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Season 2 - Episode 355 - Making declarations · 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
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  coop. So let's talk about your morning
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  declarations. Now you're probably all going, I
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  don't even have a clue what she's talking about right now.
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  But when you get up in the morning, do you actually declare
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  the kind of day you're going to have?
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  Do you make it a concerted thought process, effort to say,
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  OK, I know what my focus is going to be today.
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  I know where I'm putting my energy in, in not just in the
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  tasks, but in what you want to believe about the day, the the
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  theme of the day, however you want to look at it.
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  Now, I tend to do this the night before as well, but when I get
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  up in the morning, I'm rereading it.
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  I'm making sure I understand it, and I know what kind of day I'm
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  declaring to be. This is a, a, a, a developed
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  skill because most of us don't. We just get up when we run.
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  We just, you know, the the task, the task list starts the moment
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  we wake up. It runs in our head but and it
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  just keeps going and going and going and going.
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  And This is why we run on OverDrive.
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  It's why we're not ever, you know, satiated and feeling
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  completely rested. We sleep too short of a time.
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  We wake up in the morning, we're exhausted because we were
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  already thinking about all the things we have to do instead of
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  declaring what we want it to be. So part of that declaration
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  process is saying to yourself, OK, I know today I'm going to
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  make this the most abundant day. I'm going to feel peaceful.
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  I am present. I am 100% committed to staying
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  in my sparkle mode. Whatever you want to do, make
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  your declaration about the day. But that's not what happens.
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  So often times we get caught up in those immediate things by
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  checking our phone. You have to get out of the habit
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  of going to your phone as soon as you wake up.
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  It's a very bad habit to just do it.
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  But listen, everybody does it. Everyone's guilty of it.
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  They wake up in the morning and I my phone actually has an app
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  on it for a clock, so I use that next to the bed so I can have
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  this like clock that's on time all the time.
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  If the power goes out, it doesn't matter.
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  The phone still has the clock so I can see what time it is.
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  But because of that, that means I have to touch the phone the
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  moment I wake up to pull the plug, put the phone in my back
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  pocket. I don't check the messages.
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  Very important. I don't check the messages.
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  I don't check the e-mail. I don't check social media.
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  I don't do anything. I put it in my back pocket.
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  I go out. I go through my morning rituals
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  of the things that I'm going to do, which have nothing to do
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  with getting involved in all of that.
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  Immediately taking care of the animals, coming out to do the
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  podcast, going through, reading, whatever I'm going to read that
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  morning. If I'm watching videos, I watch
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  a video. It depends on what I've set up
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  from the night before, but the very last thing they do is go in
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  and say, OK, I'm going to go into that phone and have it pull
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  immediately from the intention of what the day was.
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  So again, if you said it the night before, it's much easier.
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  Some people just like to do it in the morning.
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  There's really not a it's just a matter of preference, but you
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  have to decide which way you want to do it so you get in the
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  rhythm of it. But making that declaration,
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  sticking to it, very important. So once you make that
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  declaration, you have to remind yourself of it.
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  You have to say, OK, no, I declared that today was a day of
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  peace and I'm not having anything other than that.
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  So if something comes up and it puts you on a path of not
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  feeling peacefully, you have to say no, I'm sorry, I'm not doing
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  that right now. Like for me, a lot of my days I
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  I focus on it being effortless. Meaning doesn't mean I'm not
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  putting out effort, just means I'm not going to make it feel
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  like it's overwhelming that I can't handle it.
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  I'm not going to get stuck in my head about that.
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  Something should feel really, really hard and burdensome, and
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  I don't like that. That doesn't feel good at all.
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  So I focus on that word, partly because it feels like a very
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  spiritual word. And it to me it reminds me, stay
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  connected with the universe, stay connected with God, and you
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  will have those effortless times because they're not letting you
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  down. You're in this position where
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  that energy, that connectivity, is causing you to have support.
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  It's lifting you up. So you don't need to feel, you
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  know, filled with effort. You don't need to feel heavy or
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  burdened. It's knowing you're on a team
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  that's lifting you up all the time.
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  So if you start this process going into the new year, you
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  will see almost immediate results because you are making
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  these declarations and setting an energetic tone.
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  Once you start living into it even more and more, you will be
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  shocked at how much that energy shifts.
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  You'll be shocked at how much you have a your your mornings.
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  You just start waking up feeling better.
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  You also sleep better in the process of it.
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  It's amazing what it it the the amount of a shift, a pivot that
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  goes on when you start it. Now, if you do it every day and
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  you do it every night before you go to bed, you'll probably see
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  it happen. My guess, it's going to be
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  within the first week of doing it.
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  You'll start to notice a difference.
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  So give it a shot. See what you can come up with.
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  Do it in the morning. Do it in the evening.
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  I prefer the evening, but it's up to you.
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  And work on it because it does work.
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  All right, my friends, I will see you tomorrow.
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  I hope you have a blessed day. Bye.