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Season 3 - Episode 5 - Stop all the pressure! · 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 from the chicken
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  coop. OK, so today we're a few days
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  into the new year. Now everybody's kind of rocking
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  and rolling. Everybody's putting themselves
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  under an immense amount of pressure to figure out these
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  goals for the year. And I want to be very explicit
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  about this. You must not put yourself under
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  undue pressure. If you do not know and you have
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  not written them down yet, stop it.
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  It doesn't matter. You have 365 days, and if you
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  feel like you just came off of closing out the last year and
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  you need to collectively catch your breath, give yourself the
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  ability to catch your breath and listen, I'm right there with
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  you. I have not written down things
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  on paper yet. Listen to what I just said.
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  I've not putting things down yet.
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  I have not done vision boards yet.
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  Everything got a little off kilter for me on some timing
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  with things because I had that. You know, this whole incident
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  happened with the chickens and the dog coming in, and it was
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  just a really rough couple of weeks because they're my pets.
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  And the truth is, it threw me off.
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  And then I had to collectively get back from it.
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  And I actually took a vacation, which is unusual for me.
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  And I watched movies and I did nothing.
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  I ate popcorn and I did things to heal my soul from everything
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  that had gone on. And coming back into the new
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  year, do I have my possibilities list?
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  Absolutely. Have I been writing things,
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  Capturing things? Yes.
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  But have I said this is the formal 2024 plan?
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  Absolutely not. I have not said those words.
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  I have been really working towards capturing all the
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  possibilities that I can think of.
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  Working towards cleaning up little tiny things that were
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  still sitting out there that I needed to address, like my
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  LinkedIn profile. Little tiny things that just
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  hang around sometimes and didn't.
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  They weren't important enough to hurry up and finish at the end
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  of next last year, but they are on my list to take care of now
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  so I can feel clean. And guess what?
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  I haven't done my vision boards. Oh tragedy.
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  I say that laughing because it it's OK You know why it's OK?
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  Because I'm in the right moving forward energy.
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  I feel great about moving forward.
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  I'm excited not. And I'm not going to let myself
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  rob that from myself. I'm not going to tell myself,
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  OK, well, listen to you, idiot, Why didn't you get this all done
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  ahead of time? We could have already been ahead
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  because I have the tendency to do that to myself where I like,
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  oh, I should have done this earlier, I should have been
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  earlier, I should have been earlier.
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  And I will just torture myself with the things that I think I
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  could have done better. And I don't want to do that to
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  myself going into this year. It is not the way I want to do
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  things. So it's really hasn't been for
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  many years, but I'm really don't want to do it, especially after
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  coming off of an emotional wave like I did.
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  So here's the thing. Where you are is exactly where
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  you are supposed to be, and it's going to help you figure out how
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  to create what you want moving forward.
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  So if you haven't figured something out yet, it's okay.
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  But you can't stay in the place that you're in.
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  You have to navigate yourself through it in a different way.
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  You have to say, okay, look, I'm going to choose to do something,
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  give myself grace, and I'm going to still make myself work on it.
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  Push yourself to do activity to achieve what you're looking at,
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  but don't torture yourself in the process.
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  Really necessary piece of this and if you if you are struggling
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  with the fact of you can't choose.
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  If you if you simply can't choose and you keep saying to
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  yourself, well I don't know. Well my question is why not just
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  put them all down. Why use the rating system that
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  we talked about last week? Really make sure that you are
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  following the path that feels the best for you.
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  And somebody said to me yesterday when I was talking to
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  them about this, well the path just feels like I don't want to
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  do any of this stuff. And he he was so frustrated that
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  he felt like he didn't want to do anything And he said what am
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  I doing? And I said, well maybe your your
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  message and not wanting to do any of it is the fact that you
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  need to change up what those things are.
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  Maybe you've just been doing them so long they don't feel
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  good anymore. And we have to take a look at
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  that and have that as a reality. Because if you're not feeling
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  that pull and that twinged excitement, then stop and ask
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  yourself what is the real message here?
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  What is the real message here? And sometimes it's changing
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  things up. Sometimes it is necessary to
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  say, hey, you know what? I got to do some radical shifts
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  here to feel good about things. I'm in the process still, of
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  getting rid of things at my house.
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  My truck is filled currently with things to go out to the
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  Salvation Army because I'm still finding things that I can let go
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  of. So give yourself the gift of
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  saying I'm OK where I am today. I'm OK where I am, but do not
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  sit in active. Put yourself on activity, but
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  don't torture yourself for it. Be graceful with yourself.
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  Allow yourself to have that time and I promise you you'll come
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  around, but just get into the right energy 1st and then it
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  will be much easier. OK my friends, I will see you
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  tomorrow. Have a blessed day.
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  Bye.