Latest / Good Morning From The Chicken Coop! / Season 2 - Episode 147 - How far can you push yourself?

Transcript

Season 2 - Episode 147 - How far can you push yourself? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

• 0:02
  Welcome to the good morning from the chicken coop, podcast with
• 0:04
  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and master mindset.
• 0:08
  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
• 0:11
  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
• 0:14
  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
• 0:17
  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
• 0:20
  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
• 0:23
  chickens. Hey good morning everybody from
• 0:30
  the Porch of the very windy, very cold and very rainy farm
• 0:35
  this morning chickens are not even outside at this point
• 0:39
  because it is so rainy and cold, and they are all tucked away.
• 0:44
  So, we are doing it from the porch today and I have an
• 0:49
  interesting subject to talk about my son, so it's fun to
• 0:55
  watch somebody else, learn something about themselves and
• 0:59
  my son has recently had Experience where he is
• 1:02
  home-schooled and he had to finish a certain number of
• 1:08
  things before he was able to move on and be done with summer
• 1:11
  for having to having his summer, you know, start off.
• 1:14
  And I told him that unless he finished his pre-algebra
• 1:17
  program, he couldn't stop. He had to finish it before and
• 1:22
  now he realizes his friends are getting out of school like this
• 1:25
  is it his friends are out. Some of them are already out so
• 1:28
  he's very much Gaston. I want to be done like well
• 1:33
  buddy, you managed your time because this is part of the
• 1:36
  wonderful thing of homeschooling is we really get to see how he
• 1:39
  can manage himself. And we can see where he lacks
• 1:42
  and we can see where he puts effort in and does not put
• 1:44
  effort in a very different way. So we're having a conversation
• 1:49
  and I said, well, you didn't manage your time.
• 1:51
  Well, you made choices and you said you were going to finish
• 1:54
  your entire module on world geography because he loves
• 1:59
  geography and can identify I pretty much every single
• 2:02
  country, it's amazing how he does it, but he doesn't love
• 2:06
  math. And there are many of us who
• 2:08
  don't present company included but had to still finish it.
• 2:13
  So he put it off and put it off and put it off and I said, well,
• 2:16
  it's fine. You don't have to do it but
• 2:18
  can't be done. So this week came up and he said
• 2:22
  to me, I'm never going to get out of school.
• 2:24
  I said, well, it depends on how you look at it.
• 2:27
  I said, you listen to me, talk to my clients sometimes You know
• 2:31
  what I say to them? What do you think?
• 2:32
  I would say to them and he said that you would tell them that
• 2:37
  they have to put the blinders on and focus and I said exactly.
• 2:41
  So you're going to put the blinders on and focus.
• 2:43
  Are you going to shut off? All the the noise are you going
• 2:47
  to just do it? Are you going to make yourself
• 2:49
  uncomfortable in order to get comfortable?
• 2:53
  And he stopped and paused? And he said, what does that
• 2:54
  mean? And I said, will you take the
• 2:56
  short-term discomfort for the long-term gain?
• 3:01
  And he paused and he said there are just so many questions in
• 3:03
  there. Mom, I don't think I can do this
• 3:05
  in this. I said, listen, you're giving me
• 3:08
  all the excuses as to why you can't do something.
• 3:11
  Why are you arguing for your limitations instead of your
• 3:14
  greatness. So he paused and he's like so
• 3:18
  you're saying I should go in there and I should just do it
• 3:22
  power through it. I said that's exactly what I'm
• 3:24
  saying. So fine I'll try so Monday came
• 3:29
  and he said Well, I've done everything else except this
• 3:34
  meaning the pre-algebra. So I've got hundreds of
• 3:37
  questions and I'm going to just start off and see how far I can
• 3:42
  go. I said, okay.
• 3:44
  And we were to limit our distractions.
• 3:45
  We're going to limit you getting up and we're going to see, I
• 3:49
  have to get up, Mom, I have to get up.
• 3:50
  I, you know, I can't sit still, I understand, but let's just
• 3:53
  try. Well, let me say this, he got
• 3:57
  very focused on the first day he did, And a half hours, straight
• 4:02
  of a pre-algebra, not ideal. I understand that.
• 4:06
  However he did it and he shocked himself and he that night when I
• 4:11
  finished coaching he said to me, you're not going to believe this
• 4:15
  and I said, what he was, I was able to do four and a half hours
• 4:17
  and I didn't even like I didn't even know I could do that.
• 4:20
  And I said, are you shocked? And he's like yeah I said okay
• 4:23
  what's up for tomorrow and he goes well I want you to wake me
• 4:25
  up when you get up. I'm like, you're not waking up
• 4:27
  at 5 or 4:30 whatever time it was.
• 4:29
  I was going to get up that Day and he's like, no we hit me up
• 4:32
  at 6:00. I was like, okay, so I got him
• 4:34
  up at six. He started by 6:45 and we didn't
• 4:40
  see him. Mark keeps asking me do you see
• 4:43
  him? Has he been up?
• 4:44
  No, he's just focused we go in, he's focused, he's focused now,
• 4:49
  this is unbelievable for a child who has been told many times.
• 4:53
  He has trouble focusing and he's in tune, like he's seeing a
• 4:57
  result. So his his pull is He's getting
• 5:01
  the result which means he's clicking off on what he's able
• 5:04
  to accomplish fast forward yesterday, I come home from
• 5:09
  getting my haircut and he runs out in the driveway about 2:00
• 5:14
  in the afternoon, throws his arms around me and he says, I
• 5:17
  did it. I finished, I said you finished
• 5:20
  everything. He said, yes, I come inside.
• 5:23
  I'm like, let me check your grade.
• 5:25
  I go to the portal where I have to log in to see and he got a B,
• 5:29
  he got an 80. T, which is astounding because
• 5:32
  he hates it, which is more astounding that he pushed
• 5:35
  himself, he did it. And I said, what did you learn
• 5:38
  from all of this? And he said, I learned that I
• 5:41
  can sit still a lot longer than I thought I could and I said,
• 5:45
  okay. And he said I sucked it up and I
• 5:48
  just did it. He's like I can be uncomfortable
• 5:51
  and that's something that a man needs to know how to do be
• 5:54
  uncomfortable, dad tells me that all the time, and I started
• 5:57
  laughing in my eyes filled up with tears.
• 5:59
  And I said, you know what, You're right.
• 6:02
  And here's the thing. You now know you can go much
• 6:05
  further than you thought you ever could go.
• 6:08
  And you have to always remember that.
• 6:10
  That's why we teach people to firewalk and pull jump and break
• 6:14
  arrows, and do all these other things break boards because it
• 6:17
  teaches you can go further than you ever thought you could go
• 6:20
  and he learned that lesson with algebra.
• 6:23
  So I'm bringing this to you. To ask you to ask yourself where
• 6:27
  do I think I can push myself that I can go further.
• 6:30
  Than I ever thought I could go. Because when you do that, you
• 6:34
  stretch and you feel amazing. That kid is walking around,
• 6:37
  puffed up like a little peacock so push yourself.
• 6:41
  See what you can come up with. All right, my friends.
• 6:44
  Hopefully tomorrow will be warmer.
• 6:45
  I won't be in the winter jacket on my porch and it'll stop
• 6:49
  raining. All right, I'll see you guys
• 6:51
  tomorrow. I have a blessed day.
• 6:53
  Bye.