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Season 2 - Episode 21 - When are you at your best? · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop.
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  Along with all her chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Today's question. When are you at your best?
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  So stop and pause and think about this because we don't
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  operate at our best all the time.
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  I mean there's just no way that we could constantly one thousand
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  percent of the time. Be a hunch you know at our best
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  it just doesn't doesn't work that way because we're human
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  beings and things fluctuate. Everything fluctuates and it's
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  really important to remember that the fluctuation is real.
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  The fluctuation is not something that.
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  Is, you know, it doesn't make you broken.
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  I have a lot of people that always ask that question.
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  Well, I must be screwed up and I'm like, no, no, no, you're
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  just human. And that's kind of how it works.
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  When you are human, things are back and forth, things are up
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  and down. We a band flow and that's just
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  how our Flow To Nature works. We are part of nature.
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  So the ebb and the flow is part of it, you know, just like
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  seasons and everything else you have times when things are Are
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  on point and you have times when things are not great.
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  It's kind of like, if you sit down and you go to write
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  something, like I was working on something this morning and I was
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  writing and I was like uh, you know, it was before I came out
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  here the chickens and I was trying to decide what I was
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  going to talk to you guys about today and I was like I just
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  don't feel like writing right now and then I stopped and pause
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  and I was like huh this is interesting.
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  I'm not at my best in this moment to write I might be at my
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  best to this moment to watch a movie but I'm certainly not at
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  my Best to write. So I just stopped.
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  And I said, okay, I it's just not, it's not clicking and then
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  the real question comes back to, okay, so when am I my best to
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  write or whatever else you may be doing, I put it to you as a
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  general question. When are you at your best?
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  But I wanted to give you the example so you can see it.
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  Can it can go into specific, very specific things and very
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  different things so that it's it is a Ab like I said an ebb and
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  flow certain things. So am I my best to record you a
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  podcast right now? Absolutely, because it's part of
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  the reason why I do this from here is because when I come out
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  here, I just generally very happy out here.
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  It is awesome with my chickens, I love them.
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  I love their quirky behaviors. I love how they show up and, you
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  know, are kind to each other because lots of times.
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  You hear chickens are not kind to each other but here it's
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  great. And I've created this little
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  World, if you will for them and for me and for my family and
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  it's part of my mental well-being.
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  I know I've told you all that before, but I can tell you, when
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  I come out here, it's like a reset button.
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  It's like a push and it's like instantaneously.
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  I start to feel better when I go and collect their eggs, when I
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  see them doing something or trying snacks, that I gave them,
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  or I create something new in there, all curious about it and
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  I think, wow, it's amazing to me when I How far they've come from
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  the little tiny chicks, you know, in there when we first got
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  them as little tiny chicks and then now that they're the big
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  girls and they're out here and there, they're constantly in
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  motion, always digging. Always looking for things.
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  Always having fun rototilling my Gardens for me.
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  It's it just truly brings me a different level of peace and
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  tranquility and joy. So what I'm trying to express to
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  you in, this is where do you find Find that.
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  Where do you when you're at your best?
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  Where do you find it? How do you go reset to it?
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  What are the things that you know, are your go twos?
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  So some people don't know those go to, they say, well, I just
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  have to shake it off. Yes.
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  But there are things that can bring you there quicker for.
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  I have a, I have a bunch of different little ones.
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  So I know I grew up with a dad who always went to Dunkin Donuts
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  grew up in New England. Dunkin Donuts is New England,
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  right? That is just That is the essence
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  of the whole Dunkin Donuts, World, New England, and my
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  father was constantly going and getting coffee throughout the
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  day and coffee, and a paper cup with a Dunkin Donuts logo, is
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  something special in my world every so often I have to just go
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  to Dunkin Donuts and get a coffee because it reminds me of
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  my dad and it's a total reset. Now coffee and general will do
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  that but I don't go to coffee like that.
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  It's just Just, it's not my thing, but the Dunkin Donuts,
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  10, that's a huge. Reset taking time to sit and
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  color with actual Crayola, crayons a huge reset.
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  For me, if I just pull them out, I have all the fancy pencils.
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  I have everything else and I love using my pencils all the
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  time. But Crayola crayons they have
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  that smell just like Play-Doh, you know, it's an instant reset,
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  it makes your brain, go to a different place and we all have
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  those things we all have, you know.
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  Client who's grandmother's Italian and she'll say every
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  time that I walk in and I smell that Italian sauce you know,
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  cooking or she calls a gravy but it's cooking.
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  It's just like, oh right away. She feels like totally comfort
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  and that's important to us as human beings to be able to do
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  those things. He hit the reset button, find
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  when you're at your best. And then say, okay now I feel
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  good again, centered and then I can go out and do what?
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  I need to do to be my best, but it's don't don't overlook those
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  little things because they're super important.
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  So hopefully you find out when you're your best, you know.
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  It and you know how to get back there by having those little
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  triggers. All right, my friends.
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  I will see you tomorrow and I hope you have a blessed day.
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  Bye. I need to do to be my best, but
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  it's don't don't overlook those little things because they're
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  super important. So hopefully you find out when
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  you're your best, you know. It and you know how to get back
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  there by having those little triggers.
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  All right, my friends. I will see you tomorrow and I
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  hope you have a blessed day. Bye.