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Season 5 - Episode 116 - The drought and the ripple effect. · 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 happen 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.
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  So we are in the middle of a drought here, and this is
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  extremely abnormal. The pond on our property is
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  probably a good 3 1/2 feet low, maybe closer to 4.
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  Thank goodness it's deep, 11 feet, 12 feet at the deepest.
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  But we are in a drought and we don't use the pond to water
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  anything. But it doesn't matter because
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  there are things in there. Our koi are in there.
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  There are things living in there and now we haven't had rain.
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  It's significant rain in any like I, I don't remember the
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  last time it significantly rained.
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  And when it does rain, it's just trying to catch back up so we
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  never get back to abundance with it.
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  And this whole drought has just caused so many interesting
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  thoughts for me, besides the issues, because I have to come
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  out here and I will not waste water, so I will not turn on
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  irrigation. So I come out and I hand water
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  things every night. And that normally years ago when
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  we did not have irrigation, when we first got the farm, about
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  five years ago, it would irritate me to water and I
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  'cause I just, I had so many things to do.
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  That's what I told myself. And now because of the drought,
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  I have learned that hand watering things is a way to be
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  accurate. Not waste the water.
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  Don't water the weeds, water what's alive that you want to
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  keep alive and be very thoughtful with it.
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  This process of me believing that has saved me in other areas
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  because I was able to save certain plants from getting hit
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  by bugs. I, I'm able to have eyes on
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  problems quickly. It, it, it's just, it's totally
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  shifted my belief around the time I spend with things doing
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  chores, because I can see the benefit on the other side of
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  conserving water, saving water and making sure now when we
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  don't have any restrictions on us.
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  But for me, it's just a, an awareness thing.
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  If we're in a drought, I'm not going to waste any water and I
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  want the and I want to take care of my plants at the same time
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  that has given me such a shift of slowing down and saying,
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  well, is it wrong to just click on the irrigation?
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  No, it's not wrong. And sometimes I'll probably have
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  to do it. I've, I've done it once since
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  the and I've only done it for the flowers.
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  I haven't done it for the vegetable garden at all.
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  And I feel as though the lesson in this for me is pulling back
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  and saying, if I have the time to grow all of this in the
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  beginning through the winter, I have to make the time to care
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  for it in the spring. I have to choose to make the
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  time to care for it in the spring.
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  So that is causing me the ripple effect of saying, OK, well, if I
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  want to do that, then I have to plan my spring projects
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  differently. And instead of saying it's a
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  spring project, it's actually a winter project to get like 80%
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  of it done. And then I can hit it in the
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  spring and then I won't have to worry about doing it like so,
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  for instance, if I want to put in a new part of the garden
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  that's going to attract in pollinators.
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  And I waited in, which is very true.
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  This is what happened. I waited until early spring to
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  start that project. I should have done it in the
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  winter because there's no reason our winters aren't harsh enough
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  that I have to do that. And I don't know why.
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  And it made me question my pattern of why did I do it that
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  way? Because I didn't want to be
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  outside when it's cool. No, I actually like to work when
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  it's cool outside. I don't like to work with it.
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  Like today it's 80° and it's only 5:15 in the morning.
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  So it's making me question everything.
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  And the gift in the question is powerful.
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  I mean, it's more powerful than I realized.
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  So this ripple effect that things have, we as human beings
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  often do not look further down the line.
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  But now this is really causing me to create a whole different
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  path of awareness. So where else can this show up
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  in my life? OK, it's, it's we're coming up
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  on June. It's almost the end of May.
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  So the ripple effect in that way is OK, I want to look at my
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  stuff halfway through the year. I don't want to wait to look
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  until the quarter till or till the end of the year.
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  I want, maybe I want to even do it quarterly.
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  Whereas sometimes I, and when I say stuff, I mean business
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  stuff. Do I want to look at it sooner
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  so that by the end of December I'm not actually having to even
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  struggle to put things together? I'm like, this is probably
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  really good. I, I have often said, I think
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  probably every year I'm going to do paperwork quarterly and I
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  haven't done it and. This.
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  Drought thing and this ripple effect that it's caused has
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  really taught me that's stupid, Kim, you need to do it.
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  So I am thanking the drought and I'm going to start doing some
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  things differently based on what it has taught me from pulling
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  out my hose and having to water everything by hand or choosing
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  to water everything by hand. And I'm going to allow that
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  ripple effect to teach me something across the board.
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  So the question is, where can you use that lesson too?
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  And where does that show up for you?
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  And what ripple effect are you a part of right now?
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Hopefully there's rain today.
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  Pray for me. Bye.