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Season 3 - Episode 276 - Back from my trip! · 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 mastermindset
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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 inside the house because it's
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  really, really early and really, really dark and I went to bed
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  last night at 7:30 because I just flew back in from the
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  event. So I am back on the farm and I
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  missed recording yesterday because I actually had to get up
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  at 2:45 in the morning to get myself together, get ready and
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  be picked up by my assistant. My the girl who organizes my
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  entire life. And she was at the event with me
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  and she drove me to the airport because we had a 2 1/2 hour ride
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  from the resort where the event was taking place to get to the
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  airport in Minneapolis, Saint Paul.
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  And we were both afraid. We're both very certainty driven
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  people. We were both really afraid that
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  we might get stuck in traffic because I had a 9:00 flight.
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  But, you know, you got to get there early, of course.
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  And when you're both certainty driven, we looked at each other
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  and we're like, well, there's construction going on
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  everywhere. So we really better leave really
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  early. So she picked me up and we drove
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  to the airport. Now compile that on top of the
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  fact that I had not slept pretty much the entire time I was gone
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  because I forgot how badly it's been a few years since I've
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  actually gone out on the road without having my husband travel
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  with me. And I I just don't sleep well in
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  hotels like that. So, you know, I end up watching
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  a lot of mindless television while I'm trying to fall asleep,
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  which is the complete wrong thing to do.
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  However, I was doing that and I just never could fall asleep.
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  So I got on the plane and I still couldn't sleep.
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  So by the time I got home last night, I was wiped out and went
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  to bed at 7:30. So I'm up, I'm back in the
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  groove getting everything taken care of, but I wanted to get
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  this out before the girls wake up.
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  Until that time change happens, we're stuck in a little bit of a
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  dark zone. So I can't even get them open
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  right this minute outside. However.
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  So let's talk about everything that's happened in the last
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  couple days because the big lesson in it for me was wow.
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  You know, even just talking about the no sleeping thing and
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  talking about how our my trip was it.
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  It was it occurred to me in a very, very big way that the
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  lessons in this were so big for me all over again.
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  Because there's one thing that's very important.
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  It's like when you have to do things that are outside your
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  norm, how it affects us. And even though I knew
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  wholeheartedly great aspects of myself and how I travel, I know
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  that when there are things that show up, like the not having
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  somebody there with you in a hotel to sleep, I know how that
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  affects me. And I thought I had a plan and
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  the plan didn't work well. Why didn't the plan work?
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  Well, the plan didn't work because I was so hyped up about
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  the other stuff I was doing that I got my adrenaline passed where
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  it normally ranges and then I threw myself off balance.
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  Now, did anything go wrong? No, the event was amazing.
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  I had, you know, all these leaders in a room.
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  I was speaking for Caldwell Banker.
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  I had all these leaders in a room.
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  It was just an incredible experience to be with these
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  people and teach them about how their emotions affect their
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  leadership. The day the book launched,
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  everything was perfect. We are in extremely competitive
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  categories, yet the book did so well.
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  We're in the top 100 across the board in all the categories.
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  And that was the goal because I knew I was picking very, very
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  hard categories. Everything went exactly as I had
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  intended it to go and I just had never intended in my list of
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  things, you know, oh, I'm going to sleep well and I'm going to
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  be able to do recovery well in between.
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  I never put that out there. I was just like so focused on
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  delivering. I just wasn't thinking about
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  that piece that it would affect me again.
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  I actually had kind of for I was aware of it, but I wasn't aware
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  of how much it was going to show up.
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  I was aware I needed snacks. And this is where even somebody
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  as detailed as I am, as detailed as my assistant is, both of us
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  did not think about that piece. Like, OK, what are we going to
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  do to make sure that you can sleep?
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  Do you need anything else with you?
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  Do you need me to make sure that you're not on the ground floor?
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  And that's pretty much what happened.
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  I my room was on the ground floor of this building.
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  That may not seem like a big deal, but for me, it having
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  people make noise over my head was just one of those, oh boy,
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  that's, that's something that that does it.
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  I, I hear noise, I wake up. I have mom ears.
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  When you have kids, you have mom ears, but sometimes they wake
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  you up and you hear everything. So all these little things
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  contributed me thinking about the event, me trying to figure
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  out if I've if I've gone through everything.
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  But the bottom line was I wasn't sleeping.
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  And it gave me a real intense reflection time to be able to
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  say, OK, what are the things that I did well?
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  What are the things that I could have done better?
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  And what will we do different next time?
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  And one of the big things that came out was next time, as I
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  start to do this travel again and start to go out and speak
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  again, I have to make sure I take the sleep into
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  consideration. What do I need in order to
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  sleep? And I honestly, I had not
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  realized how much my sleep routine normally has become
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  something that is high maintenance.
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  I'm just going to put it out there.
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  It's high maintenance. I have to be in bed at a certain
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  time because if I don't go to bed at a within a certain
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  window, it's like I miss my window to sleep and then I can't
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  fall asleep. That's a little high
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  maintenance. Then I have this weighted
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  blanket. And I don't know if any of you
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  have used weighted blankets before, but Oh my gosh, they are
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  lovely. Well, you can't travel with a 10
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  LB weighted blanket. That is just not going to
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  happen. So not having the hotel deliver
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  extra blankets to the room so I can have some weight on me was a
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  mistake. I should have thought of that
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  because that helps me sleep. And again, making sure I was not
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  on the ground floor. So I, it's, I think it's, it has
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  to do mostly with the sound up above me, but it also I think
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  has to do with safety. And we go back to primal needs
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  of a human being. Do you feel safe?
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  Did I have the doors locked? Yes, but there was a wall of
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  windows that were sliders in my room.
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  It's beautiful right on the lake.
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  But guess what didn't make me feel particularly safe at night
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  sleeping in the room. They're locked, yes.
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  And still didn't make me feel very safe.
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  Where the curtains pulled. Yes.
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  And I still didn't feel very safe.
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  So the point of Maine telling you all this is recognizing
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  these little things really helped me to say, OK, now next
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  time, how can I do better? And that's what this is all
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  about, South, if there's something showing up in your
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  world, really debrief it. And this took me like, I was on
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  the plane flying home and I was like, wow, I need to figure out
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  the sleep thing. And I actually started going
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  through it all. And I had to be honest with
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  myself about, yeah, you've turned into a little bit of a
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  high maintenance sleeper from the Girl Who Travelled the world
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  with Tony Robbins, who didn't need all those things.
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  So got to work on that, got to fix that.
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  But it's that honesty. It's that willingness to come
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  out and say, OK, where did I, where have I gone a little
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  wrong? And I'm back on track now.
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  So we'll be back on at our normal times.
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  And I apologize that I missed yesterday, but we're back.
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  So take a look at if you've got something out there, take a look
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  at what's been, you know, threw you off.
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  Get honest with it and let's see if we can fix that.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.