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Season 4 - Episode 150 - Japanese Beatles and our thoughts · 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 from the chicken coop.
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  One of the most important lessons that I have ever learned
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  from this farm is that the smallest of small things can
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  make a big difference, and not always in a positive way or in a
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  negative way. Small things add up and make a
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  great big positive difference, and small things add up and make
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  a great big negative difference. I can talk about this and say,
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  OK, let's talk about Japanese beetles.
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  That is one thing that can take stuff out very, very quickly.
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  And when they show up, we're moving into that season when
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  they start to show up out here and they're small, right like
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  that. Most of the time they're the
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  size of the finger, your pinky fingernail, fingernail.
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  And the crazy part is they come in and they do such damage
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  because they eat through leaves and they just decimate a plant
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  very, very quickly. And I love to think of them in
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  terms of like, OK, I've got to get them while they're small.
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  And there's only a few of them small in numbers before I let
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  them take off. Because if I let them just get
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  here and I don't do anything about it.
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  The biggest problem you have is that before you know it, your
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  plants are completely, like I said, decimated.
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  But they are harder to come back because of the time of year when
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  they're here. It's hotter.
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  It gets starts to get hotter and hotter and hotter.
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  And in this heat, that is not a friend of certain things to
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  rebound from, from having just become emaciated.
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  So I have to take care of them quickly.
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  And that involves, you know, some people will say you have to
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  spray. I don't spray.
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  I won't put anything out. But what I, I put traps off to
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  the side and I try to catch them.
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  Now it's, it's one of these things that's hit or miss.
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  Most of the time you're going to end up with some and it's OK,
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  you know that it doesn't take out the whole thing it and you
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  walk and you check every day. I'm checking all the plants.
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  It sounds like such a colossal pain in the rear end.
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  And quite frankly, it is. However, if you love doing this
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  the way I love doing it, it's worth all the effort and these
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  small little other things will show up where you have to check
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  them. Things coming out of the ground.
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  Grubs. You know, there's a method to
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  the madness of having the chickens here because the
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  chickens go out and they dig all day long and they look for
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  things that are disgusting and grubby in the ground and they
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  will eat them. So that's good.
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  They will take care of that problem for me.
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  Now, the point of all of this is looking for those small things
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  in our head is the same as looking for them on the farm.
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  You cannot pass it by. You cannot say, OK, I'm not
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  going to check my head today to see what thoughts I'm having and
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  which ones I need to clean up. You cannot say I don't need a
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  clean up crew in my head to help me get rid of these negative
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  thoughts. You cannot say certain things
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  that are, that are, you know, there and ignore them are not
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  going to affect you. They will, they add up, they
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  cause problems and they add up. And the most important thing
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  that we can do for ourselves is to look for those small things,
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  just like I do out here all the time on the farm.
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  You know, it is, it is work, but it is the work we are meant to
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  do as human beings. I am convinced of it.
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  So we we could not sit and just have this.
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  Absolutely, you know, 100% perfect life.
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  That's not what it's meant to be.
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  It's meant to be that we have the ups and downs.
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  It's meant to be that we we rise to the occasion.
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  It's meant to be that we become creative.
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  It's meant to be that we do things differently.
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  That's how we thrive. So accepting that that the all
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  of this is part of it. It's a growth process that we
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  work on ourselves from the inside out.
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  That that inside out is a really big thing.
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  When we accept that, all of a sudden things start to click and
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  things start to change. So this is where inside out
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  where it comes. Just like looking for Japanese
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  beetles and setting traps, we have to set the traps for the
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  negative thoughts. So if we say ahead of time,
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  we're prepared. I know this situation bothers
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  me. And when X shows up, then I will
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  act Y. So we prepare before the emotion
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  goes up, before we get too out of control.
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  All of a sudden that makes a huge difference.
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  Like if you know you have a trigger by finding out something
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  about your business and you know, you're like all of a
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  sudden you've been waiting for a proposal and you haven't heard.
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  You haven't heard and you just don't know if somebody is like,
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  you know, going to give it to you or not.
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  When you say if this X shows up, if I if I get an answer and it's
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  this, then I'm going to react this way.
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  And if it's Y I'm going to react this way.
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  And you give yourself this honest, honest reactional like
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  framework, then you're going to feel so much better knowing you
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  did this for yourself. So work on this, try this.
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  I promise you it really helps. Now I'm going to go set some
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  Japanese beetle traps. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.