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Season 2 - Episode 173 - Do you ever have fun anymore? · 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 her chicken coop.
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  Along with all her chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken. A coop.
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  So it's a little rainy out here this morning.
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  So if it starts to sound funny in the background, you know, why
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  not so bad? That I can't be out here,
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  though. So this morning, we are talking
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  about, allowing yourself to have fun, and I'll tell you, this is
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  something that is near and dear to my heart because I have fun
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  doing things that other people don't have fun doing.
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  So, oftentimes people think she can't be having fun doing all
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  this gardening, but I am having fun doing all the gardening but
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  that's not The point of this conversation, the point of this
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  conversation is what makes you feel like you're having fun.
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  What are those things that make you feel like you're having fun
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  now, right away? If you have a bounce back in
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  your head that says, oh I just don't have time for fun right
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  now. I'm too focused on X y&z.
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  I'm going to tell you right now. XY and Z is going to take 10
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  times longer. If you would just stop and have
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  a little fun and it doesn't have to be like an unabashed.
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  She night where you're just out there and partying like a rock
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  star. I'm not talking about that.
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  I'm talking about just allowing yourself to have joy and fun
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  every single day. And this is allowing yourself to
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  have fun. Because oftentimes what happens
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  is we forget how to have fun. And I'm not even joking a
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  little, we forget how to have fun.
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  We just put it aside and we say things like I don't have time,
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  that's not in the cards right now.
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  I've got to do this. I've got to do this, I should be
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  doing this, I'm not doing this and we beat ourselves up
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  continuously, but the problem with all of this boils down to
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  one simple thing, when you choose to do that, you are
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  taking away your greater strength of feeling the ability
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  to have grit when you need to, to power through some of the
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  stuff that might be difficult in whatever project you're doing or
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  just in life in general because You've depleted, all the other
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  tanks, you haven't allowed yourself to just take those
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  small little things and say, okay, I'm going to go have fun
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  whether it's just taking two hours to watch a movie, or it's
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  taking, you know, that 35 minutes to sit down and say,
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  hey, I'm going to listen to this audible.
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  I had a client the other day. That's relatively new.
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  And I said, well, would you listen to an audible?
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  It's 33 minutes. And she's like, it's just, I
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  don't like listening to things like that.
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  And I reminded her. I said, listen, I understand
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  that you don't like doing it because you feel like you're
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  giving up something else in the meantime, meaning working on a
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  project that she's deeply entrenched in which I
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  understand, I said, but what if that 33 minutes change something
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  for you? What if you invested the 33
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  minutes in yourself in a different way and then something
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  dramatically changed. Now, I had a lot of confidence
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  in what she was going to go, listen to, because I knew I knew
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  it was going to shift her but even something that I was
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  telling her would be a good idea to do, she was resistant to it
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  because she had gotten it into her head, that no matter what
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  was going on. She was not going to do anything
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  else. Until this was all finished.
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  And it was almost like she was beating herself up.
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  Not almost, she was beating herself up to get the result and
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  that never works long-term. So, even in an assignment, she
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  couldn't manage to pull herself past it because she was just
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  Looping on the fact that oh, well, no, there's no time for
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  that. I hear people constantly tell
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  me. I don't have time.
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  I don't have time. I don't have time.
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  And I'm constantly course correcting it, by saying you
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  choose not to make the time, and you must believe you have more
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  than enough time. And I have a solid belief about
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  this that if you have something on your heart that you really
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  want to do, if you have something that you are really
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  working on because it means something to you.
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  You you will make the time you will have more than enough time
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  because it's meant to be yours if there's something that you're
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  trying to force and you're really don't want to do it like
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  that damn thing that keeps going every month from list to list
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  and it never seems to get done on your goal list.
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  It just keeps traveling over, we all have that one you know the
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  one that we rewrite all the time and we're like oh usually for me
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  confession, it's clean up my email.
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  Because I just I look at it. I see what I have to deal with
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  and then I just don't go in and delete and it's a pain in the
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  butt. And I mean I don't I don't know
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  about all of you guys, but it's like The NeverEnding.
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  It's like laundry, it never goes away.
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  You know, it's just it's always exist.
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  So I'm bringing this up because I want you to realize in order
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  to be better in order to go further, in order to be the
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  greatest version of yourself, you have to allow Ow for those
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  joyful times you have to allow for fun, you have to make fun
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  and it's an important piece of it, you know, in my office I
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  keep jars of Play-Doh and partly because I love them as a kid
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  partly because they smell great to me because of how I had them
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  when I was a kid. But for those three minutes that
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  I'm playing with the Play-Doh, I feel fantastic.
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  It's a moment of fun. So go make moments of fun today.
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  Go have something that brings you Joy.
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  I don't care if it's just like, all right, I'm going to go get a
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  lollipop and sit here, I'm gonna, you know, play a puzzle
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  for a little while. I don't know whatever it might
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  be. Do it.
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  Have some fun. All right, my friends.
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  I hope you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.