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Season 4 - Episode 68 - The other reminder from Daylight Savings Time · 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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  And it is not early because one, it's Sunday, but two, it is the,
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  you know, we had to jump forward with the clocks.
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  And I don't know about you guys, but this probably is one of the
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  most fascinating things to me as a human that we do this and play
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  mind games with ourselves, screw up our rhythms of sleep and do
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  all of this. When if we just stayed in one
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  time zone and we didn't change the clocks and we just, you
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  know, here we are, this is our time, we would be so much better
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  off. We would learn to adapt and
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  nothing would go wrong. The hours in the day are still
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  the same, and it's just a matter of the games we play.
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  It's just a matter of the games we play with our head.
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  And I am always fascinated by it every time we we go through
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  this, the falling back, the moving forward.
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  How many people complain about the fact that it's dark too
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  early, which it it does. And then we have the whole thing
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  about it's light too late, which it is.
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  And if we just stayed steady, we would be so much better off.
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  Yet as human beings, we can't seem to get it together as as a
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  globe to say, OK, let's just do this instead.
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  What seemed like a good idea eons ago is no longer a great
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  idea for us. So why can't we fix it?
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  And that comes to the bigger part of this podcast, which is
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  when something's not working or something is challenging, you
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  know, are are you back to what we talked about the other day
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  about being able to pivot? And this is one that affects
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  everybody. And so many people struggle with
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  it. So many people get thrown off.
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  So many people turn into cranky, you know, grumps about this
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  thing. And then they can't sleep.
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  They get all thrown off and it's it's unnecessary.
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  This is an unnecessary plague that we go through and give it
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  to ourselves. So where else does this show up?
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  Where else in our world does this kind of an irritation
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  annoyance show up? And when you start to look at
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  things, you can really get like, OK, this is ridiculous.
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  And I'm going to give you an example of this.
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  Even so, I've been doing a ton of work outside and getting
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  things ready. And I spent a lot of time on the
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  coop trying to figure out certain things, getting things
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  ready. Still a lot to do.
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  But one of the things that I wanted to do was open up their
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  space again. We had somehow, I collected a
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  lot of things that, you know, I had put in here for them.
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  And they were no longer using them because they weren't babies
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  anymore. And when I have babies, I can
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  set up an area in this year, we will not be getting any chicks.
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  Listen to me. Make that proclamation right
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  because maybe I will change my mind.
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  However, I hope I don't because I currently have 61 chickens and
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  that's a lot of chickens anyway. Well, I mean it's a lot, but
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  it's not too many. But in any event, I was cleaning
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  everything out and I was looking around and I was saying every
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  morning I walk in and I have trays for them with their, with
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  their breakfast veggies on them. And there's their beginnings of
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  the day. I like to give them hot Peppers,
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  coconut oils, fresh shredded veggies of some sort, usually
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  zucchini because it's easy to shred bananas.
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  And you know, other days I'll do pasta for them.
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  Oatmeal depends on leftovers, like whatever it is, but I come
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  out with three platters every morning and I have to walk
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  through the gate and I try to make it before they are actually
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  up because then they bombard me at the gate because they know
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  they have breakfast. So I had this, I have to set it
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  all down. And every morning I struggle
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  with this. Where am I going to put it?
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  And yesterday when I was out here cleaning up, reorganizing,
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  creating these little benches, I came saw this little idea about
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  how to make a bench out of a four by four and some cinder
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  blocks. And I was like, oh, that's
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  really cool. I like it.
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  So I was painting cinder blocks. I painted their those purple
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  stairs that I found on the side of the road black to match their
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  coop. And I'm doing all this stuff,
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  moving things around, cleaning it up.
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  And I say to myself, why am I not planning to have a spot to
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  drop the trays in the morning so that I can get myself organized?
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  Because I also have a freeze dried mealworms and grains for
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  them that I throw out so they can scratch around in the yard.
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  And I, I started laughing and I was like, OK, this is one of my
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  biggest irritations. Why was it not number one on the
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  list? And I stopped and paused and
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  thought, I have no idea. I have no idea.
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  It's just something that was it's like having a Pebble in
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  your shoe. It's annoying, but you can keep
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  walking until it becomes so irritating you have to stop and
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  pull it out. And this one, I didn't mean for
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  it to become so irritating. I wanted to like scream about
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  it. I just wanted to stop the whole
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  thing. So I OK, let me, let me create a
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  little bench right near where I stopped to drop their trays and
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  boom, you know, it's the problem is fixed in no time at all.
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  So this comes down to really being thoughtful and looking
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  Look at all those little things and say to yourself, which are
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  the ones I can fix. Now we obviously can't fix
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  daylight savings times, although I wish they'd take a public poll
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  and put it up somewhere so we could all vote on it and then
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  they could just understand that the rest of us don't like this
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  and stop it. Do something about it.
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  However, however, I hope you guys don't have problems with
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  the clock change and that you all get some sleep tonight and
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  maybe you'll be like me and going to bed super early so that
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  you can make sure you get your head back in the right space.
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  All right my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I will
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.