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Season 2 - Episode 297 - On a walk · 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. Well, it's not from the chicken
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  coop today, but it's also not from the porch because it's not
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  raining. It's actually quite lovely and
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  cool this morning. And Beaufort and I are out
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  walking the trail that we have created for my days on our farm.
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  And when I coach, I walk this trail all around the farm and he
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  walks with me. And I thought, wow, it's so
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  quiet and so lovely. It's early, early, and I wanted
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  you to know the the strength behind doing this kind of stuff.
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  So part of the thing that draws me to nature so much is just
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  that there's this energy, there's this peace that just
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  comes over you when you're present and you're with the
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  trees and you hear the birds and you're watching the sunrise come
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  up and it's. The girls are out foraging,
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  already fed them and I decided to take a stroll and I thought,
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  wow, this would be a great time to record something for them so
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  they can understand the power of this and feeling it before the
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  rest of the world wakes up, before the rest of it goes
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  insane. And giving yourself that little
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  gift of the peace and the quiet and the the joy that comes from
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  it. It's just immense.
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  During the day it it, it takes you to a a place, a a starting
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  point that's much more powerful than if you were starting with
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  something that was hurried or rushed.
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  And doing this, you can hear my neighbors ducks.
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  You can hear all kinds of things going on as as the world is
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  waking up. And I I cherish this time
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  because it allows me to be present with what's around me.
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  And it allows me to hear and listen to all the different
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  types of birds. That's a little Carolina Wren,
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  if you can hear that in the background yelling, because
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  clearly I'm too close to where she doesn't like it.
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  So we have all kinds of creatures out here that give us
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  opinions of things and let us know when they're good or not.
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  And just I can't identify nearly all the sounds.
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  My husband's really great at it. He can identify pretty much what
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  everything is but for me. The the strength in having this
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  path, the strength in walking this path every day, is to put
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  me in the present moment. Looking at the ground, seeing
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  the leaves, seeing you know what's around me, feeling the
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  air, hearing sounds, it all brings you to the present
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  moment. It all gives you the power of
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  the present moment. And walking is something that is
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  so human to do. It's like, oh, right now, as I'm
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  just sitting here, there's a squirrel running up a tree with
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  a huge nut in his mouth and you can see him.
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  He's paused. Buford freaked him out.
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  So it always helps me. To walk because it's very human
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  to clear your head. Movement is a piece of the
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  puzzle for well-being and the more you move.
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  And I'm not just talking about going to the gym and having
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  movement. I'm talking about actually
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  having purposeful paced, peaceful movement.
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  It it, it is tremendous. And when you're walking, that's
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  what it is. It's just intentional.
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  Peaceful and it fills your soul. And the more you can do this for
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  yourself, the more you will notice that you become grounded.
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  Not to mention, your cardiovascular system benefits
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  wildly from it. Not to mention your psychology
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  benefits wildly from it. Everything gets better the more
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  you walk. So I'm a huge proponent of it.
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  I like to push my clients to do it.
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  I will tell everybody I walk a lot about every day is over
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  20,000 steps. The question is how far over do
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  I go. Most days I'm about 2426 depends
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  on the weather and what not but that's my typical and last year
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  I did 5,300,000 and change steps and for me that is.
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  I I love to compete with myself by getting more steps, of
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  course. However, the big piece of it is,
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  I look at that and I say to myself, wow, that's that's the
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  time I spent clearing my head. That's the time I spent doing
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  what I needed to do for my wake up of my body, my mind, my soul.
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  And even when I'm coaching and I'm walking, it makes a
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  difference. It gives me a higher quality of
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  thinking. So the benefits to this are
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  tremendous. Find your trail, my friends, and
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  walk it as much as you can. Because the more you do it, the
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  better off you are. All right, I hope you have a
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  blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.