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Season 3 - Episode 108 - How many times should you try? · 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 mastermind set
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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
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  coop. So today I want to tell you one
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  of my favorite quotes from Theodore Roosevelt.
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  It's hard to fail, but it's worse to have never tried.
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  And I love this quote so much. Well, first of all, he was such
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  a great leader and he had such great attitudes toward things.
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  But this particular quote is so awesome because it's one of
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  those things that we we constantly want to believe in
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  ourselves that we'll keep doing and we'll keep making attempts
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  and we'll keep making attempts. But the truth is we give up way
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  too easy on things. And it's something that I, one
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  of the things I recognize out in my chicken coop that I just love
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  because the all like all these little baby chickens that are
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  out here, they just don't give up.
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  They just keep doing it. They try to get up to the
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  rafters, they try to get up the in the coop higher where the big
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  girls go, they can't do it. They just keep trying.
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  If it doesn't happen on Wednesday, they'll try again
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  Thursday. If it doesn't happen Thursday,
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  they'll try it on Friday. They just don't give up.
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  And I think that sometimes as human beings, we become
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  conditioned to say, well, I tried and I tried three times
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  and I give up. And it it really is a question
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  of how much fortitude do you have?
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  Are you willing to say I don't have to try something just once,
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  twice, 5 *? I I'm willing to keep going if
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  it's something that you believe in and it's something that you
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  really want. You know, when you think about
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  the the things that have gone on the inventors in this world that
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  have done things over and over and over and had multiple
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  failures until they had them work, they just were so
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  committed to their outcome, they would just keep going.
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  And it didn't matter how many times, whether it's you're
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  talking about Edison and the light bulb.
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  I mean, he failed 1000 times according to the reporter that
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  was interviewing him. And the truth was when Edison
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  heard that, he said no, no, no, I didn't fail.
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  I just found out what didn't work literally 1000 times to get
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  it right. How many of you would be
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  actually willing to say you've tried something 1000 times it it
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  just doesn't happen. We just don't consider it and
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  keep doing it. What we do is we say, OK, well I
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  tried that 10 times and it didn't work out for me.
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  So therefore, I'm not going to do it instead of just saying,
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  hey, you know what, this is something I'm really committed
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  to and I'm going to make it work whatever I have to do.
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  And that's the part that's so important, it's that you got to
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  keep going and you got to keep saying, if I really am
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  passionate about this is this is something that I really want,
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  then I have to make sure I'm willing to keep giving it a
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  shot. So sometimes we have to add,
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  this is one of those moments where you actually have to look
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  at your goal again and go, well, am I really committed to this?
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  Is it something I really want? Is it something that somebody
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  else wanted for me? Because sometimes we just aren't
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  as committed as we think we are because it wasn't something we
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  wanted to begin with. So again, this is all back to
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  that original piece about finding out what is it that you,
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  you know, have as a level of commitment.
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  Are are you 100% in or are you 75% in?
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  Because I can assure you on things that I'm 75% in on or 60%
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  in on. I'm not pushing the gamut.
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  I'm not going out there and going all in.
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  But when I want something, I am relentless.
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  And I think that's the exact word my husband uses for me
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  because he'll say, Oh my God, you just don't quit.
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  Well, it's because I'm 100%, I'm all in.
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  But how many things are like that?
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  There are some things in our world that we're just not all in
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  on. And it shows up in these moments
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  when we have these types of situations where I don't know,
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  am I all in or not. So going back and trying to
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  figure out, you know, is that the reason is incredibly
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  important in the process and recognizing even before you
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  start something where your level of commitment is because it's
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  not about failure, it's about saying I'm committed and I'm
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  going to do it. And just like this quote, it's
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  like you've got to try those things that are are a passion
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  for you. You got to go out there and say
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  I'm willing to pour into it because I am 100% in.
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  I want this. I'm going to do what it takes.
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  I am so attaching my name to this.
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  I'm going to go out there and go nuts making it happen.
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  Those things excite you, they exhilarate you, they pour into
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  your soul and they just make you feel amazing.
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  You know, if somebody right now that I'm coaching that's writing
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  a book. And writing a book is a very
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  long endeavour for a lot of people, and for some people it
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  comes easier than others. But I can tell you that because
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  the process is such a hard and difficult one, oftentimes it
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  gets very stretched out and then your intention and your energy
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  wanes during the process. And I have to keep coming back
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  to basics and saying with him, OK, what excites you about this?
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  What are those things that light you up so that he can come back
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  and say, wait, I'm not giving up.
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  I I'm in this, I'm doing this. I'm going to make this happen
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  because I want to be the person that that didn't give it up on
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  it because so many people have an unwritten book.
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  You might be listening to this right now and be saying to
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  yourself, I'm this person she's talking about because it's a
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  it's one of those things that so many people want to do, but they
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  don't do it. So if you are in this process
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  and you are writing a book and you haven't done it because
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  you're just, you know, not excited about it anymore, you
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  haven't been associated to it in a while, but you still want to
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  do it and it's still a passion. This is where you have to jump
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  in and say to yourself, you know what, It's far worse to know
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  that I just gave up and didn't even try than it is to do it and
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  fail and have it. Just like, you know, who cares?
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  Who cares? A failure is the giving up
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  process. So put yourself out there,
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  really check in with yourself and recognize I'm not going to
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  give up. I'm going to go after what I
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  want. So write the damn book.
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  Do the things that make you feel excited and exhilarated and
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  hopefully this was a good kick in the butt this morning and I
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  will see you tomorrow.