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Season 4 - Episode 53 - The origins of exhaustion · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy. Into the.
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  World. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. I'm held up in my little office.
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  It's so cold here today. I don't enjoy it when it gets
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  this cold, but I think you all know that about me by now.
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  I'm not a cold weather girl. Anyway, today we are talking
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  about exhaustion. And interesting fact, did you
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  ever hear that most exhaustion is not physical exhaustion, it's
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  mental exhaustion. Studies have shown over and over
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  that the brain rarely gets tired from physical activity, but it's
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  more of the mental work that becomes and causes the fatigue.
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  Like, think about that for a second.
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  It's our mental work that does it and that makes us feel
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  exhausted. But psychiatrists have gone
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  through these studies year after year and really dug into this.
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  And the great part of what they find is fatigue comes from
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  mental origin. How crazy is that?
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  One of the psychiatrist, Mr. Hatfield, I believe his name was
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  Hadfield, not Hadfield. He actually said it, that it
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  comes right out. The fact is exhaustion is
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  purely, purely in physical nature is extremely rare.
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  It's coming from the repetitive thoughts that we torture
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  ourselves with and how we, how we beat ourselves up and it goes
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  on over and over and over and during the day.
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  Now, if you think about this in the, in the totality of what
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  your day looks like when you are working and you are doing work
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  that you don't deem as reasonable.
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  And I'm going to use that word because lots of us feel that
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  when we are doing work, we say, why am I even doing this?
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  This doesn't make any sense to me.
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  Why do they even want this? And especially when you are
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  working for other people, it is very, very challenging to be
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  able to understand sometimes where your role falls in the
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  line. Or you look at something and you
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  say, this doesn't make any sense to me.
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  I don't get why we even need to go down this road, but yet
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  somebody else is telling you to do it.
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  And because of that, because of that one simple thing that you,
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  that level of frustration, it's like the seed is planted in the
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  soil and now all of a sudden you don't feel valuable.
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  You don't feel like your work is valuable.
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  The job is valuable, whatever it might be.
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  That's where the fatigue really starts as far as I can see with
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  most of the people I work with. And then they just feel like
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  they're running in circles. They never get to completion
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  with things. So it's like Groundhog Day.
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  Everything keeps coming back and if you're on that hamster wheel,
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  if you feel like it's Groundhog Day, if you feel like you're in
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  that place, that is the mental load we're talking about.
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  So when you when we say you have to chill out, it's not just
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  physically, but it's mentally. And that mental chill out is the
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  most difficult part for people being able to quote UN quote
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  unplug. So that's why the phone is so
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  easy to go to. You pick up your phone, you
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  start scrolling, you look for things on Instagram, you look
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  for things on X, you go on Tiktok, you're, you go down the
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  Tiktok hole and you don't come back out because it satisfies
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  all those little boxes being ticked in your head and it
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  consumes you. And before you know it, you're
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  getting mental relief. But it's, it's like a sugar
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  high. It's not really fixing the
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  problem and it's only making it worse because now you're
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  creating a different problem where you're being pulled to do
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  something which takes you away from even more time.
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  And it's like gets out of control.
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  So you have to have a plan for your mental exhaustion.
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  And that's where, you know, somebody said to me yesterday, I
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  have to get consumed by a really good novel and go in.
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  For me, I agree the books are a very big thing to consume mental
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  energy. I love really good movies,
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  although they are somehow more difficult to find recently.
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  But I love really good movies to be able to go in and, and
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  sometimes I love corny shows, you know, my son said to me last
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  night, Coke. The last part of Cobra Kaiser
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  and we didn't even realize that we have to watch it and I was.
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  Like, OK, that show is completely, you know, bubble gum
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  for the brain. But when I watch it, it's like,
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  OK, I'm completely checked out, but there's closure to it.
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  Unlike the bubble gum for the brain of going on, you know,
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  TikTok or something else, this one is there's closure when you
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  have the movie and you've got your little mental rest.
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  But my biggest one is always going in the garden, always
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  going to nature, hiking, walking, taking pictures.
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  Being in nature is extraordinary for the brain.
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  And there are studies that show that when you dig in the dirt
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  and you actually smell dirt, it creates endorphins of peace and
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  tranquility, which is insane. But that's how our bodies have
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  been formed over the time that we've been on this planet, and
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  we have a connection to growing things.
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  So you may try that. But remember, the exhaustion
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  starts mentally first. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a day that is filled with rest and unplug and see if
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  you can get rid of some of that mental exhaustion.
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  And I will see you all tomorrow. Bye.