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Season 2 - Episode 284 - Falling into our traditions · 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 master mindset
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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 today we're talking about fall traditions and how
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  important they are to our soul. Traditions in general are very
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  important to the human soul because they link us back to
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  those before us. And I I just think that that is
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  just. For me, it is a huge, huge
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  thing. I'm not quite sure how it became
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  such a big thing because when I grew up we did not have a ton of
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  traditions. Yeah, my mother put up a
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  Christmas tree and we did, you know.
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  Easter things, but we we were just not a very tradition driven
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  family. And for me, I always wanted it.
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  I always thought it was like so cool.
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  I would watch shows and I would see things on TV and it like
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  enamored me. I was just so, like, I want that
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  so badly. So I've always tried to make it
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  a thing in my family that we have very specific traditions
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  around things. Christmas Eve we do a book
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  exchange and you know it. It's always brought joy.
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  I heard about it. It wasn't something that I came
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  up with. I heard about it that it was a
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  tradition. I forget if it was Switzerland
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  or Sweden, where they would exchange books on Christmas Eve.
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  But books have been a guiding force in my life.
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  I am obsessed with books in general, whether they're
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  audibles or whether they're printed.
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  I love books and. I just think that there's such a
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  gift because when you give someone a book, that tradition
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  of giving someone a book is absolutely life shifting is
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  probably why I like to write books so much.
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  Because you can change someone's world, their entire world.
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  You can take them on a vacation, taking them to somewhere else.
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  You know you can change them by their thoughts by giving them a
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  book on self development. You can teach them a skill by
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  giving them a book on how to do something different, whatever it
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  might be. It's a it's a tradition that I
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  love. So I've incorporated that into
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  our lives also. Think about the ones that you
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  have, you know, do you have a Sunday morning tradition?
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  Do you have? We have it with, you know, my
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  husband will make Swedish pancakes.
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  He is a Swedish descent, so he loves to make Swedish pancakes.
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  And they are a big thing in our house where everybody's like
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  waiting for, you know, because they can only be cooked one at a
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  time because they're so delicate.
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  But. You know what?
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  Everybody waits there patiently to get their pancake.
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  So it's important to figure out what are your little traditions
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  and what are the things that you love to do.
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  It doesn't matter if it's just a fall tradition, although I'm
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  talking about fall traditions, whether it might be going
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  pumpkin picking, carving apples, apple cider making, you know,
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  apple tarts. My friend was telling me how she
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  loves to make things all things apple this time of year.
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  Doesn't matter what it is. She's an incredible Baker and
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  how much she loves to do that. It just makes her happy.
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  But figuring out what are those traditions?
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  So for me, I absolutely love sitting by a fire.
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  I don't know, it's obviously it's very primal to humans to
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  begin with, but sitting by a fire is a big deal.
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  Big enough that when we were building our house, I insisted
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  that we have an outdoor fireplace.
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  I wouldn't give it up no matter what.
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  Even when budget, things were all over the place.
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  I'm like, Nope, can't give up the fireplace.
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  Nope, can't give up the fireplace.
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  Because it's such a big deal to be able to go out there and sit
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  by the fire and be able to wrap up in a blanket and have a
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  conversation and read a book or just be happy, you know?
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  Just be happy. It's part of my traditions as
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  soon as the weather starts to cool off so.
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  The point is, figure out what are your wonderful things that
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  you want to incorporate into your traditions.
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  What are the things that you've maybe you've always longed for
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  it and never done it, and somebody might be listening and
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  say, well, I don't have anybody that I could bake for.
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  You know, I have a very small family or it might just be you.
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  Well, you have to do things differently when that's the
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  case, like with me, my eggs, everybody here around that I
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  know. Gets eggs.
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  I will deliver them to the Police Department.
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  I will deliver them to the fire department.
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  I give them to the girls that come here and help out with
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  things. Everybody gets eggs on the girls
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  because that's part of what I like to do.
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  That's my tradition with my girls.
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  I love them, I take care of them, I spoil them, They bring
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  me joy and they cultivate a sense of wellbeing.
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  That's the whole purpose of me doing a chicken coop podcast, so
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  that you can all hear. It doesn't have to be like
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  everybody else, does it? This is my thing, but you can
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  certainly adopt it. I highly recommend it.
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  There is a a beautiful thing about being around them.
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  They are just great creatures, my tradition.
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  So figure out what yours are. Figure out what you want them to
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  be for the fall. Enjoy them.
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  Enjoy yourself in the process and let yourself come up with
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  new things. You'll be amazed at how
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  wonderful you feel. All right, my friends.
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  I hope you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.