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Season 4 - Episode 113 - Tomatoes and patience · 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
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  the. Coop and let's start your day
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  off in a fantastic way. Hey everybody, good evening.
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  And this is actually from the garden.
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  It's not quite bedtime yet. The chickens are out running
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  around still and I am watering the garden this time of year.
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  I actually water it by hand so I can make sure that everything's
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  getting off to a really good start.
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  So irrigation is not turned on yet, so you're going to hear
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  water running in the background because I'm moving the hose back
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  and forth. So the reason I'm shooting from
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  the garden tonight and talking to you about this is because
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  this is one of those tough situations when you first start
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  off, you're always trying to pick the right time of the year
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  to plant your stuff. You have a zone.
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  You think it's going to be OK. You think everything's set up
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  Now remember everything that's planted in this garden, which
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  happens to be 50 by 50 feet. So I've got a huge garden and I
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  started everything inside from seeds.
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  So there's nothing in here that has been purchased as a grown
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  plant already to come into the garden.
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  Everything was started as seeds in the environment that we have
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  in the garage that I set up to do.
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  So Now why is this all important and why are we talking about it?
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  Because this is one of those times where you're hedging your
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  bets. You're doing the best that you
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  can to predict what's going to happen and put this, put the
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  stuff out when you believe you're going to get past
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  everything. So here we are, you know, end of
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  April. I live in a zone where this
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  should not be an issue anymore. Cold is not been the issue.
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  Having it be too hot too quickly has been an issue and that has
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  caused a few things to I've got a few tomato plants that aren't
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  doing so well. Some of them are doing really
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  great and they thrive in it. And this comes back to doing a
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  better job. I, I definitely don't have this
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  down, but choosing seeds from plants that I, that will do well
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  in the heat. So it's, it's a constant and
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  never ending sourcing of picking the right things.
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  That's one aspect of it. The other aspect of it is
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  protecting everything from what could get it, kill it.
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  So we've got an electric fence around it so nothing can get in
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  and eat it all. And then I've got the the
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  tomatoes this year are growing in bags instead of growing right
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  into the ground, so that weird little yucky virus can't get up
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  to them. Even with that, though, I've had
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  a few of them that have just kind of done the wilting thing
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  and it got me panicked, which is why I'm shooting from here and
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  talking to you about it tonight, because I recognize that there's
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  no way it could be that it there's just no way it could be
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  that. But I've got as I stand here and
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  I look around, I've got 123123 for sure are very weak and wilty
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  and look like who did it and ran.
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  And so that's an important distinction for me to pay
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  attention to. Like they're just not looking
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  good. So I am very aware of that and I
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  am not panicked about it because I know they're not in the
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  ground. So that it's highly unlikely
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  that we, you've got a situation where that is what it is.
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  It could just be that they have failure to thrive coming
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  outside, coming into heat too quickly.
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  That could have been it. It could have been multiple
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  reasons. But the point of all this is we
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  do the best we can to try to figure it out, but it's not
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  always the easiest thing to do. And I have to be resilient in my
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  thinking so that I don't 1, jump to conclusions too quickly and
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  say this is what it is. And two, start to panic and say,
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  oh, I have to do something different and, and then change
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  all of the conditions for all of the tomatoes, which would be
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  silly because some of them are just, they look tremendous and,
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  and like vibrant already. And, and most probably like 50%
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  of them already have flowers on them.
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  So I can't just pull my pattern and what I'm doing because I've
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  got three that are small and weak.
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  Yeah, There's a part of my heart that's like, I got to do
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  everything I can to help protect them and do what I need to for
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  them. So it's always an emotional
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  conundrum for me. And I genuinely mean that
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  because I don't like to see any of them go sideways.
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  But I always have to stop and say, stop, You don't have enough
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  information. You need more information.
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  Don't jump. It's a hardcore coaching rule as
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  well that you need all the information before you start
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  making decisions. And often times in the world of
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  coaching you'll find that people will jump really quickly and
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  say, well, this is what it is. And I'm very good in that arena
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  to not jump too quickly to figure out what's really
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  happening. But when it comes to my garden
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  and my animals, sometimes I jump too quickly.
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  So this is always a test for me. God and the universe have
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  provided me the perfect environment in which I have to
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  practice this. And I am, I will say patience is
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  not something that I becomes naturally To me, it's a learned
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  thing. I very much don't have it and I
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  have to be very cautious with it.
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  So as I stand out here and I water everything and I look
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  around and I see the ones that don't look so good, I'm not
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  cutting them. I'm not hacking them off.
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  I'm not pulling them out. I'm not leaving it like that.
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  I'm just saying wait, let's just wait and see.
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  Let's just wait and see. There's they're not affecting
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  the ones around them. There is nothing on them that
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  would make me think there's a disease, so I have to be
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  patient. So this is a lesson in patience.
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  I'm standing in a Petri dish of patience, my friends.
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  So wish me luck and hopefully I'll be showing you some
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  pictures of tomatoes on social media pretty soon.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you soon. Bye.