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Season 2 - Episode 335 - Recovery week! Listening, reading, and growing · 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 coop.
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  So we are on our next thing for recovery week and we are talking
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  about reading, listening, learning, growing.
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  So this is a huge, huge part of recovery in my mind because it
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  sets it. It's like planting the seed for
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  your motivation, if you will, if you know you are actually.
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  Intently putting it out there to say this is going to make me
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  better by doing these things. If I'm listening to a book, I'm
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  reading a book, I'm growing, I'm I'm actually learning something.
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  There's some part of our brain that kicks into gear that tells
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  us, hey, you know what, now that I'm doing this, I want to be
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  better in that so. It it's kind of like you're
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  tricking yourself, if you will. You're actually using parts of
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  yourself that you know are really, you know, inactive, so
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  to speak. If you have very little desire
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  to go and make your body healthy, But you know you love
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  to learn, you cross pollinate those and you give yourself that
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  ability to say, hey, I really need to focus on this recovery.
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  So if I'm going to do it, I'm recovering all the way.
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  I'm going to let myself use my brain.
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  The thing that I do love to do, listen, learn and grow is going
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  to help me and the others because if I can do one, I can
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  do another. It's kind of like, you know,
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  reverse psychology, if you will. It is the easiest way for me to
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  explain a very long and tedious explanation, but that is kind of
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  what it comes down to. So I'm just tricking myself into
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  this. I'm just focusing on the fact
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  that, hey, I I love that part of myself.
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  I just, I love to grow. So if I'm growing and I'm
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  learning something and I get something, well then I got to be
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  better all across the board. You know, think of it maybe like
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  the first day of school. When you go the first day of
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  school, you kind of everyone goes in with the intent of
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  wanting to just get there, have a good year.
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  We're all in the same place. Some people just want to get
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  out, but we're all tending to be in a good mood.
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  We kind of show up the best we can that first day and this is
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  how we want to keep it going and rolling and doing a little bit
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  of it everyday. So setting yourself up for
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  expectations with this is important.
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  You're not going to be able to complete an entire course in a
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  day, a week, even a month. Most likely you're not going to
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  listen to a whole audible unless it's a very like 30 minute
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  audible in a day. So.
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  Don't expect that from yourself. Stop putting these enormous
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  expectations on yourself that cause more stress.
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  Just say, hey, if I listen for 5 minutes, that's great.
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  If I read one page, that's great.
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  If I find one thing I can highlight, that's great.
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  I love doing that for myself. I'll be like, OK, I'm going to
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  read until I find something I want to highlight.
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  And then I if it happens right away, great.
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  I'll, I'll, you know, keep going.
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  But if it doesn't, I I give myself that little bit of a goal
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  and it keeps me engaged in the process.
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  All these little tiny tricks that you know I'm giving you are
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  things to keep you engaged so you don't give up on yourself
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  and you don't stop. Because nothing is more
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  important than the constant learning and feeling like you're
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  empowered by the learning so. Pick one, pick all of them.
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  Do something. Just get out there and put
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  everyday feed that brain of yours.
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  Feed that brain. Give it good solid thoughts.
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  Because if you doing the hydration, you're ditching the
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  sugar, you're eating the green stuff, you're moving, you're
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  doing all the other things we've talked about this week, this one
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  I promise you will be exciting because you're going to feel
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  like, wow, I am going to be so strong going into the new year.
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  So get on it. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.