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Season 4 - Episode 83 - Taking on new information · 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 to my back steps.
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  I'm sitting here and overlooking the garden and it's dark.
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  I can't see anything, but it's sprinkling slightly and I
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  there's a cool breeze out here and I'm under the covered
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  walkway and just processing everything that we have going on
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  out there. So this farm.
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  Is an actual. Working farm.
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  I mean, we work this farm and it's interesting because we have
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  been certified as a wildlife habitat.
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  We have done, meaning we support all the creatures that are out
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  here. We don't spray.
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  It's organic. We're incorporating fruit trees,
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  berries, herbs, veggies, working on deciding what nuts we're
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  going to put out here because we, we have to just, everything
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  comes in space and layers and you have to just keep working
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  on. And it's interesting because
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  yesterday as we were working on fencing and getting everything
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  put together, one of the things that became very clear to us, it
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  was this past winter, we had really harsh weather and it
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  snowed here and it doesn't, it's not supposed to snow here.
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  And it snowed and it was cold for multiple days in a row.
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  And we've lost seven of our fruit trees.
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  And these were already producing big fruit trees and we lost
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  them. And, you know, we could sit here
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  and beat ourselves up and say we could have, should have, would
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  have done things differently. But the truth is the weather was
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  just beyond the control. And even if we had done the
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  extreme end of protecting them, unless they were in greenhouses,
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  it wouldn't have stopped what was happening.
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  So back to the drawing board, as we say, back to looking at the
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  situation and assessing. And you can get frustrated and
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  you can say, hey, you know what, this sucks and I'm angry and I'm
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  frustrated and I hate this. And all those things would be
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  true. And at the same time, when you
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  walk around the corner, you look at the plum trees.
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  And the plum trees actually had three times as many blooms on
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  them this year as they normally do.
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  And that was because of the cold weather.
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  So what the cold weather did on the left side of the the, the
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  farm, the the garage area, it, it ruined it.
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  On the right side, it actually helped it.
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  And it's astonishing to see how that works.
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  It's astonishing to see how something has to be cold in
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  order to do well. Like for instance, I have a a
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  seed that's for flowers in the refrigerator right now.
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  And you're probably thinking, why the hell does she have seeds
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  in there? But I have to do something
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  called cold stratification so that the seeds know it's time to
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  work. So I'm sending the seed a signal
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  by putting it into the refrigerator for two weeks and
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  then I can plant it outside and then we will have glorious
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  flowers. But there are just some things
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  that you just can't, you can't help some things that you nature
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  needs. I can't grow certain flowers
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  here, even though I've tried ranunculus, ranunculus,
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  ranunculus, they won't grow because it gets too hot.
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  So and you know, when you're in the wind, I mean, I'm I'm not
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  far from the ocean, so we get a lot of wind and the wind
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  sometimes doesn't do well for things.
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  And you have to work. You can have the best laid plans
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  and believe me, I have plans and papers and study books and all
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  of it. And you can do all of these
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  things and yet some of them you can't.
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  It just doesn't work. So you have to pivot.
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  You have to say, OK, these are my conditions and are they going
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  to be my conditions forever? Maybe, maybe not.
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  But the truth is it's important to recognize it and say, OK, now
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  that I know this is what I'm dealing with, I can make a pivot
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  and I can make a choice. So we're trying a whole bunch of
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  new things this year. We're trying a whole bunch of
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  different strategies to get better results.
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  So to avoid the disease of the tomatoes that take us out, we
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  are putting the tomatoes in bags this year and putting the bags
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  on top of the the ground cover that we have for the garden so
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  that the weed barrier so that we can control that and see if that
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  stops the disease from happening.
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  Because the disease is soil borne and it's only tomatoes.
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  Isn't that wonderful? Everything else thrives in the
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  soil except the damn tomatoes. But the point is, it's all about
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  pivoting, and the garden, the farm, the plants, the animals,
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  they all remind us constantly of the fact that we as human beings
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  have to read the conditions, make decisions, and pivot.
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  And when we do that, we show we are intelligent.
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  Intelligence means you're supposed to be able to take on
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  information and use it accordingly.
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  You can't force something in. And boy, to have I had to learn
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  that in my life. Just because I want it doesn't
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  mean I can force it. Now, can I create ways around
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  it? Can I create multiple pathways?
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  Sure. But I can't force it.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  hope you go out and figure out what your pivots are, because
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  I'm going to be working hard on that and I will see you all
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  tomorrow. Bye.