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Season 4 - Episode 93 - Clean coop day & self care · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happened to be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good evening from the chicken coop.
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  So tucking all the girls in and today was clean coop day.
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  So every couple weeks I tear this place apart, take out all
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  the straw, strip it out, make it neat, redo it all, put fresh
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  straw in and get them all set up all over again.
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  And they absolutely love this process.
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  Now why am I telling you about this?
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  Well, be partly because, one, everyone likes to know how I
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  take care of the chicken and it's and it's a thing for me to
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  really be able to say yes. I do this regularly for them.
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  And there are some people out there that don't they do all
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  different methods of caring for them, but I buy bales of wheat
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  straw, bring it in, swap it out to make sure they're in the best
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  environment that they can be in. And to me, this is like clean
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  sheet day for me. I love the days when I get to
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  have clean sheets on the bed. Now, here's what's funny about
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  this. We make the rules with all of
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  this. I could have clean sheets every
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  day if I wanted to, right? I mean, if I felt like taking
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  the bed apart every single day, washing sheets, swapping them
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  out, putting them on, doing whatever, I could have five sets
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  of sheets and I could do it every day then would I
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  appreciate it? It's always a fascinating
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  thought as much. So how often do you change the
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  sheets on your bed? Interesting.
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  I change mine once a week because one, I love clean sheet
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  day, but I don't love it enough to do it every single day
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  because that's a nuisance. But I do love clean sheet day
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  and it got me thinking about how the chicken coop was very much
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  like clean sheet day and all these other things that's like
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  that we do in our lives and we appreciate them.
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  But do we do them often enough? Like taking care of yourself, go
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  getting a massage or doing something?
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  I see the chiropractor once a week because it's necessary for
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  what I do with coaching. I I have to, if I don't, I
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  physically go downhill, my ears back up.
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  It's crazy stuff that happens. But I do, I see a chiropractor
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  once a week and that's absolute non negotiable for me.
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  Going for a massage? Oh God I can't even remember the
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  last time. So this all started with a
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  simple thought of cleaning the coop, went to clean sheet day
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  and here we are talking about when's the last time I had a
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  massage. When's the last time you had a
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  massage? What are the things you're doing
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  to care for yourself regularly? And I do a lot of self-care when
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  it comes to the mental stuff of being like, OK, planting things.
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  Like I spent a good chunk of my afternoon was open.
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  So I use that for time to go and put plants in the garden.
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  I got tons of things planted today.
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  They were in the garage ready to come out.
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  And they, you know, are now I've got, let me see, I've got
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  melons, I've got cucumbers, I've got tons of tomatoes, I've got
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  pink celery, which I've never grown before.
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  Trying some other stuff that's new.
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  I've got herbs in the ground. And I actually had some success
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  to trying to put some onions together, chipolini onions, and
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  I'm planting those now. That to me is a high level of
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  self-care. Now somebody might look at that
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  and go, that's hell having to work and do that.
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  But for me it's mental self-care.
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  I love doing it and it feels really good, but there's other
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  things that I don't do like and I know that and I need to put
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  those into play, just like putting clean sheets on the bed.
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  I don't have to do them all the time, but I have to make them
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  part of it and be more aware of it, be more specific with it, be
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  more intentional with it. And the question for you is, are
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  you doing that? Are you making it intentional?
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  Are you putting things down? Now?
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  I, I will say I do it in areas that might be more convenient.
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  So in other words, like self-care for me, it's like, Oh,
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  I love going and getting a special, this specialty coffee
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  that I love to have from this little place that's down the
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  road from the house. And I'll do that once a week.
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  And I have it like it's part of my Saturday morning thing where
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  I take my son to work and then I immediately go there and get
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  one. And it just feels like, oh, it's
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  such good self-care sitting there doing that.
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  But that's convenient. The inconvenient ones are like,
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  OK, I got a book, time to go get a massage or I've got a book a
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  vacation away or I've got to do something.
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  Those are not convenient and they're not easy.
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  But see, that's the part. And that's the whole point of
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  this. Doing the hard stuff actually
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  makes it feel better. Like doing the coop, it's
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  whopping it out. It's hard.
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  It's not convenient to do it. It's a hard work and but I enjoy
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  it because they have the feeling it gives me.
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  So I know I'll enjoy the others. So I have to plan those.
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  I have to put those on the schedule.
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  And so I sat there, wrote it all out and said, OK, I'm doing
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  that. I finished recording this, I'm
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  going to go in and I'm starting this whole plan.
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  I texted my friend and I said, hey, we have to work on planning
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  our trip because we we talked about it, but we haven't planned
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  it. So the question of the day is
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  what are you doing for yourself care.
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  That's, you know, oh, you really need to take care of yourself
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  and do that. And it's not just the convenient
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  stuff like clean sheet day. It's other stuff other the small
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  self-care. Yeah, sure, every every chance
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  you get. But the bigger self-care plan
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  that too. I got to get on that.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.