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Season 3 - Episode 133 - Are you sacrificing yourself? · 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 I want to ask you a question.
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  How much do you think you're sacrificing yourself every day
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  for your job, your family, your, you know, your, whatever it
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  might be in your world? How much do you think you're
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  sacrificing yourself, and is that a bad thing?
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  The question came up with a client recently about how her
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  belief is that she's constantly sacrificing herself for her
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  husband and her children and her boss, and she never, ever takes
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  care of herself. And my perspective was to ask
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  her the question, What's the reason that you do that?
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  What's the reason that you believe you're sacrificing
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  yourself? Not just the fact that she is
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  doing it, but what's the reason she believes she is doing that?
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  Because there's a big difference.
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  Is she actually doing that, or does she just believe she's
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  doing that? And how do you know when you're
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  sacrificing yourself? How do you know when you're not
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  sacrificing yourself? Well, it all comes back to our
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  guiding principles of emotions, right?
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  What our emotions are teaching us, information they are giving
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  us is to help us guide us and to move us closer or further away
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  from the actions we're doing in order to get the outcomes that
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  we eventually want be in most of the time.
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  So to ask you the question, do you think you're sacrificing
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  yourself? And if so, what does that mean?
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  Is that something that makes you happy?
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  Because, again, it's all about perspective on it.
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  So if I sacrifice some of my personal time to spend with my
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  child, is that something that I have to feel resentful about?
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  Well, only if I feel like I'm sacrificing it and it's causing
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  me pain, Then I have to go to a place of saying, well, you know
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  what? I I I don't feel good about
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  this. But if I do it and I say I
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  sacrifice this time with him, but I absolutely love and enjoy
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  it and I'm grateful for the fact that I get to do that because I
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  know I won't have him forever. He's 13 and I know he's going to
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  eventually have a girlfriend and a wife and a life and move on.
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  So I don't look at the time that I spend with him now as
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  something that's taking away from me and what I'm doing
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  because I appreciate the fact that I have this guiding force
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  inside of me that says I can spend time doing things
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  physically and gain gratitude for it emotionally as to the
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  outcomes, like, I don't look at working with my clients, the
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  number of hours that I work with my clients, it's a sacrifice
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  from my personal time or my family.
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  I look at it like it's a blessing that one, I get to help
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  people and two, that I have the ability to see it as a a a gift
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  and in in gratitude. But I'm going to loop back to
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  the question and so you can understand where I'm coming
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  from. If you feel like something is
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  constant sacrifice, then you feel like you're being ripped
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  off. If you feel like you're being
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  ripped off, then you can never get past the fact that you're
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  starting out from a a depleted level.
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  And if you're starting off something in depletion, it just
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  feels like crap every time you start that down that road.
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  So if you walk into work every day and you are saying to
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  yourself, you know, I feel like I sacrifice myself coming here
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  every day and I feel like this. And I feel like that even though
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  they're paying you right, they're they've agreed to give
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  you money and you're trading your time for money.
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  So you entered into this agreement, whatever money you're
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  getting, whether it's a salary or hourly, you have agreed to
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  trade time for money. So are you really sacrificing
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  yourself because you agreed to it?
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  And it's a great simple thing to just start there because that's
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  where the beginning of it all started.
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  They offered you something, you accepted it, and you're doing
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  it. Point 1.2 is you're making an
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  emotional connection and attachment to it if you're being
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  in the state of I'm sacrificing myself for this job.
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  I hate this job. I I feel like I come here every
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  day and a little piece of me dies.
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  I understand that the job might suck and it might not be what
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  they told you, but you still have the ability to change that
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  and nobody else can change it for you.
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  You can decide I want to go somewhere else.
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  I want to do something else. And maybe that's the lesson in
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  this. Maybe that's what you're
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  supposed to be doing. Maybe you're supposed to be
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  figuring out something else for yourself.
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  And the pain is here to teach you something.
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  And it's not just about you sacrificing yourself.
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  It's about you learning that you've got to go beyond it.
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  But nobody can answer those questions but you.
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  The point of this conversation is, if you believe that you're
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  sacrificing yourself any every day, are there moments which we
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  all have to like, give a little bit of ourselves and we have to
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  say, oh, you know that, sure, those happen.
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  But if your predominant state is that of sacrificing yourself,
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  it's not about the thing or the person or anything else.
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  It's about you and your perspective and you taking
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  responsibility and changing your own mindset and your own
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  situation. Because nobody can else can do
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  either for you. Nobody else can make you get a
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  different job. Nobody else can change your
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  mind. It's all an internal job.
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  And if you're starting from sacrifice, you're already
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  starting in a place of depletion.
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  So I'm going to challenge you to go and look and say, you know,
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  am I really sacrificing myself every day or is this just an
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  agreement I've entered into and I've become complacent about it
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  and now I'm angry about it and now I'm just, I got to get out
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  of it. That might be more accurate than
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  you're sacrificing yourself every day and when you get clear
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  on it, then you can change it. Otherwise you'll just be angry
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  and you'll do nothing. So hopefully you guys will be
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  able to take some wisdom from this and go out and shift any
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  situations that are not working for you any longer and move
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  forward. I hope you guys have a very
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  blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.