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Season 4 - Episode 330 - How are you closing out the New Year? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning and welcome to the last day of the
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  year. It's always amazing to me how
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  this day feels like such a crunch time for me.
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  I mean, in my head I'm not relaxed on the last day because
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  I'm like, oh, what else can I get done?
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  What else can I get done? And I take on as a challenge to
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  see how much can I get done. I don't know why it is
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  ridiculous. I am the master of my own ship.
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  I don't understand why I have to make myself insane about it, but
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  I do. And I try to push and push and
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  push and push and push and push. And, you know, this week in
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  between Christmas and New Year's is traditionally my time to sit
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  down and make my plans and map out and create new vision boards
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  and all of that. And this year I started just
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  like that, same as always. I'm doing the same thing.
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  But I, I don't actually go back to work until Monday.
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  So I've given myself some grace, which is new for me in this
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  case, and saying, OK, well, I'm going to take my time and really
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  do this over the next couple of days.
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  So here I am sitting here in front of a fireplace talking to
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  you with my, you know, notes all around me and trying to figure
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  out, OK, I'm put choosing from my possibilities list, really
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  kind of hunkering in and digging in, knowing full well that when
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  the sun comes up, I'm going to stop for a change.
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  And I'm going to go out and we're going to work on the bird
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  feeder. And then I'm going to see how
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  far we get with that. And then I'm going to have my
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  daughter and her husband and the baby here for our New Year's Eve
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  celebration, which I'm so excited about because normally
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  they're, you know, since they, they're, you know, young hunger,
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  they're out there typically doing their own thing.
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  But this year, now they have a baby.
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  They're like, oh, can we join you?
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  And it just melts my heart. So we are having them over.
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  My husband is making a New England clam chowder.
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  Couldn't get that out for a second from scratch.
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  He makes the most amazing New England clam chowder and then we
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  are having steaks that he does with his compound butters.
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  He's very much a chef and I'm so excited about that because that
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  is an amazing way to end the year.
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  And she and I are going to sit down and work on planning when
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  she's here. And again, that fits a full
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  circle because when she was little we used to sit down.
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  There was a girl named Jamie that was a big part of my life.
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  Jamie was my right hand person. She helped me with the kids.
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  She helped me with the house. And when I traveled all over the
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  world for Tony Robbins, Jamie took care of my life and she was
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  a godsend. I mean, she was literally the
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  universe sent her right to me and she and I bonded and she was
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  21 years old and the most responsible kid I had ever met
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  in my life. And she would run my house like,
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  you know, a perfectly, you know, organized entity that it was
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  when I was there. And that's what made me so
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  happy. It was a well oiled machine.
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  And Jamie would always sit down with me sometime between
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  Christmas and New Year's, we would do our vision boarding
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  parties and she would sit down and we would make vision boards.
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  And Maddie was always a part of that.
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  And it was so cool. And to have her at that age, you
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  know, being involved in that, sitting in front of the
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  fireplace and doing it. So to know that Maddie is going
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  to be a part of it again now tonight and doing this feels
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  just so full circle. And it feels like I'm passing on
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  those traditions. And this is the way I recommend
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  trying to figure out how to wrap up your year.
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  Figure out instead of being crazy like I normally am where
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  I'm pushing, pushing, pushing to get everything done.
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  What are the things that you know are important and
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  traditions that you want to bring together?
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  Because that's what this is all about, right?
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  That's what the Scottish song, the old anxine talks about.
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  You know, you're releasing the old, you're bringing in the new.
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  And it is a, it is part of the ritual to do that.
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  So what are the traditions you're going to do tonight?
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  I told you some of mine. What are some of yours?
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  Put them down, figure them out. Sit there and say, you know
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  what? I don't want to feel this
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  massive push. Now, here's the interesting
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  thing. Tomorrow's illegal holiday.
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  So whatever you don't finish tonight in this year, you can
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  put it tomorrow. This is what I had to tell
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  myself. Listen, we're not going back to
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  work until Monday, so we have plenty of time to get things
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  done. So stop the panic, stop the
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  crazy. Doesn't matter if I order seeds
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  on the 31st or I order them in January, it doesn't matter.
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  I'm not planting them yet, so I'm not putting the heat lamps
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  up. Nothing's going up yet, so I
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  don't have to panic. But in my head, I do the panic.
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  In my head, I do the panic. So I'm not allowing that panic
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  to seep out today. I'm keeping it under control and
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  I'm ending this year the way I want to go into the new year,
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  excited and peaceful. So I hope you guys have an
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  amazing new year. Thank you for joining me again
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  for another year, and I look forward to being back here
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  tomorrow with you for a new year and new stuff.
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  All right, I hope you guys have a wonderful, blessed New Year's,
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  and I'll talk to you soon. Bye.