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Season 3 - Episode 32 - Mini vacations! · 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 mastermind set
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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.
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  From the chicken coop. Today we're talking about mini
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  vacations. Why are we talking about mini
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  vacations? Because we all have the
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  opportunity on our days off to decide how we want to utilize
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  that time. And I'm going to give you a
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  great example of something that happened this week because I
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  think this is just incredibly important.
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  So I live in an area that's very has opportunity to do things all
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  the time. And I.
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  Often don't take advantage of that because I'm doing
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  gardening, I'm writing, I'm recording, I'm with my family.
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  We're doing stuff. But doing different things is
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  not something that I'm actually very good at, because I will get
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  in my routines and I will stick to my routines and I know that
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  about myself. So I have to actually think
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  about it. I have to actually put it out
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  there and plan it so that I will do it.
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  So this past week there was this, I get this little
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  newsletter that comes out every day about the area and I opened
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  it and there was a little blurb in there about basket weaving
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  and I was like basket weaving. Wow, that sounds really cool.
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  I would love to know how to do that.
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  Maybe I'll make an A basket to hold the eggs.
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  And my brain went all down this road.
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  So I I start looking it up and I see that it's on Sunday
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  afternoon and I'm like, OK, Sunday afternoon I'm going to,
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  I'm going to jump in and I'm going to do this basket weaving
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  class and I'm going to go see what it's all about.
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  And so I asked my daughter if she wants to go.
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  And I'm like all excited and I'm like, OK, I'm going to book it
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  and I'm going to go. And I said, wow, this feels like
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  I'm actually being a tourist in my own town.
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  And it's such a powerful thing because it.
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  Made me feel like I was interrupting the pattern of my
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  typical weekend time and I started thinking about how I
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  needed to share this with all of you because we spend so much.
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  Time prepping. Ourselves and talking to
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  ourselves. I mean, listen, the most
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  conversation you're ever going to have is the one that you have
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  in your head and it's going to be non-stop.
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  So you might as well get used to paying attention to what you're
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  saying to yourself and how you're talking to yourself.
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  But in our head it's like okay. Most of of my experience with
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  clients is that they spend time on the weekend preparing for the
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  next week. They're not necessarily
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  regenerating, They're not necessarily taking mini
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  vacations on their off time because they have so many things
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  that they need. I'm air quoting this to get
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  done. Before the week begins.
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  Who can relate to this, right? Like you get off work and
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  you're. Like Okay, I've got to go.
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  Grocery shopping. I've got to do the laundry.
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  I've got to make sure the house is clean.
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  I've got to prep the. Meals for the week.
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  I've got all these the I've. Got list.
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  And the I've I've got list impedes on the the fun.
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  List. Or the mini vacation.
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  So it got me really thinking about how moving into this year
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  and making this year be very successful.
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  Wouldn't it be kind of cool to start looking at planning little
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  mini vacations for yourself? Even if you can't do it every
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  weekend, you could do it once a month.
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  At the very least you could say OK, on this day, once a month I
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  am going to be a tourist in my own town and I'm going to have
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  fun doing so. That way I'll be able to
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  regenerate myself. I'll be able to feel that energy
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  come back into me. I won't feel so drained by it
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  all. Because when you are draining
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  yourself, when you are in the process of draining yourself
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  every single day, working, working, working, working,
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  working, working, you have to replenish that supply.
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  Otherwise you just feel like crap and you're not bringing the
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  best of the best with you to whatever you're doing.
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  Trust me, I know that because I have to do those things.
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  The real question is how do you regenerate yourself?
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  And again, that goes back to a conversation we had a couple
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  weeks ago about leveraging and making sure that you are putting
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  people in place that can leverage it.
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  Like silly things, order your groceries online, pull up now
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  and you can have them just handed to you.
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  And it it it is not a complicated process.
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  You could sit on your couch and order your groceries and boom,
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  all of a sudden you're all set and you don't have to take the
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  time to go in the grocery store and save yourself a hunk of
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  time. So think about that.
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  Think about where you can create your mini vacations so you can
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  work around it. Save yourself time.
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  Save yourself aggravation. Put yourself into a better
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  headspace for the coming week because you've actually
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  replenished, regenerated, and done something wonderful for
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  yourself. Absolutely wonderful.
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  So I I personally, I get all the tourist stuff so that I can look
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  at it. I get the newsletters, I get
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  things delivered to my e-mail box all the time.
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  Then I can look and say what's going on here.
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  That way I know where I can jump out and have some fun.
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  So be a tourist in your own town, create a mini vacation,
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  Enjoy yourselves. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.