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Season 2 - Episode 206 - What have you outgrown? · 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
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  coop. So today we're talking about
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  outgrowing things. And I'm not talking about
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  clothes, although that does happen as well, and it's
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  something that needs to be discussed sometimes when we have
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  to get rid of old clothes if we don't like to.
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  But right now we're talking about outgrowing things in our
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  life and just deciding to say, hey, you know what, I've
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  outgrown that. So what prompted this
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  conversation? So I've been working on a new
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  studio where I can record classes.
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  That are not like from the chicken coop actual classes and
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  it has just taken a lot longer than we thought to finish.
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  But it's finally done very excited about it and I can get
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  to move in hopefully over the course of the next week and I'm
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  deciding what I'm taking in there.
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  And I made it a point to tell myself that in the during the
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  process of this whole build that I wanted it to have a real
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  magical feel, like it was important to me to have it be a
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  place that I felt. Completely and totally connected
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  to that. I could go in and I would feel
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  just in this very specific state, because if I'm teaching
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  and recording and I'm doing work in there and I'm writing, I have
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  to feel in a really good state being in there.
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  So it got me to thinking as I was getting ready to start
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  moving a few things over while they're just finishing up the
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  last little doodads and things, you know, what do I want to take
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  in there? And it all started with the
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  books. So we all have a lot of books.
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  Well, at least most of the people that I hang around with
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  has a lot, have a lot of books and I have an abundance of
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  books. And I have a really hard time
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  getting rid of books, especially ones that are meaningful to me
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  like that have highlights in them and things that I have
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  studied in. And just trying, you know, to be
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  very thoughtful about it all. I said to myself, okay, I'm
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  really going to look and I'm really going to see if there are
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  books that I really want to keep or should I?
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  You know, get rid of some of these books.
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  And I made the decision that I was going to sit and go through
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  each and every book, and I was going to make a decision about
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  each and every book. And amazingly, I got rid of a
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  lot of gardening books because I felt like I had outgrown the
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  books. Like I was like, okay, This is
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  not serving me anymore. This does not.
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  Work for where I am. I had books from when I grew up
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  up north. I had books that were up, you
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  know, very different than things that are put out now that are
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  much older but just don't serve me anymore.
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  And so I sat with each book and I was like, OK, I'm going to
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  make the decision to donate this and I'm going to give this to
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  somebody else that can possibly get some joy from it.
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  Does it bring me the high level level of joy I want now?
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  No. And.
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  At first it started off and it was a very difficult process
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  because I was making decision by decision and I moved on to other
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  things, art supplies, things that I have had and towed it
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  around with me for years. And I'm like, why am I bringing
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  this with me? Like, for instance doing
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  beating. I don't do beating anymore.
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  It's not something that I do and I'm not going to do it again.
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  I can. I already know that.
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  I look at it and I'm like. This just seems tedious to me.
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  It does not seem like something that I'm going to want to thrive
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  with, so it does not bring me joy.
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  Therefore, I'm going to eliminate it and then donate it.
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  I'm going to give it away and looking at the pile of things
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  that I came up with and I'm just like, OK, The the moving past,
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  the fact that it's beyond just purging and getting rid of
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  things, it's really comes down to.
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  Being very aware of the fact that I am outgrowing things, I
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  am definitely outgrowing stuff and I'm okay with that.
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  And it made me feel really good and on point that I was able to
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  distinguish with myself that I in fact was outgrowing
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  something. And that I could admit that to
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  myself, that I could let it go. And some things that I had just
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  said, OKI got it. I thought I would do it.
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  I didn't do it like a big giant block of clay.
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  I was like, I'm going to work with clay.
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  But the truth is, unless you go to a studio to do it and you
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  have a spinning wheel and you have all the other stuff, it's
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  highly unlikely that you're going to do it.
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  So I was just like, you know what?
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  I'm going to let the kids have this.
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  I'm just going to move on with it.
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  And the process was. Just liberating to say the
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  least. And I can sit here and say I
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  was, I have released the things that I have outgrown.
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  And sometimes that's stuff, sometimes that's places you go,
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  sometimes that's people. But looking at it and saying,
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  you know what, I've just don't grown this, this doesn't fulfill
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  me anymore, is a process that really is.
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  Liberating, enlightening and just freeing on every level.
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  So I hope this gives you some food for thought.
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  I hope you figure out what you've outgrown and I hope you
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  liberate yourself and have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.