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Season 5 - Episode 31 - Snow and mind chatter! · 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.
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  World. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way, hey?
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  Everybody, good morning. Well, yesterday was quite the
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  day and I missed putting the podcast up, so I'm putting up
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  two today and this is the first one.
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  Yesterday was all about the snow, the weather and being
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  stuck inside and feeling like, Oh my gosh, my head was spinning
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  because how did I know what was going to happen?
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  I mean, I have so many plants out here that are affected by
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  the extreme cold. And this morning we woke up and
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  it's 19° and the wind chill makes it feel even colder.
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  And it is not healthy for a lot of the plants.
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  So we're just watching. We know some of them.
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  You can't like, you know, citrus trees.
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  This was a chance when we put them in.
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  We knew that. But you know, they, they say
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  they can go down to the 20s. So we'll see what happens.
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  And, you know, as far as our fig trees go, most of them should be
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  OK. Last year when we had this
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  freak, another freak snowstorm, we had to die.
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  It died off up top, but then it grew back.
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  And what was crazy about that one was we probably have about
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  10 fig trees and some of them are very small, some of them are
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  big. But the one that was around the
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  corner of the the garden, it was a pretty good sized tree and it
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  died off all the way to the ground.
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  Mark cut it back and all of a sudden it came back and it grew
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  like twice its size. And we both were were like just
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  marveling at the fact that, one, it could pull that off and do
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  that. And two, it's like it was such a
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  hard event. Like when you think about it, it
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  was shocking. It was hard, It ripped it apart
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  and it came back even stronger. And it's such a cool metaphor
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  for, you know, what we all need to go through sometimes as
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  humans, when something takes you down, you can recognize nature
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  wants you to come back even stronger.
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  And, and it did. So we're going to see how it
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  handles it this time. But yesterday was all consuming.
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  And honestly, I was focused on working on paperwork and taxes
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  and getting caught up so that I couldn't focus on everything
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  that was outside dying in my mind because I was like, Oh no,
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  Oh no, no. But it turns out we it, you
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  know, we did not get more than an inch of snow.
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  And I got most of my paperwork done, which I will finish today
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  because again, can't really go anywhere.
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  We don't have sand trucks and plows and not that we need a
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  plow, but we definitely would need salt and sand.
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  And hopefully it's going to warm up just enough where they said
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  we were going to teeter around 32 today, so freezing and
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  hopefully it will melt just enough so that we can get back
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  out on the roads. But then tonight when it, you
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  know, gets cold again, it's going to freeze again.
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  So we're going to have days of this every morning until we have
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  clearing and everything dries up.
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  But the point is the spiraling head, I had to keep it busy.
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  So I just shut everything off. I shut my phone off.
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  I shut everything off. And I focused on that one thing.
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  I focused on one thing like getting the paperwork done.
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  And the lesson in that for everybody is sometimes when your
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  brain is so loud and you can't shut it off, you have to tell it
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  no. I'm working on this.
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  And that's what I had to keep doing all day yesterday.
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  So if you find yourself stuck in a situation like that and you
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  need to shut off all the chatter, giving yourself one
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  major directive sometimes can be unbelievably effective.
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  Especially when you say there's no option for failure and there
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  isn't because I know I have to have this to him like now,
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  because it's got to be filed for the corporate paperwork.
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  So my point is, you got to do it.
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  You got to just suck it up and tell yourself there's no option.
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  And honestly, it feels good when you can stop back and see how
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  much you accomplished. So if you're in that situation,
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  give it a try and hopefully you will have the experience I had
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  when you can control it to not just get a bunch of stuff done,
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  but to really feel good about it.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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  on the next one. Bye.