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Rhythms of nature · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Today, we are talking about the rhythms of Nature and how we as
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  human beings fit into that. And we respond to it.
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  I think it's kind of interesting.
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  We all understand Seasons, you know, spring summer, winter and
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  fall. But we don't often think about
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  our days that way. We'll think about our lives that
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  way because we know there are certain chunks and ages of time
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  that will say, oh well, you know, we're getting into that
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  later season of life and we all understand it on some level, but
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  I don't think. Ink.
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  We actually sit down and figure out what it means to us and how
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  we interpret it for ourselves, as well, as the daily practice
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  of understanding it, why am I bringing this up?
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  Because basically, we're halfway through the year and I have a
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  lot of people that I work with that will say, to me, well, I'm
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  really struggling sticking to my daily practice and I'm really
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  struggling right now. I came out really strong.
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  And now all of a sudden it's just I feel like I'm Getting to
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  this place where I'm struggling to do all the little things.
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  Every day that I know I should be doing and I want you all to
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  know that is normal, that is completely and totally normal is
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  part of being a human being that we will be cyclical will do
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  things sometimes. Oh, so on the money and I'm not
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  just talking about in general, I'm talking about like, you
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  know, all aspects of our life like some days, we're just so
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  great getting up doing our workouts.
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  Doing our study work, whatever we're working on doing our
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  mantras focusing on our goals. And then there are other days we
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  get up and we're just like I don't want to do any of this
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  crap, right? This minute, I don't want to do
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  it all, and that is normal. So one first part of today, stop
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  beating yourself up for feeling. That way, it's normal.
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  Do you have to stay there? No, but you do have to actually
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  look at what it means, because sometimes there are different
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  meanings to this. And sometimes it just means that
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  You have outgrown something you're doing and sometimes it
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  doesn't mean that at all. Sometimes it just means you need
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  a break most of the time. It means you just need a little
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  bit of a break. We all need little breaks from
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  things that we're doing and often we're not good at giving
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  us ourselves that ability to just take that little break and
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  say, you know what, it's okay for me to rest right now and
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  organically halfway through the year.
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  You start to head into the summer, you start to head into
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  to the time where you've, you know, you've plowed the fields,
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  you've planted the seeds, you have spent all that time working
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  in the fields and then all of a sudden it's the time where the
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  heat is on and it you don't want to go outside.
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  So I live in a state where it gets hot and it gets really hot
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  and when it gets blazing hot you don't want to go outside.
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  And I grew up in a state in a state where it was constantly
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  cold, I felt like it. Constantly cold, but in the
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  winter you just don't, you don't even see people like they just
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  go inside, they do puzzles, they play games, they don't come
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  outside, they watch movies, they don't come outside because of
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  the weather here that happens in the summer.
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  And it's always funny to me to see how the weather affects us
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  and how certain aspects of just collectively we move with
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  nature. And this is one of those things
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  that halfway through the year we are Actively moving with nature
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  where right now. You just are in the heat of the
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  summer typically, no matter where you are, you're In the
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  Heat of the summer, you slow down a little bit, you just want
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  to have a sweet tea and sit back and relax and you just want to
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  take it easy and then we beat ourselves up for it and it's not
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  healthy. At any point in time.
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  You're going to hear me say this over and over and over.
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  If you stick with me on this podcast, You cannot influence
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  yourself through being mean to yourself.
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  The theory of the beatings will continue until morale improves.
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  Does not work long-term. It is absolutely detrimental to
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  your well-being to your outcomes and who you are as an
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  individual. It is incredibly important to
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  not beat yourself up for wanting to take a break.
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  That being said, it is incredibly important to
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  distinguish how long you want that to be.
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  And to actually set time and say, I'm going to take a break,
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  I have a four-day weekend coming up, and I'm looking forward to
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  my four-day weekend and on that four-day weekend.
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  I will not be doing any of my normal things and it's okay
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  because I will be back to them afterwards and I'm not just
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  talking about going away because I'm not going anywhere.
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  I'm just taking four days off and I think that's a big thing
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  to remember in your life that when you try to power through
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  endless amounts of time. Even in your day and you say,
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  I'm going to do this for four hours.
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  I will often get people say to me.
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  Okay, I'm going to do all my calls for four hours straight
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  and I'm like, no, you're not. I know you love to believe you
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  are but you're not and for most people, it does not work.
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  There are the very few people that can pull that off and they
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  crammed in, they crammed in they crammed but they feel terrible
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  on the other side they eat awful during it and when it's done
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  they're exhausted and it screws up even more days.
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  So it's not worth the the methodology to to go.
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  Into, it's not worth anything. It's just it's silly.
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  So stop if that's the strategy that you have look for the
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  cycles and say, okay? What really works for me?
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  Well, for most people, if you just do something for 30 minutes
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  and then take a 10-minute break, it's it feels a hell of a lot
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  better and you can get your mind to say.
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  I can shut my phone off for 30 minutes or I can focus on this
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  for 30 minutes and then I can go and that's part of the rhythms
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  of being in nature just in general, its You have got to
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  think more cyclical as far as your whole entire well-being.
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  Not just, okay, I'm going to do this and I'm going to do this in
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  power through it and power through it and power through it.
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  I'm going to keep doing this. It never works, it never works.
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  So if you are more thoughtful about it and you make more plan
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  around it, you will be able to continue and still have
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  astronomical outcomes. Trust me.
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  I do this with myself all the time and I get very far strides
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  but it's not by just Just powering through it and doing
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  the same thing every single day for, you know, 12 months out of
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  the year. It's just being thoughtful,
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  creating a plan understanding that things are cyclical that
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  you need a break, that you are part of Nature and that you can
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  follow the rhythms of Nature and allow yourself to have that time
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  that you need not just in a vacation but every single day.
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  So look for that. Look at your at how you're
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  performing in your day, see where your windows are and
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  adjust that schedule And adjust those habits so that you can
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  feel good about it. Alright guys, I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.