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Season 2 - Episode 247 - Setting yourself up to win through the chaos · 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,
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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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  So this is back to school time for so many people and
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  everybody's trying to get their kids back into a routine after a
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  summer of being off everybody. And maybe you don't have
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  children. But what's funny about this is I
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  think the preponderance of us are wired for September to be a
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  time of the year that is geared. It intrinsically is part of us.
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  It's geared that schools starting, so we want new
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  supplies. We want to have our big push
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  going into this last section of the year.
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  We want to have our space cleaned up.
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  We want to be organized. We want to be on a schedule and.
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  When it doesn't work out accordingly, we get very, very
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  aggravated. So for those of you with
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  children, I send you a blessing. I'm joking, yes, I do.
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  And I have one too. And getting him back in the
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  routine is always very hard because he's been sleeping in
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  and he's been, you know, playing Minecraft here and there, and
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  he's been out and about in the woods and he doesn't want to be
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  doing things. And yes, it's always a.
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  A very hard hustle to get him organized and to get everybody
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  organized with this stuff. And part of what I think is
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  important to remember is one for yourself.
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  Listen, if you need to do those things for yourself where you
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  feel like you're getting yourself organized and you're
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  saying, okay, I need to go out and get my supplies so I can
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  feel good, do it. There's no reason to not do it.
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  If if you know that's part of your well-being, do it.
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  I promise you. I have just been going through
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  that same thing while I'm getting my son set up with stuff
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  I've been setting myself up and I got to tell you, it feels
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  awesome. I love having the idea of that.
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  That whole new books, new, you know, book covers, new feelings,
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  new learning. I just finished a course the
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  other night on on. Painting with these salts and
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  watercolors, and it was so cool and I loved every minute of it.
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  So that was part of what I did as my beginning of the school
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  year kind of thing. But you've got to really know
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  yourself to know what parts of it you like and have those
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  things around you. So for instance.
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  I love Playdoh. I have Playdoh in my office.
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  Yes, I love Playdoh. It's a it's such a great stress
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  relief. If you heard the podcast the
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  other day when I talked about the five senses, for me, it's
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  the smell, it's the texture, it's the creativity.
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  There's so much of it. But having that out makes a huge
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  difference and playing with it makes a huge difference.
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  So you do it. You know, this is all about
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  setting yourself up to win right now.
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  And if that's part of your win strategy, then do it, because
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  it's. Part of my win strategy and I'm
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  happy to say I don't have a problem doing it.
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  So I think that what you have to look for right now is what are
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  your win strategies, what do you want to bring forward this time
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  of year? Because it's incredibly
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  important to take care of yourself that way, and it takes
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  next to. No effort to recognize that
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  you're missing something. And some of us really feel like,
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  OK, I I wish I had the opportunity my kids have.
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  They have the ability to learn so much now.
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  Well, don't just sit there and pine away for it.
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  Do something about it. You know you can get online
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  classes from places like teachable and new Demi and
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  they're so inexpensive. They're they're so cheap and you
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  can learn so much from artists all over the world.
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  The girl that I just learned from was in Italy and.
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  Wow. It was amazing to look at her
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  stuff. So I'm going to throw it out
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  there that you need to challenge yourself.
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  You know, moving to this next portion of the year always
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  becomes chaotic for people. Don't let it become chaotic.
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  Take control over it. Harness the energy.
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  There's a lot of energy going on this time with it.
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  Harness that energy. Make it something that matters
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  to you. Move it in a direction.
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  Apparently Raven agrees. Move it in a direction that is
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  useful for you. Push it, push it, push it, push
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  it, and make it so that there's a.
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  A force within you that says, no, I'm not going to let this
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  chaos run me. I'm going to run it.
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  I'm going to learn through this time.
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  I'm going to take at least 5 minutes a day and I'm going to
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  do something for myself. And that's always my thing.
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  When I buy those types of courses, I'll say, OK, I'm going
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  to watch it, even if it's for 5 minutes.
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  I'm going to do it so that I know I'm chipping away at this
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  course and I'm growing, growing in the process.
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  So do that. Give yourself those little
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  gifts. Give yourself the ability to go
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  and get yourself organized just like your kids.
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  Set the schedule. Give everybody the schedule,
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  including yourself, and feel good about it.
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  Don't despair that you can't have something like that because
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  you can. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.