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Season 3 - Episode 6 - Are you part of the disease or the cure? · 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.
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  From the porch. It's pouring, pouring, pouring.
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  So we're on the porch today. OK Are you part of your own
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  problem? I know sometimes I'm part of my
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  own problem, and recognizing that I'm part of my own problem
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  is part of the cure. So I want to be part of the
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  cure, not part of the disease. And just even recognizing that
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  little tiny piece, just even being able to say I want to be
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  part of the cure, not part of the disease helps me to detach
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  from the things that are the disease and how I think how how
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  I show up with particular things.
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  So we all know that we start off the year typically we're a gung
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  ho. We're like, OK, let's go, we're
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  going to just jump in. We're going to be great.
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  You know, we pick our word, we do all this stuff, but then it
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  kind of dribbles off. It kind of just wanes over the
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  course of the next 30 days going into February.
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  But it all starts this first week.
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  It all starts when we start to recognize that we're so excited.
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  We start to take on things that might not be part of the cure,
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  so to speak, with their part of the disease.
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  And that big piece is still allowing things that we know to
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  be true about other people to enter into our head and not do
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  anything about it. So I'm going to give you a, for
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  instance, let's say you're trying to grow your business
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  right now. Let's say you're trying to grow
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  something or you're trying to do something and you know a
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  particular person being involved in that is not going to be a
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  long term value to you. You know that because that
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  person is going to not do their job.
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  They're not going to do it the level at which you want it to.
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  They're going to show up marginally.
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  They're going to be an 80 percenter, 70 percenter in in
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  their output of things. And sometimes you have to look
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  at that with people you really do.
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  It doesn't matter who it is. You have to look at it that way.
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  And you have to say to yourself, OK, I I need to decide what I
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  want to do with this person moving forward and then it
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  clicks in when you go. I feel bad for them.
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  I don't want to have to get rid of them.
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  I don't want to have to have the hard talk with them.
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  I just, I just wish that they would just step up.
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  Maybe if I give them another chance this will be OK and I'm
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  going to go back to something. If you're a long term listener,
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  I've you've heard me say this before.
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  It's Maya Angelou quote of when someone shows you who they are,
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  believe them, believe them, And when they come in and they are
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  just being the same as they always have been and they're not
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  making effort, why would you change your approach?
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  And that is when you start going into this place of being, like
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  you have to evaluate your approach.
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  At that point you have to say, am I now part of the disease
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  like they are part of the disease or am I part of the
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  cure? And when it, and it's
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  fundamental, it's across the board.
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  It's not just with people in business.
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  I use that as an example because there's so much activity right
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  now in that for us typically where we're trying to fix our
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  businesses or add to our businesses or cultivate new
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  business beginning of the year. But it also takes place in our
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  diets, it takes place in our habits, it takes place
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  everywhere. So a great example of that I
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  went through yesterday was my son and the Friday night Mexican
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  food. That's like our tradition.
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  And I'm not going to stop going, but I'm doing whole 30.
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  So all of a sudden here I am presented in the Mexican
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  restaurant with the chips, the salsa, the mocha hete, all the
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  food that everybody loves. And I have to decide, am I part
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  of the disease or am I part of the problem?
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  Am I going to make a decision to to secure the outcome of the
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  whole 30? Or am I going to make a decision
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  that says, no, I'm going to just eat with everybody else?
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  And I made the decision to secure my whole 30 because I
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  committed to that and my son was like, oh, you're not going to
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  have that. And I was like, no.
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  So I just had meat and and guacamole because that was what
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  worked. That was part of what my plan
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  was. Was it hard?
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  Yes, because nothing is better than chips and salsa or queso
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  and and salsa and chips. It's just not.
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  It's really good. So and it's our favorite Mexican
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  restaurant and it's easy to default back, but you have to
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  not be part of the your own disease.
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  You've got to be part of the cure.
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  So you've got to look at things right now fundamentally through
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  the eyes of someone who has already achieved the outcome and
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  says no, that that is definitely part of the disease and this is
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  part of the cure. And those words are harsh, but
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  I'm using them for a reason because that will help you
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  delineate where you need to go. So start looking through those
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  filters this month moving forward, and really work at that
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  because that is a huge help and a huge distinction.
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  All right, my friends, I'll see you tomorrow.
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  And I hope you have a blessed day and I hope to goodness I'm
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  going to have sunshine. All right, I'll see you then.
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  Bye.