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Season 2 - Episode 289 - Nourishing your soul · 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,
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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 the chicken coop.
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  So today we're talking about nourishing your soul.
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  Part of the traditions of the fall are harvesting, as we all
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  know how fall is the time you go and you harvest, you reap your
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  harvest and you start to see the benefits of all your hard work.
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  Typically, that's what the tradition is.
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  You might not still be there where whatever it is you're
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  working on, whether it's a business project or a personal
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  project, you might not quite be there yet.
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  But it's all about. The thoughts of reaping the
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  benefits of the harvest, and sometimes what I like to kind of
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  loop back to is in order to get clear on the fact that we are
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  going to reap benefits from a harvest whenever it does happen.
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  Because it doesn't always happen on time seasonally, but it's a
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  really good time to sit there and say, you know what, what am
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  I going to benefit from this when it's done?
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  It's a great reminder. Sometimes we get so stuck in the
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  moments of doing the work that we forget.
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  Why we're doing the work, We'll be like, why the hell am I doing
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  this? Why is this, you know, so
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  important to me? Sometimes you just have to stop
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  and pause and really check in and go back and say, geez, OK, I
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  got to make sure I'm still doing this for the right reasons.
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  Because as we change and grow, our desires change and grow.
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  So it's a great thing to just always loop back and check in.
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  But it's also a part of this is, you know, when you start to reap
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  the benefits of what you've been doing, you're nourishing your
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  soul for doing the work it was supposed to be doing.
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  And figuring out how you are going to nourish your soul is a
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  big piece of the entire process. It's not just the end.
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  You know, I I often have to remind clients over and over and
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  over that are you celebrating the small wins?
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  And they'll say no. And I'm like, why?
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  Well, I don't feel that I should celebrate yet.
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  I'm not there yet. I don't want to celebrate yet.
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  OK, But why? Why don't you want to celebrate
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  yet? I don't know.
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  I just don't. And they get hunkered down in
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  the process, and they beat themselves up for it.
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  And for not being quite at the end yet, or they beat themselves
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  up for their little mistakes along the way.
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  Instead of saying okay, let me remind myself why I'm doing
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  this. Let me get back to that place of
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  like okay. This was the reason I wanted to
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  do this. I am clear on that.
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  This is my big fat reason. So once you are are looped back
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  to that you go back and say OK I I need to really nourish my soul
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  in the process of this. I need to make sure you know
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  when when I come out to the chicken coop every morning.
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  And I mean, it's every morning. I can't skip what I'm doing,
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  whether I'm recording for you guys or I'm out here with them.
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  They are my family members. They are my pets and I'm out
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  here. I have to take care of them.
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  Just like I have to let the dog out.
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  I have to clean the cat box, I have to spray the geckos, I have
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  to take care of all the creatures that I have.
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  But the chickens are like, OK, that's a lot of work.
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  And I have to remind myself sometimes, you know, OK, when
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  it's 95 degrees and I have to swap their coop out, OK, I love
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  them. I there you will.
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  I promise you. I ought to videotape it sometime
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  and just set it up in the corner because it is absolutely arduous
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  to do the workout here when it's 95100 degrees taking care of
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  them And you know it's okay because I remind myself the
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  whole time why I'm doing what I'm doing.
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  What is my reason? What is my reason and?
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  It's wonderful. It's a wonderful thing when you
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  stop and you pause and you can do that because then you get
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  associated to it quickly and you don't waste time attracting
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  things you don't want. So I'm going to remind you this
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  process of pulling yourself out of the loop and really sitting
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  there and saying, OK, I'm going to nourish my soul.
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  Ask that question, what can I do to nourish my soul today?
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  What are the things that? Just light me up and it can come
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  back into traditions that we've talked about.
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  It can come back into things that just it's not a tradition,
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  but it just makes you feel good. Like, you know, having tea every
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  morning or coffee every morning. Or for me, sometimes it's coffee
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  and paper cups. And I know that sounds crazy,
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  but it brings me back to being with my dad.
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  He used to get coffee from Dunkin' Donuts every day and
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  bring it to me. And for me, that cut paper cup
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  from Dunkin' Donuts was such a thing and it just nourishes my
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  soul. So think about those little tiny
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  things that you can put in place.
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  And I promise you, if you do them before you actually get to
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  the end result, before you get to the harvest, before you get
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  to that place, you're going to feel so much better and elated
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  and just illuminated, if you will, about the getting to that
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  end result as opposed to it being a drudgery.
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  And I got across that line. I got to do this.
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  I got to do this, I got to do this.
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  It's it's not a good thing. When you don't celebrate along
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  the way, so allow yourself to fill your soul, and I promise
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  you it will be so much happier along the way.
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  All right, my friends. I hope you have a blessed day
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  and I will see you all tomorrow. Bye.