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Season 5 - Episode 65 - Failing, fixing, and being pragmatic · 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. It is a rainy morning here and I
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  apologize for not being on yesterday.
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  But as you can hear, my voice is going in and out a little bit
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  and it's just, it was just overworked and I had to take a
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  break sounded even worse. So I just took a little bit of a
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  break and sat back, drank a lot of tea and feeling like it's
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  it's on the mend. So that's all good.
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  And I think it's a lot to do with this pollen.
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  But anyway, massive, massive progress on the seed planting
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  that we had set up for the garage and that I had had
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  planned. Now, one of the things I love to
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  share with all of you is my failures so you can understand
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  how to get past them. I last year, I would not say was
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  a failure in gardening at all, but what I would say is I had
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  some failures in it. And one of my major ones was
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  that I lost a lot of labels. And one would think like, how
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  can that possibly happen? Well, when you're planting a lot
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  of plants, it's very easy to lose your coordination and
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  labeling. And I had decided I was going to
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  use popsicle sticks and I wrote on them in a Sharpie and I was
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  convinced that it was going to be OK.
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  But one of the things that you don't realize with popsicle
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  sticks is that they suck the water up.
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  So the popsicle sticks turned black from the water being so
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  rich and with the dirt in it and I could not read what was in
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  them no matter what I tried. So it was a guessing game and it
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  was so annoying to me and frustrating.
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  And we had some issues with lighting where I didn't have
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  wide enough lights, so the plants on the outside of the
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  lights on the stands were not getting hit as much as the ones
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  in the middle, and therefore they were stretching.
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  And it just became this long line of little things that were
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  irritating. So this year, in order to learn
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  from our mistakes because that's the best thing that we can do, I
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  made sure every tray was planted with like items so I didn't mix
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  things up the best that I could. I have labels, plastic labels
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  inside now, and it's labeled not just with the word pepper, but
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  the kind of pepper on the outside of the trays.
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  I have them labeled so I can see instantaneously what's on that
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  shelf. Like for instance, a tray that
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  may have tomatoes in it, like the one I'm looking at has six
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  different kinds of tomatoes growing in it.
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  Three plants of each there, 18 starter, 3 by 3 plants sitting
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  in each one or soon to be plants.
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  However, the whole tray is also labeled tomatoes.
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  So I can just look at it, scan it and see what's there.
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  So there's not the drama of wondering like, oh, what is
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  that? Is that a watermelon or is that
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  something else? Like what, what, what is that
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  that that's supposed to be? So I had to be very, very
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  careful in my organization upfront.
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  But what that taught me was as organized as I think I am, I'm
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  not always that organized. So I thought it through.
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  I made sure I had every single little thing that I could
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  organized in just the right way so that I was getting the most
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  out of it. And when I do things like that,
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  one, I feel like I actually learned something and I'm
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  smarter 2, I feel like the project is going to come
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  together better. And three, I feel like when I
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  see everything put together, I feel like, okay, right, I did a
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  better job. Now this year we're going to
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  have an entire rack of vegetables.
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  So we're going to have one that instead of mixing them back and
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  forth, herbs and vegetables, that's going to be.
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  So if you picture this, we've got 18 seed starter plant pots
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  in each tray and we've got 4 trays on a shelf.
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  So then we've and we've got 3 shelves.
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  So we have a lot of plants that are going to be going outside
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  and then we have a duplicate of that set up for flowers.
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  And the flowers will be planted probably next weekend because
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  they have to go out when it's a little bit warmer.
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  But the vegetables have all started.
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  Everything is going and that's not including the ones that have
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  to direct. So, so I have maps of
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  everything. I'm, I mean, I am being diligent
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  with this to make sure I nail it.
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  And sometimes when you do that in your life overall, and you
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  just pause and say, I would rather be this this process take
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  me a little bit longer to get it underway than to have it
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  disorganized. And that's exactly what I did.
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  No rushing, very pragmatic. And the sense of peace that
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  comes over you when you do it is tremendous.
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  I highly encourage you to give it a try.
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  And if you're not thinking of planting things, you know what,
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  give it a shot because I have to tell you, it feels tremendous
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  when you see them come up. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day. Go be pragmatic and I will talk
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  to you tomorrow. Bye.