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Season 4 - Episode 280 - Seeds & Magic · 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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The sun has changed and we're back out here early, which is
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nice. And it feels good to have that
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back in the rhythm again, I think is the right word.
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So interestingly enough, I have had over the weekend, oodles of
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seed packages arrive and it's just I ordered them all over the
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last two weeks. Everything arrived.
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I've got some bulbs for some aliens that came in, which
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happened to be in the Onion family for those of you who
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don't know. And they grow this big giant
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purple ball that has a big big like the, it looks like a big
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ball altogether, but it's a bunch of tiny little buds that
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make the big ball. It's really kind of cool looking
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and it fits into my theme for the farm for next year, which is
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going under that magical realm of of course I want to have
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things be very magical, but I really want to invoke the Doctor
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Seuss theme and I really want to invoke that magic theme.
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And So what we are doing is really working on creating
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different sections that I can do this with.
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So I of course was sitting there and I got very overindulgent
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with the seeds. And my son last night said to
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me, oh, mom, there are so many packets here.
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Like I know, I know. And he's like, no, really,
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there's a lot of packets here. And I'm like, I know.
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And I started thinking about how that must look to somebody who's
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not in my head. So from the outside it, it just
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looks like, oh, what are you doing?
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You have so many things, how are you going to handle all of this?
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And sometimes I even can question that how am I going to
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do it? Well, the idea is I have from
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now until when I have to put things outside at the end of
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March, like the last week of March, things will go outside.
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If we're in a rhythm where it could be earlier, I would go
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earlier. But so I've got all of November,
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all of December, January, February, and a good part of
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March. So I've got 4 1/2 months to plan
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to scope it out to do the structural work that needs to be
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done for what I have envisioned. And of course I mean starting
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seeds inside is just like such a thrill to me set up even bigger
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area. So I have get another set of
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racks and more lights and start inside.
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And I know that it seems crazy to everybody, but to me this is
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electrifying. This feels so good.
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One of my friends and I are talking about how we can make up
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a really intense herbal garden and really kind of focus our
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attention in on herbs. So she is the Wizard of knowing
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what the work the herbs do. I'm still learning this and I'm
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going to be diving in full feet into studying this month, this
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few months coming up. I've got books coming.
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I've got a course I'm taking understanding like what they all
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do and going back to the old roots of tradition.
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I even went back as far as reading into OK, OK, like in the
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1600s, what did they have in their gardens?
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What did they do? What were the things that were
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primary to them? What did they believe they did?
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And it's all so fascinating. So to say that it's I'm enjoying
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it as an understatement. To say that there are things
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coming up out of it is an understatement.
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And knowing that like I can actually make all of this happen
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in my little slice of the world. Like I can sit here, I can look
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at it and I can say, is it perfect?
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No, but I, I am not going for perfect.
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I'm going for productive. I'm going for learning.
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I'm going for all those things that make you feel, you know,
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just filled up inside knowing that you're part of something.
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Am I? Is it going to be the same this
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year as it was last year? No, Will, what did I learn?
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You know, I'm debriefing myself from this whole year and saying,
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OK, now that I have this strong theme that I want to go with, I
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can really move forward even better.
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And I think that the thing that I learned the most in this
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process of just allowing myself that time to have that magical
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thinking without somebody Pooh poohing it or saying, oh, you
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can't do that or that's not a good idea.
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I mean, anytime that shows up, that's one of those things where
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I have to say I, I desperately need to not be in the place of
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allowing that to happen to me because if I do, it's, it's
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detrimental to my well-being. It's detrimental to the whole
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process. And I just can't stand the
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thoughts of having something be a, a pin to my balloon when I
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haven't even started what I want to do with it yet.
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So this time today I'm going to come out and say I'm focused on
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the fact that it doesn't matter if anyone gets it.
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It doesn't matter if anyone understands, it doesn't matter
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if it's perfect. What matters is, is it filling
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me up? Is it filling me up?
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Is it making me feel grounded? Is it making me feel
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electrified? And is it letting me step into
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the magical? And the answer is yes, yes, yes,
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yes, yes. So I'm off to do some more seed
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ordering, some more thinking about what could be magical,
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some more ideas for flowers that look like Doctor Seuss may have
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drawn them, and other things, other goodies.
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So I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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tomorrow. Bye.