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Season 2 - Episode 314 - Holidays! Thoughtful, spending, and thoughtful gifts · 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 coop.
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  So today we are talking holidays.
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  The next part, part 4, which is all about actually going to
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  blend these subjects together because I think they go
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  together, which is getting people presents and smart
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  spending. So the holidays can be super
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  expensive and people stress out about the money portion of the
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  holidays constantly. But the real root cause of that
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  is buying presents for people and creating experiences for
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  people, food, all of it. They all come into that spending
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  piece and boy oh boy, it is a big punch in the face for a lot
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  of my clients and a lot of people that I've talked to over
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  the years. They really struggle with this
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  because it is expensive. And right now, the world the way
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  that it is, the prices have gone up and people are definitely
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  aware that they are spending more.
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  So how do you navigate this? Well, if you start ahead of
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  time, which is why we're doing this so early to have this
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  thought process of, OK, I'm going to give more thoughtful
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  gifts. I'm not saying you give
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  inexpensive gifts. What I'm saying is you give
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  thoughtful gifts. And those gifts mean something
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  to people. And the and the when they mean
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  something to people. It doesn't have to be expensive,
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  but it has to be well thought out.
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  So as any of you who are listening know if you're a
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  regular listener, I'm very into my gardens.
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  It's a big part of my mental health as well as it's a huge
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  piece of what I love to teach all of you because there's so
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  many lessons in it now. The gardens are something that I
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  have. Always done with my dad,
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  vegetable gardens, but getting into flowers with something that
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  I just loved doing and love to continue to do.
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  And a couple years ago we had as part as a regular part of our
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  holiday, we have a book exchange on Christmas Eve among our
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  family. So each one of us buys a book
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  for the others, and it's a nice exchange because you're giving
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  somebody something that you think will matter to them.
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  Well. There was a book a couple years
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  ago called Cut Flower Garden by Aaron Benzocaine and this book
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  my husband gave me changed my whole world because she talked
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  about in this book how you create a cut flower garden and
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  it's seasonal so you can work through.
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  Where you are, you can figure out what will grow.
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  You can learn everything that you need to about creating your
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  own cut flower garden. And this book meant so much to
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  me. And this book was under $30 and
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  this book was the best gift that I got.
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  That that year, like, legitimately the best gift that
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  emotionally that I got that year.
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  Was it the most expensive? No.
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  But it was the one that was the most thoughtful because it was
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  something I had been talking about and something that I felt
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  would like really be a year. A gift of just a constant
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  giving. Because everything that I'm
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  growing in there comes back to me and in it reminds me of the
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  gift, reminds me of what he did. So it was super thoughtful now.
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  For those of you who are thinking, gosh, he must nail it
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  all the time, no, that would be a big.
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  However, he did that time and the point is that this is a
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  process of understanding that never, never do.
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  You have to give things that are expensive to get that feeling.
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  It's about the thoughtfulness. So combining the idea of what do
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  I know about this person? What do I think matters to this
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  person? What are the things that will
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  make them feel special? That's the part of this.
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  And it also ties back to your budget, because not all of those
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  things are going to be expensive or have to be expensive.
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  So if you've never done the exercise of saying, let me sit
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  down and write out who are the people we all write our list
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  about who we have to buy something for?
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  And then we typically write down what we're getting next to them
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  just so we have a box we can take and then cross it off.
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  But what if it was different? What if you sat and wrote out
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  what each person? You knew about each person that
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  you loved, about each person. What if you sat and had a page
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  that just from a place of even just trying to be more mindful
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  about the people in your world and how much you love them?
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  And you sat down and you said, OK, this is what I know about
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  this person, this is what I love about this person.
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  And then you could figure out what are the types of things
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  that would be thoughtful gifts for this type of person that
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  would change everything, and it would change it for you too.
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  Because now you've got this very concrete path of not allowing
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  yourself to overspend as well as you've done an exercise of being
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  thoughtful about them as people and, you know, having gratitude
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  just in general for them in your life and.
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  Giving thoughtful gifts instead of giving gifts that just are
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  ticking the box because we're not just box tickers.
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  If you're here so have some fun with this.
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  Try to be creative and make it a memorable Christmas with your
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  creative gifts by thinking of outside the box.
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  OK my friends, I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.