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Season 3 - Episode 217- Filling up your soul in the busy world · 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 chicken coop.
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  So today we're talking about caring for your soul.
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  This one for me is such an important piece of having a
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  spiritual practice that works. It's caring for your soul.
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  I can't express to you enough how I think this is one of the
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  biggest factors that has to take place in this world that we live
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  in based on the fact that this is such a, a tumultuous world,
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  but it's all, it's forever shifting, forever changing.
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  And what you think is certain is not certain.
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  So for those of us who are certainty driven, the world
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  gives us a big picture of uncertainty, uncertainty,
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  uncertainty. So our job is to go and figure
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  out how we can create certainty in a world filled with
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  uncertainty. How do we do that?
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  How do we make that happen? What are the specific things
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  that we should be focusing on in order to make that happen and
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  feel like we have certainty? And that's where this piece of
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  the puzzle comes into play. That's where this is one of
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  those things where I say nothing is more important than caring
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  for your soul and making sure that every day you are
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  recalibrated, re energized, rebalanced to go out into the
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  world and do what you are supposed to do now.
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  Part of what rebalances me, and I've said this all week long, is
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  nature, nature, nature, nature, nature, nature.
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  I can't stress enough how much nature for me as a rebalancer.
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  Now, it's not for everybody. And I get that.
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  Believe me, I get that because I know from my clients, they'll
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  tell me, oh, you're so love, you love to go outside.
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  You're just, you're that person. I'm not that person.
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  Great. I know for some people, they
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  might feel rebalanced when they go shopping.
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  I am not that person. Be very clear.
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  The last thing I want to do is head into a mall or a store.
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  I don't like it, but you know what, it has to be done.
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  You have to do it. But for them, that might be the
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  way they rebalance. I, I can't stress enough the
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  individuality of this. The individuality of this has to
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  be the part we focus on. It has to be the part where you
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  say what is right for me. And over the years I have
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  grabbed, pulled, borrowed, however you want to look at it
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  from other people. About what?
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  What is the way I re energize my soul?
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  What are the things that make me feel better?
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  Getting my hands dirty is such a big thing for me.
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  That is a way to just recalibrate myself quickly.
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  Whether it's pencils, charcoal, painting, gardening, anything
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  that's going to get my hands dirty, I'm going to be doing
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  that because I know that is a very quick healing method for my
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  soul. It is part of my practice and I
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  understand that Even if I run out in the morning and I say,
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  okay, I'm just going to go and do wedding.
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  Imagine that wedding in the garden.
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  It is exciting to me. One of the funny things that
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  we're about to get a lot of rain and I thought to myself, oh,
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  this is going to be so exciting. The wedding is going to be so
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  much better. I'm going to, I'm like, I'm
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  excited to go weed because it's been so hot.
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  You can't weed and things are overgrown.
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  But when it rains a lot, it's so much easier to weed.
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  So for me, I look at that and I'm like in an absolute thrill,
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  like glorious state because I can just run out and do it.
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  And that to me, that excitement, that level of excitement, having
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  the ability to do that, that makes me excited about the
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  process of it. And it's spiritually healing.
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  It's one of those things for me that's like, Oh my gosh, I just
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  love it. It fills my soul.
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  It fills my soul. So the real question you have to
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  ask yourself is what fills your soul?
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  What puts you in that place? My mother used to tell me that
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  it always made her so happy and it made her feel so filled up
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  when she made Afghans. She wouldn't, she would crochet
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  and she would sit and crochet for hours.
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  And I'd say, how can you just sit and do that for so long?
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  And she's like, I don't know. It just fills my soul.
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  It fills my fills me up. And I remember that.
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  And I still have all of those Afghans that she made in my
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  closet except for the ones that I've given to my daughter.
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  And I look at them and I think that was the work of her soul.
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  So the question is, what is the work of your soul?
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  What fills your soul back up? What makes you feel just
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  unbelievable? And you know, again, it can be
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  small things. For me, taking pictures fills my
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  soul. I love looking at them
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  afterwards and saying, wow, that was a great shot.
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  Or oh, look what I caught. Like it.
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  It fills me up, it makes me smile, it gives me that oomph.
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  So find that piece, find that fill up.
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  What is that station you pull into for that pit stop to fill
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  yourself up and make it happen? All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.