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The beginning of changing your habits. · 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 are talking about, rewiring your days and this is a
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  subject that's very fascinating to me because most people show
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  up for coaching and they think, oh my gosh, I don't know how I'm
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  going to do this. I don't know how I'm going to
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  change, I don't know the particulars of any of this and
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  they get overwhelmed before they even start.
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  And one of the simplest things that I really have to have
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  everybody understand right at the, from the very beginning of
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  working with Coaching with me is that you are a creature of
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  habit, you are a creature of patterns and it is possible to
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  change like you have to believe it's possible to change.
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  And by changing your patterns, even the simplest of patterns,
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  things, start to evolve. So, there are estimates out
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  there that we have between 60 and 80 thousand thoughts a day.
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  I mean, think about that, that's insane that that a person can
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  have that many thoughts. First of all, it always
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  fascinates me as to how they track this but they do And sixty
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  to eighty thousand thoughts a day.
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  The kicker is two-thirds of them are repeated from the day
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  before. Now, that's even more insane,
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  when you think about the, how the human brain works.
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  And when you repeat things, they become part of who you are.
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  So most of us learned multiplication that way where we
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  were just drilled wrote learned it over and over and over and
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  over until we could recite it and do it quickly.
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  So that we knew those basic fundamentals.
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  Which is the the Crux of how your brain likes to work.
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  Repetition is the mother of skill for human beings.
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  And once we do it, we can do it better and better and better and
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  better. But they're really hard thing to
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  understand. Is if the patterns are not
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  resourceful, you are repeating them anyway.
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  You are becoming more resourceful at the unrest or
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  social activity. So think about what I just said
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  if it's a destructive activity and you do it more and more and
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  you become better at the Active activity, you're still going to,
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  it's going to be a pattern. It's still going to affect you.
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  You can't just get away from it because it's destructive, you
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  know, and we have patterns in everything.
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  We do, think about how you take a shower, you go and get in the
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  shower, in the morning or the evening.
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  Whenever you do, you're showering and boom.
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  All of a sudden, you wash the same way.
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  You have the same pattern of how you wash yourself, how you do
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  your hair. Same thing about how you blow
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  dry your hair or how you shave brush your teeth.
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  You always start in the same spot for most.
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  People, it is very driven. The side of the bed, they sleep
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  on, how they put their clothes on, try to put your sneakers and
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  socks on differently and watch how your brain goes.
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  Wait, what? Because it's so conditioned.
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  So the point of this is rewiring, your brain is very
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  simple in the sense that you change the pattern of how you do
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  something and then everything else gets scrambled.
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  So let's say you want to start your day off and you want to
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  start meditating. And you've always said, I want
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  to meditate I know it's good for me, I hear how great it is but I
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  just can't seem to get it. I struggle with it.
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  Part of the problem is you are trying to insert something new
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  into Old patterns. So I will often tell my clients.
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  The best way to do that is to start scrambling your patterns
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  now for any Seinfeld fans out there.
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  If you're a big Seinfeld fan and I am a big Seinfeld fan, there
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  was an episode where George was talking about opposite George
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  and he was going to do opposite of everything that George ever
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  talked about. And it was so great because he
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  was scrambling his own patterns right down to if he ordered tuna
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  salad. Now, he was going to order egg
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  salad. He was going to order coffee, he
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  would. Normally now are always order
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  coffee, he would now or dirty, he's scrambling the simplest of
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  patterns and then the others become open to interpretation
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  and you can allow new things to happen.
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  It's kind of like your trip tricking your brain.
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  You're just saying if I always walk to my left and now I walk
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  to my right and while I'm walking to my right, I think of
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  something else. I want to do it becomes easier.
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  So right from the morning, let's say we're going to add in the
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  meditation. You wake up in the morning
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  instead of going in and you know doing your day like you normally
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  would grabbing your phone, checking your text messages, or
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  emails, or whatever you say, no, I'm not going to do that, you
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  get up, you drink water and you go and you meditate first right
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  away. You've scrambled your brain
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  because you're not looking at the old pattern and doing the
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  phone or whatever. Now, obviously you probably have
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  EP in there. First, you get up.
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  I know. I'm just saying that.
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  Don't touch the typical patterns.
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  It's okay, though to get up and pee first.
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  If you need to, or get up and brush your teeth and P fine, but
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  talk about it in the sense of the big stuff that you're going
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  to move around so that your brain does not have the same
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  response. I promise you.
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  If you try this technique, you're going to be astounded as
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  to how different you feel right away because it really doesn't
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  matter if you're going for a walk or you're meditating or you
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  decide to read or you decide to change the smallest of small
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  things, the one shift in the morning, makes all the
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  difference so work on this and practice it scramble as much as
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  you can and then try putting the new things in because I promise
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  you when you do it, it will interrupt those old patterns and
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  then you have the opportunity to put in the new ones you want.
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  I hope you all have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.