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Season 4 - Episode 191 - The love-hate relationship · 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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  So I have a confession to make that I do have a love hate
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  relationship with working the farm.
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  OK, now that's not to be saying that it's not a passion of mine
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  that I am not obsessed with it because I am, but it is clearly
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  a love hate relationship in many ways.
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  For instance, we need rain. Like in order to be having a
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  really thriving farm, you do need a lot of rain or you need
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  to be running your your irrigation a lot.
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  Irrigation is a lot more controllable, but a lot more
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  expensive. Rain is free and a lot more
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  unpredictable and we are getting a lot of rain.
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  We were in a drought for a long time, but it happened to work
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  out because it was going through the spring.
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  We had a beginning of the spring was really wet.
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  When everything got outside, it was, you know, it started to dry
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  out a little bit, but things weren't as thirsty because they
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  were smaller. Everything gets bigger.
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  It wants more water. We get go into the drought.
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  You got to water a lot. I have a hate relationship with
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  standing out with the hoses all the time, but I don't have
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  irrigation everywhere because I, I just can't like planters,
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  things like that. I'd have to run drip irrigation.
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  It's very complicated and it's easier to just pull the hose
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  along theoretically. But then every day when you have
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  to be out there and watering for hours, I, I, I watch a lot of
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  British gardening shows. And one of the head gardeners at
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  one of these beautiful old Victorian mansions was like, I
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  feel like I, my arm is an extension of a hose.
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  And I started laughing and I said, oh, no, I understand that.
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  I totally get it because you're constantly watering things and
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  that's the part of the hate relationship.
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  Then you know, you get all the rain, like we've had a ton of
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  rain. OK, guess what that I hate
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  because everything just starts to take off in ways that I can't
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  control it. Not my garden part, but the
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  weeds. The weeds go crazy.
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  So then I'm just inundated with weeds and that brings humidity.
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  So that's a part that I hate. But the humidity also really
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  gets a lot of the plants going. Like if you have Peppers, this
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  is the time of the year and Peppers love so much.
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  So it's a constant love hate relationship out here.
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  I absolutely love my chickens. They are they are just my divine
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  like peace place. I just absolutely love it.
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  Watching them a little while ago I gave them a different kind of
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  melon to try that I was growing in the farm and a couple of them
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  tasted it and they were like, I don't think I like this.
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  And they walked away. A couple others come up and they
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  taste it. They didn't like it.
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  Then finally some one of them likes it.
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  Then the rest of them come back. It's they have a love hate
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  relationship with things, but with them.
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  I love them so much, but there are days when I don't want to
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  walk out here in the morning and have to get up early and take
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  care of them. That's just the truth.
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  And my personal perception of all of this is that every human
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  being walking this planet has love hate relationships with
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  things. You know, we, we know, we, we
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  all engage in this. We, but we have these weird
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  thoughts behind the scenes that say, well, we have to love
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  something all the way. And that even goes for our
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  partnerships. I mean, who out there could
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  actually say that they are completely enamored with the
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  person they're with all the time?
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  I mean, that would be stupid and it would also be a lie because
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  there are times when we are not enamored with them.
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  There is a love hate relationship in that.
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  I know he can't stand me sometimes because I have all
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  these wacky ideas and crazy ideas and I'm always talking
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  about them and I want to expand and grow and do all this stuff
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  all the time. And I know he can't stand that.
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  I know he has those moments when he's like, when is enough
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  enough? And I, I mean, enough is enough
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  when you're in the ground as far as I'm concerned, that's just
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  how my brain works. So we, he has that for me.
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  I have things with him. We all do this.
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  There is no question in my mind that these love hate situations
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  are present and accounted for. That's not the question.
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  The question is what are we going to do with them?
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  How are we going to handle them? Do we allow them to drive us
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  insane because they can? Or do we observe them, take note
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  of them, see if it's a consistent pattern of things
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  that show up and ask the question constantly, Well, is
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  this something I want to change? Is this something that I need to
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  fix? Is this something that I need to
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  do to fix this? And it it, you know, once you
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  start doing that kind of questioning, it's a much easier
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  road to figuring out. Is it something I really just
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  detest now? Is it really something I just
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  detest now? Like, I can tell you, I tried
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  planting certain bulbs. Peonies cannot, cannot grow them
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  here. I tried and tried and tried.
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  I love them. They're one of my favorite
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  flowers. But I have a love hate
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  relationship with them because they are so hard to grow.
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  They are so hard to grow. So guess what?
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  But not growing them here. It's just observation.
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  And after, you know, trying so many times, you say I'm not
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  willing to try anymore. So that's that's the essence of
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  it. Look at it, observe it, take the
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  information. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.