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Season 3 - Episode 153 - The lesson in the POTENTIAL · 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 coop.
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  So today we're going to have a little farm lesson and there's a
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  metaphor in it. Of course.
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  We are talking about seeds and how you grow seeds.
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  So we, you know, it's that time of year we're growing is
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  happening, gardens are happening, flowers are growing.
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  We all go to the store and we pick up a package of seeds.
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  We go to the little round thing that spins, you know, the little
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  display, and we look at the seeds and see, OK, let me see
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  which one looks appealing to me. And there's all different kinds.
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  You could grow food, you could grow flowers, whatever it might
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  be. You pick out your seed and you
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  recognize that there was some appeal in the packaging to this.
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  OK, Package looks great. You see the potential because
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  the package is the potential. Really important here.
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  The package is the potential. It looks beautiful.
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  Whatever's on there, you like, I want to grow that.
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  OK, great. Come home.
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  And you get really excited. You figure about where you're
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  going to plant. At least I get really excited
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  when I plant seeds, and I usually go to the store and I go
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  buy one package of seeds. I probably buy, I don't know,
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  hundreds of packages. Of seeds.
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  I have a bit of an issue with it.
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  But anyway, you get your your package, you come home and you
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  sit down, you read the back of the package and it gives you all
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  the instructions on how to make this grow.
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  In fact, it usually gives you a, a, a sprout rate even it will
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  tell you out of 100 seeds, you'll have 80 that will sprout.
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  So you know, there's a failure rate in there.
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  You understand that. OK, I need to put this in the
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  right conditions. This seed like sandy soil, this
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  seed likes to be in Lumi soil. This seed likes to feel like it
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  is wet often more than the dry seeds.
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  Just depends. Every, every seed has its own
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  condition. Every plant has its own
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  condition in which it thrives. Sun shade, all of it.
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  And there's all these little codes on the back of the
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  package, which is so cool because you have all the
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  instructions for success. Don't you wish we had that for
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  life? Like we were just handed a
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  little package and here you go. It's all the all the
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  instructions for success are right there.
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  So you take that seed and what happens next?
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  You go out and you find the conditions in which it should
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  go. And you put it in the ground and
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  you cover it up. And that seed then does what it
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  does. And we wait and we wait and we
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  wait and we wait and we're patient.
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  We're saying, OK, this is going to come up.
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  This is going to come up. I can't wait to see what it is.
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  I can't wait to see what this is.
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  And we're like super, super patient about it.
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  Most of us are anyway. We're super patient about it.
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  And I know sometimes we're not though, because I just did a
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  huge flower garden, grew lots of different things that I didn't
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  know what they were going to look like when they came up.
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  And some of them I was like, OK, I can't even pull the weeds
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  because I don't even know what this flower is going to look
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  like when it comes up. So I had to be patient.
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  And boy, for me, that is a huge test because I don't always have
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  patience when it comes to stuff like that.
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  If I'm being creative and I'm doing stuff, I want to see the
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  results, but I had to be patient.
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  But anyway, back to our story of the seeds.
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  So it's in the ground, it's dark, it's damp, and it's on its
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  own. And that seed in that condition
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  is transforming. But think about the conditions
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  in which it's transforming. It's dark, like I said, it's
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  enclosed tightly. It's alone.
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  It's in there, wet, damp. Not doesn't sound very pleasant,
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  does it? But it's transforming into that
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  picture, that pure potential that you saw on the package when
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  you bought it. But it's not pleasant inside the
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  ground. It's just, you know, it's
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  becoming something else. And it has to work really hard
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  because think about it, that seed is in case it's really
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  hard. And if you had pushed on that
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  with your fingers when you first got it, you know, seeds are
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  hard. There's a protective coating.
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  And that life force that is inside that seed has to work its
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  little butt off to come out of that shell.
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  In fact, sometimes seeds won't even come out unless you soak
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  them ahead of time. I have some plants that are
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  absolutely gorgeous that are, it's called the caliandra.
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  And if I don't soak those seeds for 48 hours ahead of time,
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  nothing shows up. They have to be soaked in water
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  for 48 hours. They literally have to drown in
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  water for 48 hours to penetrate the outside of that shell.
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  Seeds are hard, so you put them in the ground and they have to
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  work their butts off. And the lesson in this for us as
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  human beings is that transforming into that pure
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  potential that's on the package is not easy.
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  And it takes work and it takes commitment, and it takes going
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  in and doing what you need to do from the standpoint of being
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  focused on it. And once you make that
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  commitment, once you plant yourself in the ground, if you
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  will, with your commitment, you stay focused on doing the work
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  that you need to do. And that work is an inside job.
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  Just like that little seed coming out of that shell, it is
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  an inside job. Sure, you have to do outside
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  things too. But the work that you do on the
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  inside, the work that pushes you mentally, the work that puts you
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  in a place where you stay focused, happy, intent, keeping
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  your energy aligned to where you want to go is some of the
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  hardest work that you will ever, ever, ever, ever do in your
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  life. Yet it is the work of greatness.
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  It's the work that makes you go from who you where you are right
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  now to where you want to be and who you are to who you want to
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  be. It takes you all the way over.
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  And it's not always just tasks, my friends.
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  It's about that transformation. Just like a seed going in the
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  ground into a scary place, into a committed place of being.
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  Like, OK, I'm here. And sometimes you got to do it
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  by yourself. Sometimes you got to be that
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  little seed. More often than not, you got to
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  be the little seed. But the wonderful thing is when
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  you commit to it and you make the decision and you do the
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  actions, that pure potential that was on the outside of the
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  package shows up. When you put yourself in the
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  right conditions, when you understand what you need, when
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  you go along in the process and you trust that it's going to
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  work, it works. So part of your process is being
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  here and learning different things, keeping your perspective
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  clean, asking better questions. That's the like planting
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  yourself in the right soil. So today as you head out there
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  into the world, make sure that you are being the seed.
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  Make sure that you are not quitting on yourself.
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  Make sure that you understand you are asking the right
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  questions to set yourself up for the pure potential that's on the
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  outside of that package because I believe in it.
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  Otherwise, I wouldn't be here doing this podcast and setting
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  out all this these messages out to you guys.
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  Believe in yourself, take in the right information, and watch the
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  transformation happen. So have fun growing today.
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  My friends and I will see you tomorrow.