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Season 2 - Episode 286 - Finding joy in the shorter days · 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 today we are talking about finding joy in the shorter days.
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  Now I know, I know, I know, I know.
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  It sucks when the sun comes up later and the sun goes down
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  earlier and you feel like I just want the sunshine.
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  I just want the sunshine. Why can't I have the sunshine?
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  And we get so focused on the sun not being around.
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  Humans are intrinsically tied to the sun.
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  We like having it out. We like the brightness of it.
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  It just seems to brighten our moods.
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  So I thought it would be beneficial for us to talk about,
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  you know, what do you do when the days are shorter?
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  What do you do when it starts to feel heavier?
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  Right. The darkness comes.
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  Well, we can celebrate the darkness.
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  What if we all of a sudden celebrated the darkness, the way
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  we celebrated the sun? And I know that sounds strange,
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  but it's and it won't work for everybody.
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  So I let me. Preframe this by saying I know
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  some of you are going to be like, Nope, I'm out, I get it.
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  But I'm saying let's give it a shot.
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  Let's figure out the things that we can do and create our habits
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  around the fact that we are going to have colder, longer
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  days. And so or, you know, longer
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  nights, shorter days rather that are going to require us to
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  change some things and maybe we have to set ourselves up to win.
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  Like maybe it's like, all right, I'm going to get some really
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  fantastic slippers. And I'm not joking when I say
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  this, slippers are a really big thing in the in this time of
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  year. Get some fabulous slippers, get
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  new pajamas, get yourself some nice warm.
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  You know blankets, if you don't have any that you can be cozy in
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  because that makes you feel good, figure out how you want to
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  change Stuff like this is a great time of the year to try
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  different warm beverages. I'm not even joking.
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  This is about doing those things that say how do I handle these
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  darker times and make myself feel good about it.
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  Well, warm drinks tend to warm us up like the sun does, so.
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  Figure out, do I need to get some different warm drinks?
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  Like I love brewing Chai from scratch because when you go buy
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  the Chai in the containers, it's just filled with nothing but
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  chemicals. So brew your own, get all the
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  stuff that you need to make it up and brew it yourself.
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  It's amazing when you do, especially with some honey, it's
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  awesome. So start thinking about those
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  types of things. Get your books that you want to
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  read this fall and winter. Put them on your night stand so
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  they're right there and you know you're going to start reading
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  them. Figure out, do I want to try a
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  new hobby that requires me to be stationary.
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  So for me, I spend a lot of time outside, but when it gets like,
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  you know, too cold or it's the weather's not great, I want
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  indoor things to do. So I'll buy puzzles for our
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  family to have and I'll, you know, have different art
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  supplies so that we can all be working.
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  Working on things. There is always something that
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  you can do that can help you cultivate feeling better when
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  you focus on it instead of focusing on the fact that it's
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  dark and heavy and yucky and that's where your head goes.
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  I hate this. Like I know myself.
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  I'll get into this place where I'm like, oh, I hate the fact
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  that, you know, it's dark at 4:00.
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  It drives me crazy. But then there's a part of me
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  that says, well, that makes me get cozy quicker.
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  It puts me in my jammies quicker.
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  It makes me feel like I can, you know, change my patterns, do
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  different things that I I won't do other times.
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  You know, if it if it got basically dark every day at 9:00
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  at night, I certainly wouldn't be doing those things.
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  So figure out what those little gifts that you can find
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  yourself. In and do them, do it, do it.
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  Just actually make a list of them and start cultivating them
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  now so that it doesn't blindside you and make you feel like,
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  wait, I don't know what to do instead, be like, ah, I got
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  this, I'm prepared for this. I know one of my favorite things
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  to do this time of year is be planning out what the gardens
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  are going to look like and what I need to, you know, purchase
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  for seeds and putting all that stuff together.
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  Because I look at it and I say it's pure potential right now.
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  It's a mess. It's all overgrown.
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  The weeds are out of. Control.
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  Everything has gone insane. It looks awful, but I know in
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  there there's pure potential. I just have to figure it all
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  out. I just have to pause.
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  So it's going through all the seed catalogs.
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  It's like ordering them ahead of time and sitting there and
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  circling all the things that you want and then going back and
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  saying, well, I don't really want to do all of that.
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  That's way too much. I should probably pull back.
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  Maybe not everybody has that problem, but I do so.
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  It's setting it all up, figuring out what how do I want to
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  redesign what I'm going to do for the girls in the chicken
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  coop. All all different things.
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  It's always something that can be fun to work on.
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  You know, we live in a bountiful, you know, unbridled
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  potential energy universe. If we're not tapping into it, it
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  is not its fault. It's our fault we're here.
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  We don't have to feel depleted and awful if unless we choose
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  to. We get the choice.
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  So I'm challenging you to find your way out of that and put
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  yourself in a better headspace by doing these types of things.
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  So start your planning. Start planning.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.