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Season 3 - Episode 356 - One new thing. · 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 and happy New Year's Eve.
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  So we are moving in a direction of getting our celebrations all
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  underway. My celebration is very different
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  than most people's because I work really hard at this point
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  in time to stay focused on getting all of my stuff
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  organized for next year. I know that sounds strange for
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  some people to say, hey, you're not going on to a party or all
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  of that. But Nope.
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  I have never in my entire life like New Year's Eve.
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  Even when I was a kid, from the very first time, I was like, I
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  want to stay up and see what it's all about.
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  And then I stayed up and I was like, this is nothing.
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  This is nothing happens. So it was very it was very much
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  a let down for me. But over the years, it changed
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  because I was able to change the meaning of it for myself, and it
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  really became the time for me to sit down and do my goal setting,
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  my intention setting, build vision boards, create, you know,
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  mantras. All of that came at this time.
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  So I typically do it between New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
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  I rarely ever just finish it on New Year's Eve because my vision
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  boards are big and complicated. But I love doing them because
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  they're art projects. To me, everything turns into
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  something creative. And this time I've got a really
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  big one I'm working on. So this might take me a couple
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  days, it might take me until Sunday to finish it.
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  But I'm OK with that because this is the fun stuff for me.
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  And one of the fun parts of this is always trying to figure out
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  how am I going to shift it just a little bit to make it more
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  interesting. What am I going to do to make it
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  a little more interesting for myself?
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  So I have added in a section this year where I want to talk
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  to you about it because I think that this is going to be good
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  for everybody. Now, again, I have not done this
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  myself, I'm adding this in, but I decided, hey, you know what,
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  before I test it, I'm just going to share it with everybody and
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  see how they like it. So one aspect of something that
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  I do that's a little different than a lot of people is I print
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  out the entire year calendar in blank months.
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  So I'll just go into my Apple calendar and I will print blank
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  8 1/2 by elevens of the entire year.
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  So January has its own, February has its own, so on and so forth.
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  Once it's in front of me, I lay it all out on the counter and I
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  literally say what months have 5 weeks?
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  Because that's a month that I'm going to schedule downtime for
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  myself in my coaching and training schedule.
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  So immediately I can already see where I'm going to get breaks,
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  which I love because then I definitely take them.
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  And then I'll start layering in things that I know I want to
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  have happen throughout the year at certain times because it's
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  that specific type of season. And I go on where like, you
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  know, I already know, like, you know, in late January, I'm going
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  to start planting my seeds in the garage.
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  I know that in the end of March, last week of March, they'll be
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  going outside or first week of April, depending upon, you know,
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  what the weather is like. But I'm setting up all of that
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  on the plan and I've done that for years.
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  But one of the things I'm adding in this year to that whole thing
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  is the track, the theory of try one new thing a month.
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  So there are going to be 12 new things that I have introduced by
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  the end of the year. Now, this can be anything.
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  It could be a new food, it could be a new skill, it could be a
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  new hobby, it could be a new idea, it could be a new
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  exercise, it could be anything that you decide you want.
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  I have over the years tried so many different little things
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  that get me excited about each month and what I have to look
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  forward to it and I know it always it it just makes me feel
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  good when I'm like, oh, I want to try that.
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  So anytime I think of those words, I feel excitement.
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  So I figured, OK, let's incorporate it.
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  Let's see how it's going to go. So I know for a fact that one of
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  the new things that I am going to be trying for January is
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  doing a balloon sculpture. Now that may sound really crazy
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  as to say, OK, why is she doing a balloon sculpture?
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  Well, I'm having a baby shower for my daughter and I want to be
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  able to make a balloon sculpture.
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  I have never done one of these before.
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  So it's going to be my new thing for January is a balloon
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  sculpture. Now, of course, again with
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  because it's me, it falls under the creative zone and I'm like,
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  oh, this, it's going to be great.
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  I'm so excited about this. Well, guess what?
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  This is one of those things where I'm like this, this could
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  be a really fun thing, could be irritating, but I'm still going
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  to put it on my try one new thing.
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  And that's the point I want to make.
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  It could be an irritating thing. I don't know.
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  I've never done one. It could be a fun thing.
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  I don't know, but it's a try a new thing.
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  So don't assign it and say it try a new fun thing every month.
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  No, try a new thing. I may try a new food and hate
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  it. I can assure you there are
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  plenty of times when I will say, oh, I'll try that.
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  And then I'm like, oh gosh, no, I'm I'm certain that I'm not
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  going to just put the word fun in front of me.
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  It's I'm going to try one new thing every single month.
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  So throw that out there. See if it interests you, put it
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  on your list. And then I guess we're going to
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  be in the new year tomorrow. I hope you guys have a blessed
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  safe evening and I will see you all in 2025.
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  Bye.