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Season 4 - Episode 24 - The power of MAYBE · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happened to 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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  Oh my gosh, I'm actually in the chicken coop.
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  Yes, it's later because this is when we finally can get out here
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  with the sun and the cold and it's very early.
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  And so we still have snow on the ground.
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  Yes, it's not like 10 inches, but we've got about four inches
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  on the ground even after melting tons of ice.
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  And here's what's interesting about this week.
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  This is about a reflection right now because I have been
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  reflecting about my trip, what's gone on.
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  The challenge is I got home and the house was not warm enough.
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  And I checked and it's the guys never noticed that yeah, it was
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  warm. It was like 65 in the house.
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  But it wasn't like warm. And when I checked, I was like,
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  you know, the outside unit isn't running, meaning, you know, HVAC
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  units in the South have one outside, one inside and the pump
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  and the ceiling and it wasn't working.
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  So had to call, get the heating guy to come out and it had
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  frozen and went to go out and water the chickens Can't get the
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  water from the thicket that comes out into the farm area
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  because it's frozen. And you know, the first
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  inclination you go to is wow, this is so freaking annoying.
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  And yes, it's annoying. And it just, you start to think
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  about how all the things that happened now while I was gone, I
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  have these covers that come up over the chicken coops to shade
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  it for the sun and the summer. They broke.
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  They're like those things that hangover restaurants that kind
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  of shelter the tables, not umbrellas, but those wing
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  looking ones. And I'm not sure what they're
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  called, but they had them over the chicken coop and they broke
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  because of the weight of the snow and the ice.
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  And I never thought to tell anybody to take them down.
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  And just, you just know, don't think about certain things.
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  And you walk around and you look at all the things that are
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  probably not alive anymore because we have tender citrus
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  here. And, you know, that's probably
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  gone. Kumquats, oranges, Tangerines,
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  Meyer lemons, limes, all these things that we've been
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  cultivating for the last few years.
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  And the storm came on and it went so low.
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  And no matter even if we had covered them, we were not, we
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  didn't have the right equipment to cover them properly and take
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  care of them. And you sit and you say to
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  yourself, you, the immediate emotion you come up with is this
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  is so frustrating. I mean, even the girls out here
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  in the coop, they clearly do not like the snow.
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  My husband was telling me they wouldn't come out of the coop.
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  They were just standing in the coop.
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  So they have a giant coop and then they have a run and then
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  that we open the big doors of their run that can go out into
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  the farm. So they have the whole farm to
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  roam around, but they won't leave and they won't leave the
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  coop. And they and they were just
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  standing all inside. So all 63 of them were standing
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  inside staring out looking like what the hell has happened?
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  And I think we were all looking at what the hell has happened
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  because it's so cold and it's still cold.
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  It's 26° as I'm talking to you. And this is abnormal for here,
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  like totally abnormal. So especially for this many days
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  in a row and it, it this whole month has been abnormal weather.
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  And I started to reflect on how many emotions I've actually gone
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  through in this week alone, let alone moment to moment,
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  day-to-day. And how by the time I got home
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  and I was here hearing about, you know, the, the heating and,
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  or recognizing the heating and hearing about the other
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  challenges, all these little things that had come up and just
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  all the stuff I realized that my frame of mind had really gone
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  into maybe. And why is maybe such an
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  important aspect? Because when my emotions start
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  to go crazy, I always go back to, Yep, you're allowed to have
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  that emotion because it's trying to help me and tell me
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  something. And you know, that may be the
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  conclusion, but it may be not be.
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  So I constantly tell myself maybe.
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  So let me use the heating unit as an example when I recognize
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  that the outside unit wasn't working because here's the funny
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  part. It's right by the door at the
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  rear entrance of the house. So I see it and I know when it's
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  running all the time because I'm attuned to it.
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  Doing this in the hot, hot weather, because that's usually
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  when they go down is like if it's like 90° with 100%
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  humidity, it's going to have a challenge potentially if it's
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  not taken care of. So I pay attention to it and I,
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  it just becomes part of my habit.
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  And then when I recognize, hey, that units not working right
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  now, I wonder if it's frozen. The immediate fear was, Oh no,
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  we're not going to be able to get somebody come to come out
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  here because there's so many things broken out here with all
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  this cold. And then my immediate reaction
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  was maybe because that's I love to call her.
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  This is maybe. And I actually have her as that
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  name in my emotional bus. Maybe because she's not my
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  hippie chick Zen girl, but she's much more attuned to
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  possibility. And I haven't quite figured out
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  what trio or conglomerate of emotions she actually is, but I
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  call her maybe. So there's maybe standing there
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  maybe. And I was like, OK, so then it
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  was like, oh, OK, what what should I, I'm going to
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  immediately call, call them. I got somebody to come out. 1:50
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  it was great. Comes out.
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  He says, I can't find anything wrong with it.
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  It just did an auto shutdown. I don't know why, Maybe it's the
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  panel. And I said, but maybe it's not.
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  And he just looked, started laughing and I said, well, I'm
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  not going to just change the panel if I don't know if it's
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  working right now, let's turn it, let's leave it and we'll see
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  where it goes. And he's like, well, it might
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  not work long term. I said, but maybe it will.
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  And I could feel myself keeping that maybe frame with
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  everything. My son's like, well, the
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  chickens still aren't coming out.
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  Like maybe they will today as it warms up.
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  And I just kept staying. And maybe, and you know what,
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  everything went the right way. The unit is running overnight.
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  The unit is running. Who knows what happened.
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  Who knows if it was a glitch, maybe the chickens will come out
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  today. At least they're out of the
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  coop. They're in the run on the areas
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  that doesn't have snow, and maybe they'll go further and
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  maybe it will melt today because it's going to go up to 50° and
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  maybe everything else, all the craziness will come down.
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  But when you use a frame of maybe, it's really helpful.
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  So I hope you learn from my lessons of reflection on this
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  week and I will see you guys tomorrow and maybe it will be
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  warmer. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day. Bye.