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Season 4 - Episode 242- How do you see it? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the good
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  morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset coach, creative
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  strategist and also happened. To be.
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  A farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here. Every day to record a podcast
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  to. Teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of. Thinking.
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  And just bring some. Joy into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey, good morning my friends.
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  So I have a question for you. Have you ever had a bee land on
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  you and you freak out about it? I think, I think we've all done
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  that. I've done that at some point in
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  my life. I freaked out on it.
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  But have you ever had a bee land on you and stopped and said,
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  wow, he's so confused. He thinks I'm a flower.
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  Have you ever done that? Well, that question is the
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  question of the day. Do you see the problem or do you
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  see the possibility? Do you see something different?
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  And this is such a great little metaphor that I love to go to.
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  Am I going to think I'm the flower or am I going to think
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  I'm the problem? Now, I'm not talking about being
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  unrealistic. Like if you're the problem and
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  you did something bad, you need to apologize for it.
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  You need to apologize for it. That's not what we're talking
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  about. We're talking about the general
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  line of thinking that goes off in our head on a normal day.
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  Because we all know boy, that is a steady stream of crap that we
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  throw at ourselves and non-stop about how much we've got to get
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  done. What I mean just for an example,
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  I gave someone an assignment 2 days ago.
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  I said do a brain dump. She's leaving to go on a
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  vacation. And I said to her before you go,
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  do yourself a favor, brain dump everything that is in your head
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  out on a piece of paper so that you don't take it on vacation
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  with you. And try to remember, oh, I have
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  to think about that, or oh, I have to think about this.
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  And she said, that's a good idea.
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  I said, well, have you written any of these down anywhere else?
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  She was on numerous pads on pieces of post it notes there.
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  It's everywhere. I said, alright, let's
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  consolidate before you go tarot pages, make one list.
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  No more stickies. Throw it all away.
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  Get it in one spot. And this is a very typical
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  assignment that I give people. And you'd be surprised.
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  Even the people that work with me the longest still don't get
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  the the point of putting everything in one place so that
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  you don't have to go look for it.
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  Now that's just a little side note lesson in what we're
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  talking about today. So in the process of changing
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  your mind and thinking, oh, wait, the possibilities are
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  maybe he thinks I'm a flower instead of thinking the worst
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  thing we're when you do the brain dump and you get it out of
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  your head. You have the option to think,
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  wow, it's out of my head. But then you also have the
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  option to go crap. That is a lot.
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  That is a lot that I just dumped on here and I feel gross or oh,
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  this just exhausts me looking at it, or damn, I let a lot of this
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  get out of control. Two things can be true at the
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  same time. You've heard me say that before,
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  but in possibility thinking you can go, all right, thank God
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  that's out of my head on paper. I'll deal with it later.
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  And don't be mad at yourself or overwhelmed by what's there
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  because you, you are already in that state of not having it all
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  done. So it doesn't matter.
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  And you were surviving up until that point.
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  Like seriously, stop and think about it up until that moment.
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  You were surviving that list of unknowns that were floating
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  around on random pieces of paper throughout your life and they
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  were right there and you survived it.
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  And we can't, I, I can't say if you were thriving or not.
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  Only you can decide if you were thriving or not.
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  I, we know you were alive if you were writing notes and you were
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  putting things on them. But thriving is a different
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  story. And this is about looking at
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  things through the lens of possibility.
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  This is about deciding, did the bee think, you know, was I
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  afraid of the bee? Or did I choose possibility and
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  think that the bee thought I was a flower?
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  And it may sound silly, but it's a cool little metaphor to kind
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  of remember. And when you enter into your day
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  and you start going through things and you you're going
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  through the list that's running in your mind, please don't keep
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  it there. Please put it on a piece of
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  paper. Please do something else with it
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  because if what could what continuously makes the loop run
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  is when it feels like it needs fuel.
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  And when it feels like it needs fuel, it's going to go back to
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  all the things that you haven't done to quote UN quote help you
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  by reminding you you didn't take care of this, you didn't take
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  care of this. And that causes the problem.
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  So if it's on paper, on some finite level, you have taken
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  care of it. It's on the paper first.
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  Like I got it out of my head. It's on the paper and in my head
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  that is capable of looping at a bazillion miles an hour.
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  This is a saving grace. This is what I do.
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  I put things out there so I don't have to think about them.
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  And when I say it, I mean, you probably heard me say it before.
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  I keep an 11 by 17 sheet of paper.
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  I am old school. I don't just want it in my
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  electronics. I use my electronics, but when
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  it comes to keeping my lists, I need paper and pen.
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  OK, I need paper and pen and I have electronic notebooks that.
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  I have an electronic notebook file for every single one of my
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  clients. But guess what?
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  When it comes to what I need to do, it's on paper and it's with
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  pen and it's 11 by 17 divided out into 7 columns for the week.
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  And every week I will put the date at the top and then I start
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  dumping out my list for the week.
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  So and when things come up, I just run over and add it in.
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  I don't try to hold it in my head because that's not making
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  me become, oh, I'm the flower. No, no, no, that's, that's me
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  going. So think about that.
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  Are you going? What's the possibility thinking
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  going to be today? Is the possibility thinking
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  going to be that I am the bee who is confused and thought you
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  were a flower? Or am I going to be afraid of
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  the bee? What's it going to be?
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.