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Reframing the holiday seasons · 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, 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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  The day after Thanksgiving. What does this usually mean to
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  everyone who lives in the United States?
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  Well if you are listening and you're in the United States, you
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  know, the answer to this question.
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  But for those who are friends of ours who are not in the United
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  States, let me say it is the mad rush of Christmas
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  instantaneously. It reminds me of being at Disney
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  World where you go to sleep and it's Thanksgiving and you wake
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  up and it's Christmas it's like boom.
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  It happened all at once and everybody's rushing to Do their
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  holiday shopping. Whether it's Christmas shopping,
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  or any other holiday that you celebrate all of a sudden,
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  everybody's out there buying, it's the frenzy, it's an energy
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  of rush rush rush, desperation, got to get it done.
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  And I'm going to ask everybody to take a deep Collective breath
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  and say, wait, this is not what I want my holidays to be about.
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  I don't want it to be about rushing.
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  I want it to be about love and giving and even if you're by
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  yourself, There's this energy is so palpable that you can feel it
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  and you feel this like, overwhelming sense of, I don't
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  know what to get for somebody. I don't know what someone's
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  going to give me a my going to be disappointed.
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  Is it going to be a good holiday?
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  Is it going to be a bad holiday? Everybody starts to get really
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  weird now at the same time, which is what's so ironic the
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  closer you get to the holiday, everybody seems to get a little
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  bit Kinder and a little bit nicer and everybody seems to
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  settle down into there. They're, you know, happy mode
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  because it is the holiday and you feel like you have to be
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  happy if it's the holiday or any like I said, any holidays.
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  And I think what I want to impart on you guys is just
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  having that feeling that you get when you're at the Holiday at
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  the end and reverse engineering it.
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  So you carry it with you through this time as opposed to having
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  to go through all this frenetic energy to get to it.
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  So, in other words, if you just reverse engineered this right
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  from the beginning, right from today and said, you know what,
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  I'm just going to let this happen.
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  I'm going to be peaceful. I am not going to rush, I can
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  get everything, I want to get done done, and I don't have to
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  rush, I don't have to feel desperate, I can make happy
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  decisions. I can let it go, I can do it
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  from a place of peace and joy, right?
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  Which is what every holiday is all about peace and joy and
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  gratitude and and start from that and reverse-engineer it.
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  But that takes a plan that takes that cognitive thought of
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  saying. Wait My habitual nature right
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  now is to drive insane and I'm not going to allow myself to do
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  it. I'm just going to stop myself
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  from getting caught up in at all and I move myself back and I'm
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  going to create something very different.
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  So how do you do that when you're sitting there and you're
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  listening to me right now and you're going oh my God.
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  How would I do that? You don't understand.
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  It's only so many days and I have so much to get done.
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  It's like a month away and I have so much to get done.
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  We constantly as human beings. Underestimate what we can get
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  done. When we have a plan, we sit
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  there and we think I just have to run at a Breakneck Pace, but
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  if you looked and you said, let's do a brain dump of
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  everything. You want to get done between now
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  and whatever holiday you're celebrating.
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  And then you took that and you broke it out into little tiny
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  sections and said, okay Week 1, these are the things that I know
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  I need to get done first week. 2 week 3 week 4.
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  I I miss you, it will go so much easier and you will feel so much
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  better about it in the process because you have a plan and you
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  have something that is on paper and this is something I can't
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  stress enough for for all of my, you know, listeners who love to
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  say, oh no, it's all in my head. I got it all in my head.
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  Ah no, you can't keep it all in your head.
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  You have to put it on paper because there's something about
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  keeping stuff in your head that causes you to become
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  uncomfortable. Because you have to remember
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  everything and as soon as you think you can remember
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  everything quite frankly, you're screwed because you will not
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  remember everything. It is rare that I have ever
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  found a client that I've worked with and I am the queen of
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  getting things done. And let me tell you, I forget
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  things and I constantly have lists because the list, let me
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  know. I can clear my head.
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  I don't look at it like it's a to-do list.
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  I put everything on that paper because it's ahead clearing
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  list, it gets it all. Out of my way.
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  So then I can look at it and I can map it out and I can
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  legitimately see what the heck needs to be done.
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  So I'm going to challenge you guys before this nutcase of a
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  situation shows up. Stop put it all down, get it out
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  of your way. Make a decision about how you
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  want to feel going into this holiday.
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  You know, one of the things that I absolutely love to do is put a
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  theme to things because then it makes me stay in that frame of
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  mind. If I I just have that word or
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  that phrase that's going to drive me to it.
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  So pick a theme for the next month.
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  Pick a theme for, you know, how you want this holiday to show
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  up, pick a theme for how you want to show up, pick a theme
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  for anything that has to do with it, even your gift-giving and
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  then go with that. Because that's also fun.
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  When you say, okay if I pick something and it's going to be
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  about this, then I can give everybody a gift that falls
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  under this theme and you could write them a little explanation
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  and say, Here's what I was intending when I did this and
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  you'd be surprised how much it means to people when you
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  actually do that, because they love to know you thought of
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  them. Because that's what this is all
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  about. Not just the gifts.
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  All right, my friends. I hope you have a fabulous day.
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  A very blessed day and I will see you tomorrow after you've
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  done your brain dump. So your head is clear and God
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  knows what we can put in at that point.
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  All right, everybody. Bye.