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Season 2 - Episode 313 - Holidays! Food · 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 from the chicken coop.
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  OK, so in our second of the series of holidays, we are
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  talking about food because food is such a major part of our
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  holidays and boy, it's the pinnacle of what irritates
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  people. So funny story, I grew up in a
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  house that always had very traditional.
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  Thanksgiving food. But the food was always a very
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  big stressed point for my mother because creating the food,
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  nothing ever came out on time. And her and my father, the the
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  only fights that I really saw them have around the holidays
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  had to do with the food and the fact that nothing came out on
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  time. And my mother would be.
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  Incapable of getting the Turkey to come out at the same time as
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  all the vegetables. And my father would be waiting
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  and the Turkey would not be done.
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  And my father's like, how come we don't have the Turkey?
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  Where's the Turkey? Where's the Turkey?
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  And he kept getting more and more frustrated with the fact
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  that there was no Turkey happening.
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  And it was, it was a very, very uncomfortable situation for my
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  mother. And as an adult woman now I
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  understand how hard it is to plan all that.
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  And it it is not fun food. We spend hours and hours and
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  hours and hours preparing the food and it's done in 10
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  minutes, 15 minutes and then boom, you're everybody's gone.
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  So there's a big effort. And depending upon how you
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  capture reward, it could be a little reward, it could be very
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  rewarding just to watch everybody eat it, but it still
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  can be very frustrating. So I am.
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  Asking everybody to stop and pause and look and say, OK, if
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  you were to do this in a very mindful way, if you were
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  thinking very mindfully and you were focusing on the fact that
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  I'm going to be thoughtful about prepping the food, I'm going to
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  be thoughtful and joyful about all the chopping and the cooking
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  and doing everything, I'm going to have music on.
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  I'm going to set myself up around the food so that I feel
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  good about it from beginning to end.
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  It could possibly be wildly different.
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  So there's there's a very profound thing that you can
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  learn in doing the mundane tasks.
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  And mundane tasks are something that's most people you know
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  don't want to do it because they're like, oh, this is so
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  stupid. It's so trivial.
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  It's mundane. But in the mundane, you find
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  mindfulness. In the mundane, you find peace.
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  In the mundane, you're just doing them, and your brain can
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  rest. Your hands are working, you're
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  expending energy, and there's greatness in it, but you have to
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  look for it. So for me, whether it's cooking
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  or I'm never really cooking, let's be honest about that.
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  Although I do do Thanksgiving, if I have to have it at my
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  house, I do do that. But I follow cookbooks and I do
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  follow this exact strategy that I'm telling you all about.
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  I have the music on. I read the recipe 75 times.
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  I make sure I'm very focused and intentional.
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  I do one thing at a time. I'm not scrambling and it does
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  take me a lot longer than most people, but I make it something
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  that is more of a mindfulness practice for me.
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  Than anything and by the time I'm done I can feel completely
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  satisfied because I I actually created peace in my head and I
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  didn't allow myself to lose my my mind in the process.
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  So you can try that because it definitely works.
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  And also the other thing about food besides the preparation
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  besides all of that is. There are two big things.
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  One, don't look for compliments, OK?
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  Be proud of yourself. Don't look for compliments.
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  And this is my weakest point when it comes to this stuff
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  because I'm not good at cooking. So when I cook, I expect my
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  husband to like, ring bells, jump up and down, tell me how
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  awesome it is. And it's ridiculous.
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  And I know that, OK? And if he listens to this, he'll
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  laugh because he knows I I mean, I know.
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  I know that I want that. I'm like the Gold Star girl.
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  I want the gold stars for the food.
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  But don't expect them, because then you'll be disappointed if
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  you don't get them, and then it's just something else to
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  carry over and ruin the day, so no expectations.
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  And the third one is all the people who have different issues
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  with food. So it is imperative that ahead
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  of time you make a list of everybody that's going to be
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  with you, and you write down. If they have any food allergies,
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  food challenges, can't have something, don't like something,
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  whatever it is. And then ask everybody that's
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  going to be at your dinner, what is their favorite thing?
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  What is their favorite dish? What is it that they look
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  forward to so that you make sure you're giving them something
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  that you know they're going to enjoy?
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  That is a super important piece of the puzzle because then
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  everybody's going to feel like it, it matters to them.
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  You could even go so far as to create little favorite signs and
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  put them in each dish. So because this could be a this,
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  you know, a little sign inside the stuffing that says favorite
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  of Patty and this one is favorite of Nick or whatever,
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  you can show that you took the time to do it that way.
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  And it also takes a lot of stress off of you to know you
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  took care of each person individually.
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  OK my friends, it's getting big now.
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  We're on to day three, so I will see you tomorrow.
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  I hope you have a blessed day. Bye.