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Season 2 - Episode 298 - Morning rituals of filling up and fueling up · 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.
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  So this morning we are talking about morning rituals that boost
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  your energy for the day. So often we we don't think about
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  the fact that we're going to have to sustain ourselves for a
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  period of time and when we don't put ourselves into the right
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  headspace and physically as well, not just mentally, but
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  physically, they both work in tandem, they both work hand in
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  hand. And when you don't have one set
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  up, then the other one causes your you to go downhill.
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  So morning rituals for me obviously are important.
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  I'm in a chicken coop. I just, I look forward to coming
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  out here every single morning. It's never a chore to me because
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  they are so silly and they crack me up the way they are and
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  they're just fun for me. So one of my morning rituals is
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  obviously to come out and open up their main gate.
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  Their little door opens up into their run, but you know their
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  main gate that opens up into the whole farm.
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  It's a thing for me to come out, give them breakfast.
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  You guys have probably seen pictures on social media of the
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  fact that they have these platters for breakfast while
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  they have their chicken food. I spoil them.
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  This morning they're having oatmeal with coconut oil, chia
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  seeds and bananas. And the platters are actually
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  already empty because they loved it so much.
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  And every day I try to make them a platter of something one.
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  It helps them but really helps me.
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  It's a morning ritual of nurturing, so that is the key
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  for me personally. I recognize that if I nurture
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  myself before I go out and try to take care of anything else in
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  the world, I'm going to feel better.
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  And taking care of them makes me feel good because they're my
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  chosen pets, just like the dogs and the cat are my chosen pets.
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  I love to take care of things, my flowers, all of that.
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  And it's part of a process for me that builds me up.
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  It's not just about having other things to do.
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  So when people say to me, well, doesn't it bother you that you
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  have so many things to take care of?
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  I don't look at it that way because I look at it like as I
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  am nurturing them. I'm filling myself back up
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  because that word nurturing for me is an important aspect of my
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  identity. So it's a morning ritual for me.
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  What else do I do in the morning that will help me sustain my
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  energy for throughout the day? Well, first and foremost for me,
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  it's a it's reading. Every morning I have a book of
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  some sort. I probably have like 5 different
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  books going on right now. They're all in a pile and I pick
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  them up and I'll grab from one and I'll start reading it.
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  And even if it's two pages, it doesn't matter.
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  I have a highlighter. I sit.
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  I. Take information in that makes
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  me feel good and I focus on that because that's something that
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  again, is going to help me sustain my mental energy
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  throughout the day. Going again with mental energy,
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  listening to something. So once I can't sit and read
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  because the time is ticking and I've got to obviously do mom
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  chores and. Business chores.
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  I've got to start moving, so then I turn it on to an audible
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  that I can play out loud or videos.
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  I'm in a class right now, so I'll I'll watch a video while
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  I'm making a pancake or while I'm even preparing the platters
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  for the chickens to come outside.
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  I will have that going. And that really helps a lot
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  because it gives me the ability to say, OK, I've got this, like,
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  you know, knowledge that I'm taking in, which makes me feel
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  amazing in the process. So think about it as like I'm
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  building, building, building. This is why I shoot the podcast,
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  so you guys can have something out there that you can go to and
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  fill you up. And for me, just shooting this
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  for you helps me fill that up once I'm out here.
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  So that's another thing. Now let's talk physical for a
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  second because the physical aspects of the morning rituals
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  should be just as dialed in. You know, some people start
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  their day immediately with coffee and.
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  It's not the healthiest thing to start with, just coffee.
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  It it has been said that if you can drink 8 ounces of water
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  first you're going to hydrate your body, get that underway,
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  then you can have your coffee, You're going to feel more
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  energy. Now, I'm not a caffeine drinker
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  at all. Can you imagine what I'd be like
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  if I had caffeine? So I can't tell you that that
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  works or does not work because I have just.
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  A natural energy I can't necessarily explain, but I do
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  believe it's because of all the other things that are mental
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  that I put into place so I don't have to rely on a supplement
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  type of thing. However, I do drink a ton of
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  water and that is a constant thing to keep your energy up.
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  Having that water in your body will make it easier for you to
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  function throughout your day. And another thing is having a
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  really solid breakfast, having a really like something that fuels
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  you. For me, it's protein shakes.
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  It's not food. Some days it'll be oatmeal
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  because I really like oatmeal and it's a slow burn.
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  But you've got to find your things that are healthy for you
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  and do those like having a bagel, not necessarily healthy
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  because it's too many carbs right away.
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  So it's really trying to figure out those little things.
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  That fill your morning up so that you feel good and you're
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  fuelled. It's not.
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  It's filling up and fuelling up and using that to take you
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  through the day. So hopefully those little tips
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  will help you and you'll put your morning ritual into place
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  for energy. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.