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Season 2 - Episode 339 - Finding the Christmas spirit · 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 mastermind set
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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
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  coop. So let's talk about the spirit
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  of the holiday season, Whatever holiday you're celebrating, this
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  can be very, very challenging for a lot of people and even for
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  those of us who are typically very holiday driven people.
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  This year seems to be heavier than most.
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  This year seems to be not right off.
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  I've heard this from multiple clients.
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  I've heard this from multiple friends.
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  It just seems to be weird. I think it's just the energy in
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  the world right now. I think it's off in in general
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  and we are all picking up on it and feeling it.
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  So how do you handle that? How do you decide that you want
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  to make it different, better, something you know?
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  I think this is a very personal experience that people have to
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  take on and you have to decide how you want to do it.
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  Everyone is going to be different in this case, but for
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  me, I am actually late putting up my tree.
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  I am actually late decorating. I have Full disclosure, not been
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  in a full Christmas spirit. I have had my head down focused
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  on working on videos, websites, doing all that stuff, and I'm
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  just, I did not get myself into that holiday spirit, so to
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  speak. And normally it starts right
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  around a Halloween that starts to build up and then I by the
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  time Christmas is here, it's always been one of my favorite
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  holidays and it just wasn't happening.
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  It just wasn't happening and I was getting really acutely aware
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  of it over the last couple of weeks.
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  But I would. Well, why?
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  What's the reason? Like I started just talking to
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  myself and being like of course when I'm unresourceful I ask the
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  stupid why questions and then I become more unresourceful.
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  So have to stop and say is it normal?
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  Can it be challenging? Yes, yes and yes.
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  All of those things. And and we also have to remember
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  that above all else, above everything else that we all do.
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  It's a choice to say, OK, will I feel better if I do put a tree
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  up? Will I feel better if I do
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  something? Yes, possibly.
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  But we always feel better when we do things for other people.
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  Always. That seems to be part of our
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  human wiring to keep us all together.
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  When we do something for someone else, we seem to feel better.
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  So you know, even if it's like if you don't want to do
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  something for other humans and you go and you donate something
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  to an animal shelter, you will feel better.
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  If you go spend time at one and help out, you will feel better.
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  If you contribute towards the greater good out there, you will
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  feel better. You know, getting Toys for Tots,
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  going out and buying something, looking at someone in a
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  restaurant who's sitting by themselves eating and you just
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  buy them their lunch, something. Those little moments always seem
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  to help the giving tree. Go pull a card off the giving
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  tree, go buy something for somebody, go surprise something
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  and do something. It is such a big deal to our
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  soul to be able to have that moment where we're handing and
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  giving and feeling good. So I'm going to tell you the
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  biggest shift in myself is knowing that that's something
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  that I can do. Like as crazy as this sounds,
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  these little things really mean a lot to my son.
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  And he said to me, are you going to make those butter cookies
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  that we can put the frosting on? And I said, why did you like
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  that? And he's like, Oh yeah, Him and
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  his friends all came in, sat at the counter and decorated their
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  cookies. And it was the funniest thing to
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  see all these boys because we are, we live in an area where
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  there are no girls, all boys, and they're all about the same
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  age. And they were all in my kitchen
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  decorating cookies, and it was the coolest thing ever.
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  And it was a moment that apparently my son will remember
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  and does remember, but that was something I hadn't even thought
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  of. So when he brought it up, I was
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  like, oh, that's a great way to start to get me back in the
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  spirit of things. If I start baking and giving,
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  baking stuff away, that's going to make me feel better right
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  away. That's going to shift me into
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  the holiday mode. So find your thing, find out
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  what it is, do it. Give, go, give.
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  Because when you're giving, you're actually getting a lot
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  more than you're giving every single time.
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  Fill yourself up. It will shift everything around
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  you. It will shift the house.
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  It will shift you. It will shift your head.
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  So go do it. 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.