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Season 2 - Episode 241 - The list of improvement · 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,
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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 I am a mad list maker.
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  It's just a thing for me. I think it's very helpful to see
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  things on paper. I don't like keeping lists
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  electronically because I feel like when they're out of sight,
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  they're out of mind. But when you can put them, it's
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  convenience to capture it in your phone.
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  But then you can put it on paper so you can actually see it
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  after. But today we are talking about
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  lists that are extremely useful to us in the sense of developing
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  ourselves. Not that all lists aren't useful
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  in my world. But developing yourself.
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  So think of it like this. We all have parts of ourselves
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  that we want to make bigger and stronger.
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  And we all have parts of ourselves that we just yearn to
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  create. We have not even like we had
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  this yearning to do, learn something or do something
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  different. And then we have the parts of
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  ourselves that we don't want to keep but.
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  We rarely work on this stuff. We just kind of say, Oh yeah,
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  someday. And the some days are what kill
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  us. The some days are the things
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  that make us so sad because we never get there.
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  We rarely put it on the list and make it a priority.
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  That's why part of my role working with clients is to
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  constantly make sure that when they tell me those things, we
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  are developing those. And putting them into place in
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  their regular, everyday life. Because if you don't, you won't
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  create the new habits. And I know I'm just as guilty of
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  that as the next person. You know, Full disclosure, I
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  love to walk. I walk all day long while I talk
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  to my clients and I can't function unless I'm walking.
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  That being said, I absolutely hate doing the grinding of going
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  to the gym, lifting weights, doing that stuff.
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  I hate it. I just there's nothing about it
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  that I like. I'm not sure if it's the ride to
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  the gym, the wasted time, the being in the gym, the smell, the
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  whole thing. It just doesn't work for me.
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  So I have to forcibly put myself in the position of saying okay,
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  this is actually on my schedule. I'm developing it because I want
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  the outcome from that action, but I just don't like the parts
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  of it and I it it, it's just not something that comes it it
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  organically I would say in that way.
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  And plus, when you're out here working on the farm all the
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  time, you feel like, Oh no, I'm totally getting enough.
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  And I probably technically am getting enough, but it's not
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  where I want to be. So anyway, giving you an
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  example, when you start to think about this stuff and you sit
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  down and you start to make these lists for yourself, this
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  requires radical honesty. Just like my going to the gym
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  thing, it requires the honesty of saying no.
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  I'm going to use my ability to be critical.
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  And give myself feedback, not to beat myself up, but to help
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  myself get to where I want to go.
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  So this is an exercise of putting yourself in a on a path
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  to create a better version of yourself.
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  It's not meant to deplete you. This is completely just
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  informational. But you've got to have radical
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  honesty about how you feel about things and not not just, you
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  know. Lie to yourself about the fact
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  that there's something that's OK.
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  If something's OK or it's fine. And you know, if you're a woman
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  and you're listening to this and, you know, we have a
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  tendency to use those two words when we're not either of those
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  things. If we say we're OK or we're
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  fine, we're not either of those things.
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  We're just trying to keep it together and trying to seem like
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  everything is OK And that's the part that you have to get past.
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  That's the gatekeeper, so to speak, so.
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  As you sit down to do this and you make your columns and you
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  can add more columns if you want to, those are just the three
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  that I like to stick to. If you sit down and you get
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  really comfortable being honest about it, first and foremost,
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  it's very helpful. So you have to just think in
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  terms of okay this is, this is a way for me to curate the things
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  I want, get rid of the things that I don't, and I'm not going
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  to beat myself up for it. I'm just going to take an
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  inventory. The first step is taking the
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  inventory. Once you go through all of it
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  and you have the inventory, then it's a question of okay, what
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  things do you want to put in place to actually make it
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  happen? So for instance, for me that was
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  one of the things about, you know, just walking.
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  I ended up getting a Nordic track bike and I it comes with
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  all different exercise programs that are part of the whole
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  program. So I can sit there and I can
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  actually work out and do different workouts.
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  I can actually get the workouts I need and be still feeling good
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  about it. And that's important.
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  I can't stress how important that is.
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  That's something I chose to put into play other things.
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  OK, having the stuff around that you need.
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  If I want to work on art and I'm not doing it, I have to make
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  sure I have the right supplies I have to entice myself.
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  So like for example, this week I want to learn to do these
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  botanical drawings and so I got a class.
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  I'm watching the class and I'm going to pick up the.
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  Supplies that I need. I still am missing like a few
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  pens. So I'm going to go pick up the
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  pens and then I'm going to put that in because that makes me
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  feel good that the enrichment and the betterment of my brain
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  is happening at that point in time and my creativity.
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  So and and then I'm going to schedule time every week to do
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  it. See, that's the key.
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  You have to schedule it. It has to be on your schedule.
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  So make your list, see what you come up with, and actually put
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  your things on the schedule. All right, my friends, I will
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  talk to you tomorrow and I hope you have a blessed day.
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  Bye.