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Season 5 - Episode 12 - The rituals that can help us · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset coach, creative
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  strategist and also. Happened.
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  To be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here. Every day to record a podcast
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  to. Teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring some
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  joy. Into the.
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  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, good morning. You are actually doing chores
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  with me right now as we get ready to get the chickens out.
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  And it's a little rainy, very foggy, kind of like a Sunday
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  morning. And I thought I would take you
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  on my chores because I look at this and I think my chores are a
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  time to be grateful and be happy so that I can stay in a good
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  headspace about them. Meaning sometimes the word
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  chores when you're a kid, the word chores is like, I have to
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  get my chores done. I hate it, I don't like it.
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  And boy do I remember that I had chores that my mother gave me
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  that were part of what she wanted as hobbies and then she
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  gave me chores on them. And I didn't like that at all.
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  I felt like that was a RIP off because if it was her hobby, I
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  didn't mind helping, but I didn't want to do it if it was
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  her hobby. So I've always been very careful
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  to not repeat that, but I've always given my kids chores and
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  things to do because it makes you more of a responsible person
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  to have them. And one of the things that I
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  think is incredibly important to recognize in this process is
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  that the what you think about the chores is going to dictate
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  so much for you. It's going to make things so it
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  takes a different direction, no matter what you think about it.
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  So let me give you an example. If you hate, absolutely hate
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  making your bed, then that chore is going to be daunting.
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  But if you make your bed with the intention of knowing that
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  tonight, no matter what this day is like, you're going to come
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  back to it and it's going to be cozy and clean and organized.
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  And no matter how unorganized the world was today, your bed is
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  going to be organized and waiting for you.
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  That's my personal belief around it.
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  So, you know, you heard the military people talk about it
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  and when they, I can't remember who it was who did that speech,
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  but he talked about how making your bed is the first win of the
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  day. And I totally believe that.
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  But for me, it's more about certainty of knowing.
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  No matter how chaotic my day is, I come back and the bed is made.
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  So the bed is already made. I'm out here doing chicken
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  chores, getting ready for their, you know, to open the gates for
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  them and give them their well, they already have food out there
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  all the time, but breakfast in the sense of they get some
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  scratch. And this morning they're having
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  some rice with shredded zucchini and some other vegetables that
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  were left over in the refrigerator because it's
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  Sunday. So I'm cleaning out the
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  refrigerator and they get a bunch of leftovers, which they
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  happen to love. But that chore takes time.
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  All of these chores take time. And when you stack them up and
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  you say it's more time, it's more time, it's more time.
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  Yes, it is. But it's an opportunity to stop
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  and pause and really be mindful and say I'm doing this with
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  love. I'm doing this to care for them.
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  I enjoy caring for them. I enjoy making their life great
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  because caring for something else makes me happy.
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  Now, that's my personal rule. I love caring for things,
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  plants, animals, particularly my kids.
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  I just love doing that. It makes me feel good.
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  So make no doubt about it, I'm not doing it because I'm out.
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  You know, I have this altruistic attitude.
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  I'm doing it because it really makes me feel good to be able to
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  care for things and watch them grow and bloom.
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  It's just my hardwiring. But I utilize that heavily to
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  help me find gratitude all the time and to stand in here and
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  say, OK, while I'm doing my chores, I'm going to shoot my
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  podcast. I'm going to have something done
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  by the end of the time I finish my chores.
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  And then everything is going to line up and I'm in this great
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  headspace starting the day off. And I do this as a ritual every
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  day. So to me, the word chores is an
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  option, but I really think of the chores now more as rituals
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  and I really think of them as the way I set myself up now.
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  Full disclosure, I didn't sleep well last night.
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  I have no idea why I just didn't sleep well last night.
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  I kept tossing and turning. My brain was on fire.
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  I kept hearing a, a song in my head and I was like, oh, I and I
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  meditated, shut it off, got it under control and then it would
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  bounce right back up. So I had to really focus on when
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  I got up. I feel outstanding, I feel
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  great, and I got into my rituals and boom, I felt great even
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  though I had very little sleep. So you can manipulate these
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  things in your head. When you stop and you try, you
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  are in complete control. My friends of your interior
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  world. You get to decide.
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  Now, will I probably be tired physically later?
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  Sure, probably, and that's OK. I don't care.
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  I'm not going to allow it to ruin my day and I'm going to
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  enjoy my rituals, my chores, and I'm going to use them to help me
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  utilize and diminish the chaos when it comes in.
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  So I hope this is helpful and I will see you guys tomorrow and I
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  will definitely be have having slept better.
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  So have a great day and I will see you then.
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  Bye.