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Season 2 - Episode 245 - A hard lesson from the farm · 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 master mindset
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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.
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  No, it's not raining. It's just very, very dark this
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  morning. Can hear the Roosters off in the
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  distance. And I've got a very early day,
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  so I thought, OK, I'm going to record it from the porch.
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  Also, it's a different day because I want to talk to you
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  about real struggles that are, you know, happening here on the
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  farm too. So you understand how I pivot
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  around them yesterday. When I went to go put the
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  chickens away, they all put themselves in the rooster, puts
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  them all in. I go count and close the doors,
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  make sure everybody's safe. And when I did that last night,
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  I was missing somebody and I say somebody because I legitimately
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  still cannot tell who is the one chicken that's missing because I
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  have a lot of each breed, so. I can't tell when they're up in
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  the rafters. When I look up at them, I can't
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  always tell who's who until they're down walking around and
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  I can see their, you know, specific personality traits or I
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  can see the difference in their Combs or their feet or their
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  feathers, their tail feathers. Like, I have a lot of barred
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  rocks, and I can identify Dottie because her comb tips to one
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  side and she's got. Flat tail feathers compared to
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  the others. And each one has their own
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  little tiny things, just like fingerprints with people.
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  But up in the rafters I couldn't see, so we knew that we were
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  definitely missing somebody. So Lucas and I spent an hour
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  walking around outside. Mark was checking all up front.
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  We were checking. Lucas and I just kept walking
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  the acres, just looking and seeing if we could figure out,
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  like, where she could have been. And to even complicate it more,
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  they are all molting right now, which means they're losing their
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  feathers and getting new feathers in.
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  So some of them do it very quickly, some of them, it's just
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  a minor thing. But you can imagine there are
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  feathers, feathers everywhere. So you don't know if somebody
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  got killed by an animal or they're just molting and.
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  I'm out looking trying to find her, and I'm all worked up
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  because it's dark, I don't know where she is and I'm just
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  walking in circles and to make it worse for me, I don't know
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  who she is. So those of you who are regular
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  followers know I'm super certainty driven and the fact
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  that I can't figure out at least who it is is making me crazy.
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  Now as I'm walking, I've got to talk to myself and I've got to
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  say, OK. There is a very good chance that
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  something got her because part of our philosophy, it just truly
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  is I'm going to give them the best life that they possibly can
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  have. They are my pets and love them,
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  and that means they are not cooped up all day long.
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  Legitimately, they are not cooped up.
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  They have a huge chicken coop, they have a huge run and I open
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  the doors to the run and they are allowed to go anywhere on
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  our farm. That is completely fenced in.
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  So important distinction is it is fenced in.
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  But regularly we have creatures that jump the fence and we work
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  on. That's why Buford is here.
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  Again, those who follow regularly know Buford is a big
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  giant American bulldog who is quite a formidable force.
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  So it it all seems to work 99% of the time, but 1% of the time
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  it doesn't. And that 1% of the time was
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  yesterday. Now she may be have hunkered
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  down somewhere. She had may be scared, she may
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  show up today. But how do I handle these
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  things? Because they crush you when
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  they're your pets. And for me, the most important
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  thing to recognize is that I'm giving her the best life that I
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  possibly can. I focus on being that way for
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  them. I focus on the fact that when
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  they are here, they are spoiled, they are loved, they are cared
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  for, and they have the best chicken life that they possibly
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  can. And.
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  If something happens that I can't control something like
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  this, there's nothing I can do about it.
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  All I can do is be grateful that I had them and that I was able
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  to provide them what I do, and I have to keep reminding myself of
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  that. So even while I say it, I have
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  to say it again and again and again and again and again so
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  that I can drill it into the space.
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  That hurts because you're still going to have the space.
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  That hurts. Because remember, two things can
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  be true at the same time. You can be upset and still be
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  grateful. You can be sad and still be able
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  to cognitively put together that you did the best you could.
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  And that's why I want to talk to you about this, because that's
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  the process I'm going through right now.
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  So hopefully this was helpful for you guys and maybe tomorrow
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  I'll have news that she showed up, but right now.
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  This is where it is, and this is a great lesson for me to share
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  with all of you and for my my own personal reminder.
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  All right, my friends. I hope you have a blessed day
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  and I'll see you tomorrow. Bye.