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Season 3 - Episode 8 - Change is science · 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 from the chicken
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  coop. So today I would like to talk to
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  you about the fact that change is not by accident.
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  When you want to change, there is a science to it, very
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  specific science to it. And you have to embrace the fact
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  that this is not Willy nilly. We're not throwing spaghetti at
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  the wall to see what works. We are actually going to focus
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  on the science of change, which comes down to the patterns in
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  which you are doing things. So the beginning of the year is
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  a great time to look at your current patterns and see what
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  you are doing and discover where you may or may not be available
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  for some shifts depending upon your beliefs as you discover it.
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  Now what I would like to suggest is that as you are finishing up
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  this podcast today, grab a pen and paper and start delineating.
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  What does my day look like? Everything from the time you
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  wake up until the time you go to sleep.
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  Try to capture an entire day everything that you do.
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  This is a very hard exercise my friends.
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  I recently did this last week for myself and I did it from the
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  standpoint of what does a work day look like?
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  What does a weekend off day look like and what does a you know, a
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  vacation day out? Because I did vacation just not
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  long ago. What do they all look like for
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  me so that I could see the comparison?
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  And the difference between all my days?
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  And something that I noticed that was so interesting for
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  myself was that there are certain things I couldn't wait
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  to do. Like, I would look at the list
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  and I'd be like, Oh yeah, like there's a little glimmer in the
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  back of my head that says yeah, yeah, I'd love to do that.
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  Like coming out and shooting the podcast and taking care of the
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  chickens and working on the gardens.
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  I love doing that stuff. But then there are other things
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  that I do not like to do. Like, I just do not like to do
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  them. I do them, but I do not like to
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  do them. And anytime it involves having
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  to sit down at my computer and actually work on things, I don't
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  like that. It's just not a thing to me.
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  Like, even when I write books, people always say, well, you
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  know how it how hard is it to write a book?
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  And I'm like, well, for me it's not hard at all because I
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  figured out the pattern. Like if I had to sit down and
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  actually write the book in front of the computer, I would lose my
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  mind because I don't sit down well.
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  So I use voice dictation, I use Dragon Anywhere, put it on my
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  iPad, walk, talk, and it types for me everything that I want to
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  put into the book. I'm still able to move and do
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  the things that I want to do, and then I can keep going, keep
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  going, keep going, feel good, finish it, excited about it, and
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  I don't feel daunted by the task of writing the book.
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  And then I go back and have to pass it over to my husband, who
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  edits for me. It's a very simple process, but
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  I did not realize that I hated it so much when, because of the
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  first time I sat down to write a book, I actually sat down to
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  write the book and I was miserable.
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  And I'm like, how am I ever going to do this?
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  I have this huge desire to write the book, but I have no desire
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  to sit in the chair. And this is, you know, years
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  ago, and I just couldn't figure it out.
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  And I would try to do it in little chunks, and then I would
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  lose my rhythm. And it felt terrible.
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  So I had to figure out that the science behind this was the fact
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  that I actually had to figure out my science, what works for
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  me and what doesn't work for me. But you can't do that until you
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  understand how stuck you are in the moments of what you don't
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  like. Where are your problems?
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  So when you start to pattern out your day, the very first thing
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  you can do is say, OK, I see where the problems are.
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  Like, sometimes it's very simple.
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  You look at it and you say I want to work out and you try to
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  add a workout into your day and you stuff it in at the end of
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  the day. Well, at the end of the day it's
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  just not going to work. You don't feel good.
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  And then for some people, some of my clients will actually say
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  if I do it at the end of the day, then I can't sleep because
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  I'm all hyper because they put all this adrenaline into their
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  body. So it doesn't work at the end of
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  the day and simply by looking at it and saying what's the
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  pattern, what's the the the way this works because the science
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  says if you understand it and you look at where it is then you
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  can come back and say OK let's try the shifts before I actually
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  have to really start to re engineer everything.
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  Small simple shifts first. So pause, take a look at the
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  whole day and then say OK, what happens if I rearrange things?
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  What happens if I look at them differently?
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  What happens if I just take them and slide stuff around?
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  What happens if I start to, you know, leverage things to people?
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  What happens if I change my approach?
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  Is there a better way to do this?
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  Ask all the questions? Because the more you ask the
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  questions, the better results you're going to get, I guarantee
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  it. And you'll be able to make
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  shifts. And then once that's all done,
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  once that is all done, then you can start to say, OK, I want to
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  do the this particular activity five days a week.
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  I want to do this 1-2 days a week because again, the science
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  says what you do consistently is what makes a difference.
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  So you just you have to be Uber consistent with what you're
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  doing and the more you do it, the more you look at it, the
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  better off it's going to be. OK my friends.
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  I will see you tomorrow. Have a great day.
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  Bye.