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Season 3 - Episode 1 - Happy new year and avoiding overwhelm! · 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, Happy New Year and good morning from the
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  chicken coop. So we made it 2024, Can you
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  believe it? It's already here and it's a
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  brand new list of possibilities right in front of you that you
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  created the last week. It's awesome.
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  And if you haven't, and you're new to us as of today, please go
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  back and listen to the last week of 2023 because it talks about
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  all the possibilities, how to get your list out and everything
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  that you're contemplating and thinking about.
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  So diving into today, what are we going to be talking about?
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  Well, first of all, the first day of the new year always feels
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  overwhelming to me because there's so many things I want to
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  do and I have to stop myself from going into a state of
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  overwhelm immediately because it just happens.
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  I get like so amped up. I had a hard time even sleeping
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  last night and I am not a New Year's Eve partier.
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  Did not even go out. We stayed home.
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  My husband made a fabulous meal. We hung out.
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  We went to bed early and, you know, it was one of those things
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  where I was just so amped up thinking about all the
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  possibilities for today this year, everything.
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  My brain was just spinning. So and that is definitely coming
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  from a case of overwhelm. You just start off where you're
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  just like, oh, there's so many choices, you know?
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  That's why in last week's episodes I talked about putting
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  them in a hierarchy and making sure you're aware of that.
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  Well, today as it all begins, you feel like you just want to
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  dive in and do it as much as you can, as quickly as you can.
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  Which is fine and it's exciting. But again, please refer back to
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  the hierarchy list. Please make sure that you're
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  focusing on what you need to focus on and not getting the
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  ancillary things to pull you away from what it is that you
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  should be doing. So first and foremost, going
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  into this first week, it is very easy as you are in that state to
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  take on way too much and then feel like I can't sustain this,
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  which is right. You can't sustain it all at
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  once. So you've got to be thoughtful
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  about the oh, it's my neighbor's rooster.
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  Can you hear the difference? Yes.
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  He keeps coming over the fence. It's awesome.
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  I'm. I'm saying that not really.
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  Meaning it's awesome. I don't pretty much care for
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  this rooster because he chases my girls.
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  Yeah, that's a whole other story.
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  Anyway, making sure that you are not on that path of overwhelm
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  with the stuff because you can't sustain it.
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  And when you know it's not sustainable, you start to get
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  very frustrated because you're like, oh, I can't keep this up,
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  I can't keep this up. So you're better off at this
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  point layering up than pulling off.
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  Meaning, if I'm going to put so many things on my plate all at
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  once, I'm going to lose my enthusiasm and my momentum, as
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  opposed to saying, OK, this week I'm going to add this and I'm
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  going to sustain it this whole week.
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  Then if I feel good about that the next week, I'm going to add
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  into that. And I mean, that's the way I do
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  it because I know what will end up happening for me.
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  So I have lots of things that I'm planning and my hope is that
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  you know you guys are have that big list as well.
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  I'm counting on the fact that you guys are going to have this
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  and that you're not going to put it all out there at once to be
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  done, layer it up, layer it up, look at the month of January and
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  start to just figure out where you want to start and when
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  you're going to layer each one in.
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  That way you have more control over how it affects you.
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  Also be very real about the timing where you're putting it
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  in your schedule, because if you're just sticking it on the
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  end of the day, we all know how that goes because by the end of
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  the day we're just like, I just don't have the bandwidth
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  anymore. I'm just going to do it tomorrow
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  and then it doesn't happen. Be very cognizant of where your,
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  your your flow is in your day and know where you can add
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  things in. Like when I was going to do the
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  chicken coop, it's not good afternoon from the chicken coop.
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  It's good morning for the chicken from the chicken coop
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  for a reason because I knew if I waited till the afternoon I
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  would never get to it. I just would not get to it.
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  So it's much more important for me if I get out here, do it
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  first thing, boom. I know it just like for a lot of
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  people it's that working out thing.
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  Yes, yes, yes. You get it done.
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  It's over and done with. And you know, sometimes our,
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  it's hard to train our bodies to be morning people or to get up
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  earlier, but that sacred time of being up earlier really does
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  make a difference. So you can try adding in things
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  in that way. But whatever it is that you're
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  doing, whatever it is, however you're going to do it, make sure
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  you're layering it. Don't try to accept the fact
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  that you're going to add 17 new things in at once.
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  Now, one thing that I am doing this month is I'm doing whole
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  30. So I've done it before and I am
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  going to hopefully I say that jokingly.
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  I'm going to extend it past the 30, but I I'm the intention is
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  to do whole 30 and then to extend past it again to seeing
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  how I feel at the end of it. I'm probably going to feel like
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  a rock star again and I'm just going to keep it going.
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  So in knowing that with myself I'm I have to make sure that I
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  don't have the things around me that set me off in the house.
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  So I'm going to take out the stuff that I know will not serve
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  that outcome. Things that I might have for my
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  son in the house, any cookies, things like that.
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  I have to put them where I can't see them.
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  That way I won't touch them. So look at what you're focused
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  on. Set yourself up to win.
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  And remember, layer up, layer up, layer up.
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  All right, my friends, I will see you tomorrow.
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  And I hope you have a wonderful New Year's Day.
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  Bye.