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Slowing down and enjoying life. · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places for chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Today, I want to talk to you about slowing down and actually
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  taking time to enjoy things. You know, this is a long weekend
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  when I'm recording this and actually, you know, Labor Day
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  weekend. So it's the end of summer and,
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  you know, official end of summer that is.
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  And I think, oftentimes for myself, I'm speaking for myself
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  strictly right now, when I know that I've got an extra day where
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  there's quote unquote, Week, I will often figure out things to
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  do because I am one of these people that constantly likes to
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  be doing things and not necessarily sitting still and
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  it's as wonderful as it can be to get stuff done.
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  It is also a curse because I don't take the time to take a
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  break and slow down. So as I was getting ready to do
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  my recording for you this morning, I started thinking
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  about what I was doing for the weekend and lo and behold I was
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  like like I had this massive to do list and I looked at myself
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  and I was like, what am I doing? Why am I not just saying this
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  none of this is urgent and why am I not pausing and just taking
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  time to rest? And a lot of that was predicated
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  on the fact that the weather was going to rain this weekend?
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  We are in a rainy Zone and the weather was supposed to be bad.
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  So I thought to myself, well if the weather is going to be bad,
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  there's no reason that I can't get done a bunch of websites
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  stuff. I can't go get the revamp done.
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  Can't get all the pictures put in.
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  I can't do all the stuff that all I wanted to about the
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  chickens and everything else and and then I realized what am I
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  doing again? There I go filling every moment
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  that I possibly can with things that I can do.
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  Sure I can do them, but should I do them?
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  Or should I take the time to spend it, doing something else,
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  having some fun. And it made me think about how
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  many other people out there are in the same boat as I do.
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  Now I have the the ability to slow down any time, I hang out
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  with my chickens, which is why they're so important to me
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  because I will sit with them. I hang out with them, I like
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  them. I also can do this, when I
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  Garden, I really appreciate being in my garden and my brain
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  goes blank when I'm in the garden.
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  And I like that, it's my meditation space, but you know
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  what, I'm still doing stuff. I'm still putting myself in a
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  position of getting something done.
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  And I think that's the part that I Find.
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  So difficult is recognizing. There's a difference.
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  I don't always need to be doing things.
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  I can just say hey this is going to be a pause button.
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  I'm going to just pause and relax.
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  I'm going to sit down and chill out.
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  I'm not going to cause myself the stress and anguish I put
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  myself through for not getting stuff, done.
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  And I want everybody else to realize we all struggle with
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  this. This is why I'm bringing it up.
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  Beating ourselves up for certain things.
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  Mine just has to be, for always getting stuff done, because I'm
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  that person, I just don't like to sit still.
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  It's just not part of my makeup. I don't like it.
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  I feel like if I'm moving and doing, I feel great and I feel
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  happy. But that doesn't mean that I
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  don't need a break. That doesn't mean I shouldn't
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  take a nap in the afternoon and that was the next piece.
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  I realize, hey, you know what? It's supposed to rain this
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  afternoon, he could sit down and actually read a book, or take a
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  nap because Those are things that I don't normally do.
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  Now, is it okay to avoid it? If I genuinely don't like it?
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  Yes, it is. But should I at least recognize
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  that I can take a break? Yes.
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  And this is what I want you guys to do.
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  I want you to start thinking about the things that you can
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  do, and that you normally don't do, if you genuinely don't like
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  them, it's okay. But hey, you know, I genuinely
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  do love to read, I read all the time and usually, it's in small
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  chunks. Honks 15 minutes, 15 minutes, 15
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  minutes. Sometimes when I go to the
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  beach, I can get to actually read at entire two chapters,
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  three chapters at a time, just depends, but it takes something
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  like that being at the beach. That's a place.
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  Where I know, I will disconnect where I know, I will have fun
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  and I don't get to go enough. Just based on schedule whether
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  coordination, you know, whatever it might be to make that a
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  habit. So, this is about looking Your
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  habits and saying am I giving myself enough time to slow down?
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  So I've given myself this assignment that for the month of
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  September as we go into it that I'm going to be monitoring the
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  rate of which I actually am willing to slow myself down the
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  rate of which I am actually willing to look at things the
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  rate of which I am paying attention to this piece of
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  myself and saying, am I doing this enough each week so that
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  the last part of this year As we roll into it, that I am
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  essentially extremely aware of how much I'm pouring out.
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  How much time I'm taking for myself and how much I am really
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  not resting and taking time to refill, you know, refurbish my
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  brain, if you will, when I do it, re-engage my creativity in a
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  different way, just from relaxing, and I encourage you
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  all to do the same because, you know, the last half of the year
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  is always a challenge. Because Some of us are just
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  burned out, especially after the last couple years, we've had
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  boy, isn't it? It's an understatement to say
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  that we're all a little fried emotionally from everything
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  that's gone on. So I encourage you to take the
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  time that you need for yourself pour into yourself right now if
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  you need to and rest, relax, do the things that make sense for
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  you and grab back. Some of that good quality get in
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  touch with yourself time because it matters and it makes a
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  difference to your Wellness. Your overall well-being.
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  So I hope you guys go off today and find something wonderful on
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  this holiday weekend to relax and do I know.
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  I'm going to. Alright, have a great day
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  everybody. Bye.