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Season 2 - Episode 256 - Draining yourself physically · 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,
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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.
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So let's talk about draining yourself physically.
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You know, I've had so many conversations with people this
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summer who have gone on and said how much they just can't stand
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the fact that the heat has really physically wiped them
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out. And that's probably very true.
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It's happened to me cleaning out the girls coop, you know, every
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couple of weeks. I have to.
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I don't have to. Let me rephrase.
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I choose to take all the straw out of their coop and swap it
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out with fresh straw. And it's a huge project because
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it's a lot. It's a big coop.
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I want them to be cozy and comfy, and I give them clean
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straw. At least you know.
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Every two weeks, 2 1/2 weeks, 3 weeks they get that straw
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cleaned because it's gross to have poop everywhere.
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Let's just face it. And I'm not one of these people
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that says, oh, you don't have to change it, they're only
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chickens. Nope, They are not only
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chickens, they are my partners in crime.
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They are out here. They make our mornings joyous
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talking to you on this and they get this changed out.
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But changing it out can be physically exhausting,
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especially in the heat. It takes me like 2 1/2 hours to
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do everything that I need to to strip.
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Your coop out, clean it and set it back up.
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And when you are physically drained, you have to take care
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of yourself. And oftentimes we just try to
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push through, push through, push through, push through.
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There's certain things that. I can do all day long, like walk
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while I talk to my clients. I walk, I walk about.
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Well, this week was interesting because I did over 50 miles of
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walking this past week. I did a lot of sessions and I
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did over 50 miles of walking according to my Fitbit, which
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was awesome. I loved it and it's physically,
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you know, so good for you. And in the heat, it can be
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draining, so I have to make sure I'm doing a good job
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replenishing myself when I changed the coop out yesterday,
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physically draining. Have to make sure I replenish
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myself. And sometimes we don't want to
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listen to that piece. Sometimes we want to try to
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force something like, no, I can suck it up and I can get through
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it. I don't need to go to bed early
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or I don't need to, you know, take that nap or I don't need to
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do certain things. But here's the issue.
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If you don't, you start to stack on top.
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That resentment of exhaustion. And it's not just the physical
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exhaustion, but it becomes the resentment of exhaustion.
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And when you're in resentment of something, it gets ugly in your
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head and then you become, quite frankly, just plain old bitchy.
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And once that happens, well, there we go.
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We're not coming back from that one anytime soon, unless you're
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very aware of who's driving the bus and you can snatch the wheel
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from her hands and move on. So what's so important is to
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recognize it is not a bad thing to say.
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Hey, I am physically wiped out right now.
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I need to replenish myself. It is not a bad thing.
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It's actually very helpful when you can recognize it and do
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that. You know, part of my renewal of
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myself being physically drained every day is to be able to sit
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and say okay at night. I watch a show every night
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because. And I know there are people out
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there that say stay away from television and I stay away from
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all television. I I selectively will watch a
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show, and if the show is too dark, I won't watch it.
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If the show is something that's uplifting, I'm happy to watch
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it. I will find things.
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I will watch classes on art, painting, doing all kinds of
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different things. I have to watch something that
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kind of. Allows me to wind my brain down
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because I'm so wound up all day from coaching and writing and
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recording and doing all the things that I'm doing.
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I just need to like, chill my brain, Physically chill my brain
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when I start to do it. Chills my body out.
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So recognizing what do you need incredibly important and really
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listening to the body when you say when it says I'm physically
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drained, don't try to caffeinate the hell out of yourself to get
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someplace better. You know that rare?
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Rarely is healthy, rarely is healthy.
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So it's so important to say, hey, listen, I've got to pay
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attention here. I've got to eat some great food,
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clean food. I've got to do something that
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says I've got to hydrate myself. I've got to be on point because
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this is not good for me and once you do it, you feel fantastic.
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Perfect example. Cleaned out the chicken coop.
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Completely drained yesterday. Had no choice.
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Had to go ahead and just feel completely wiped out by the
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whole prospect of doing so. And then I had to take a break.
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Had to take a break. Had to take a break.
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There was no question about it. Went to bed early and slept
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straight for about 10 hours. When I got up, I was like, OKI
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feel fantastic. I feel fantastic.
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Why? Because I listened to what I
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needed and I didn't ignore it. Do yourself a favor.
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Take the physical break you need.
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All right, my friends. I will see you tomorrow, and I
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hope you have a blessed day. Bye.