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Season 4 - Episode 322 - The 1st day of WINTER & the Solstace! · 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 afternoon. The girls are getting all tucked
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  in as you can hear. Everyone's arguing about their
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  spaces, where they're going to go, who's going to sit where.
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  It's always hysterical when they get like this because they don't
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  want to share spaces and there's so much space for everybody, but
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  they get particular about where they're going to be.
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  Anyway, I am talking to you today about winter solstice, and
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  today actually is marking the beginning of the first day and
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  of it in the Northern hemisphere.
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  And here's another fun fact about this.
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  It's also the shortest day and the longest night of the year.
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  And for me, I know it's like the it's the first day of winter.
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  It marks the first day of winter.
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  So everyone always goes, oh, it's the first day of winter.
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  But for me, I'm like, no, no, no, this is the longest night of
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  the year and it's the shortest day of the year.
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  Therefore, no matter what season you label it, winter, even
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  though it's still winter, this is in fact the beginning of the
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  climb back towards spring. So I have conditioned myself to
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  think of this a little differently so that I feel good
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  about it because the winters can be harsh and they can be long
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  and they can be cold and not, not great growing.
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  But when you start to think of it like, OK, we have now hit
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  that line where we're going to crawl out of it.
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  We're going to begin the crawl out incrementally, little by
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  little, inch by inch every day we're crawling out of it.
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  To me, that makes all the difference in the world.
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  I, I just love the fact that I can start focusing on that.
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  That spring is right around the corner.
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  In fact, so much so I'm like, OK, during my break from
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  coaching over between Christmas and New Year's, I'm, I'm going
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  to set up all in my racks. I'm going to like go in there,
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  clean everything up, wash everything, get it all
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  organized. That's right, Sammy, and get
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  everything fixed up so that I feel like I am ahead of the
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  game. And I think when you start doing
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  those kind of things and you start looking at what can I do
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  to make myself feel better in the dead of winter other than
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  just eating cozy food and piling blankets on and not moving it,
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  it keeps you in a better rhythm. It keeps that energy moving.
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  And listen, we are nothing but pure energy.
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  Human beings are 100% energy in every level.
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  And we have to tap into that energy in order to stay healthy
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  mentally as well as physically. So when we get into this place,
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  it's and it's totally OK to take days where you're just like, OK,
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  I'm watching Christmas movies or holiday movies this whole time.
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  I'm not doing anything. I'm just going to sit on the
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  floor and wrap presents or whatever it is that you want to
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  do. So it's totally okay.
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  You just can't do it all every single day because that's when
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  it becomes unhealthy. That's when it becomes a
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  problem. So my belief is now that we hit
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  the winter solstice, now that we know winter is, you know, it's
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  first day of winter, who cares what that label is?
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  This season is all about coming back out of it.
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  Now it's coming back out of it and the planning.
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  So it's time to sit down and say, OK, if I'm going to do my
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  goal setting, do goal setting, if I'm going to sit there and
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  debrief what I did this year, great, do that.
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  If it's going to be about OK, I'm going to start focusing on
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  what am I? What is my next season going to
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  look like in future pace what that season's going to look like
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  this. This is the time to really do it
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  and celebrate that that the solstice is the beginning of
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  coming out of it. Really it is to me.
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  That's what it's all about. I I have I have gone through my
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  winter Blues six ways to Sunday because I can't you know,
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  there's not a lot of growing. I mean, although I can want
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  that's my goal is to get to that point and I am working up to
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  that. But there's always something
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  about this time of the year that causes people to say whether
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  it's the Gray skies or the the rain or the snow, whatever it
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  might be, it gives us that. And in order to get that black
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  off, you have to have a plan. So I am encouraging you to adopt
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  A principle of saying, wait, this is it.
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  This today was the day, December 21st.
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  And from here we move up. And yes, it might be labeled as
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  winter, but I can sit there and say, yes, but each day we're
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  gaining light now, each day we're gaining something.
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  Each day we're moving closer to that.
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  And enjoy the fact that you have this time to build whatever is
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  in your mind for that next season or just enjoy this season
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  the way it is and say, OK, I am energy.
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  So I'm going to focus on the good stuff about it.
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  Maybe it's time to make a blanket.
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  Maybe it's time to do something like when I went and made that
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  chunky blanket. Go get some yarn, learn on
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  YouTube, make a chunky blanket. I don't know, paint, do
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  something, but utilize this time knowing that this is the crawl
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  out. My friends, this is where we
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  begin. So I hope you have a blessed day
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  and I will see you tomorrow. Bye.