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Season 4 - Episode 101 - Dealing with our own excuses · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good evening. We're putting the girls away and
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  I can hear my neighbor off in the distance mowing a lawn.
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  So if you hear a lawn mower, he's mowing a lawn.
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  I, I mean, it's almost dark. It's hysterical.
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  Anyway, OK, so today we are talking about excuses.
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  And I'm not suggesting that sometimes there aren't reasons.
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  I'm talking about a real like when you use an excuse and you
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  know you should have done something and you didn't, and we
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  use an excuse. So what is really an excuse?
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  What is an excuse? And, and when it shows up in our
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  world, to me, it is the barrier, it's the mountain, it's the
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  blockade to what you really want on the other side.
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  That's just the truth. When we have an excuse for
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  something, not doing something, it's it's blocking us.
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  It's keeping things away from us.
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  Because here's the thing, even if you're using an excuse to get
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  out of doing something you don't want to do, it's still you are
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  not handling it in a, in a forthright, in an honest
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  position. So typically that's a blocking
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  energy. And when we start going down the
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  road of looking at energy and why things are the way they are
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  and how they play out in our world, you know, it's always
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  coming back to what energy are you in?
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  And if you are in an energy that does not support creating the
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  life that you want, you're going to keep getting the life that
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  you don't want. It's that simple.
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  It's not complicated. It's very simple.
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  And when we make excuses for stuff, it blocks, it's just a,
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  it's like putting another brick in the wall.
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  You know, as Pink Floyd said, it's All in all, it's just
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  another brick in the wall and the wall goes up and before you
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  know it, we're we're living behind a wall and we don't
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  understand why everything good is on the other side, or at
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  least that's what we believe. So excuses in general are
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  something that we have to watch within ourselves.
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  Question is, how often do you tell the truth when you don't
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  want to do something or something's going on that you
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  need to speak the truth about? These excuses that come, you
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  hear, come out of your mouth. Are you happy with them?
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  Are you proud of them? Do they make you feel like
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  they're, they're really you? Or are they, or are they just
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  showing up because you're so out of sorts that you're taking on
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  the role of like making an excuse instead of just saying,
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  hey, I have to deal with this in a different way.
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  So I, I will look at that for myself and I'll say, oh, you
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  know, I got too busy. Well, really isn't that I got
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  too busy, it's that I didn't have a plan to put it in or I
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  didn't have a big enough desire to put it in.
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  Like when we get really down to, to the nitty gritty, this is one
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  of those things like, OK, springtime is a very, very big
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  time for me every year. I cannot wait to get my stuff
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  out in the garden. And I had a lot of things that I
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  wanted to do this year before I got the plants in restructuring,
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  you know, certain pieces of it, putting the the fabrics, new
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  fabric down, getting the new fabric bins to grow tomatoes.
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  And there was so much that I had planned to do and it took away
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  from me doing other things. And the truth was, I still could
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  have done those other things if I had really made a plan to do
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  it. But I didn't make a plan to do
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  it. Instead, I allowed myself to
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  obsess on plants, seeds, ordering things, getting things
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  growing. And why?
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  Because bottom line is it just brings me joy doing that.
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  And the reality is I didn't really want to do the other
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  things that were sitting there having to be done, like getting
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  all my paperwork in order for the accountant.
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  I didn't want to do it and I knew I had an out saying I could
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  just file an extension. That's the way it works.
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  So I mean, I could sit here and make stories up about it, but
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  that is the truth. So I'm not making an excuse.
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  I just dealt with it as the reality that it was because I'm
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  not going to just make up excuses and say, oh, it was
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  because of this or that. Nope, it wasn't because of any
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  of those things. It was because I was more
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  interested and more focused on what I wanted to do with my
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  plants and my garden and everything else than I was about
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  all this other stuff. And that's just the reality.
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  So I wasn't going to add another brick in my wall by making
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  excuses and making myself feel bad.
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  I didn't handle my business. I didn't handle what I needed to
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  do and put this, put it in the right order.
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  And that's just how it works. So working towards eliminating
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  your excuses frees you because it makes you recognize where you
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  show up and how you show up. And that frees you from feeling
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  the burden of many, many things like guilt or dishonesty with
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  yourself or being dysfunctional about something.
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  Just tell the truth about it. No excuses.
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  I'm not going to make an excuse. I just didn't want to do it.
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  I'm not going to do that. I just, it wasn't right.
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  Whatever, Just tell the truth about it, all right?
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  My friends See, he agrees with me.
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  All right, my friends, have a great day and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.