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Season 4 - Episode 305 - It’s ok to be exhausted! · 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 mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  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 morning from the chicken coop.
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  Is it OK to be tired? Is it OK to be worn out?
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  Is it OK to be like at the end of your rope and just be like,
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  I'm exhausted and I'm done and I just don't know what to do?
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  And the answer is yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  Those are all not just feelings. Those are signs of stopping and
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  pausing and looking at what's going on around you and taking
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  some, you know, quiet time to figure out, you know, what do I
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  need to change? What do I need to do here to
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  feel better about things? Because right now, if I'm tired,
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  if I'm truly physically tired, then I need to sleep.
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  Now, this is something that I personally have a struggle with
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  because I can power through most things.
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  Like that's just my nature. I can power through it.
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  I've seen myself do it over and over and over and over and over
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  throughout my life. And it was taught to me, you
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  know, by my dad. It was definitely how my dad
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  was. And I just, he was my person.
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  So I learned from him, like I learned a lot from him.
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  And I'm very grateful for that. At the same time, I realized
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  when I'm tired, I just need to take a break.
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  The other night full, you know a disclosure in this I went to bed
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  at 7:00 because I was so exhausted.
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  I was just so tired. I just wanted to get in bed and
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  go to sleep and I did. I went to bed at 7:00 and I did
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  not wake up until 5, which is super unusual for me because I
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  usually sleep 7 hours and then I wake up and that's just like my
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  sweet spot 7 hours. But this one was like Nope.
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  I was completely exhausted and when I woke up, while my body
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  felt much better, like I go, it was an exhausted mentally.
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  I was exhausted. And I think it was just based on
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  the fact that I had this very long stretch where I did not
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  take extra time off. And I had been struggling
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  throughout the end of the year figuring out branding and this
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  and that and what I was doing next.
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  And I was putting a ton of pressure on myself.
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  According to my coach, he was informing me how much I was
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  putting pressure on myself. And I was like, this is
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  interesting because I don't put pressure on my clients.
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  I read it, but yet myself I do something completely different
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  with it. So sometimes though, these are
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  messages to us, sometimes it's something simple like go to bed,
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  which that was, but there's also more intricacy to it.
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  There's also more like when you're mentally exhausted and
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  you're feeling like you just need to take a break.
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  Listen to it because if you keep trying to pull through, even if
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  you take a 5 hour break from something, a 2 hour break from
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  something, it gives you a window, it gives you in
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  something. Now, I, I spend a lot of time
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  talking about the value of walking because I walk all day
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  long while I'm doing my sessions because it keeps me focused,
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  keeps me healthy. I mean, there are so many
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  benefits to it, but the here's the here's The funny thing.
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  Walking has become conditioned to me to put me into a creative
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  space. So just to go for a walk without
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  having the the intention of coaching or being creative or
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  thinking something through it doesn't shut my brain off
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  anymore. Going for a walk does not shut
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  my brain off. I've rewired it.
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  What shuts my brain off is gardening.
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  What shuts my brain off is art, painting, sorting through
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  photos, doing something like that.
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  That shuts my brain off. Those things totally different
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  experience for me. So look at what you're you're
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  trying to decompress from and say I really need to just shut
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  my brain off. So how can you do that?
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  The exhaustion is telling you take a damn break.
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  Don't be a fool. Do something for a lot of my
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  clients, men and women are all say like they'll say things
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  like, oh, cooking, baking. I love doing that stuff.
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  OK, great. Do it.
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  Do something. I don't care.
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  Like, oh, I, I don't have anybody to give it to go donate
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  it. I'll tell you one of my favorite
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  places to go in the spring when the chickens are laying more
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  eggs than I know what to do with.
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  I take them to the fire department.
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  They love it. So take them food.
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  They'll love it. I promise.
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  They sit there all day long for the most part.
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  Thank God they're not out, you know, handling emergencies
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  non-stop. But guess what?
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  They love it when you drop stuff off.
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  So do it and and don't be afraid.
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  Don't be afraid to share things. Don't be afraid to say, OK, you
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  know what? I I really need to take this
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  break. I need to share this time.
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  And I'm just going to say it. I'm just going to say it to
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  everybody. I need a break.
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  Don't be afraid. Just do it.
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  Just jump in and tell the truth because that helps you also
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  recognize you need to do it. So when you don't recognize that
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  you need to do it, you torture yourself.
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  So stop it. Be kind, take the break.
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  I know this weekend I am taking the break.
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  I am doing the things that I need to do.
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  I've put the tree up and that was, I didn't spend any time
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  yesterday doing anything except putting up my tree and
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  decorating the inside of the house.
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  And now I'm like, OK, I can today I've got two days, I've
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  got Saturday and Sunday where I can relax and feel like I can
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  compose myself and put myself back together.
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  And that's what I have all the intention of doing.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.