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Season 2 - Episode 315 - Holidays! Self-care · 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. Good morning.
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  Welcome to part three of holidays.
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  So we're talking today about self-care through the holidays.
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  And this is something that usually goes out the window
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  because we're so focused on having a good holiday air
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  quoting that, that we're just thinking about all the things
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  that we have to get done and we're not taking care of
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  ourselves. And one of the most important,
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  critical things that you can do for yourself is to make a
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  decision that you're going to take care of yourself through
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  it. So getting a list of all the
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  things. That, you know, are ways you
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  care for yourself. Critically important for me, one
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  of the biggest things that I do to make sure I'm taking care of
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  myself through the holidays is to automatically say I need to
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  have booked time off. So in my calendar right now, I
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  have all my clients booked all the way through the end of the
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  year. That way I know exactly where my
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  days off are. It's not a mystery to me.
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  I can figure out where I can go. Have fun.
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  And do some things outside of work.
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  I can figure out the time where I can spend with my family.
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  There are lots and lots and lots of stuff that I want to get done
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  over the holiday season. And I'm not saying done like
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  it's A to do list, like just fun stuff shows to go see the
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  experiences that we want to go have.
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  Working on, you know, getting the garden set up for the
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  spring, getting out there when it's chilly and pulling stuff
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  out. In the fall and the winter is
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  always the key to a good spring. So I know that this is a
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  self-care list for me because if I have all of this out ahead of
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  time and I see it, then that means I'm not trying to push it
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  all off and feel like I have these things that are piling up
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  on me. So make sure that you get that
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  list because these are things that are very, very important.
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  Second, taking care of yourself. Is critical, so physically, So
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  let's talk about making sure you're drinking enough water.
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  This time of year. People tend to stop drinking
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  water because it cools off, so there's not an urgency to fill
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  up like there is when the months are hotter.
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  But drinking water actually helps your brain work.
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  It actually makes you smarter. Dehydration is one of the
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  biggest problems that people suffer from.
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  So you have got to hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, hydrate,
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  hydrate, hydrate. Did I mention hydrate?
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  Because that is a big piece of well-being second or third.
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  Now I think we're on the third one.
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  Sleep. It's sleeping, sleeping,
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  sleeping. If you don't sleep well.
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  And the holidays make it worse for you when you start to sleep,
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  even worse during that time. This is, this is the best point
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  to say, OK, I'm going to work on this before this even comes up.
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  So what are the things that typically ruminate in your head
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  keeping you awake so you can challenge them and get them
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  handled? And usually it's just that there
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  is such a long To Do List and that's what freaks people out.
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  It's it's these never ending To Do List.
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  So if you finding that there's just too many things, start
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  thinking about eliminating some of those things or leveraging
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  some of those things and getting other people to do them because
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  it's not worth your killing yourself in the process.
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  It's just not worth the stress. And half the time we have all
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  these things that are just piled up on top of us and other people
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  don't even recognize. Is it as something that they
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  would say you should be so stressed about?
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  They're like, well, I don't care about that, just let it go, you
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  know, we can let that go. And you'd be surprised how it's
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  such a a you know something that.
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  Piles up on top of us and weighs us down.
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  You know, I was just recently talking to a client about this
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  and you know, I said you've got to start working on yourself
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  care as we move into the holiday.
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  Because I know this is tricky for her and she's like, well,
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  you know, I always put these special bows.
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  She ties all her bows on her packages by hand.
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  And she's already stressed out about all these bows.
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  And I said to her, have you ever considered starting the bows way
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  ahead of time? And she just stopped And she's
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  like, what do you mean? And I said, well, don't wait to
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  do them. Just start tying bows now.
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  And she's like, I never thought of that.
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  And she's like, I always try to match it to the paper.
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  I'm like, OK, but what if you didn't?
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  What if you just tied a whole bunch of colors, solid colors,
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  and then you could put them on any papers?
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  And she was like. Oh my gosh, that's a game
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  changer. Now that may sound silly, but
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  how many of those things are like tying the bows that you do
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  and and and and ends up interrupting yourself care
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  because you're freaking out about something you don't need
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  to. So part of self-care is
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  understanding that piece, and if that's what's keeping you up at
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  night, then you go and you figure it out.
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  You keep, you figure it out Now. Hard.
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  Hard. Outline things that can help you
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  sleep. Making sure that the news is not
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  on at night. Making sure you're going to bed
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  at a reasonable time. We usually all have our little
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  window that we can sleep in, so figure that piece out.
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  Like, where is your window that you know if you go to bed at
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  this time, you'll sleep better. And make sure that you're not
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  staying in bed too long. Now I know that sounds crazy,
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  but there is a window and sometimes if you stay in bed too
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  long you become even more tired. So think about those things.
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  Think about yourself. Care.
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  What does yours look like? I mean, mine definitely looks
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  like being able to order all my seeds.
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  Right now. That's self-care for me.
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  I want to be on those seeds, getting them ahead of time and
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  making sure I have things ordered so they're just showing
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  up in the spring. That thrills me.
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  That's part of my mental self-care.
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  So figure out what yours is and get it underway.
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  OK, my friends. I'll see you tomorrow for the
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  next part. Bye.