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Season 3 - Episode 336 - The fill up factor! · 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 mastermindset
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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 rainy porch as it is warm
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  and rainy and unusual for this time of year to be like this.
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  However, we are talking about the spirit of the season today
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  and why is it that as we get older we tend to not want the
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  same types of gifts, You know, when you're little.
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  I mean, when I was little, I could not wait for all the
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  catalogs to come in and sit down and start circling things and
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  telling my mother, oh, I want that or oh, I want this.
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  It was such a big deal for me to be able to go through those
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  catalogs. And yes, I'm showing my age a
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  little bit there because it was prior to the Internet and oh
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  boy, there we go catalogs. Anyway, it for me, it was such a
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  big deal. I, I, I think it was my
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  precursor to doing all of my vision boarding and, you know,
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  cutting things out, circling things, having a big nice
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  sharpie going around in it. And I used to have such a list
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  as my father would call it, the hall, you know, the Christmas
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  hall. And I just loved being able to
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  do that. And it was so much fun.
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  And whether I got them or not, it was just fun to do that.
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  And over the years, you notice that you just, you know, don't
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  see things the same way. You don't want things the same
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  type of things you want. Maybe you want less, maybe you
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  just want one thing, maybe you don't want something at all and
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  maybe you just want to give. And one of the things that I've
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  noticed about myself is if I'm doing something, if I want
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  something, it's typically for one of my hobbies that I'm going
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  to be able to get better at. Like there's always a growth
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  component in it for me. And that I think it's just it,
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  it could be just me, but it could also be just the growth
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  process of getting older. And as we get older, I think one
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  of the biggest things that I noticed, the biggest distinction
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  is I want to be able to do things that contribute for other
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  people like this podcast. I've said this in the past, I
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  make 0 money off this podcast because for me, this is a gift.
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  This is a total give back. This is a total thing that lets
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  people have a touch point every day to put themselves in the
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  right state of mind. So it's a total give back and I
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  love doing it. If I didn't, I wouldn't continue
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  to do it. But for me, it's a huge thing.
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  But I also love to be able to give the eggs away from the
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  chickens. I also love to be able to give
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  flowers away and vegetables away.
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  And I love to be able to do any of the nurturing type things
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  that come from growing and expanding.
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  That nurture part of me is huge. It just, it's just I can't help
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  it. I will take in any animal, I
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  will take in any sick plant. I will work on all of it.
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  And when I do those things, they fill me back up.
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  So part of the exciting thing about going into the season is
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  being able to watch other people when you give something to them,
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  when you see their delight. And I know I regularly take eggs
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  over to the fire station. And when I give those
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  firefighters the eggs that the look on their face, they always
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  are just so grateful and tell me how wonderful they are.
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  And it just, it fills me up. I don't need anything else other
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  than that. So this is an exploratory
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  thought for you today. What are the things that you're
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  doing regularly like that, that you can know fill somebody up
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  and in the port in, in, in the in the vein of filling people up
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  in the portion of your life where you get to go do that
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  most? For most of us, it's really
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  small because we're so hunkered down in our habits of what we do
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  during the day and how we do it and we don't get to do those
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  fill UPS. I think from my own perspective,
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  that's why I love spoiling my chickens and my animals so much
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  because I do that every day. I'm constantly like, when I am
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  done with this with you, I will go and make their platters for
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  breakfast for them. And it's kind of like I said,
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  it's rainy and warm, so they have to have something that's
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  not going to mess with that rain.
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  So I'll do shredded vegetables today, which is zucchini and
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  carrots. And then they'll have some chia
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  seeds with it and bananas. And I put it on platters and I
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  bring it to them and I feel good giving them that every day.
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  I don't need to give them that. They have tons of food in their
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  coop. They can eat whatever they want
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  whenever they want it and they are free ranging so they can go
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  hunt for bugs and things all day long.
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  I do that because I want to spoil them and I love seeing
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  them come running. It makes every day, twice a day
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  they get snacks and twice a day I get to fill up.
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  And I know I'm on the higher end of that fill up factor with, you
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  know, giving. And even if I'm just giving to
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  chickens or just giving to my dogs, that fill up factor
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  matters. So I'm going to ask you to
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  figure out where's your fill up factor and how often are you
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  doing it? And are you only doing it once a
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  year? And goodness gracious, if you
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  are, I'll tell you, you're robbing yourself from the
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  experience. That's wonderful of doing it
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  more often. So go find that fill up factor.
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  Give the gift of that to yourself because it really does
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  matter. All right, my friends, I'll see
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  you tomorrow. Have a blessed day.
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  Bye.