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Season 2 - Episode 91 - What brings you joy? · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Well, just outside of the chicken coop.
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  We are at the corner of the garden, where each section of my
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  huge vegetable garden. I have these big 10 foot posts
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  and across from each other. So it's a 50 by 50 Garden if you
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  can imagine. And on the two corners that are
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  opposite each other, I've got little blue bird houses and
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  those blue bird houses are very, very busy.
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  I've got others around the property, but these particular
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  two are very, very busy. Because the bluebirds are very
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  smart. The garden is wired to keep out
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  animals in the night, but that wire is also protecting anything
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  from crawling up and getting into their houses.
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  So they really like to be at the top post for these houses and
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  inside one of them, we have all the little babies right now that
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  have hatched out and the mother and father take care of them
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  together and they go back and forth and I was hoping that we
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  might be able to hear. Them can hear all kinds of other
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  birds but The chickens are just so loud and they're following me
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  everywhere so they might not might not be able to hear them
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  this morning. Anyway, these little babies,
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  what I wanted to talk to you about today?
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  This is always such an exciting time for me because it makes it
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  that, you know, it just makes me so aware of the fact that
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  there's constant growth and constant abundance all around
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  us. And whenever I see them
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  screaming and peeping their little heads out, Moms and
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  flying back and forth. And, of course, because I'm
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  obsessive with things like this and all my stuff of nature.
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  I have a little flight deck and bluebirds, really love
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  freeze-dried mealworms as do chickens.
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  So I always have them on in big buckets of them in my garage to
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  give my girls treats. So these blue birds love to take
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  the babies these these little freeze-dried mealworms and they
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  adore them and you Just see that.
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  It's so it's so great because they've got a water source,
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  they've got food, they've got this house and it kind of all
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  put this together in my head about, you know, doing these
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  little things that make you feel good because it makes me feel so
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  good to be able to take care of them and help them out.
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  Is, am I doing it for them? Or am I doing it for me?
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  Well, can the bowl things be true at the same time.
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  As you often heard me say two things can be true at the same
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  time and it is true. I mean I do it.
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  For them. But I do it as much for me
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  because it brings me so much joy to see the fact that they can
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  have a really great safe, life right here, while I can help
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  them. I can get them off to a great
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  start, but that just fills my soul up that makes me so happy.
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  That's what happens with the chickens.
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  It's all about figuring out. You know, what fills your soul
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  up hanging out with the chickens fills, my soul up, watching them
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  get so excited about silly things fills my soul.
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  That I put out a little sign on the edge of my garden.
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  That says the reward is in the waiting and my chickens kept
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  coming by and looking at it packing at it.
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  And I was cracking up laughing thinking to myself.
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  They're so curious. And they're so silly, and
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  they're just so interesting and they just that just brings me a
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  lot of Joy do n. Do I have them just to take care
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  of them? No, I have them.
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  Of course, I'm going to take excellent care of them but I
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  have it because it brings me joy.
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  And I want to share that with all of you that finding those
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  silly little things like, you know, feeding birds, or having
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  chickens or gardening or putting you know, something in your way.
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  That brings you Joy. As much as it takes care of the
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  other thing or the other person, the other animal, if it brings
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  you Joy in the process, please know, you're not just doing it
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  for them, you're doing it for you as well, because that little
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  bit of joy is so important. To our soul.
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  It's so important to our growth and every time spring rolls
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  around, I am humbly reminded but the fact that wow, everything
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  emerges from the winter, you know, I we are walking around
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  the farm last night Mark and I and we're looking and we've got,
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  I don't know 17, blueberry bushes and blackberry bushes
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  that are just abundantly filled with flowers and blueberries
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  which is going to be amazing if we can stop the chickens.
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  Uh meeting. That's was our discussion just
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  funny because chickens love blueberries and boy that is a
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  task and we've got all the fig trees that are all blooming out
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  now and plum trees that are blooming out now.
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  And we had a really cold freeze for days and days and days and
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  didn't know what would be able to survive.
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  But you know what, everything looks like it did with the one
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  tree didn't make it and, you know, okay.
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  And I had lost a bunch of succulents but Spring brings,
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  Hope Spring, brings you things that you can look at and say, I
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  feel amazing about this. I feel so good about this and
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  that's what it's all about. And having that Soul filled.
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  Joy is what we need to work on in the spring so that it carries
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  us through. So set yourself up.
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  Look for something that brings you Joy.
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  Again, it can be something as simple as having the birds, you
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  know, feed birds. I mean my mother was the one
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  that actually taught me to do this.
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  I do this. It's in homage to my mother but
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  honestly, it brings me so much joy.
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  It started off as something simple, it started off as how
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  I'm going to just do it because I wanted to do something to
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  honor my mother and now I'm like obsessed with it.
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  I'm obsessed with all the different birds that show up,
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  and it brings me joy, and it helps them at the same time.
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  So, look for your thing, find your little thing, go out there
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  and, and create some joy in your life.
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  All right, my friends. I hope you have a blessed day
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  and I will, I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye. I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.