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Season 5 - Episode 85 - Proceeding with caution…. · 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
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  let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody good. Morning yesterday, we got to see
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  an old friend from Australia who happens to be in the country for
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  she's going to a wedding and she was able to bring her fiance and
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  you know, they're only here, they're passing through and
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  they're only going to be here for, you know, overnight.
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  So they were coming through here and stopped by the farm so that,
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  you know, we could meet him and we could give her a hug and all
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  of that good stuff. Well, but here's what's funny
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  about this. So she wanted to see the
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  chickens. And of course, you know, we go
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  out, I give them a snack. But she had walked up to them
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  because they were all under the tree.
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  They know it's snack time. They kind of congregate at the
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  appropriate time where they get their snacks because they are
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  very much creatures of habit. And that's why I get along so
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  well with them. And then she walked up to them
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  and what I noticed and I observed was the fact that they
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  immediately moved away from her. So if I walk up during that
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  time, they immediately move towards me.
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  Even if I'm I don't have food, whenever they see me, they move
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  towards me because they're conditioned 10 and they know me.
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  They know my face and little known facts about chickens.
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  They can recognize a lot of people.
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  They can. I think it's the numbers.
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  They can recognize up to 25 people, and I believe it's
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  probably more than that. But Needless to say, they
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  definitely recognize and know people.
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  And they didn't know her, so they were moving away because
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  they didn't know if she was a threat.
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  And I thought it's so funny how I learned from them over and
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  over and over and over. New situation, I'm going to move
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  away. Same situation, new person, I'm
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  going to move away. New situation, new person, I'm
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  not even coming out right. Like it's kind of like they're
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  the wiring that we all have. We get very we have such
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  trepidation in it. We just pull back and we and we
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  stop ourselves and we go wait a minute.
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  Maybe this isn't a good idea. Wait a minute.
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  Maybe I shouldn't do this. Wait a minute and we put the
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  brakes on. And I can say wholeheartedly
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  that in my world, I know for a fact that I do that sometimes.
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  I was recently approached by a company that wants me to have
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  their bird feeder and do a shoot a video for them and put it up
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  online. They want to use it as part of
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  their marketing. And I am more than happy to, you
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  know, do these things. But I have to tell you, the
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  trepidation was high. It was very high when we were
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  still working on details. But the cool part was like, OK,
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  I got asked how exciting was that?
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  But immediately my response was, whoa, I need to stop.
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  And I'm not sad about that. I want to be really clear.
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  I'm not sad that I'm like that because I think you have to be
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  that way, especially in the world we live in now.
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  You have to be cautious. You have to move with caution.
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  And, and that's okay. But at the same time, I also
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  have to move so I can't just sit on my butt and not, you know,
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  work it. So I think what what's very
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  important in this is to recognize we like to think we're
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  so superior to animals, but we're really not.
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  We do the same darn things and we have the same, you know, push
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  back. We have the same thing show up.
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  And I have to remind myself of that all the time that, you
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  know, we like to think we're so much better, but are we really?
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  Because no, we pull, we pull away.
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  We get scared by situations. We look at things.
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  We are no different in many, many ways.
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  And from the perspective of just trying to like, realize and
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  learn from my own actions and my own outcomes, I look at it and I
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  say, you know, I can take anything.
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  I can take in all the information.
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  I can hit pause, but I don't have to feel like there's a
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  threat. They actually feel like there's
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  a threat. And I believe that sometimes I
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  would actually feel like there's a threat, but I stop myself.
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  I pull myself back because that's the right thing to do.
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  So where does that show up for you guys?
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  Because I know it does. It shows up for all of us.
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  Are you the are you the person that acts like the chicken And
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  just like, all right, I'm just going to run into all these
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  situations or you just going to pause?
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  You're going to look. Now, here's what's really funny.
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  Amelia, who happens to be the head hen, she is one that will
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  stand there. She rarely runs, but she will
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  stop and she will look and she will assess, but she rarely runs
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  while the other hens run. She assesses.
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  Now, if it's a real threat, she runs like hell, and she'll run
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  everybody else down. Let me be very clear.
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  She can be like George Costanza, running over the people getting
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  out of the house in the fire. But most of the time the threats
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  are not real, and she knows that.
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  She's very smart. So she pauses and she looks and
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  then she decides. So I kind of want to be more
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  like Amelia in these situations. I can assess, I don't have to
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  run. But it was just an interesting
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  observation to say, how do we show up in these?
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.