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Season 2 - Episode 337 - Recovery week! Do you have a hobby? · 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
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  coop. So this is our last day on
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  recovery week and I want to talk to you about hobbies.
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  Any of my listeners that are here for any period of time know
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  that I am a huge hobby fan. I think that hobbies are
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  something that are not overrated.
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  I think that we need them and I think that they they cause us to
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  just be better people because. We have these activities that
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  have no other intent except to make us feel good.
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  That's the intent of a hobby. Just to make you feel good
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  doesn't please anybody else, just makes us feel good and
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  think about that, you know, this chicken coop started off as a
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  hobby for me. Just being able to say, hey, you
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  know what, I wanted them my whole life again.
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  And I'm going to come out here and I'm going to enjoy them.
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  And then in the process of me doing this, I recognized that.
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  This has become such a mindful spot and such a learning
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  laboratory for me to teach everybody about that.
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  You know, I have to share this with everybody, but they started
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  off as a hobby for me. They started off as earlier in
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  my life. And this is something that while
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  it's not for everybody, I understand that.
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  They are such a a joyous activity in my heart, just like
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  painting, just like growing flowers, just like vegetables.
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  All of these things are I would consider and I would put them
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  under that mindful category of this is.
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  I don't do this for anybody else, I do this for me.
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  Even if I didn't shoot this podcast out here every single
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  day to share with all of you, I would still be out here.
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  In the world of, you know, my chickens doing this because they
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  bring me joy. They bring me just my heart is
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  just full. And as I'm out here right now
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  and I'm, you know, walking around them and they just heard
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  a hawk scream. So they got real quiet and all
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  the bunnies are running back in everybody's.
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  Everybody got freaked out when they heard the hawk.
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  So the point is. If you have something that you
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  enjoy, if you have something that fills you up, that is a go
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  to place to de stress you. That is a go to thing to give
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  your life purpose and and make it matter.
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  And when you have something that gives your life purpose, when
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  you have something that you you know it makes it matter, all of
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  a sudden you feel better. Because if you're just
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  constantly on the train of I've got to work, I've got to grind,
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  I've got to work, I've got to grind, I just got to take care
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  of all these things. And then I can if you're always
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  in the and then I can mode that, that is just physically
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  draining. It's emotionally draining it.
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  It breaks you down little by little.
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  And I promise you it will make your heart miserable over time.
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  Because it doesn't work. It just doesn't work.
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  We're not here to just grind all the time.
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  So as you go into this last thought before we.
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  You know, move to the next set of holidays.
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  Whatever we're celebrating, make sure you are taking care of
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  yourself. Do a hobby.
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  If you don't have a hobby, I sincerely suggest that you start
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  to find one. Some people have asked me over
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  the years what was reading a hobby.
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  Sure, reading can be a hobby. Absolutely.
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  I mean, I have clients that say, oh, well, I won't read anything
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  except trashy books that are like, you know, bubble gum.
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  That's OK. If that's your hobby, that's OK.
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  It doesn't matter. It matters that it makes you
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  feel that moment of like you're you're doing it just for
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  yourself. So couldn't can you consider it
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  selfish? Yes, if that's what you need to
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  do. Yes, it's selfish.
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  And it's putting you in a place where you just absolutely have
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  you. You have this total control over
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  your beliefs. You have this total control over
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  what you're thinking. You have the total control over
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  how much you enjoy it. It's yours.
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  Totally. So find that, find that one
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  thing that makes such a big difference to you.
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  Find that one thing that makes you feel so incredibly good
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  about doing it that you know, it's just like, oh, you can't
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  wait to do it. And I don't care.
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  I mean, it can be something grand or it can be something
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  simple like I have play DoH, I play with regularly.
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  You know, it is what I say. It's a complete hobby, no, but
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  it's definitely under the art category of hobby.
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  So there you go. You can chalk it up however you
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  want. It's those little tiny things
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  that matter. So if it's bringing you little
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  moments of joy and it's making you feel like you're putting
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  yourself first, then do it. All right.
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  My friends, I hope you have a very blessed day and I will see
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  you tomorrow. Bye.