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Season 3 - Episode 192 - How do you experience fun? · 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 mastermindset
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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 it's a little rainy out here this morning, so if it starts to
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  sound funny in the background, you know why.
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  Not so bad that I can't be out here though.
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  So this morning we are talking about allowing yourself to have
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  fun. And I'll tell you this is
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  something that is near and dear to my heart because I have fun
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  doing things that other people don't have fun doing.
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  So often times people think, well, she can't be having fun
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  doing all this gardening, but I am having fun doing all the
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  gardening. But that's not the the point of
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  this conversation. The point of this conversation
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  is what makes you feel like you're having fun.
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  What are those things that make you feel like you're having fun
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  now right away? If you have a bounce back in
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  your head that says, oh, I just don't have time for fun right
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  now. I'm too focused on XY and Z.
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  I'm going to tell you right now, XY and Z is going to take 10
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  times longer if you would just stop and have a little fun.
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  And it doesn't have to be like an unabashed crazy night where
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  you're just out there and partying like a rock star.
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  I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about just allowing
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  yourself to have joy and fun every single day.
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  And this is allowing yourself to have fun because often times
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  what happens is we forget how to have fun.
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  And I'm not even joking a little.
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  We forget how to have fun. We just put it aside and we say
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  things like, I don't have time. That's not in the cards right
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  now. I've got to do this, I've got to
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  do this. I should be doing this, I'm not
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  doing this. And we beat ourselves up
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  continuously. But the problem with all of this
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  boils down to one simple thing. When you choose to do that, you
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  are taking away your greater strength of feeling, the ability
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  to have grit when you need to, to power through some of the
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  stuff that might be difficult in whatever project you're doing or
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  just in life in general. Because you've you've depleted
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  all the other tanks. You haven't allowed yourself to
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  just take those small little things and say, OK, I'm going to
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  go have fun. Whether it's just taking two
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  hours to watch a movie or it's taking you know that 35 minutes
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  to sit down and say, hey, I'm going to listen to this audible
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  I had, I had a client the other day that's relatively new and I
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  said, well, would you listen to an audible?
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  It's 33 minutes and she's like, it's just, I don't like
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  listening to, to things like that.
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  And I, I reminded her, I said, listen, I understand that you
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  don't like doing it because you feel like you're giving up
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  something else in the meantime, meaning working on a project
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  that she's deeply entrenched in, which I understand, I said, but
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  what if that 33 minutes changed something for you?
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  What if you invested the 33 minutes in yourself in a
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  different way? And then something dramatically
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  changed? Now, I had a lot of confidence
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  in what she was going to go listen to because I knew it was
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  going to shift her. But even something that I was
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  telling her would be a good idea to do, she was resistant to it
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  because she had gotten it into her head that no matter what was
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  going on, she was not going to do anything else until this was
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  all finished. And it was almost like she was
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  beating herself up. Not almost.
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  She was beating herself up to get the results and that never
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  works long term. So even in an assignment she
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  couldn't manage to pull herself past it because she was just
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  looping on the fact that Oh well, no, there's no time for
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  that. I hear people constantly tell me
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  I don't have time, I don't have time, I don't have time, and I'm
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  constantly course correcting it by saying you choose not to make
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  the time and you must believe you have more than enough time.
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  And I have a solid belief about this that if you have something
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  on your heart that you really want to do, if you have
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  something that you are really working on because it means
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  something to you, you will make the time.
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  You will have more than enough time because it's meant to be
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  yours. If there's something that you're
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  trying to force and you really don't want to do it, like that
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  damn thing that keeps going every month from list to list
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  and it never seems to get done on your goal list.
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  It just keeps traveling over. We all have that one, you know,
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  the one that we rewrite all the time.
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  And we're like, oh, usually for me confession, it's clean up my
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  e-mail because I just, I look at it, I see what I have to deal
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  with and then I just don't go in and delete.
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  And it's a pain in the butt. And I mean, I don't, I don't
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  know about all of you guys, but it's like the never ending.
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  It's like laundry. It never goes away.
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  You know, it's just it's, it's, it always exists.
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  So I'm, I'm bringing this up because I want you to realize in
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  order to be better, in order to go further, in order to be the
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  greatest version of yourself, you have to allow for those
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  joyful times. You have to allow for fun.
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  You have to make fun. And it's a, it's an important
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  piece of it. You know, in my office, I keep
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  jars of play DoH. And partly because I love them
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  as a kid, partly because they smell great to me, because of
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  how I had them when I was a kid. But for those 3 minutes that I'm
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  playing with the play DoH, I feel fantastic.
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  It's a moment of fun. So go make moments of fun today.
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  Go have something that brings you joy.
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  I don't care if it's just like, all right, I'm going to go get a
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  lollipop and sit here. I'm going to, you know, play a
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  puzzle for a little while. I don't know.
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  Whatever it might be, do it. Have some fun.
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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.