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Season 3 - Episode 331 - Choosing your word for the year · 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 mastermindset
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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 house because it's raining
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  and it's dark and the chickens aren't even out yet.
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  So we're doing this in the house today and today we're talking
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  about something that is always a subject for my clients this time
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  of the year. And that's it.
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  Should I pick a word? Should I pick a theme?
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  What should I do for my year coming up?
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  I'm starting to work on all of this and should I pick
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  something? And the answer is you should do
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  what makes you happy. You should do something that
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  puts you in the right place to keep it going.
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  Now, I personally like to pick lots of things.
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  I like to have lots of options and I don't like to get stuck in
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  just one thing. It it makes me feel like I don't
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  have variety. It's like telling me I can only
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  paint with blue paint for the whole year and it really drives
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  me crazy. So I think if I had to explain
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  it the easiest way I possibly could, I would say that when you
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  are doing this, you should do something that you know is going
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  to keep you inspired, keep you floating in the happy zone or
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  towards the happier, lighter emotions that you want to stay
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  in productive emotions, whatever your your intent is.
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  And say, that is my quote UN quote theme, but I'm going to
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  use multiple ways to stay in it. I truly do that with my clients.
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  We are always working in different frames that will pull
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  them back to it. And it might be that one time
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  it's like, OK, you got to be quiet and you got to go off on
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  your own and you've got to stay centered.
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  And then another time it might be, hey, let's do something
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  super, super creative. Or another time it might be,
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  let's go out and do a volunteer project.
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  Let's do something that puts us in the right frame of mind and
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  puts us in the right energy. But it's not going to be
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  consistent. As human beings, we we love
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  consistency, but we always have a hard time doing the same thing
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  to stay consistent. And if you go to use, let's use
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  exercise as an example, when you work with a trainer at a gym, if
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  you've ever done that, often times they will say to you,
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  well, you know, we've been doing this circuit for quite some
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  time. We want to change it up.
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  We all know that athletes that compete in the Olympics do this
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  very thing often. They cross train and that's
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  where cross training came up from.
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  You're always changing. You're always doing things to
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  make your body react differently, show up
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  differently. So think of it, this is like
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  mental cross training. You want to have options for
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  yourself so that you can see, OK, yes, I want to do this.
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  Yes, I want to be on task with this and I don't want to make
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  this just be one thing for myself.
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  I definitely want to say I need options.
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  So if I'm talking about myself in general, I can say without a
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  doubt that I need that cross training.
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  I'm not just going to go plant one type of flower.
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  I'm not just going to say, OK, I'm good doing this one
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  particular type of art all the time.
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  I'm not going to say I'm going to read the same book over and
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  over or watch the same movie. Now, is it good to go back and
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  do that? Sometimes we all like to watch
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  the same movie again, yes, But after a while, if you've watched
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  it over and over, it's like when Elmo had Christmas non-stop.
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  He wished for Christmas to be every day.
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  And then after a while he got sick of Christmas and he said to
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  Santa, this is not fun anymore. Of course he said it like Elmo
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  says it, but you get my point. And it's it's important that you
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  have variety built into your outcome with this.
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  So somebody asked me yesterday, can I pick a different word?
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  And I was like, you could pick a word, different word every week.
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  You could pick a different word every month or every quarter.
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  You could pace it out according to what you think you want that
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  year to look like. And that, my friends, is really
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  powerful. And when I said it and we were
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  working on this, I actually stopped.
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  And I said, jeez, I might like to do something like that too
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  this time. I haven't done that in a very
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  long time. What if I printed out monthly
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  calendars, blank calendars for the whole year?
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  And then I just went along and I decided, OK, I'm going to theme
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  each month for myself because that will come to my big outcome
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  at the end of the year. And I thought, oh, that sounds
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  really exciting to me. So if we pay attention to our
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  emotions and we recognize that our emotions are the indicators
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  of what we should be directing ourselves with, knowing we got
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  to pull away from something, we've got to go into something.
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  Well, guess what? All of a sudden everything
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  changes. All of a sudden everything
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  changes and we're on the right path.
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  So I think I'm going to do that in this direction now.
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  I do all my planning in the week coming up between Christmas and
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  New Year's. That's kind of always been my
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  sweet spot to like sit down, be quiet, vision board, do all my
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  planning, order seeds for the gardens, get everything
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  organized. Like because to me, I'm ordering
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  the seeds at the same time I'm planting my mindset.
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  I'm getting it all set up so I'm going to do that this year.
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  I'm 99.9% sure I'm theming it out the whole year, so I'll keep
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  you posted, but think about it, think about your word, think
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  about your theme, but remember you can be as creative as you
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  want with it. All right my friends, I will see
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  you all tomorrow and I hope you have a blessed day.
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  Bye.