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Season 3 - Episode 156 - Being adaptable! · 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 mastermind set
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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 today because we are
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  in a very, very, very heavy rainstorm.
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  I had to let the girls out and it was too rainy to record over
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  there. So windy because it was coming
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  in the door. So it was just messy.
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  So this morning we're doing it from the porch.
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  Oh, see, you can still hear him. He's in the lawn right now.
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  Apparently they don't mind the rain.
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  I don't mind it either because it's taking care of all the
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  stuff that's growing. However, I don't want to be
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  soaking wet. But just to my point today we're
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  talking about being adaptable. And this is one thing that I
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  absolutely love about my chickens is that they are
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  really, really adaptable to whatever happens.
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  If it's pouring, they figure out what they're doing.
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  They are out anyway. You'll see them in the lawn if
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  it's not raining too hard. They are all over our farm free
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  ranging. If it's pouring, they run.
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  They find other places to be. They go under their coop because
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  it's elevated so they can hide. They will sit under a tree.
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  They will come on the porch, which I think is really funny.
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  They'll all sit on the porch and like wait.
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  And again, the being adaptable factor is huge and I admire them
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  for that. They are quickly adaptable.
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  As soon as I put them into the new coupe, they didn't complain
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  that, you know, it wasn't the old coupe or they were missing
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  things or anything else. They figured out where their
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  spot was and they were good. Whatever happens with them, they
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  seem to be adaptable. Even the tragedies when we lose
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  chickens. And it happens because, you
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  know, just last week I found one of my chickens and she was just
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  there on the ground dead and no visible signs of anything that
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  happened. And we, we suspect something
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  must have spooked her and she got hit and she just probably
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  broke her neck or something because her neck didn't look
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  right. But no wounds.
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  So no Hawks and there was no warning in the area from
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  anything else. But in any event, they they saw
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  her there and they didn't dwell on it.
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  And the lesson in this that I want to talk to you about today
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  is just that this this ability to be so quickly adaptable makes
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  it so that they can survive. They are prey items.
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  Let's be very clear about it. Everything wants to eat a
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  chicken, possum, raccoons, foxes, coyotes, dogs, Hawks,
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  owls, I could Eagles, we could go on and on about the list of
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  things here where we live that are predators for them.
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  But they don't spend their life worried about that.
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  They just don't. They just move on.
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  If they get scared, they're scared for a short period of
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  time and then they're like, OK, let's move on.
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  And they do. And I think that that's such a
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  fantastic trait. It's kind of like dogs.
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  They move on it it it is so quickly apparent to me how much
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  while we want to believe because we're the higher thinking
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  species that we are so have this such a great ability to adapt.
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  Often times we are not really adapting.
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  What we're doing is living in fear and we've cut away a part
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  of ourselves because we're in such a state of fear as to as
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  opposed to being truly adaptable where you look and you go, OK,
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  you know what this is how it's going to I'm going to change.
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  This is what's going to happen and you let the rest of it go.
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  So the adaptability is taking what you can learn from the
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  situation and then moving on, not dwelling in it, not having
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  a, an overwhelming sense of how am I going to stay safe?
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  How am I going to, you know, avoid this from ever happening
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  again. Because when you live in
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  avoidance, you actually avoid good stuff too.
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  And this level of adaptability that we need to create for
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  ourselves has to be built out of a constant state of awareness
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  for what emotions we're using day-to-day.
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  Being adaptable, looking at something and and being able to
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  shift when you know you need to and letting go of what those old
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  emotions were that are holding you back is so critically
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  important to real growth. And I when I say real growth, I
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  mean not just growing and getting little tiny pieces from
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  it, which is still fine, but real growth is when you let go
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  of the emotion of it. When you can tell your story and
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  you're not in tears, you can say this is what happened, but that
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  was a different version of myself.
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  That is hard work, my friends. But it's so worth it.
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  Believe me. I know I've had to do it
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  multiple times. And now I can talk about things.
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  Now I can tell the stories and I don't fall to pieces because
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  there's no emotional connectivity to it.
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  I just know it brought me to who I am today.
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  So work on your adaptability, work on letting go of those
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  emotions, work on being able to shift and just taking what you
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  can be adaptable. All right, my friends, I will
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  see you tomorrow, hopefully right from the chicken coop, and
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  I hope you have a blessed day. Bye.