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Season 3 - Episode 195 - An important MINDSET QUESTION! · 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 chicken coop.
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  So today let's ask ourselves a mindset question and this is a
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  good one. So when you start feeling like
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  you are looping in bad juju or bad thoughts and it just keeps
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  going, you have to stop, pause and ask yourself, am I giving
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  myself equal time to think about the good things that I want to
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  bring into my life as I am the negative things that could go
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  wrong? So that little question, just
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  that distinction that says, hey, am I paying attention to what I
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  want to attract as much as I'm paying attention to what I don't
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  want to attract? It is, is such a, a mind blowing
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  distinction when you stop and pause about it because we spend
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  so much time trying to avoid pain that we don't realize how
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  much we are attracting the pain by doing that to ourselves.
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  It just keeps going and going. And it's basic, you know, law of
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  attraction, basic energy, basic science where we come back and
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  say, hey, if I'm putting energy and focus on something, I'm
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  going to see more of that in my life.
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  And when we do that, it works positive and negative.
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  So we just don't think about the fact that we're doing so much of
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  the negative that we're just amplifying it and bringing it
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  forward, bringing it forward, bringing it forward.
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  So how do you break the patterns?
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  The only way to break a pattern is to ask a different question
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  and pull yourself out of it, which most people don't think
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  about. So they don't do it because
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  they're so used to doing the looping things and the looping
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  questions. They just stay right there.
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  One of the biggest things that I can tell you that helps me so
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  quickly is asking myself, am I asking the right question?
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  In general? It's a great thing to do.
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  Just ask yourself, am I asking the right question?
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  But this particular 1:00, AM I giving equal time to the things
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  I want to bring in as I am? The things I don't want because
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  I'm worried about them will make you think.
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  It stops you in your tracks. It puts you right back in that
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  great space of saying, OK, I really need to look at this.
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  This is not where my head should be.
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  You know, the hardest part about this is we are hardwired to see
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  what's wrong. As human beings, we are
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  hardwired to see what's wrong. You've probably heard me say
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  that on here before. We can't help it because it's
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  just part of the nature of human beings to see what's wrong so we
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  can avoid pain. The only problem is as soon as
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  we start seeing what's wrong, we keep looking for what's wrong
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  and we keep attracting what's wrong.
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  So it's a vicious cycle. It's like a dog chasing their
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  tail. They're never going to get
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  anywhere. And while it may seem funny,
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  when the dog starts doing it, he's having a psychological
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  breakdown and you have to stop them.
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  And the same thing with us is true.
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  You have to stop it in order to grow out of it, to grow past it,
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  to be OK. So the challenge is interrupting
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  your own pattern because nobody else is in your head.
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  You have to do it yourself. And the best way to interrupt
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  the pattern is by feeling that energy coming in, feeling that,
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  that angst, that moment, pulling yourself out and saying, wait,
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  stop. And then asking that question
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  because you're going to be able to tell yourself, you know,
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  what's a positive I can focus on.
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  And even if you can't come up with a positive in the moment
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  of, OK, I see a positive right now happening, you can say, what
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  positive do I want to project that will happen?
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  And you can start thinking of it like, what do I want to make
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  happen? What do I want to intend to
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  happen? Manifest whatever language you
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  you want in it. You have to force that to come
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  forward. And you're going to have to do
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  this more than once. There's just no question about
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  it. You might be able to set it 5
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  minutes later, you're going to set it again, and then 5 minutes
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  later you're going to set it again because that's human
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  nature. And that's what we do.
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  We keep slipping, we keep slipping, we keep slipping.
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  But you know what's crazy about it is if you would interrupt the
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  pattern enough times, all of a sudden you have a change and it
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  starts to stick and then it becomes like your norm not to
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  think that way. So it's just being willing to
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  stay consistent with interrupting yourself.
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  I mean, I can tell you, I have had to do this to myself for
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  years and still continue to do it to myself.
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  I'm just doing better at doing it quicker most of the times.
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  It's not that it doesn't happen to me anymore.
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  It definitely happens. It's just now I do it quicker
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  and I don't let it sit around. I don't let it faster.
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  So go ask yourself the right question, put your intention and
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  your focus there and see if you can stop it.
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  And sometimes it actually helps too to sit with a pad and write
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  down how many times did I correct myself?
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  I mean, Or use your notes app on your phone or whatever you like,
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  but see how many times you've corrected yourself in the day so
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  you can say geez, I'm really sick of hearing myself correct
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  myself. I have a client who will text
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  herself every time she catches herself a poop emoji.
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  We made a joke about a poop emoji.
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  Lots of my clients use that to let me know they're in negative
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  thoughts. And she just texts herself every
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  time she has to correct herself the poop emoji so she knows she
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  was having that happen. And she'll say, Oh my gosh, I
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  just had 15 poop emojis in the last two hours.
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  How is that possible? And I laugh and I'm like, well,
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  it's better you catch it and we and we understand it.
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  Then you keep doing it and, you know, putting poop emojis all
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  over yourself. Just catch yourself, break the
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  patterns. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.