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Season 2 - Episode 9 - Small decisions, create big impact. · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So today we're talking about small decisions.
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  You know, oftentimes we think we need to make grandiose big
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  changes in order to have things work out differently and
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  honestly sometimes the smallest ones are the the things that
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  make the biggest most impactful shifts quickly because you can
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  stack them quickly and you can get shifts to happen quickly.
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  So I'll give you a for instance. One would think that you could
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  not lose a lot of weight just walking simply just Can.
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  Well I can hear I can tell you myself personal experience that
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  I lost 40 pounds, just walking. Now here's the trick to this
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  thing. I just didn't even notice that
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  it was on me because I'm just tall and it just kind of went
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  everywhere. I kind of felt like a sausage at
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  one point and when I weighed myself I was like, oh my God and
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  it had to come off but the thing is I just don't like going to
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  Jim's. I just really don't like going
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  to the gym and I also think that that's not You know ideal for me
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  in the sense that you go in, you work out and then you come back
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  and what you sit all day, it just didn't work.
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  So for me, it began just with moving taking steps, moving,
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  moving, moving and really tracking my steps.
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  And I've said this before in the podcast tracking, the steps is a
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  huge thing. I'm a mad tracker but small
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  thing like walking I literally walked my ass off and people
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  always go know that it can't be just that no it was really just
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  that. Did I shift my diet at all?
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  Hmm, probably a little bit here. And there I really ditched
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  alcohol for a while, but other than that, it was not something
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  that I did Big shifts with I and I really want to stress this
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  about the small shifts. Because this is one of those
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  things where when you just do it tiny, especially at this time of
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  the year, you can again, feel like you've got to win and those
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  tiny little shifts add up so well.
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  We're looking at something to start with whatever you're
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  trying to work on. Even if you do it for five
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  minutes a day, let's say, you focus on.
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  You want to add reading in. Okay, so you're just adding
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  reading and just read for five minutes just for five minutes if
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  you. And if you can't pull off five
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  minutes for yourself, we have bigger problems.
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  So we really need to work on figuring out what those are, but
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  the reality is doing little tiny things and allowing them to
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  affect you really works. So it's really funny.
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  How sometimes these things show up and you don't even realize
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  it. So I was telling my husband
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  about how one of my clients was using Duolingo and then he's
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  like, well what is it? And so I tell him it's an easy
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  way, it's an app you can start to do it.
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  So he got it and he's been doing it every single day and I'm like
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  how long you doing? And he's like 15 minutes and I'm
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  like, do you feel like it's working as a yeah, it's really
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  cool and he's 15 minutes and in just a short period of time,
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  these little things start to happen.
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  So this time of year, people often think of gargantuan
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  things, instead of small little tiny quick things.
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  So I want you to think about doing the things that you think
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  are insignificant just do them. Anyway, just do them anyway
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  because it makes a massive difference.
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  So pick two or three things that, you know, you really want
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  to do. Like I have a client right now
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  who's colouring with. She's got some beautiful pencils
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  that she ordered and she's starting to sketch and she's
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  starting to Color in one of those adult coloring books
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  flowers. And, you know, a simple thing as
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  a stress reliever during the day, I've got somebody else,
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  who's like, okay, I'm going to cook one different recipe a
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  week. Okay, there you go.
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  That is going to be epic by the end of the year.
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  She'll have made fifty two different meals.
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  Have tried all kinds of different spices because that
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  was the part, you know, the part that she really wanted to do was
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  become better at cooking. I can obviously relate to that.
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  Since I'm not a good cook and it's just considering taking
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  into account that those small little tiny things will add up
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  will affect, you will be positive, and we'll go in the
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  right direction. So, work on that piece, be kind
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  to yourself about it. Don't just focus on gargantuan
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  things. I'm not saying, give those up.
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  I'm just saying to in order to feel good because you've got to
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  stay in that framework of feeling good about this process.
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  And Tearing yourself down and maybe maybe one of the things is
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  you have to just get back to like relaxing a little bit.
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  Maybe you're so frenetic all the time you just need to relax.
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  You're going to say, hey you know what, once a week.
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  I'm watching a movie. Okay, that's great.
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  That is excellent. Maybe it's okay.
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  I'm going to meditate don't try to meditate for a half an hour.
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  Try to meditate for 5 minutes, meditation is hard.
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  It is hard, hard work and it is not easy to Quiet.
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  Ones mind. So start small, forgive yourself
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  for failing and do it again and do it again and do small small,
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  small and stack up. All right, my friends.
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  I will see you tomorrow. Bye.
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  So start small, forgive yourself for failing and do it again and
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  do it again and do small small, small and stack up.
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  All right, my friends. I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.