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Season 4 - Episode 64 - Today comes from the thoughts of yesterday · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good afternoon from the chicken coop.
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  So today we have a quote from Buddha.
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  What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday and our
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  present thoughts build our life of tomorrow.
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  Our life is a creation of our mind.
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  Wow, that's like pretty deep when you really start thinking
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  about it, that our life is a creation of our mind.
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  What we, you know, put our attention and focus on expands.
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  We know this to be true, but when you start to think about
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  that, our, our entire yesterdays were all built, you know, we
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  look back on it and we can be frustrated.
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  We can, we can look back at it all and say, wow, all those
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  thoughts are building. What I what I'm currently
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  experiencing, they were built by my thoughts.
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  So there's a big part of us that has to take responsibility for
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  where we are right now. This quote really reminds me of
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  that so much. It's like what we are today
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  comes from our thoughts of yesterday.
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  Just stop and pause and think about that for a second.
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  If you are willing to focus on the fact that your thoughts of
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  yesterday have created what you're living today, doesn't
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  that give you enough incentive to focus on what you want it to
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  be for tomorrow? I mean, honestly, it is a really
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  important distinction because if you want to change your life,
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  you have to change your thoughts.
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  You have to change your focus, you have to change the actions
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  and all of it to go in the direction that you truly want it
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  to be and not be trapped by it. And from from my perspective, as
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  you know, because I teach so much about emotions and thoughts
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  and how they all blend together and what we focus our, our
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  emotions on expands because they're energy, they're pure
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  potential energy and like attracts like and therefore it
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  all expands. And it's not easy to do, my
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  friends. It is a definite not easy to do.
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  So one of the big tricks in this process and being able to manage
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  all of this and say OK, if my thoughts of right now are
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  building my tomorrow's, am I paying attention to my thoughts
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  of right now? And at the end of every day, you
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  can start to say, OK, did I have more good thoughts moving
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  towards what I wanted than I did those thoughts that are moving
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  away from what I wanted. And when I say moving away
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  thoughts, is it is it moving you're closer to your outcomes
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  or is it moving you further away?
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  And it's a very simple process to pay attention that to that
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  moving towards. Moving away doesn't mean good or
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  bad. Just towards and away chunks it
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  right down to the nitty gritty and hopefully moves us in a
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  better direction. Now it's easier said than done
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  for most of us because we get so wrapped up in the patterns of
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  our thoughts that we we just don't recognize when they show
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  up. But the reminder of starting off
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  every day, saying to yourself the thoughts that I am focused
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  on today are building my tomorrow are it's hugely
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  motivating. At least I find it hugely
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  motivating because if I want my tomorrow to be better than today
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  and better than the yesterday, I know I have some control of that
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  by my thoughts. So I am motivated to cultivate
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  better thoughts, plant better seeds and keep my mindset in a
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  better place. Does that make sense?
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  Like if you really stop and pause about it and think about
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  it, it it, it has to make sense to you.
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  Because if it does make sense, then you can push yourself and
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  you can say, OK, I'm going to make a decision before I go to
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  bed. What I want my attention and my
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  focus to go to the next day. When you get up, you say, where
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  is my thoughts and my attention going to go to today?
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  So again, you're cultivating, you're constantly reminding
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  yourself, you refer back to the paper, you look at it.
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  I mean, I one of my little tricks that I love to do is
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  temporary tattoos. And I know that sounds crazy,
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  especially for my friends who have tattoos, they'll always
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  say, I wouldn't get a temporary tattoo, just get a real one.
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  But I can't make a commitment. I might want to change my mind
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  and a tattoo is a big commitment and I just can't do that to
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  myself. So I like using the temporary
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  ones and not that this is an endorsement in any way, shape or
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  form. I do not get paid by these
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  people, but they have some really great ones at
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  consciousinc.com and I love using them because it's a it's a
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  reminder. So my thoughts of today are
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  often I can find them when I look up that what they have
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  because they have tons of motivational temporary tattoos,
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  very high quality and they last for, you know, depending upon
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  how much you wash and how you wash, they can last for quite a
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  bit of time. But I have one of my favorite
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  ones of theirs is the word magic.
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  And when I put that on the inside of my forearm, I see it
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  all day long. So I remember, ah, I'm, I want
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  to focus on the magic. I want to make things happen
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  from nothing and it's a great reminder.
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  So that's just a way to set yourself up to win.
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  But make a decision about how you want to set yourself up to
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  win with this and follow the advice of the Buddha, because
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  I'm telling you it is life changing when you set yourself
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  up this way. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.