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Season 3 - Episode 193 - Growing requires rest · 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 porch.
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  It is drizzling and it's dark, so I'm shooting from the porch
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  this morning. You probably will hear Raven off
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  in the distance. Well, anyway, today we're
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  talking about growth and how painful growth can be.
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  This is a time where I myself am experiencing this and I thought,
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  you know what a better time than the present to talk about it
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  since I'm going through it myself as I go to build out the
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  next phase of this business and working on stuff.
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  And it's a, it's always interesting to me how we want to
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  grow. We seem pulled in a constant
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  pull to grow and how painful it can be.
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  And very observant about it in myself because I, I love taking
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  on new adventures, growing, trying different things,
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  different aspects of, of creativity, whether it's the
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  farm stuff, whether it's writing books, whether it's recording
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  videos, whether it's putting up class, all of it.
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  I'm like, what I like it. I can't, I can truly say I like
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  it. I like doing all of it.
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  It's not that I have anything about it that I don't like.
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  I mean, sure, it impacts my schedule sometimes and that's
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  always a tricky part and having enough time with your family and
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  everything else, that's always tricky.
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  But here's the interesting part of it.
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  I actually love the growth part of it.
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  I like to feel like my head is constantly learning.
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  But there's another part of this that's just like, I just
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  sometimes you get to that point where you're like, I just want,
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  just want to like relax. I just want to relax.
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  Now all that part is not often because I don't like to sit
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  still when it fits it when it hits and it fits in that moment
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  and it just plugs in and it's like, I just want to relax.
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  And you, you say to yourself, but I can't make progress unless
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  I'm this and you start the battle with yourself.
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  What do you do? How do you handle it?
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  So I, I figured since I had that experience experience over the
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  weekend, I should share that with all of you.
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  And for me, it's listening to that because it means that I
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  have to get rid of some of that down energy by actually taking
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  it on and saying, OK, I'm giving myself the weekend to do this.
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  So being able to just rest is absolutely imperative.
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  So that's what I did this weekend.
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  I actually didn't work on any projects.
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  I didn't work on farm projects. I didn't do any of it for I I
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  packed my Friday pretty tight knowing that I could feel this
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  coming on. It's so hot.
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  It's so uncomfortable here. So outside work is not an option
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  really during the day at all. And I was just like, you know
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  what? I just like want to binge watch
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  a show. I never do that, never.
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  And I just want to allow myself to be able to do it.
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  And I did watched an entire show and on Netflix from beginning to
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  end, I think it was 10 episodes. And I was like, you know what?
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  Over the course of two days, I'm totally OK with that and
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  basically stayed inside all weekend because it was so hot.
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  Didn't even want to go to the beach, didn't want to go
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  anywhere, didn't want to do a damn thing, quite honestly.
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  And I listened to myself. And before you know it, you
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  start to feel like, OK, I feel rejuvenated.
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  I feel energized again. But sometimes times the
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  arguments still go on in your head because I did sit there and
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  say to myself, OK, I could be doing this right now or I should
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  be doing this, but it doesn't help.
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  When you do that to yourself. All it does is cause more
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  aggravation. So the reason that you have to
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  listen to yourself is say which one is bigger here?
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  Which one needs more rest? And sometimes for me, it's only
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  a couple days. Sometimes people will say, all
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  right, I need a break for a week.
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  Sometimes people I'll tell people when I'm working with
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  them. Maybe you need to just schedule
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  that out next month if it's not urgent.
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  Really looking at what's the time frame that you feel like
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  you just need a break from something.
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  Listen to the words that are coming up for you, listen to the
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  feelings, listen to the thoughts, the emotions because
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  they're all trying to help you in the process.
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  Now my short little break made me feel completely back and
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  engaged, even though it was only two days, but it was enough of a
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  break to say, OK, now I can jump back in and feel good about it.
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  So look at yourself where you are.
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  Give yourself the ability to listen to it all and know growth
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  can be painful sometimes, especially when you're taking on
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  new things. Growth can be painful, but you
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  know it's part of the process and the butterfly doesn't think
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  about that after it's a butterfly.
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  It only knows when it's a Caterpillar.
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  It's supposed to crawl up there, turn to goo, hang upside down
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  and come out and be a butterfly. And it does it.
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  And I imagine it's pretty uncomfortable turning into
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  something like that, but oh so worth it.
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  So I hope you have a blessed day, My friends and I will see
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  you tomorrow. Bye.