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Season 4 - Episode 30 - What are your boosters? · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to 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 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 from the art studio very, very early.
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  And today we're talking about boosters.
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  Now, why am I out here in the art studio very, very early?
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  Well, that is because I needed to really get myself into a good
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  headspace because I was working on writing the blog for
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  February. And one of the things that
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  happens is that when I go to write, sometimes it just falls
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  out of me and it's very effortless.
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  And other times it is arduous and it just depends on the mood
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  I'm in. But one of the things that I
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  recognize as I was working with everybody this week, because
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  we're at the end of January already, it's January 31st and
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  some people are struggling to stay on the path and they're
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  like, it's already falling apart.
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  No, it's not. It's just blips.
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  It's just little blips. But I wanted to enforce the
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  belief system around boosters. So what is a booster?
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  A booster is when you are feeling something and you need
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  to boost yourself out of it. You need to get yourself out of
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  it. Which is why I'm in the art
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  studio. Let me close that loop.
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  So I was stuck. I didn't know what I wanted to
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  talk about. So I just put my boots on, came
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  outside in the pitch dark, went into the studio and said, OK,
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  I'm just going to watercolor for a very short period of time.
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  I'm going to watercolor because that is something that I do to
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  boost my just my imagination, my peace, whatever it is that I
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  want to do. I realize we talk about having
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  these moments and we talk about being mindful in these things,
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  but we also need the boosters and I do them, but I rarely talk
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  about them. So today we're talking about
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  these little boosters. This really works well when you
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  understand your modalities that you operate well in.
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  So let me be very clear. We all are auditory, visual,
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  kinesthetic, We all olfactory, We all have things that are part
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  of our Physiology that we just can't get us, we can't escape.
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  The majority of us are more visual than anything just
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  because we interpret the world that way, but it doesn't mean
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  it's our only thing. Like I'm very, very visual,
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  hyper visual. My husband is hyper auditory.
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  That can create problems sometimes because I'm visual.
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  So I'm big and I'm and he's like, whoa, that's a lot of
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  energy. Bring it down.
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  So when you understand how modalities affect you, like if
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  you remember yesterday's podcast, I talked about how I
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  walked outside and that breath of fresh air shifted me
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  immediately. It brought me somewhere.
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  These are the things we use. So for instance, some people who
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  are listening all already know that they are into essential
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  oils. And those essential oils, you
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  sniff that and it takes you away.
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  That's a booster for you. So do you have a list of
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  boosters for me? OK, visually and tactically, art
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  making art is that taking pictures is a booster.
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  It'll shift my energy, and they're quick and easy.
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  Now, during the day, I can't always go paint, but I can whip
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  out my camera and take a picture.
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  But when you're in your day and you're finding that the day is
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  going down that toilet bowl and everybody's bugging you and you
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  can't do what you want, if you have a quick little set of
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  boosters to help you along the way, you can get back on track,
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  pull yourself out of the muck and mire, switch the driver and
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  and get yourself going. But sometimes it's hard to just
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  switch the driver if there's cognitive overload, which we
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  talked about earlier in the week.
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  So these little boosters break it quickly.
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  So for me, coming out and doing some artwork, yes, that helps.
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  Again, play DoH, big thing for me, it's tactile, plus it's
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  olfactory. It gives me that smell
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  instantaneously. It's a shift big booster for me.
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  So having a warm cup of tea, another big booster and or a
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  coffee, like I have a very big connection to coffee and my dad.
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  So when I really feel like I need to tap into his energy, I
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  will go and I will get a coffee and it has to be in a paper cup
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  with the governor on it because that's what we always did going
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  to Dunkin' Donuts. I just don't go to the Dunkin'
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  Donuts, but I have the coffee. So you see where I'm going with
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  this. It's like a stacking of all
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  these different things that are a quick booster.
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  So if you've never sat down and figured out what yours are,
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  awesome thing to do. Also it helps when you do it in
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  all the different modalities. So mine to be very specific for
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  visual, I can go paint, I can go take a picture, I can go look at
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  pictures. I love looking at pictures.
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  That makes me feel really good. For a sense of smell, it's
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  coffee and it's kinesthetic because when I take it in, it's
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  warm and it's really warming my body.
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  Also for kinesthetic, if I read that's something that's a big
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  deal. Cozy sweatshirts, another big
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  deal. Notice these are all quick
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  things, OK, sense of smell for me.
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  The essential oils are also a big deal, but it can be play
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  DoH. So I have a couple of different
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  ones that I can go to have your list ready, be able to use it
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  and you don't remember there you can do a a group of these
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  overlap them because that works really well.
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  All right, my friends, go get your boosters and I'll see you
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  tomorrow. Have a blessed day.
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  Bye.