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Season 3 - Episode 311 - What’s the conversation you’re having with yourself? · 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 mastermindset
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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 the conversation you have with yourself is the most
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  important conversation you will have every day.
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  Whatever you are doing and saying to yourself, whatever you
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  would having that internal conversation with, that is the
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  most important conversation you will have every day, my friends.
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  I can assure you of that because it is the one that will set you
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  up, the one that will take you to greatness or have you plummet
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  and failure. That is just the way it works.
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  We talk to ourselves constantly and we rarely pay attention to
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  that conversation at the level at which it needs to be paid
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  attention to. I want to give you a great
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  example. So I had to change out the
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  chicken coop every every probably like every 10 days.
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  I strip out all the straw and I pull it out into the chicken
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  yard that because they have a run.
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  So they have the coop, the run and then there are the big doors
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  that open up into the farm and they can go wherever they want.
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  So I take that straw that's in the coop and I strip it out and
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  I put it around the coop to keep down all of the grass from
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  growing and weeds from growing. And it gives them a nice area to
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  dig around in. And it actually creates
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  excellent, excellent dirt and mulch for plants.
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  So in the springtime I can come out, I can dig this up, I can
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  take it because all the chicken poop is broken down.
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  It's quite the system and I can put it in my plants and it helps
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  them retain water and everything else and plus it's supercharged
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  with all the nutrients. So it's here, but I strip it all
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  out from the inside and the the coop is big.
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  It's I think it's 12 by 20. It's either 12 by 22, I think
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  it's 12 by 22 or 24, I forget. But it's big and it's got double
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  doors and it is not a small feat to go ahead and go do all of
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  this. It takes me if I do a quick, as
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  I call it the quick turn and burn change where I'm not really
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  scrubbing everything. I'm just getting the straw out
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  and I'm taking it out and sweeping it out and then putting
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  in new straw. It's about 45 minutes to an hour
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  and if I'm really scrubbing it and I'm cleaning everything and
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  scraping it down and washing everything down because it gets
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  dusty because I use first lime in there to make sure that they
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  don't have any bugs in there and that they don't get mites or
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  anything like that. It is a probably like a 2 hour
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  process depending upon how pokey I go and how much time I really
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  feel like spending with them. So yesterday's was a full blown,
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  I'm cleaning it all up because I want it to get it nice and
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  organized because we've had rain and it was just, it smelled
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  really like awful from the rain. Just that damp yucky weather.
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  So I took two probably 2 1/2 hours out here and just did
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  everything. Now during that 2 1/2 hours,
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  I've got music on and I am working.
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  I'm like farm working. It's hard work.
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  Well, here's the thing about that.
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  For that amount of time, my brain is going in all different
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  directions. I'm not just blank.
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  I think we can all agree rarely is our brain blank.
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  But that whole time I was working on it, I was listening
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  as an observer to the conversation that I was having.
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  But it was more about a back and forth where I would be thinking
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  about, OK, I want to I'm getting ready to record a class and I'm
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  like, OK, what am I going to put in the class?
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  And I would say to myself, let's do content.
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  Like I'm out here. I'm like, all right, let me
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  think about the content. And then before you know it, I'm
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  thinking about all the things that I didn't do.
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  Like I didn't order those Christmas presents to be shipped
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  in. I didn't send something to
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  Auntie Annie yet. OK, I have to take care of it.
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  Like my brain, my certainty girl is making A to do list for me.
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  I'm like, no, we're not doing that right now.
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  We're focusing on this. Come back to the class.
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  What do you want to say in the class?
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  Okay, And I've got a little notebook off to the side.
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  So I could actually, I really planned on doing this, write it
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  all out. But instead my brain is on a
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  walkabout, as our Australian friends say, and having all this
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  other conversation with me. And it's just driving me nuts
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  because I'm like, no, no, no, come back to this.
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  No, no, no, come back to this. And then I'm thinking, listening
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  to a song, and before you know it, I'm thinking about the what?
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  What the hell happened to this person while the song that they
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  were writing this song? Because geez, this is a sad
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  song. And then I'm thinking to myself,
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  wow, OK, this is really like a lot of work in this heat.
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  I like because it was hot. And I was like, oh, my gosh, I,
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  I like I didn't bring enough water.
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  I should really have brought more water.
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  I wonder how much water I drank this week.
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  My brain was all over the place. And because it was all over the
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  place, it was creating stress for me rather than saying, just
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  let me be in this moment and stay focused on the cleaning,
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  stay focused on the gratitude, stay focused in the moment.
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  But I was not in the moment. And it was triggered by the
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  conversation that I was having with myself, which was an
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  unresourceful conversation. So I'm going to challenge you
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  all to pay attention to the conversation you're having with
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  yourself. Taking inventory as of it.
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  Is it of a high standard? Is it of a low standard?
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  Is it something that you could sit there and say you're very
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  proud of? I doubt it.
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  So please go back, look at it, make sure that you are aware of
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  your conversation because they sneak up on you.
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  They certainly snuck up on me. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.