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Season 3 - Episode 178 - Do you know when you are at your best? · 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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  Today's question, when are you at your best?
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  So stop and pause and think about this because we don't
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  operate at our best all the time.
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  I mean, there's just no way that we could constantly 1000% of the
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  time be 100, you know, at our best.
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  It just doesn't doesn't work that way because we're human
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  beings and things fluctuate. Everything fluctuates and it's
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  really important to remember that, that the fluctuation is,
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  it's real. The fluctuation is not something
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  that is, you know, I, it doesn't make you broken.
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  I, I have a lot of people that always ask that question.
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  Well, I must be screwed up. And I'm like, no, no, no, you're
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  just human. And that's kind of how it works
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  when you're human. Things are back and forth,
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  things are up and down. We ebb and flow.
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  And that's just how our, our, our flow to nature works.
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  We are part of nature. So the ebb and the flow is part
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  of it. You know, just like seasons and
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  everything else. You have times when things are
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  on point and you have times when things are not great.
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  It's kind of like if you sit down and you go to write
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  something, like I was working on something this morning and I was
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  writing and I was like, you know, it was before I came out
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  here to the chickens and I was trying to decide what I was
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  going to talk to you guys about today.
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  And I was like, I just don't feel like writing right now.
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  And then I stopped and paused and I was like, huh, this is
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  interesting. I'm not at my best in this
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  moment to write. I might be at my best at this
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  moment to watch a movie, but I'm certainly not at my best to
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  write. So I just stopped and I said,
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  OK, I, I, I, it's just not, it's not clicking.
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  And then the real question comes back to, OK, so when am I my
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  best to write or whatever else you may be doing?
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  I put it to you as a general question, when are you at your
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  best? But I wanted to give you the
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  example so you could see it can, it can go into specific, very
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  specific things and very different things.
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  So that it's it, it is a ebb, like I said, an ebb and flow
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  certain things. So am I my best to record you a
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  podcast right now? Absolutely, because it's part of
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  the reason why I do this from here is because when I come out
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  here, I just am generally very happy out here.
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  It is awesome with my chickens. I love them.
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  I love their quirky behaviors. I love how they show up and you
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  know, are kind to each other because lots of times you hear
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  chickens are not kind to each other.
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  But here it's great. And I've created this little
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  world, if you will, for them and for me and for my family.
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  And it's part of my mental well-being.
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  I know I've told you all that before, but I can tell you when
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  I come out here, it's like a reset button.
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  It's like a push and it's like instantaneously I start to feel
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  better when I go and collect their eggs, when I see them
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  doing something or trying snacks that I gave them, or I create
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  something new and they're all curious about it.
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  And I think, wow, it's amazing to me when I look at how far
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  they've come from the little tiny chicks, you know, in there
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  when we first got them as little tiny chicks and then now that
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  they're the big girls and they're out here and there,
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  they're constantly in motion, always digging, always looking
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  for things, always having fun, rototilling my gardens.
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  For me, it's it just truly brings me a different level of
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  peace and tranquility and joy. So what I'm trying to express to
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  you in this is where do you find that?
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  Where do you, when you're at your best, where do you find it?
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  How do you go reset to it? What are the things that you
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  know are your go TOS? So some people don't know those
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  go TOS. They say, well, I just have to
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  shake it off yes, but there are things that can bring you there
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  quicker for I have a I have a bunch of different little ones.
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  So I know I grew up with a dad who always went to Dunkin'
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  Donuts, grew up in New England. Dunkin' Donuts is New England,
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  right? That is just, that is the
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  essence of the whole Dunkin' Donuts world, New England.
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  And my father was constantly going and getting coffee
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  throughout the day. And coffee and a paper cup with
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  a Dunkin' Donuts logo is something special in my world.
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  Every so often I have to just go to Dunkin' Donuts and get a
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  coffee because it reminds me and my dad and it's a total reset.
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  Now, coffee in general will do that, but I don't go to coffee
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  like that. It's just, it's not my thing.
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  But the Dunkin' Donuts 10, that's a huge reset.
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  Taking time to sit and color with actual Crayola crayons, a
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  huge reset for me if I just pull them out.
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  I have all the fancy pencils, I have everything else and I love
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  using my pencils all the time. But Crayola crayons, they have
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  that smell just like play DoH. You know, it's an instant reset.
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  It makes your brain go to a different place.
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  And we all have those things. We all have.
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  You know, I have a client whose grandmothers Italian, and she'll
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  say every time that I walk in and I smell that Italian sauce
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  or, you know, cooking, or she calls it gravy, but it's
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  cooking. It's just like, oh, right away
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  she feels like totally comfort. And that's important to us as
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  human beings to be able to do those things.
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  Hit the reset button, find when you're at your best and then
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  say, OK, now I feel good again, centered and then I can go out
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  and do what I need to do to be my best.
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  But it's don't don't overlook those little things because
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  they're super important. So hopefully you find out when
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  you're your best, you know it and you know how to get back
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  there by having those little triggers.
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  All right, my friends, I will see you tomorrow and I hope you
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  have a blessed day. Bye.