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Season 3 - Episode 327 - December 1st is about EXPERIENCES! · 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 chilly morning.
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  December 1st. Oh my gosh, it is cold.
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  It is so cold. I have layers of clothes on.
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  So December 1st is always a very, very interesting day for
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  me. And I really can't stress enough
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  how much I love the month of December because not only is it
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  holidays and people are in generally good spirits tend to
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  be stressed. Yes, a lot of people tend to be
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  stressed, but we do tend to have better spirits this time of
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  year. And I think for me, what this I
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  was trying to get ready for this podcast this morning and I was
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  thinking to myself, OK, what does it really mean to me?
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  Because I know how it feels, but trying to describe things in
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  feelings sometimes is very hard. So as I was going through, I
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  thought to myself, you know, what it really means is that
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  it's a high creativity time for me.
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  And I mean, just with decorating, getting festive
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  plans, baking, trying to put things into a tradition and a
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  respect that I feel honors what I want the month to feel like.
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  That's what it's all about for me.
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  So I thought, well, I'm going to share that because most of us
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  tend to feel like, OK, I've got to get my shopping done.
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  I've got to get ready for everything.
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  But the process of getting ready for everything for me is all
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  about what's the experience I want to create?
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  What do I want to feel doing these things?
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  Like for instance, yesterday we were talking about going to a
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  show and my son is not someone who likes to go to a show, but I
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  like to go to to do something once a year that will be like a
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  gathering. I can take my daughter and her
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  husband. I can take my son, my husband.
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  We all go and we enjoy this little event.
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  Well, everyone except my son because he's not that kind of a
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  guy and he gets really bored with these things.
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  Now, my daughter loves them and she always has since she was
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  little. There was a time after my
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  divorce where it was just her and I and I would dress her up,
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  she would dress me up, we would go out and we would have the
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  most spectacular times. And I think that that's part of
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  what anchored it into me for her and I.
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  So yesterday I happened to mention to my son, I said, would
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  you like to go see a show? And he was like, oh, no.
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  And he right away said it. Now, instead of getting
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  offended, I didn't get offended. What I said was, OK, great, then
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  I'm going to take your sister to go see something we never get to
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  see, which is The Nutcracker because no one else is going to
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  like that. And my husband and my son were
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  both like, Yep, you go, you guys go to that.
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  And I was like, OK, I didn't get upset because it's all about
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  multiple experiences. What can you bring?
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  Don't make it just about, OK, I'm I've got to make cookies for
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  all these people or I've got to cook for all these people.
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  Make it fun, make it an experience.
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  And you just know you're setting forth traditions for yourself
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  and for the people you care about in any way, shape or form.
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  Even if you care about them and you, they're only work people
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  and you're like, OK, I just want to do something special.
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  I want to bake. I want to be able to bring.
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  Things in. Or I want to be able to surprise
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  people with something, whatever it might be.
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  It's the experiences that we're trying to create.
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  This is a magical season. And December being a magical
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  season, we can really look at that, look at what winter brings
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  to us. Because everything starts to go
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  to sleep. And in that sleep, there's that.
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  That little potential is starting to form.
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  So for me being in that mode of just awe hunkering down and
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  really experiencing everything I can fully starts today.
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  So I tend to grab a list like today happens to be a Sunday.
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  So I will sit down after I get all my chores done and animals
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  taken care of today, I will to sit down and I will make a list
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  of all the experiences I want to have.
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  And I actually print out a block calendar for the month and I
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  will sit and I will write and I will say.
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  OK, this is when I want to do this and this is when I want to
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  do this. I will do my vision boarding.
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  We will talk about that when it comes up.
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  I will do all of my planning for next year, seed buying, you name
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  it, I will put it on that calendar and it will take place
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  today. So I know I'm not stressing
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  myself out and cramming at the end.
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  I don't like cramming, I never have.
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  I didn't study that way and I certainly don't like to live my
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  life like that. So I start to put it all out in
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  a very specific way and that helps immensely, immensely.
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  So you can see, OK, this is where I want to have fun with
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  this or this is where I want to do this and plan.
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  This year is very wonky with the holidays, in case you haven't
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  noticed that yet. How you know they all fall tends
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  to be that we almost end up with two weeks of time completely
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  void of business, almost because people are going to be off,
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  they're going to be experiencing their families.
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  So look at the calendar, figure out where you can grab some
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  extra time to go. Have some experiences that you
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  really want to take the time to read, take the time to paint.
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  Plan it. Now, my friends, today is the
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  day. Today is about experiences.
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  All right, my friends, I will see you tomorrow and I hope you
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  have a blessed fun day planning your month.
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  Bye.