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Season 4 - Episode 260 - Designing the rest of the year! · 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 happened 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.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey everybody, good morning from
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  the chicken coop. So I, I, this time of year
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  always starts to get me thinking because I feel like we're coming
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  in the, you know, the close of the year is there and it starts
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  to put pressure on and everybody starts to get a little like
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  squirrelly about the pressure. But for me, I kind of take this
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  on as a mind map project, a vision board process.
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  I kind of want to figure out what do I want to make these
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  last three months all about for the year?
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  I mean, it's, it's so incredibly filled with energy because
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  you've got all these holidays that come up one right after
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  another. It's like 3 months right in a
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  row. Boom, boom, boom.
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  And some people don't like Halloween.
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  Some people maybe where you're listening, you don't celebrate
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  Halloween. I'm not sure.
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  But you know, we have three months right in a row that are
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  how like just Halloween being the first holiday coming up, but
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  they're just jam packed with things, activities, not to
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  mention all the harvest activities that go on.
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  You know, it tends to be a time when people want to start baking
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  and planning and just it's, it's very activity filled.
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  And for me, I, I always get kind of very overly excited about it
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  this time of the year because I, I'm thinking in terms of I want
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  to be done before everybody else.
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  Now this may sound crazy, but I want to have all my Christmas
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  shopping done by November 1st. I do, I always make it No, I may
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  be the first one to say that, but in a perfect world that
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  excites me beyond belief because I want to be able to enjoy those
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  holidays. I don't want to feel like I have
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  to rush through those holidays And it it, it's crazy to me how
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  quickly they come up and they hit you in the back of the head
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  like a baseball bat. And before you know it, you're
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  rushing around trying to make things happen and the joy of the
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  time is gone. It's like the joy is sucked out
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  of it because you feel like you're rushing, rushing, rushing
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  all the time. And I, and in order to avoid
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  that, I'm bringing it up very early this year so that everyone
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  can start thinking in terms of what if I map it out now?
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  What if I start to take right now all the way through January
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  1st. And I look, I, I print out
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  pieces of paper like don't do it digitally.
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  So you can really see it. I love to print my, I have a
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  printer that works on 11 by 17 as well as 8 1/2 by 11.
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  And I can print out 11 by 17 calendars.
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  And I print them out and then I sit there and I draw my lines on
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  them. So I know exactly what I'm
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  looking at and I have those out, Full disclosure, all year long.
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  They're in my pile. I print a whole year and I map
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  things out right away and they stay under my computer with my
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  big week maps every single week. It's just the way that I stay
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  best creative and on track. If I can just see it.
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  I was already in there this morning since 330-3345 and I've
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  just been highlighting and crossing things off my list of
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  stuff that I wanted to get done for myself, for client.
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  And it feels so good when you can just cross it off and you
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  know you've got it done. But it also feels really good to
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  see it all on paper so you don't feel like it's a damn mystery
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  all the time and knowing how many days you have.
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  Now, one little trick that I did start this year, which I am
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  very, I haven't come to a hot solid conclusion on it yet if
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  it's helping or hurting or causing me more anxiety, was I
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  started doing a day's countdown. So instead of just saying, OK,
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  there are 90 days left and not really knowing how many days are
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  counting up, I'm counting down. So I can see.
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  And I think I'm actually going to, because I do this in pencil,
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  of course I can. I think I'm going to actually go
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  back and countdown to each holiday as opposed to just the
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  end of the year. So I know how many days till
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  Halloween, how many many days till Thanksgiving, how many days
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  till Christmas, how many days till New Year's.
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  This way it gives me the ability to know what my wiggle room is.
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  And I still, like I said, I still haven't come to a
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  conclusion on it. I'm going to wait and see how it
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  goes all the way through. But the point is using this in a
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  manner of giving yourself this really focused intention, How do
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  I want my Thanksgiving to be? How do I want my Christmas to
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  be? How do I want all of these
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  things to happen? When am I going to put my tree
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  up? What am I incorporating new
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  traditions? It's mapping it all out that's
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  so important. And it's important for other
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  people to see if you're involved in your life, your excitement
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  and all of this instead of the burden of it all.
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  You know, I feel like Thanksgiving is one of those
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  very melancholy holidays for me. My father died over the holiday,
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  and so I always do. I like it.
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  I can't say that I like it, but what I can say is that I get joy
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  out of throwing myself into cooking.
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  Now, do I like cooking for two days nonstop to eat for 15
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  minutes? No, not really.
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  But I do see the joy in what everybody else gets out of it.
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  So I can find joy in it because I just look at it like I'm
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  focused on giving to them and then it takes my focus off of
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  anything else and that's where I can find the joy.
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  So doesn't always have to be a straight path to the to the end
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  destination, but this is a great way to start thinking about it.
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  So what do you want to make happen?
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  And let's start focusing on that.
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  Plan it out. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.