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Season 3 - Episode 117 - What's in your luggage? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop
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  podcast with Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and
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  master mindset coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives and possibilities, we help
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  you to cultivate a mindset that leads you to create
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  the best version of yourself you could ever
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  imagine. Join Kim every morning from one
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  of her favorite happy places, her Chicken Coop,
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  along with all her chickens. Hey
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  everybody, good morning from the very noisy Chicken Coop
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  this morning. Apparently we're having a big argument
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  in there over space of where to lay an egg,
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  because you know they get fixated on what they want
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  just like human beings and they don't let it go and
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  then they do that until you get out of their way.
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  Very funny behavior. But
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  anyway, today we are talking about watching your
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  luggage. And what do I mean by watching
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  your luggage? Okay, we all know when we go on
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  a trip we have to remember that we've got to go up
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  against that scale at the airport. We've
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  got to get there, we've got to put our stuff into
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  the luggage and make sure it does not weigh more
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  than the allotted amount or we have to pay exorbitant
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  fees to put our luggage on there. And
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  we'll also say you've got to remember what you're
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  taking with, you take what you need most and you go
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  through and you pack and sometimes you repack if
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  you're like me, you pack, you see what you have, you
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  repack, you pack, you repack. You
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  want to make sure that you have exactly what you need.
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  You're not taking anything extra
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  with you. You've got everything that you're
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  going to absolutely need in case you can't get it when
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  you get there. And then you've got to make
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  sure you're not taking too much with you because of
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  the weight. So what is this metaphor that
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  I'm using for you? Well, think about this when it
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  comes to thoughts and your past. Boy,
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  if we did this process with everything that we
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  carry around with us all the time, how would that
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  shift us? How would that make us be
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  different people? Because if we had to sit and say,
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  well, is this something I'm really going to need to
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  take with me? Is this something that I
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  should keep referencing again? And
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  is this something that I should keep going back to?
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  Or am I really going to need
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  this moving forward in my world? Or
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  is this just something that was a ridiculous thought
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  and I had it at one point in time and I don't need
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  it anymore? And you started using the
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  watcher luggage metaphor for everything that you carry
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  around with you all day, every day, like our list
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  of anxieties or frustrations or offenses to things that
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  have happened in our past. Wow,
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  that could change everything. And
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  I love, love, love using this with people because I
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  think that it helps simplify the process and
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  everything about what I do with my clients is always
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  about simplifying the process. How
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  can I make this as simple as possible so that they
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  can get it and use it quickly? And
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  for me, if you start to think about that luggage,
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  it is such a quick way to shift and change, such a
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  quick way to shift and change because you'll say,
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  well, is this something I want to pack and take with
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  me? Do I want to take this with
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  me? And then you can always
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  reference it back again and say, well, didn't I make
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  the decision not to take this with me? Great.
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  Why am I talking about it? Why
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  is this here? Why am I bringing it up?
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  Because it's not something that I
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  chose to pack and take with me. So
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  point being, there is nothing more important than
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  these choices that you make on a daily basis, nothing.
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  And if you start recognizing
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  how much you reference back to the luggage, how much
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  you reference back to the stuff that you don't want,
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  how much you reference back to it, even though you
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  don't want it, you will be astonished at how much it
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  affects you. And just like double checking,
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  triple checking and going through the luggage
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  repeatedly when we're getting ready to go on a
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  trip, it matters. I remember when I had the
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  absolute luck, love and pleasure of going to
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  backpack in Thailand. Many years ago, my husband and
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  I got married there. And he had backpacked before
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  and I had never backpacked. I
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  traveled with like big luggage as much as I
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  could. I took everything I could
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  with me. And he is somebody who's a
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  minimalist. Do you really need that? When
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  we can do laundry, do you really think that this is
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  necessary? And when he told me we were
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  going to be doing this in backpacks because it's easy
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  to get on and off flights, it's easy to get
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  everywhere, I was like, oh no, my certainty girl
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  kicked in and panic happened. And
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  I was like, there is no way, especially when I
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  realized we were doing this for three weeks, especially
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  when I realized that, oh my gosh, I'm going to
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  actually do this. And I don't have the certainty
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  of knowing where I will be, if there will be
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  laundry, if I will have facilities. I
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  mean, obviously there are laundries over there. Why
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  am I thinking I'm not going to be able to find
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  something? Because that's how our brains work
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  and we freak out about stuff. So
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  it took an absolute monumental effort in my
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  mind to be able to stop that process from going on
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  in my head and say, yes, I can pack in a backpack.
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  But I can't begin to tell you
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  how many times I had to repack that backpack. I
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  had to look at it, I had to scrutinize it, I had to
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  go and honestly, like, I mean, if I'm telling the
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  gods the truth, I cried, I stood there and said I
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  can't do it with this number of things, I need
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  to have more. I'm going to need two
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  backpacks. He's like, you can't have two
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  backpacks. It's not called backpacking to
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  carry multiple backpacks. It's
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  one backpack. And plus I had a camera back.
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  So I had no choice. I
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  had to figure it out. And the more I did it, the
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  better it got. The more I looked at it, I
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  had it all spread out on the floor. The
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  more I examined it, the more I said, do I really
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  need you? Is this something that I'm
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  really going to need? And when I kept going back and
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  reexamining, reexamining, reexamining, I was able to
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  do it. And you know what? Not
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  only did I survive the trip, and I say it like
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  that because it was one of the most glorious trips of
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  my life, not only did I survive it, I thrived. I
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  loved everything about it. And
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  I didn't have a quarter of what I would have taken if
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  I was left to my own accord. So
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  point being, when you do this with your emotions,
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  when you do this with the past and all the things
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  that have happened in the past, and you say, I'm not
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  taking you with me. I'm done. I'm
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  putting that aside. Glorious things happen. So
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  I'm going to challenge you to do that. Watch
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  your luggage. Start thinking about it. And
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  don't think about it once. Really
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  think about it. Really, really think about it. Pour
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  into it. Because I promise you, you will
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  see grand results when you do this. Just
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  nope, I'm not taking this. Nope,
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  I don't need this. And just put it aside. And
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  when it shows up, get rid of it because it's not
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  necessary. I hope you guys have an
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  amazingly blessed day. And I will see you tomorrow.