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Season 2 - Episode 197 - The pecking order · 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 chicken
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  coop. So today I want to talk to you
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  about something that's happening actually in the chicken coop
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  because it's such a great metaphor for life.
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  So Marilyn Monroe has decided that she's done with the babies
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  and she's not dealing with them anymore and she's told them that
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  they're old enough and they're ready to go on their own.
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  My opinion is they're a little too small.
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  But then again, I guess I am a bit of a mother had no pun
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  intended so. And what's happening, you might
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  be able to hear them peeping in the background is that they are
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  trying to find their place in the order.
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  Now she has raised them. Marilyn has raised them within
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  the group. So they are accepted by the
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  group, but they are small and therefore they get picked on
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  very easily. If they try to overstock, they
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  won't get picked on randomly. But if they overstock their
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  positioning, if they overstock certain things, they get very,
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  very, very. Annihilated and put in their
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  place. So when it comes time to the
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  morning of them going out them getting food, doing certain
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  things they chickens will like, put in their order.
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  They want you to be in the right place.
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  If you're not in the right order, they will certainly fix
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  you and put you in the right order.
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  And there's a there's a tremendous metaphor in this
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  because the babies have to decide their level of confidence
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  in order to show up. Now Marilyn happens to be a bird
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  that's called an Americana and she's a great flyer and she's
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  one of the higher ones up on the on the pecking order.
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  She's considered a very much a senior type bird.
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  And she picks things like, you know, she picks where she's
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  going to stay in the rows of the coop.
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  She's up front. And because the this is what the
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  babies do, because the babies, if you heard that little
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  peeping, that's the baby practicing to fly right now
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  because her mother was so good. She is just trying to assume a
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  position very similar to that. And it's crazy to watch because
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  she she does not get that choice.
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  She is not in that position, but she's trying to take it and
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  she's dominant, so she keeps doing it.
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  And you know what's really funny about it?
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  They're actually letting her sit up front and they're not,
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  They're not picking on her now. The girls that were previously
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  patched out by Winnie, who was not one of the top pens is.
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  She she's a different type of hen.
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  She's in there. She's solid, she's cared for as
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  far as the group is, but she is definitely not someone who's at
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  the top of the pecking order. Now that means all those chicks
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  that came out of her have learned a different demeanor.
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  Marilyn's babies are very, very aggressive.
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  They will choose it. The others do not have that
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  aggressiveness. They try, but they get nailed.
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  They get picked at and then they back off and they they'll try to
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  get themselves to the front row and as soon as they.
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  Do it. The other hands will pick at
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  their feet and say, Nope, you don't belong here, you're not
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  going to get to be here. And they move themselves out.
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  And it is an absolute fascinating thing to see how
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  this works because there is an order to it.
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  So what does this have to do with us as human beings?
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  Well, when you think about it has a lot to do with how we
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  interpret, how we are brought up, how we interpret the things
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  that happened to us, how we are shown things so.
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  Winnie shows her babies how to be more passive.
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  Marilyn shows her babies how to be more aggressive when he stays
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  with her babies longer. And her babies, a result of that
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  are they're not aggressive. Marilyn, she teaches them to be
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  aggressive. Her babies are more aggressive.
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  They choose where they want to go and they're not getting
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  picked on. And as we as human beings raise
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  children, we have to understand the traits we want them to be
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  gifted with. And really pick and choose this.
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  And we also have to go back and say if we were raised away, we
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  don't like we get to go back and we get to say, OK, this was
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  resourceful. This was not resourceful.
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  What can I do now to shift that? What did I learn from it?
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  What do I want to keep and how do I move forward with it?
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  It's really kind of a cool concept when you think about it.
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  Can you redo the past? No, But you can reinterpret the
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  past. And that's what's so powerful
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  about the human brain. We have the ability, we have
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  been given the gift by the universe, by God, by spirit, to
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  change our interpretation any day we want to.
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  We can shift it and decide something means something
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  different. And for that, that is the
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  greatest gift of all, because things happen.
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  They're just happened. I mean, listen, they're just two
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  chickens raising their chicks in different ways by the nature of
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  the breed. Americans are more aggressive by
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  the nature of the breed. Winnie, who happens to be a
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  coaching, is just much more passive.
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  So you know, very much like dog breeds, chicken breeds are the
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  same. They all have their
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  personalities and for that you end up.
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  Seeing them raised a certain way, but we get to reinterpret,
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  just like these babies are reinterpreting it.
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  And there are some Winnie's babies who are learning.
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  I got to be more on point. And the two little Americana
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  babies, they are on point and we'll see them grow to the top
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  of the order. But we get to reinterpret as
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  human beings. So think about it.
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  What do you have to reinterpret? 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.