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Season 5 - Episode 1 - Happy New Year & Are you the Tortoise or the Hare in this 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, happy New Year from the chicken coop.
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  We are out here and we are having a celebration breakfast
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  with the chickens and they are so excited.
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  They love to get pasta. So today is a pasta day because
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  they are having a New Year's celebration right along with all
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  of us. It's interesting though, because
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  they were all celebrating and then all of a sudden they heard
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  a noise and they became tentative.
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  And it made me think about what we were talking about today,
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  because, you know, it's the beginning of the year and
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  everybody usually wants to go in all gung ho.
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  Everybody's like, ah, we're, we're ready, let's go, we're
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  going to crush it. And everybody has this.
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  And then, you know, we, we all know it wanes over the course of
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  the, the weeks coming. It's, it starts to fade.
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  So how do you prevent that? What, what's the first thing
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  that we do to prevent that from happening?
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  And well, one, it's recognizing that it's going to happen.
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  It's inevitable. There's nothing we can do about
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  it. It will happen because we're
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  humans. And the big thing is making sure
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  that you're set up for it when it does happen and not getting
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  mad at yourself. So for me, I am actually this
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  year, not going in as the whole gung ho situation.
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  I've been really working to be very, very steady, Eddie, and I
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  love thinking of it that way because I can maintain things.
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  The tortoise, you know, when you watch a tortoise walk, it's very
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  dito dito. It's slow and steady and we all
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  know the story of the tortoise and the hare.
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  So I like to think of the first part of the new year now as
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  well. I don't want to be a hare, I
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  want to be a tortoise. I want to be continuing my
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  process just where I was so I can stay steady and get done
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  what I want to get done and not feel exhausted by the end of the
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  month. So this means working on my
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  schedule differently, booking clients differently, making sure
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  that paperwork doesn't take over on me, making sure I'm doing
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  more check INS throughout my week as opposed to just waiting
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  until the end of the month. I I am a big believer of logging
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  my wins every day, but I admit I got sloppy about that at the end
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  of the year and I was just more intent on reading and studying,
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  which was fine, I have no problem with that.
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  But I know in order to feel really outstanding I have to do
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  a combination of both. So it's this is all about
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  looking at yourself and saying, how can I be a tortoise going
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  into this year so that I can walk all the way through the end
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  of the year strong? I don't have to come out.
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  You know, one of my clients said, well, it's the year of the
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  horse. And I'm like, yeah, I get it.
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  But there are all different kinds of horses.
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  There are the ones that can just do those short laps and win
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  quickly. But then there are those quarter
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  horses. Those are the work horses.
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  Those are the ones that get the farms done.
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  Those are the ones that make progress.
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  And yeah, they're a big wins for those short runners.
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  And I'm not saying you can't be a short runner, but think about
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  it before you jump in and do it. Just really concentrate on that
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  and saying, am I going to be, you know, the, the the tortoise
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  and the quarter horse? Or am I about to go ahead and
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  say, I'm just going to be that that sprinter right this minute?
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  I'm going to be the hare and then I'm going to step back And
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  it's OK to mix and match. That's the beautiful thing.
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  It's like clothing. Mix and match.
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  Do what you need to do. But remember, remember, this is
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  this is all about how you decide to frame it.
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  It's your perfect world. It's what you decide to do.
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  So that's kind of how I'm going into it.
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  Like I am about to go take my Christmas tree down.
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  I've already started my year off by paying bills this morning,
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  which was fun because I sat there and normally I'm like, oh,
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  I got to pay bills and because I just hate doing paperwork.
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  But I'm saying to myself, this year, no, I'm going to make
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  paperwork my friend. Paperwork is my friend.
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  And I'm going to find a way to do it more efficiently.
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  And I'm not going to wait until I have tax time before I try to
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  do it all. I'm setting it up.
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  I'm being the tortoise. How can I approach this
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  incrementally? Because that's what wins.
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  So think about that. Where are your weak points?
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  Where do you know this is going to show up?
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  Another one for me will be OK. It's this time of the year.
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  It means I just want to be outside all the time because
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  there's no humidity And it's, you know, I mean, nothing's
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  growing right now, but it's all about the prep and thinking
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  about the prep. And so I'm, I normally I
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  wouldn't start this for about another month, but I'm saying,
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  Nope, I'm going to do it all through January.
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  I'm going to do something outside every single day, even
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  if it's only for 20 minutes. I am going to do something
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  outside. I'm going to redo my chicken
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  coop area. I'm going to redo where I'm
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  putting my next flower garden. I'm going to do all of these
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  little things ahead of time so that when the heat is on, I'm
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  not overwhelmed with it and I'm not sitting there whining about
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  it. Right down to thinking about,
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  OK, well what do I even want to plant?
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  Do I want to plant so many plants or do I want to plant
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  ones that I can be really efficient with?
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  It's all being observed. So that's the way to go into
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  this new year from my perspective.
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  What's yours? What are you going to decide to
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  do? All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow and
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  again, happy New Year.