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A stress-free holiday! · 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 for 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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  Poop. So today we are talking about
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  making our plan for who we want to be for the next 30 days.
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  Now why is this so important to have a plan for this?
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  Well, one because the holiday season is stressful and as we
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  head into the holidays, doesn't matter what holiday you're
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  dealing with. We've all know, we all know
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  that, the holidays can be stressful.
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  We celebrate. We're told to celebrate and we
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  have moments of Celebration. But I want you to think about
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  how can you make this be the most resourceful season for
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  yourself and one big chunk of that we started yesterday with
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  reframing some of this but today we're really talking about.
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  Who do you need to be? How do you need to show up?
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  What are the things that are your button pushers for the
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  holiday season? Where is your biggest stress?
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  So you know, break it down for yourself.
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  I know for me, one of the things that drives me crazy is the
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  situation of not having enough food.
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  If people show up, I feel as though I always have to be
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  prepared for having 16 people show up at my house, which is
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  crazy and not true. I never just randomly have 16
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  people show up at my house, I sure you have.
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  However, I have to make sure that I am covered for this.
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  So there are little things that you can do ahead of time in the
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  event to save yourself the aggravation.
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  If somebody just says, hey you know like if my son says Hey I
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  want to be able to have a fire For my friends to come over and
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  do hot cocoa. Roasted marshmallows, whatever
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  it might be. You know what?
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  I've got a box set up for just such an occasion because I'm
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  ready to pull it out and say, oh no, we can do this.
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  I don't like to be unprepared for anything, and for me, the
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  holiday portion is always a big deal, because it means I have to
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  do an excellent job of thinking ahead.
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  All right, what could possibly happen?
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  So, So think ahead about your buttons.
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  No, I always purchase two extra gift cards, keep them under the
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  tree. Just, in case somebody randomly
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  gives a gift and you need to have a gift that to give back.
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  You have a gift card under the tree.
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  And you know what the beautiful part is?
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  You don't have to use it if you don't need to and you can always
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  just use it for yourself or the birthdays coming up in the year
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  because we all have those. So, how can you handle this
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  stuff ahead of time to relieve The stress is what we're talking
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  about. Think ahead, think about your
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  buttons, think about the timing of things.
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  You know, I talk about this, the scenario being prepared often,
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  but this plays into the fact that I am so hell-bent on
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  keeping stress out of my life. You know, I loved my mother
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  dearly, she was so awesome in so many ways, but one of her
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  triggers was she got stressed about everything, if she thought
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  she had to go somewhere. She Got immediately stressed.
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  If she thought she had to have gifts for something she'd stress
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  out about it right away and she would wait till the last minute
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  to take care of things like this.
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  And I think this is why I've learned in my life to go above
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  and beyond that. Because I don't like to be that
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  person that has to take on that undue stress.
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  Now, again, stress is one of those things.
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  That is a choice. You can choose to be stressed or
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  you can choose to be prepared, you can choose to be stressed or
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  you can choose Choose to be happy about it and excited about
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  doing this. So for me, I just look at it
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  like nope, I'm going to be super excited about doing this.
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  I'm going to jump in, I'm going to be prepared ahead of time and
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  I'm going to take on this project, these projects of
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  saying, okay, how do I get ready for the holidays?
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  How do I get everything ready for the holidays?
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  The best way that I possibly can?
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  So this is and I'm not saying I won't have times when I can't
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  figure something out. I need to take care of something
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  ahead of time. And I didn't I missed it because
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  it happens, it always happens, but I'm 80% ahead and that's
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  what we're looking for. We're looking for that being 80%
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  ahead, so you don't have to feel so stressed out about it.
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  So think about it, make your list, think about your points of
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  where you get stressed, think about the points of things that
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  just annoy the heck out of you. And then from there, you can
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  start to design how you want it to go.
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  So for right now let me give an example for me.
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  I have the whole list of Cards gift cards that I want to buy
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  and have ready. I haven't I haven't completed by
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  any stretch of the means shocking, but I do have a good
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  handle on what I need to get and where I need to go because I
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  don't just write down my list. Where, what?
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  I need to get. I write down where I'm going to
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  get it from that way. I know I can handle it quicker
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  because I can chunk like items and do it all at once.
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  So, try working something out like that for yourself and also
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  think about all those little things.
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  Things that, you know, you want to make it special and do those
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  ahead of time. Like I already have tickets to
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  take my family to see A Christmas Carol.
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  I, but I actually got those months ago because I plan on
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  this so far in advance. Now, here's the thing.
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  They still have tickets, I could have still gotten tickets to see
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  the show, but guess what? I got Center tickets, because I
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  got them ahead of time, so I still could have gotten in but
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  for me it's important to do it so I can get the seats I want
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  and those Are those little mm improvements over time that you
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  learn, by doing this over and over and over again.
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  So hopefully, this was helpful today and you can get started on
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  this. And I will see you guys tomorrow
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  on a stress-free holiday season, that begins now, have a blessed
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  day everybody. Bye.