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Season 2 - Episode 303 - Setting your sleep up to win · 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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  So today we are talking about sleep.
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  Now I admittedly, I absolutely love to go to bed early.
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  I talk about it regularly to people.
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  They'll say oh what time do you go to bed And I'm like as soon
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  as possible, like not even joking.
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  When I am out after work, I am like OK, I want to just be wind
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  down immediately and I could probably fall asleep.
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  By 8:30 every single night. No joke.
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  That's just how I've always been.
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  Now, mind you, I'm wide awake at 4:00 AM, so there's a great
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  trade off in my head because I get hours and hours just to
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  myself when who else is up at 4:00 AM?
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  But I like that, and I it feels good to have that kind of power
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  up in the morning just by myself and be able to do whatever I
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  need to do. So setting yourself up for sleep
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  now if you're it doesn't matter if you go to bed late or early.
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  We all have our ideal time zones.
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  When we like to sleep and most of us don't pay attention to it,
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  we ignore it. We'll say, Oh well, I've got too
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  much to do. I've got to go and work.
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  I've got to finish this before I can go to bed.
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  But here's the problem. If you're doing that and you're
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  taking that stance, a big, big problem with that is that.
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  Your brain is not at its best, most likely.
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  Most likely. Unless you're a night person.
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  And I have had people who are complete and total night people,
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  and we've talked about like, what's the best way to kind of
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  navigate that? And if you need to do your work
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  at night because you're sharper at night than you are in the
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  morning, great. Some people want to use that
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  night time quiet just like I use the morning quiet.
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  It's just the opposite. That's totally fine.
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  But it's looking at your own habits and figuring out from
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  your own observation of your own habits what is right for you.
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  So you won't know unless you start to observe it and say,
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  hey, am am I taking another extra hour at night to do this
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  work? Because I'm not sharp at night,
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  Because I can tell you after 7:00, That's why I refuse to do
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  evening sessions. I'm no good.
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  I become completely like checked out.
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  I can't think anymore. I am just not on it and so I
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  won't take clients late. Now If you ask me for a really
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  early morning session, yeah, I have no problem with that
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  because I'm sharp in the morning.
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  I just can't do it at night. So when you start to like take
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  on a an extra project writing, like when I write a book or I'm
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  writing content for videos or whatever, I'm not writing that
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  at night. I'm writing it in the morning
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  when my brain is on fire and at its best.
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  You've got to look at those patterns for yourself about your
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  sleep and say, OK, I'm not going to screw around with trying to
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  force things in when they shouldn't be there, because then
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  that affects my sleep. Because then when you go to
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  sleep after doing a crappy job on a project that you shouldn't
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  have been doing at that time anyway, you're saying to
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  yourself, Tammy, I didn't even finish this, now I'm going to
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  work on it again tomorrow. So now you're taking the stress
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  of your mismanaged time into that with you, and you're
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  causing even more drama. So you got to eliminate that
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  piece. Now there are some tricks you
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  can. Obviously you can go out and
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  Google as many sleep tricks as you want.
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  I'm going to tell you the ones that work for me because.
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  That is just I've I've over the years I have just really
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  cultivated what works for me and I stick to it.
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  So one I absolutely have to have it cooler bedroom has to be like
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  68 degrees and I have to have a heavy blanket.
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  I like having a heavy blanket all the time.
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  It just makes me feel safe, so. Whether you use a weighted
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  blanket or comforters or whatever, I'm also really
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  figuring out if you are tolerating uncomfortable
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  pillows. I can't tell you how many people
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  will say, I mean, I just never can get comfortable.
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  Well, you think it's your pillow.
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  I'm sure it's my pillow. Go buy a damn pillow.
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  Just go buy a pillow. Get a new pillow.
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  Nothing is better than setting yourself up to win if you're not
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  comfortable in the bed. I once had a client tell me that
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  she didn't like her sheets because they had those little
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  pillies all over it from the dryer.
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  The little. You know, and they get those
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  left if you put a sheet in with a towel, sometimes they pill up
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  on the sheet and she's like, it's rough all over my skin.
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  I said OK, because she kept was complaining she couldn't sleep
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  well. And we started talking about it
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  and she's like, I hate my sheets.
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  They've just got pillies all over.
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  And I said, so why don't you just go get new sheets?
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  She's like, I don't know, I don't have the time.
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  So you mean to tell me that every single night, every single
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  night you get in the bed, you're miserable because of it and.
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  You keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a
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  different result. You think the pillies are not
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  going to bother you one night, then another, but that's what
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  happens to us as humans. We get trapped and we tolerate
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  discomfort and we just learn to take it, and it never gets us in
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  the right place. When we know it, we're we're
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  identifying it, we know what the problem is, and we refuse to fix
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  it. Elves don't come in and fix
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  things at night, my friends, So figure out what those problems
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  that are. Bothering you before you go to
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  bed and eliminate them. You know for me, I can watch a
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  show. I can't watch a scary show.
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  I I can watch something if my husband wants to watch
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  something, but for the most part it can't be scary ever.
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  Then I have it all in my head all night so and there are no
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  phones after a certain time. So pretty much when I finish at
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  night I don't pick my phone back up.
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  It is done. It is done until the morning
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  when I come out and pick it up to look at it.
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  I know that's hard for people, but it.
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  Detoxes you from it. Putting the phones down.
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  Putting the iPads down. Putting the computers down.
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  How about let me just say it this way, Get off the damn
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  electronics before you try to sleep because that will help a
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  lot. And pick up a book.
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  A book is always a great way to put you to sleep.
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  There's something about it with a human.
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  When you pick up a book and you just read, even if it's two
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  pages, you will fall asleep and you will be in a way better
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  state. So try the book therapy.
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  See if that helps and get yourself some good rest and I
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  will see you all tomorrow morning.
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  Hope you have a blessed day. Bye.