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Season 4 - Episode 205 - Lessons from the spa · 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 happened 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. Good morning.
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  Good morning. So we have to tell you about a
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  fun day that we had yesterday because we were bound and
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  determined when we planned this trip to take the kids to camp
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  that we were going to do something for ourselves.
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  That's. An important thing that we
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  really had worked on because we don't take enough time to
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  replenish ourselves and regularly do it.
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  So how I think maybe two years ago we talked about going.
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  We did. It's been, yes, it's been like 2
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  years. We're like, we're going to meet
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  up somewhere in the country and just do a spa weekend and visit
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  and relax and replenish and recharge.
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  And we actually got close once we actually talked about
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  locations. Yes, but that's.
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  As far as we got. But something happened, I forget
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  what it was. Something came up and I couldn't
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  do it because of the schedule. Something that happened.
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  I remember there was a distinct thing that.
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  Came. I think it was your fault.
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  Oh, and then there was the fact that Maddie was having a baby at
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  one point that that screwed something couldn't go.
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  So none of that seems to be my fault, OK?
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  Good. No, it's not your fault.
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  It was. Totally it was.
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  Totally on me, but we did get our spa day today.
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  We did. And so when we got here, we
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  planned that like, OK, we're going to go do it.
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  We're going to look for one. And so, Stacey, I very rarely
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  surrender to other people making plans.
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  Like I'm going to confess that right now I don't let people
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  make plans, but Stacy is so good at making plans.
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  I was like, she can pick the hotel, she can decide What Car
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  we're getting, we can decide where we're going.
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  I'd picked what the the camp for the kids and found that and took
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  care of that stuff. So she looked up and she said
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  there's a spa not far from here and we're going to go.
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  And we got there, and this place was magical it.
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  Was it was we were a little I'm sure because we had a drive
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  through just a random neighborhood I kept.
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  Saying like, where's it in someone's house?
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  It was very pleasantly surprised at the end of the neighborhood.
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  Yes, you turned into this beautiful big like golf course
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  type thing and you felt, it felt very much like you were in
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  Italy. That's what I kept thinking, big
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  Italian Cypress trees and like it was just glorious.
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  The moment you walked inside, you just felt like you had been
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  transformed into this other place.
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  And we just decided, OK, we're going to.
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  Even though we only had each one treatment, which was a 50 minute
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  massage, we were we were going to stay the day somehow.
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  Yeah. And they had what?
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  They had the pool. They had a pool, they had an
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  outdoor Jacuzzi, they had an indoor Jacuzzi, they had a steam
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  room, and then they had just areas kind of lounge around and
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  walk around the grounds. Hang and then lunch and all of
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  that. So we just decided we were going
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  to do that and we got there very early.
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  We were the first people at the pool and we sat there.
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  It was amazing we could. Actually hear the birds and.
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  Oh yeah, it was glorious. And we sat there for hours
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  before people showed up and then our treatment came up and we
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  went for our treatment and it was wonderful and thrilled with
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  that. I think I only stayed in the
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  sauna for like 30 seconds. It was way too hot.
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  I couldn't stay in there. We left the sauna, went back
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  out, we had lunch, we sat in the pool for a while.
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  We stayed, we hung out. And the the part that's so great
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  about this is taking the break. Yes.
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  We we never do it and we were trying to unwind.
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  But here's what's interesting fact that when we afterwards we
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  were both talking about it, we had trouble doing the massage
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  and letting our brain unwind. Yeah, because you talked about a
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  great idea right before the massage.
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  So my wheels were spinning, you know?
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  Right, Well, I think either way it still would have been 'cause
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  it's true. But do you go in and start
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  thinking how much longer do I have, 'cause that's what.
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  Well, I always hate when I turn over because then I know Oh no,
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  I'm over halfway and I start to panic that my time's winding
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  down exactly. But I I feel that I'm always,
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  I'm appreciative of the time that I get in there and I do
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  enjoy it and I never want to fall asleep because I think
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  that's very wasteful time. Do you?
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  I do. I pay for this massage and I
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  well, I did get the deep tissue. There was no falling asleep for
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  me today. Misery.
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  Oh no, I needed it. Oh, it's too hard.
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  I don't want to jump off the table.
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  I'm supposed to relax. Yeah, I feel like it needs to,
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  like you need to get things out. And she had, she didn't have man
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  hands like inside she wasn't too strong, no, but she was so firm.
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  I was like, she must do like grippies at home or something.
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  Like she has incredibly strong fingers.
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  Well. Listen, I didn't fall asleep,
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  but I am the same way. Like my whole time I'm like I
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  because I was thinking it's not 50 minutes, it's it's not 60
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  minutes, it's 50 minutes. So I'm losing 10 minutes.
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  So I just kept thinking how much longer, how much longer, how
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  much longer? Like I don't like it.
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  And then my brain goes running down other rabbit holes of like,
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  oh, we're so close, we're halfway through our trip, blah,
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  blah, blah. And then I, my, my brain doesn't
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  stop. And, and that's the point of
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  like we were taught we wanted to talk about taking time to take a
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  break. And my belief is when you wait
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  too long to take the break, that's when you have this
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  happen. So this is an indicator to me.
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  I waited way too long. I just feel like that.
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  I feel like I need to set these up more often because I don't do
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  well taking the breaks so. Force breaks.
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  Yeah. I mean, and that's why some of
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  these, you know, there's chains for massages, there's chains for
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  self-care because doing something once a month is really
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  good for your mind, your body, your soul.
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  But I have that package and I have 30 banked.
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  You still haven't used them. And yes, so it's like I'm still
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  paying for them. I'm not using them, but I'm not
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  going to stop paying for them because I I have intention to
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  use them but then I let life get in the way and I don't take the
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  time for myself. So that's the lesson in this,
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  everybody. So Stacey's going to start using
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  hers once a month at least, And I have to figure out how I'm not
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  going to wait. Like I find my moments to take
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  the mental break of just saying, OK, let me go take my pictures,
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  let me go sit with the animals, let me go do those things.
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  But that's not the same thing is this.
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  And I really got that lesson today with my head doing what it
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  was doing. So we wanted to share.
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  So make sure you plan that. OK?
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  So we will see you all tomorrow guys.
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  Have a great night. See ya.
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  Bye.