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Season 4 - Episode 304 - Do we really need to rush? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happened to be a farmer.
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  This is my Chicken coop and I come out here.
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  Every day to record a podcast. To teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring some.
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  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 morning. Happy day after Thanksgiving, as
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  I like to think of it, happy Bombardment day.
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  So this day for me has always been one of those crazy things
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  that my friends have always been like, let's go shopping.
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  And I am not a shopper as you can imagine.
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  So I'm like people shopping too much.
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  I can't take it. I'm I'm not a crowds person per
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  SE. I can be a crowds person if it
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  involves plants, pots, things like that that I want, but those
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  kind of sales are few and far between.
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  And if I'm in one, I'm going to be there early, like I'll be
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  like number in the first ten in line.
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  Let's just say it that way. However, today presents an
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  interesting thing because everybody starts to immediately
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  get rushed in their head because we typically have, you know,
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  3433 days left. I think we have 34 days left in
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  the holiday seat until Christmas or actually until the end of the
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  year and less, fewer days till Christmas.
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  And that puts the crunch on like, what have you gotten done?
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  What do you need to get done? This continuous loop that we go
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  through in our head of feeling rushed, rushed, rushed, rushed,
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  rushed. And it starts to make us feel,
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  you know, that energy coming out of us is now not pleasant and it
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  affects everything we're doing. And it doesn't matter what we're
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  doing. We could be making cookies, but
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  we're doing it in a rush and avoiding that rush in emotion is
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  what's important. Do we have a lot of things to
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  do? Sure, I know I do.
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  You know, like today, typically I don't like to go out, like I
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  said, in the crowd. So I want to put up my Christmas
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  tree. That is a really big endeavor
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  for me. It's a big tree, 12 feet,
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  literally thought around when we built this house and I had
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  planned so long for this house, I planned to have a very tall
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  Christmas tree. So I knew this was like a major
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  part of my I always wanted a huge tree.
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  It's not easy to do them. I just was like, oh, this is
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  what I want and it takes a long time and it's OK.
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  I love doing it. I love doing it and I, I don't
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  want to rush through it. So like today is my day to do
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  the tree. I'm going to take my time.
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  I'm going to have my, my son help me pull the stuff down and
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  get it all assembled because I can't assemble it by myself.
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  It's too big. And then I'm going to decorate
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  it and I'll spend all day decorating it because that will
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  feel really good to me and it gets me centered.
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  And then I feel like now the holiday season is imparted on me
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  and I can see it and it starts to make me want to do the other
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  things. So I'm flipping the script
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  rather than running around and doing all these crazy errands in
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  the middle of everybody else doing them.
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  I, I have always flipped the script and I didn't, I don't
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  think I've ever shared that I do that.
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  So while everybody else is running one way, I run the other
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  way. And that gives me the time to
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  say, OK, once that's done, like maybe Sunday, I'll go shopping.
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  I don't know. I, I have stuff I want to go get
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  from my grandson and I have things that I'll order online.
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  And my son, his list is like all stuff for his truck.
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  So I don't even know. I'm, I'm probably just going to
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  end up getting him to fill an Amazon cart and let letting me
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  get it for him and surprise him with some stuff from this 4x4
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  store that he has that he loves here locally.
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  But that's not the point. The point is I'm not allowing it
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  to dictate how I'm going to feel about these last few weeks.
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  And, and to bring it full circle with like, what are your goals?
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  What do you want to work on? I want everyone to know I am not
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  doing that for myself until that break between Christmas and New
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  Year's. That is my sacred time to do
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  this. And also keep an eye out and
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  please make sure if you are not on our e-mail list over for the
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  newsletter on the website Mindset with kim.com, you will.
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  I'm going to be putting together a pre recorded message about how
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  to do goal setting. I usually do it live, but I
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  decided this year I was going to do it recorded because people
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  always tell me they want to be able to rewatch it.
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  So if you are on the e-mail list, you'll get an e-mail with
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  that in it and you'll be able to watch it as many times as you
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  need to to get it the way you want it to be.
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  So I'm not doing that until that week.
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  So all these weeks in between are just about what do I need to
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  finish up? What are the things that I want
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  to do, the shopping and all of that.
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  But I'm going to do it paste. I'm not going to do it in a
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  flurry. I'm not going to feel like I'm
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  like, I'm so rushed. I'm so rushed, I'm so rushed
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  because that actually makes more things go wrong.
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  So when you just say slow and steady wins the race, you're
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  better. So this morning when I'm
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  finished with this, I'm going to take care of the girls.
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  As soon as the sun is up enough, I'm going to bring them out
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  their oatmeal. And I'm going to set myself up
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  by making a big fat brain dump list of the stuff that I really
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  want to hit on. And then I'm going to put my
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  tree up and I'm going to relax and I'm going to have fun.
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  And tomorrow I'm going to meet my friend at the farmers market.
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  And I'm going to again, make it about having fun and stay
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  centered. Don't feel that flurry of energy
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  of, you know, panic because it's only going to make it seem worse
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  and it's not. Everybody can get everything
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  done if they're just slow and steady wins the race.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow after I have a Christmas tree in my house.
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  Bye.