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Season 2 - Episode 311 - Holidays! Creating traditions · 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 okay holidays
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  today is one of my favorite days to talk about because it's
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  creating traditions and. I absolutely love this.
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  As I talked about the other day with the books and my husband
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  and I, we do a book swap on Christmas Eve every year.
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  We do it with every, you know, our family.
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  And a book swap to me is one of the most fun things that I have.
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  And as I mentioned in that one, he bought me a book.
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  If he didn't hear that one, that was called Cut Flower Garden.
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  And that book changed my world because it taught me.
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  All about the possibilities of creating a garden just to cut
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  the flowers. And I had never done that
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  before. You don't grow flowers, you
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  don't want to cut them. I always wanted them to stay on
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  the plants. But what about the thoughts of
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  inside this fence? And it was just such a mind
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  blowing book. But anyway, we're talking about
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  creating traditions and. That wasn't something that my
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  family ever did with me. That was something that I came
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  up with in this process that I'm teaching you now, which is about
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  expanding your family traditions and the things that you do.
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  So sometimes we do things and we don't realize where they came
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  from, and sometimes we have to create them on our on our own.
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  You know, when I was a very young child, my mother always
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  had her sister come to the house and we had a giant picture
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  window in the house. Where's this big big big glass
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  window and? She would have her sister, who
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  was very artistic, paint on a Santa scene on the window.
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  And I used to sit and just watch her and I was enamored that she
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  could paint a Santa Claus on the the glass like she did.
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  And that that was on our window until, you know, January.
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  And then my mother would wash it off.
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  But that tradition started. I mean it was as as far as I can
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  remember. I was probably like three or
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  four when I remember the first one and it went up until I was
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  probably about 10 and then they stopped it.
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  I'm not sure why they stopped it, but I used to always say how
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  come she doesn't do it, why can't she do it?
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  And it and it meant something to me.
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  And I I remember thinking I am going to have traditions and I
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  just started really focusing on that and creating those things
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  for myself and my family, so. It can be simple things.
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  It can be things that you bake. It can be making cookies,
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  cinnamon buns. Those are one of my things.
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  And now that my daughter has gluten intolerance, the
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  experiment begins because I'm going to be making some gluten
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  free ones for her. And I haven't done that before,
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  but Needless to say, shift Still sticking with the tradition.
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  I will find a way to get it done.
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  Doing the book swap. That's a big one of ours.
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  I'm having a tree that is completely and totally like
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  Macy's worthy tree. I'm obsessed with that.
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  That is a tradition of mine giving a focal point in the
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  House of creating a tree that is spectacular and I will work on
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  it for four days straight if I need to, to make that tree
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  spectacular. It is just part of what I say is
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  the traditions for the family. You know when you start thinking
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  about how you develop your own traditions, one of the things is
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  what is what is everybody like? What is something that you know
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  everybody really, really likes? And then you work around it,
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  figuring out what can I do, go and do research on what are
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  traditions for holidays in other countries.
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  The book swap one I think came from something I read about
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  either Sweden or Switzerland. It's very traditional there and
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  I just thought, wow, that is so cool.
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  But when you start doing research on this stuff and you
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  figure out what all these other ones are, you're just like, wow,
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  that is so cool. I want to try that.
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  So it's not like you're left on your own to be creative with
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  this. It's just a matter of doing some
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  research and pulling some stuff up.
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  I have a client who has one that I think is so sweet because they
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  make breakfast in on Christmas Day.
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  They get up, they open all their presents, they make breakfast on
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  Christmas Day, and then they all sit down and they do an art
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  project together and she has all the paints, all the color,
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  everything's out and everybody does a picture of some sort.
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  I'm air quoting that because it depends on the person, but she's
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  got canvases, she's got boards, she's got all kinds of different
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  stuff and they can just create a picture that wraps up their
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  year. And I think that's awesome.
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  Another tradition that I do here is vision boarding, and that is,
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  that'll take place right after Christmas but before New Year's.
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  So you sit down and we have a whole thing all cut out, put it
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  together. I mean, I do vision boards like
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  crazy. I've talked about it on here
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  before, but to me, it is the time when you're wrapping up the
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  year and you're setting up the new year.
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  It's so much fun to do them then And do I do them throughout the
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  year? Yes.
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  And will I change them around? Yes, but it really means a lot
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  to me to do them in that time frame because of where the time
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  frame falls. So I think it's just a matter of
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  doing some research, figuring out what kind of excites you,
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  finding new traditions and create some because why not?
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  Why not? Why not have some fun with it,
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  OK my friends, I will see you tomorrow and I hope you have a
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  blessed day. Bye.