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Season 5 - Episode 66 - Response or reaction… The choice is ours · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to 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. I'm in the garage with the seeds
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  very early because when I woke up this morning, it was 37°.
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  And I'm like, are you kidding me?
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  Acting like I'm surprised when I'm not surprised because I'm a
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  human being. I respond to the weather every
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  day. We go through this every spring,
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  every single spring. And while it feels like it's all
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  over the place and unexpected and I get all reactive like Oh
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  my God I I can't believe it. The truth is I completely
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  understand exactly what this is. It's the same thing all the
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  freaking time. And every spring it shows up
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  this way. So me being surprised is just a
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  natural human thing because what we do is we react instead of
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  responding. And I work very hard to control,
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  as you know, that response. I talk about that a lot, saying,
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  you know, manage your emotions. You've got to understand where
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  your emotions are coming from. There are certain things that
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  you can learn from them. Lots of things, tons of things
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  you can learn from them, but if you are in reaction instead of
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  response, it's not going to be the same thing.
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  So it's very important to remember that you want to do the
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  right thing by responding instead of reacting.
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  So I just want to give everybody a little reminder today.
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  When you react, it's it's impulsive, it's black, it comes
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  right out. Like when I put the dogs out and
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  I put my hand out the door, I was like, no, why is it so cold?
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  Because immediately in my head, I was thinking about all those
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  plum blossoms sitting out there that have just formed little
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  tiny plums. And what does that mean?
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  And does it mean that they're going to all die and I'm going
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  to not have plums? And I'm thinking, I felt like
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  the kid from A Christmas Story when he was like talking about
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  how the Bumpus dogs ate all of the Turkey and no chicken a la
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  King, no chicken sandwiches. And he was running through the
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  list. That's what I was doing with my
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  plum scenario in my head. So I was in complete and total
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  reaction and I was, I was completely engulfed in it.
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  I will admit that my brain went and it was, I just woken up.
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  What do you do when you wake up? You take care of your dogs
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  immediately because if you don't, they stare at you and
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  make you feel guilty as a human that you're doing inaccurate job
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  taking care of them. So the dogs always get cared for
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  first before me for anything else.
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  The cat is like ambivalent. She could care less at that
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  point. But the dogs immediate,
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  especially Beaufort, it's like, let me go, I need to go outside
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  right now. So I, I was in complete and
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  total reaction. I shut the door, I turned
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  around. I was like, OK, let's respond,
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  calm down. Let's see what the weather is.
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  So I opened the weather app 37°. OK, it didn't freeze, so that
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  was good. Immediately talking to Google,
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  trying to figure out what's the freeze temperature on these
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  Japanese plums. When will they lose their little
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  tiny beauty, You know, and they're like, O28 is the lowest
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  it can really go 32. It's a risk, but it's unlikely
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  because they're very good at it. They expect that kind of thing
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  happening in the spring, which is like, well, the tree expects
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  this, this is amazing. So why am I flipping out?
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  So I start to calm down and I can get more into reaction mode
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  and saying, OK, is this a one day deal?
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  How many days are we looking at it being cold?
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  Well, apparently by the weekend we're going to be back up into
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  the 70s, which is fine and wonderful.
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  But between now and then it's going to be colder at night, but
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  not horrible. It'll be in the 40s.
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  OK, tonight it will be 37 again, but then we will be in the 40s.
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  So, OK, we, but during the day it's going to go up Today, I
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  think the high is going to be 50.
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  So I, I can take all this information in and I can plan a
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  reaction. OK, Do I want to cover the tree
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  tonight? Do I want to know, you know, is
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  there something else I can do? Should I heavily water it today
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  so that it has that? Because if you water them, it,
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  it, the soil does not get as frozen as it will with its, if
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  it's dry. Dry soil is actually more
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  dangerous than wet soil when it comes to freezing.
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  So that's why you'll see farmers turn, turn the water on
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  sometimes because even if it coats the leaves, it's an
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  insulation, believe it or not, rather than just the frost
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  bearing it down on it. So all different kinds of little
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  tricks. But that's reaction instead of,
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  you know, that's not, that's response rather than reaction.
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  And I have to stay in that space of response.
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  So by the time this whole thing went through, I was like, well,
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  now I know what I'm talking about in my podcast today
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  because I just wasted 15 minutes of my life flipping between
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  these two toggle switches in my brain.
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  And the lesson is you can pull yourself out because guess what?
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  It only took, yes, it took 15 minutes, but it only took 15
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  minutes. And it isn't going to suck up
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  the rest of my day. So try really hard to focus on
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  reaction or response and pull yourself back from the edge.
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  Cut down on the time. Save yourself the aggravation.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and pray
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  for the plums. I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.