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Season 3 - Episode 337 - Planning your reading for the year now! · 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. I'm actually in the garage.
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  You're going to laugh about that.
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  I'm in the garage because it's raining and it's really cold and
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  I am being a baby and the chickens are not even awake, so
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  it's so dark. So I'm in the garage and I am
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  talking to you today about a really cool part of the end of
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  the year for me because I think I like, I love to share tips and
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  tricks that I do for myself. And one of these things,
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  obviously we talk about vision boarding and we talk about, you
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  know, planning your year and going through and mapping things
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  out. And I have not started working
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  on that portion. I usually do that between
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  Christmas and New Year. That week is kind of like my
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  planning week and I like to kind of keep it sacred and set it U
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  that way. And I haven't started.
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  I have started pulling little pieces together of ideas, things
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  I've been working with my assistant and pulling stuff out
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  about what we want to do. But one of the things that I
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  really, really like to do this time of year is start pulling my
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  book list together and seeing what are the books that I know
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  I'm going to want to read and order them ahead of time and
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  have them all set up. Now part of the method to the
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  madness, somebody might say, we'll buy the book as soon as
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  you are going to read it or go to the library and get it.
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  But I have a thought on this. So I order the books ahead of
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  time so that I can pile them up and I can see what I'm supposed
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  to be doing. And I put little notes on them
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  to tell me like little flags on the side.
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  OK, this is the January book. This is the February book.
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  I like to flag them so that I can make sure I'm on task with
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  keeping up with that. Now these doing this project is
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  a complete task of joy for me. It's not a chore.
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  So I'm not scheduling them to make them a chore.
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  I think that's what's really important to remember.
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  I'm not scheduling to give myself another damn To Do List.
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  What I'm doing is setting up my bumps of joy.
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  So if I'm going to read something that's going to be
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  more challenging to read, let's say if it's if I'm studying
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  heavy stuff, I don't want to have another heavy one right
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  after that. I want to have something that's
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  a little bit lighter, something to do with gardening, growing,
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  that kind of thing because that lifts me up in a different way.
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  So I like to balance them. And this year most of the books
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  that I read, Full disclosure, are always learning books.
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  They're I don't like to waste time reading what I would say
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  fiction books. Like I think, oh, I can't waste
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  my time doing that. But this year, thanks to a
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  client of mine who really said to me that she read a couple of
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  really fantastic books that were fiction, I was like, OK, I'm
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  going to do it. And I put some on my list and
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  everything is ordered. And now I've got things that are
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  coming. And I downloaded some into my
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  Kindle as well. Because sometimes I like to have
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  a Kindle version of it. And then I know I'm going to be
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  able to take it with me easier wherever I go.
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  So I, I try to balance this all out is my point.
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  But the reading adventure for the year is what is the plan for
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  today to talk to you about plan your reading adventure for the
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  year. What do you want to take in for
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  the year? Like if you picked a theme for
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  the year or a word for the year, lots of people love to do that.
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  If you have done it, are you aligning your books with that?
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  Are you aligning up what you're going to learn with that or take
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  in from that, enhance with that? Whatever it might be, go do a
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  book adventure now. Another great track track to
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  take with this is to go to Barnes and Noble or a physical
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  bookstore and sit in the bookstore and look around.
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  Order your magazine subscription for the year so you know you're
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  getting your magazines. If you love to still get
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  magazines, which I do. I just don't like to order them
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  because the mail destroys them. So it annoys me.
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  I like to get them at the bookstore, pay more for them,
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  whatever. I just don't want them all
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  dented. So me nerding out on that.
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  But I, I have that all laid out as well.
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  So I know exactly what I'm going to be clipping from my magazine,
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  saving for my vision boards, what I'm going to be be
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  learning, what I'm going to be tucking in, all of it.
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  It's all laid out ahead of time. And it really does make you feel
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  so empowered to know that. And it also puts you on such a
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  great path because then you can start planning.
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  OK, I, I want to make time every single day to read, to learn to
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  go into that. And making that time every
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  single day, even if it's 15 minutes is so important.
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  Now there are apps that you can use as well.
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  I do have a few apps that I love that are basically Cliff Notes
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  for adults. And no, this is not something
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  that I get paid to talk about, but I do use Headway and I do
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  use summary because I like getting the the Cliff Note
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  version of books sometimes just to know what's in them before I
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  buy them and dedicate myself to them.
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  So there's always that option as well.
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  But plan your reading year ahead of time.
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  I promise you it will give you such a feeling of joy at the end
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  of the year you can't imagine. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.