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Season 4 - Episode 1 - Happy 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 happen 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 and good morning from the
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  chicken coop. Well, I, I mean officially it's
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  good morning from the chicken coop.
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  However, I am actually recording this in the afternoon where the
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  girls are out and the sun is out and it's not freezing.
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  It's not dark. So for those of you who are
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  regular followers, you know, this time of year is always a
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  challenge to get out first thing in the morning.
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  So I am actually recording it on New Year's Eve before the girls
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  go to bed. So today what we're going to
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  focus on first day of the new year.
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  So what is the emotion that you're in going into it?
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  Are you pensive? Are you excited?
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  Are you neutral? Are you just ambivalent about
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  the whole thing? Are you feeling like I don't
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  even know what I should focus on right now?
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  I think I just want to stay in my pajamas and go to bed.
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  You know, all of it is OK. I'm giving you permission.
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  I'm saying it. If no one else is saying it to
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  you, you can just say, you know what, screw it.
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  I'm not doing anything today. I'm just going to relax.
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  I'm not going to think about anything and that's OK.
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  And if you are in an over excited mode and you just cannot
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  wait to start to get things rolling and you are going to be
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  up early and getting all that stuff done, that's OK too.
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  And if you only do half of it, that's OK because I believe that
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  the first day does not necessarily set the entire tone.
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  I believe that it, it's a, it's a matter of choice and give
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  yourself permission to do the thing that you want to do and
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  set the time for when you will do what you want to do.
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  Don't just make yourself feel guilty about it.
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  So for me, I am going to be working on stuff tonight.
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  I'm going to be working on stuff tomorrow because for me, I get
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  very excited about this being a planning time for me.
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  So I've got my rubber cement, my big giant board that I'm working
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  on, foam core board. I've got all my pictures, my
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  cutouts, I've got my thoughts scribbled on pages all over the
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  place, and I'm basically working on trying to figure out what
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  this is going to look like and how it's going to visual.
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  I'm going to visualize this all. And the exciting part for me is
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  visualizing the whole thing on a big giant board.
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  Now, Full disclosure, I keep this board in my bathroom on the
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  wall because I get to look at that when I'm in the shower the
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  whole time I'm in the shower. And I feel that that has been my
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  most effective place. If it's in my office, I walk by
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  it. If it's in other spots of the
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  house, I just keep walking by it.
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  But when I'm in the shower, I actually focus on it.
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  I see all this over and over and over and it has really made a
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  tremendous difference. So I'm amping it up.
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  It's very big this time. I think I'm talking about 3 feet
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  by three feet, maybe 3 1/2 feet by 3 1/2 feet.
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  I just got the biggest foam core board I could at Office Depot
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  and I'm going to be laying that all out.
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  But I'm not killing myself to say it has to be done tonight
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  and tomorrow. I'm just, I'm starting the
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  process off. I'm excited about it.
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  I want to be excited about it. I am excited about it and I'm
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  not going to find fault for how quickly I do it or how it turns
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  out. And I think that's the way I'm,
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  I am feeling most comfortable with it.
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  And that's how I want you to feel about going into the new
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  year where you are. Yes, we can all say I give
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  myself permission to relax and go into it in a great state of
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  mind. The most important part is to go
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  into into it with the right emotion and the right energy.
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  It's not about going into it feeling already behind.
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  You do not need to feel behind, my friends.
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  It's perfect just the way it is. So if you are beating yourself
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  up and saying I'm so behind I didn't get certain things done,
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  then I challenge you. Really.
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  I'm challenging you to let that idea go because you don't want
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  to take that energy with you and have it affect and infect your
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  entire year. You have to allow yourself to
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  say, no, we're good and I'm going to be good with this and
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  it's going to work out fine. And focus on effortless.
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  Focus on it being something that's fun.
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  Focus on it being something that you are looking forward to and
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  don't allow yourself to to to abuse yourself over what you
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  didn't do or should do and all of those things.
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  Give yourself a break going into the new year.
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  That is the best part of this whole thing.
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  When you recognize you have control over what you think,
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  believe, believe and feel, you get to choose.
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  And the choice should be something that excites you.
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  The choice, especially at this time of year, it should be
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  something that really, really excites you.
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  So I will be building the vision boards with my son tonight.
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  I will be sitting there cutting, pasting, having all that great
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  stuff in my pajamas. I don't like to go out for
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  parties and enjoying it just that way and knowing that when I
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  finish it, whether it's tonight, tomorrow, by Sunday or the end
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  of next week, I'm going to be happy with it either way because
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  I'm putting the right energy out first and that's what matters.
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  All right, my friends, happy New Year and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.