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Season 5 - Episode 63 - In Gratitude… · 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. So today is travel back day and
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  so much I I can't even begin to explain the amount of love that
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  I got to experience over the last few days.
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  Being at this event and being able to speak and be in a room
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  with people that were truly appreciative of everyone that
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  was teaching them. Being with people that I get to
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  coach all the time and hugging them and loving on them and just
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  having this connection. The, the boost that it gave me
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  was something I didn't even know I needed, which is what's so
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  funny about it. Like you don't even know you
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  need things sometimes until you find out that you are getting
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  them and then you're like, wow, I really needed that.
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  And that's what's in the lesson today.
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  I, I'm watching things around the farm before I left, getting
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  ready to leave, I was making sure everything was taken care
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  of, not the not just the animals, but the plants, things
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  like that. And I noticed how so everything
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  is starting to butt out. Everything is really like
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  getting ready to burst forward with spring, which is always
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  such a tremendous time to begin with.
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  But I noticed how lots of the, especially the plum trees had
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  triple the amount of blooms on them.
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  And I could see the fig trees were coming out stronger than
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  normal. And we had a really tough winter
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  cold wise. So I sat there and, and, and I
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  looked at them and I was like taking in the information and
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  like, that's interesting, being very curious, staying in that
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  curious mindset because that's a superpower.
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  And at this event, I connected the dots.
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  All of a sudden, days later, I started connecting dots because
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  I realized that I was giving them things when I wasn't sure
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  they even needed them in the at the end of the fall and
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  throughout the winter, I was making sure that they had been
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  packed like all around their base of the trees had been
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  packed with really, really good compost and coming from the
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  bunnies, coming from the chickens and, and just making
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  sure that that was going to break down and supply something
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  to them and, and trying something ahead of time, doing
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  something instead of just doing it in the spring, doing
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  something ahead of time, setting it up for when they needed it.
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  It would be kicking in. And boy, oh boy, did that hit
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  home because it all of a sudden it is like a game changer.
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  I've got all kinds of amazing things going on.
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  And I, I was looking at the amount of the number of buds on
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  the, on the plum trees and I was like astonished by it.
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  And then I remembered, ah, wait, I was giving them something and
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  I didn't know they needed it when they were going to need it.
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  But now I see that that is a critical choice.
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  And just like I didn't know I needed the boost of going out
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  and meeting with people that are regular, like, you know,
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  coaching clients of mine. But getting out and speaking and
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  doing something like that, what it would do now traveling back
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  is is going to take a hot minute.
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  And the level of exhaustion you feel after an event like this
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  when you pour in and you pour in and you pour in is high and it,
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  it's draining. But boy, what a difference does
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  it make. Boy, how does it make you feel
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  overall? Is it worth it to go down that
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  road? And, and I do think it is I, I
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  mean, for me, I can speak and say 100% it is just like pouring
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  into projects. Are they exhausting?
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  Yes. Do they make your body hurt?
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  Yes. Are there things that you just I
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  look at and I go, oh, that's going to be a tough one.
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  There's a there's a flower garden that I'm going to be
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  starting soon and I'm like, man, that's going to be a lot of
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  work. But guess what?
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  It will be worth it and the exhaustion will be worth it.
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  So we have to always equate those things to it and say, but
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  what is it going to give me on the other side?
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  Because there are things that are cross pollinates that gives
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  us so much more. So I am wrapping up this trip
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  and really recognizing that that's a part of something that
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  I need to add in more regularly. I don't go often and when I do,
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  I sometimes I'll say, oh, that was worth it like that.
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  Like what the experience I'm having now.
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  And sometimes I go, yeah, that was not worth it in the long run
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  because of the extent of the travel.
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  Or maybe it was what happened when I was there.
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  But what I realized is I have to focus on the other parts of it
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  and that those feelings and what they do to cross pollinate.
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  So it's not missing those little nuances.
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  It's, it's actually paying attention to them and really
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  saying, huh, OK, I see it. And I'm going to make sure I
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  focus on that and not just the, Oh, I don't like the travel
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  portion of things. So I, I'm going to throw it out
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  there to you guys and say, Hey, what is it that you could do?
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  That would be the same thing. That would be a tremendous boost
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  for you that, you know, you might need right now.
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  Whatever's going on in your life, because life is always
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  challenging. I mean, there are always going
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  to be challenges. There are always going to be
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  things we don't understand. There are always going to be
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  things that show up and we're like, what the hell is this here
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  for? What is this here to teach me?
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  It's our job to find a way to say, I'm going to get curious.
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  I'm going to dig in and I'm going to say, OK, I don't
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  particularly like this. I'm not fond of this.
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  I, you could even go so far as to say I hate it.
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  And I know I, I have to find a way to connect these dots.
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  Because once we find a way to connect the dots as human
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  beings, we feel more certain and we start going on and we can
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  say, OK, well, that wasn't for me.
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  That is for me In this case, this was for me.
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  And even though it it took me away from the things that I love
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  and my family and all of you know, the farm, it also gave me
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  something. So paying attention to that
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  piece is absolutely critical. So I will say that it was all
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  worth it and I will see you guys tomorrow and I hope you have a
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  blessed day connecting the dots. Bye.