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Season 3 - Episode 261 - Lamenting the season change · 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 mastermindset
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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 a very, very dark, dark chicken
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  coop. So this morning I'm I'm
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  lamenting can hear the the crowing.
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  It's still all of that that's still early pitch dark, but
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  they'll still crow anyway. Point of being out here when
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  it's pitch dark is that when seasons change and the
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  transition starts to happen and it's getting darker so much, you
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  know, earlier in the day and the sun is coming up later in the
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  day. And we start to feel that like
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  before the time changes, which don't even get me started on the
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  time changing, we start to feel that need to hunker down and
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  start to feel that need to like plan to harvest, plan to like
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  our holidays, whatever they may be, whatever you celebrate.
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  We start to think about how that winter season, that solstice is
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  going to come into play and what are we going to do?
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  And for some of us, this can be an overwhelming time of the year
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  where we're just like, I'm not ready for it.
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  I don't want to do this right now.
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  It's not something that I'm looking forward to.
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  And others are like already like on the pumpkin spice train and
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  they're buying their stuff and they're getting their Christmas
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  presents already wrapped and holiday presents done.
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  All of this and it, it can cause emotional upheaval when you're
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  not ready for something and someone else is.
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  And they seem gleeful about it and they show up and they're
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  just like, and very excited. And I know for me, I, I try to
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  stay very neutral most of the time when I see somebody that's
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  very excited. And I might not be excited yet
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  because there are times when I am excited, like I love to put
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  up a gigantic Christmas tree most of the time.
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  But last year I did not feel like putting up the Christmas
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  tree. It was not something that I was
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  looking forward to. For some reason, I just couldn't
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  get into that spirit. And it was just, it was off and
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  there was nothing wrong. I just felt like I was off with
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  the whole thing. And it really got me thinking
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  today when I noticed how much later I get to actually go out
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  and be able to open the doors and let the chickens out
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  already. And again, this is one of those,
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  well, we're going to leap ahead, fall back kind of things
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  happening soon, the fall back part of it.
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  And it adjusts the time a little bit again.
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  But even still, it got me thinking about how, OK, you
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  know, my daughter already asked me, are we going to go see a
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  show or do something for the holidays?
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  And it, it puts you on this thing of this train of having to
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  be something for that time of the year.
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  And if you're not in the headspace of being something or
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  acting in a certain way, you start to feel bad right away.
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  So what can we do to shift that immediately?
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  How can we help this? So first and foremost, it is
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  extremely beneficial to sit down and write out what are the
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  things that you choose and you want to feel this season.
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  I'm not saying that you do feel them, but that you want to feel,
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  sit and and write down how do I want this back half of the year
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  to look to me? How do I want it to feel?
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  How do I want to, you know, experience it if you will, Not
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  about all the things that you think are already wrong, but
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  what do you want out of it? Get very clear.
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  And if it's just like I want a peaceful year, okay, great,
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  that's totally fine. Know that.
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  Then plan peace. Plan things that are peaceful.
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  Don't plan large events with chaos.
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  All of these things that can come in and intrude on your
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  piece, and if in fact you find that you're trying to do
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  everything for other people and it's leaving you out, then shift
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  that. Figure out what would make this
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  happy for you. Some of us will have to have big
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  things for family we don't want to necessarily attend, but one
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  they won't. They won't be with us forever.
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  Trust me, my family is not, and I have often said I wish that
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  they were back even with all their chaos.
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  And two, if you are in a position where you take care of
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  yourself at part of this time, you won't feel so bad about the
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  other stuff. So just remember, you can start
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  to plan this out and plan it in a way that works for you.
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  You can make it so that you know you're not just standing in the
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  dark like I am feeling like, gosh, when is it going to
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  brighten up? You can control that.
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  And you can use that time just like I did today in the dark,
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  standing out here to say, you know what, it's OK, I can.
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  I can find a way to make this work for me as well.
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  And that's what this is all about.
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  So I'm going to go plan my holiday season and I'm going to
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  put things into it that serve me as much as they serve everybody
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  else and make sure that I feel good about stuff.
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  And even if that's taking time by myself to sit and read, even
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  if that's taking time off and painting on redoing one of the
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  big projects I want to do over the holiday is redo the inside
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  of the chicken coop. Paint it because it it just gets
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  dingy after a bit of time with them.
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  And they've been in that coop for two years.
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  And I want to paint it inside. May not seem like something that
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  fills other people up, but it definitely fills me up.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you go into the season happy and
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  stay happy and work at it and choose it.
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  All right, my friends, I will see you tomorrow.
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  Have a blessed day. Bye.