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Season 3 - Episode 15 - Are you ready to do the work for what you want? · 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 coop question
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  of the day, Are you ready to put in the work for what you want?
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  Simple question, right? Are you ready to put in the work
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  for what you want? Might seem like a simple
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  question, but it's kind of complex because often we are
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  creatures that we want things, but we definitely don't want to
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  do the work for it. So it's the outcome without the
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  effort. People just say, oh, well, you
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  know, this is what I want to do. And they expect, you know,
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  raises big jobs, chances at things and getting
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  opportunities. But they don't actually want to
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  do the work for it. They don't want to sit and make
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  the calls. They don't want to make the
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  connections. They don't want to talk to the
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  right people. They just want the outcome.
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  And it's hard to recognize in yourself if you're doing that
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  activity and thinking those things.
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  It's kind of hidden. It's kind of covert.
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  So you actually need to ask yourself, am I ready to do the
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  work for what I want in order to get the outcome?
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  Everything that we have in our world, we have to put some
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  attention internally on to get the externals and this piece,
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  this part of the puzzle of instead of just leaving yourself
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  feeling constantly vacant because you're not getting what
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  you want, it's time to be honest with ourselves and say OK, am I
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  really ready and willing to do the work now?
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  I have some very big goals that I'm working on this year and I
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  still have not put them all on paper because I've still been
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  working through a bunch of stuff dealing with getting my feet
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  back under me from my back incident.
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  However, I haven't put it on paper, but I have some very big
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  things that I've put in my head. So kind of put on paper but not
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  as an official list yet. And I sat and I had to ask
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  myself as I put them down, I rated them okay.
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  How committed am I to doing the work to get this done?
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  And one of them I actually put down, I was surprised because I
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  put down that it was like a six. And I was like, it's a six.
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  That's interesting because it's something I would like to have.
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  But is it like a passion? Is it something that I'm really
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  willing to do the work for? Not even if it's a passion, but
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  just am I really willing to do the work to get the outcome.
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  So I'm sitting with that 6 and I'm like, I'm not even going to
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  touch that on my list. I'm not even going to put it on
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  my list any any further so that I can contemplate if I really
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  want it, like what has to happen for this to get to A10I tend to
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  kind of say that when you'd use the number system, one being not
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  at all, 10 being spot on, like it's 100% of hell, yes, if if
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  it's not a A7 and eight probably not even including A7.
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  For me, I kind of go an 8A9 or A10.
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  I'm not doing it. Some people will include the
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  sevens. I'm kind of like it's a hit or
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  miss. If you put it as a seven, you're
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  really not going to give it much attention.
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  So you have to decide how you rate your numbers.
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  But for me it's an probably an 8A9 or A10.
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  That seven can be marginal. I'll take it in sometimes, I
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  take it out sometimes, just depends on what the task or the
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  outcome is that I'm looking at. So back up for a second and ask
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  yourself, OK, have I actually gone through and asked myself
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  everything on this list? Am I really ready to work for
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  what I need to do? Because even when we're
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  manifesting, which we know we, I'm so big on putting your
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  mindset on it, Your vision boards, your focus, your
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  mantras, all of that, all that is true and beyond necessary and
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  mostly missed out in the world. But you know, obviously if
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  you're here and you're listening, you know, we all
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  believe in this. There is the part of it that is
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  work. You actually have to do the
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  work. You have to show up for
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  yourself. So the question of the day is,
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  am I willing to show up and do the work?
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  When I started this podcast, one of the most important questions
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  I had to ask myself is am I going to be willing to do this
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  every single day? And I had.
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  I contemplated it and I you probably heard the story if
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  you're a regular listener. I said I'm going to try it for
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  30 days and see where it goes. And if I like it at the end of
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  the 30 days, I'll continue on with it.
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  And I did. I liked it.
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  And then I had to ask myself, OK, am I going to still be
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  willing to do this every single day?
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  And the answer was yes. On how and how did I rate it?
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  I rated it at a nine. I believe it was a nine.
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  And that to me was like, OK, great.
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  Because the one thing that like got to me was the I was
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  thinking, ah, do I want to go out there when it's really cold,
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  Like this morning it's really cold.
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  And Full disclosure, I am y'all could see me.
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  You'd crack up laughing. I'm in this big, huge winter
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  jacket. I look like I'm in Alaska and
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  I've got big boots on. I've got a pair of long Johns
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  on, believe it or not, and then I've got big heavy flannel pants
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  over the long Johns and a hat and thick winter mittens.
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  It's cold, and it's really not that cold.
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  I think it's like 39 or 40 for someone who grew up in New
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  England. I have no excuse.
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  I'm a big baby. But the point is that was what
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  my hold back was in my head. I kept thinking, am I really
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  going to want to go out there and do this when it's really
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  cold? I don't know and I would give
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  myself a cough up. But the truth is once I did this
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  and I asked myself, am I willing to do it?
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  And I had the experience, the answer was yes.
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  So when it was a nine go do the rating system.
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  Ask yourself, am I ready to do the work for what I want and
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  make a commitment to yourself? And since we don't lie to
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  ourselves, you're going to stick to it.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.