I, I couldn't stand doing it and it was such a weakness because I
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  like to connect with people inherently, I like to connect
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  with people but there's a part of me that's also as much as an
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  extrovert that I am, that's an introvert.
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  Actually, it's referred to as an a vert when you are a little bit
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  of both of them, you could go in either direction at any time.
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  And that part of me was definitely a weakness where I
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  was like, okay, I don't want anybody to know This, I don't
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  want anyone to know. I like to spend time by myself.
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  I want to hide it. I don't want to talk about it.
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  I was only child. Some people are going to say,
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  oh, it's because you're an only child and they'll label it.
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  So I just hit it. I didn't want to talk about it
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  and then I would fake it and then I would get irritated when
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  I had to try to go out and do this stuff and then it would
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  cause even more problems because then my business program would
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  be irritated with me and like, well why can't you do it?
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  You are the one that goes out and loves to talk to people
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  because I don't want to talk about my weaknesses.
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  I didn't want to say something about it.
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  So So, I had to become very clear on what those weaknesses,
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  brought to the table. Good bad, the ugly.
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  I had to know it all and in the process of discovering this what
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  I what I really uncovered was that this so-called weakness of
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  being able to, you know, go out and talk to people and then
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  really wanting to be alone was actually a gift because I could
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  exist healthfully very helpfully like I could go and do this
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  external. Stuff and then I could also be
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  alone for an extended period of time and not be miserable
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  because I was alone. And what I once thought was a
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  massive weakness, I started to view as, okay, this is a
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  strength. I don't have to hide this piece.
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  I just have to be diligent with how I want to do it.
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  I have to say, I've got my alone time and then I can plan to go
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  out and actually meet with people and feel good about it
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  and start talking to people for a limited period of time.
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  So I just started to set myself. If up differently, like I
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  wouldn't try to make 75 phone calls in a day, and, you know,
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  lots of sales trainers recommend that stuff, oh, sit, dile, dile
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  dile do it's awful and it's not good for the soul and it feels
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  gross. And if someone's telling you to
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  do it, don't it doesn't work. It never works unless you're
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  really compelled to do it. I mean, to just sit and dial
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  non-stop is incredibly frustrating.
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  So what I would suggest is a different approach is looking at
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  it and saying, Okay, I am using this awareness of my weakness as
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  a strength and I'm going to build around it.
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  I'm going to look at myself differently and I'm going to
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  give myself some different tools based on that.
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  So just sit start making out your list of like, what am I
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  weaknesses and then say, well, if I approach this in a
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  different direction and I started thinking of this
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  differently and I thought of this as a strength, what could
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  the strength in this be? And I promise you, you're going
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  to be surprised when you actually see how cool it is.
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  Is to recognize that you are not quite as weak as you thought you
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  were. And those weaknesses are here to
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  give you a gift and teach you something.
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  But you have to ask the right questions to figure it out.
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  So I hope you guys have a great day and enjoy the exercise and I
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  will see you tomorrow.