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Season 3 - Episode 221- Plug-in Before Anything · 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 porch and not because it's
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  raining, but because I am out here in the pitch dark.
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  Came out to do meditating, sitting here listening to all
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  the frogs and all the little creatures in the background.
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  I'm going to give you a second. Hopefully you can hear them.
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  Hopefully you can hear all of that.
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  And I thought, gosh, what a better way to help somebody
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  start their day in a peaceful way than to bring them into this
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  energy that I am currently in, which is super chill.
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  Just taking it in, listening. The air is very warm already and
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  it feels nice. It's not too hot.
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  It's a little sticky, but not too sticky.
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  Feels very summer like. And it's just peaceful.
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  It's just, there's just a peaceful air about all of this.
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  And why is this important to start your day this way?
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  So I come out here every morning that I can, that the weather is
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  not bad or that I have, you know, something urgent, which is
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  very rare in the morning because I plan my mornings to be this
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  peaceful so I can have this experience.
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  I mean, listen to this. I come out and I sit out here
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  and I mean it is pitch dark and it is beautiful because it's
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  just so quiet and still and starting your day that way, even
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  if it's for 5 minutes, my friends, 5 minutes makes a
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  tremendous difference. The plug in where you just put
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  yourself into something that's much more calm, much more
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  peaceful than you are, all of a sudden just kind of
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  decompresses. All that energy, that anxiety
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  about the day, what's going to happen?
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  Am I going to be able to get it done?
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  And believe me, I have those days.
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  Today is a day where I have to complete a project and it's a
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  big one. And plus I'm coaching and we're
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  teaching a live class tonight and just a lot of things
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  happening. So I came out here early.
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  When I'm recording this, it's actually 4:00 AM.
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  So I wanted to come out and just be, you know what, get it nailed
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  down so they can feel it too. I was in, I, I was like, I think
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  that everybody needs to see. This is part of my routine for,
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  for me, besides going to the coop every morning, you can hear
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  my neighbors rooster off in the distance going off.
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  This is just such a gift, being out and living in such a place
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  where there's nature. If you don't live in a place
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  where there's nature, you can find a place where you just plug
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  in where it's quiet and still. Some people love to do that in
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  the meditation form of just sitting in their room and
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  meditating. I just prefer to come out and
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  listen because it decompresses me.
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  Now, some people can listen to sounds other than this.
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  Some people like city sounds. It's not me.
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  But as everybody knows, it's to each his own.
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  Whatever you find that works for you is perfect.
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  The point of this is saying, hey, let me try to work myself
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  into a state of absolute serenity, peace, decompression,
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  whatever word works for you. Putting myself into this vortex
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  of knowing I'm going into the day in the best energy I
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  possibly can. So my porch is filled with
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  plants that I love and take care of all the time.
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  So that's another thing that I pick up on.
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  The energy of being out here in the feeling of the room I've
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  created, in the space that I've created and just enjoying that
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  fill up before I go in and say, OK, let me tackle my project.
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  It's like pulling into the gas station with your vehicle.
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  When you do that, you feel like, OK, now we're gassed up.
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  Everybody's gone to the bathroom, everybody has their
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  drink. We're ready to go.
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  And that's how you approach the day.
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  But so many people leave off this little, this little stop,
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  this place where you can say, let me collect myself.
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  They just jump out of bed and they use that bed as their place
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  where they like, OK, that was my refuel.
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  And yes, that was a physical refuel.
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  But a mental refuel tool is when you're choosing to plug into
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  something calm and peaceful. Read something potentially, but
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  I actually do the reading in a different point.
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  This for me is just the absolute quiet.
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  No expectations of me learning anything, reading anything.
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  It's just a few minutes of absolute tapped in quiet while
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  I'm conscious, not while I'm sleeping.
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  So hopefully this gives you an idea of how to start your day.
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  Maybe tomorrow you'll start it, but just something to think
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  about. And even if you have to do this
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  in your car, I do have a few clients that will do this in
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  their car in the morning before they walk into their office.
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  Even if you do that, it works. So find your spot to plug in.
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  My friends and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.