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Season 4 - Episode 140 - Joy in the mundane · 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. So today I actually got you on a
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  walk with me. We are headed out to do the
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  chores of putting the chickens out.
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  So there may be some strange noise in the background that
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  you're not used to hearing, but it's only because we are doing
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  the chores actively. Now you may be saying, why is
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  she doing chores with us? What is she supposed to be
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  talking about today? Well, really it's about the fact
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  that this is my morning every morning, like I come outside and
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  the very first things I do are very mindful for me, very
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  attention oriented for me, where I am completely and totally
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  focused on making sure that I'm taking care of all obviously all
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  the animals, everything around. And one of the things that I
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  love about doing this that makes me so thrilled all the time is
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  the fact that it gives me this way to start my day in peace.
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  Like right this moment I am picking some mint for tea and I
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  will take that back in the house with me.
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  So when I go to make myself tea in a little while, I'm going to
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  have fresh mint to do it with. And usually we have some bunnies
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  that free range here as well. And usually they stop and grab
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  some of the mint. They really love it.
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  So I usually drop some for them, which is what I'm doing right
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  now and saying good morning to them.
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  Because for me, the whole act of doing all of this is just about
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  love. I mean, if I'm truthfully honest
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  with you, this is a lot of work. And I don't think you can hear
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  him. They're still inside.
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  He's in the window screaming because their auto door hasn't
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  opened yet. An I have trays to put on the
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  ground for them of their shredded zucchini, blueberries,
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  coconut oil, hot Peppers to make sure their guts stay
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  strengthened and get rid of any parasites.
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  Hot Peppers, crushed red Peppers, hot Peppers do a
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  miraculous things for chickens like that.
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  And some oatmeal, just dried oatmeal.
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  They love it. So anyway, those are those trays
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  are now on the ground and now I'm spreading around some
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  scratch for them. And typically the whole time I'm
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  doing this when I'm not talking to you all, I'm just very
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  centered on being very peaceful, just being very like, I get to
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  come out and do this. I get to take care of them.
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  I get to see them in the morning and the world is still quiet and
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  it feels great to be able to just come out and genuinely, if
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  you hear that scratching sound in the back background, that's
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  just me spreading the the scratch grain around along the
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  freeze dried mealworms for them. And it's I just put it all
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  around the ground watching them come out and search it out and
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  find it and look for what they want in the morning.
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  It brings me to a place of peace to start my day.
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  Now, most people might say, oh geez, I don't want chores to
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  start my day. But for me, this is I don't
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  think of them when I use the word chores.
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  I don't think of them as a bad thing.
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  I actually think of chores as something that are they're there
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  to help take care of things that I love.
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  Those chores are present because there's a lot going on.
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  Good morning, girls. I just opened their door and
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  they're all starting to come out now.
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  And one of the, the cool things about doing something like this
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  and having, you know, this type of a situation where you've got
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  animals that require your attention every day is they are,
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  they're part of your everyday life.
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  Like they, they really are a part of your everyday life.
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  And you get to focus loving them unconditionally and taking care
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  of them. I mean, obviously you can make
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  it a chore in your head. You can choose to make anything
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  good, bad or indifferent in your head.
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  But this is where for me, the choices come in to say, OK, I
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  get to come out here. I get to see like I'm looking at
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  them all running around eating their, their breakfast and the
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  rooster being obnoxious. I have one rooster in the
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  morning who's like very obnoxious in the morning, and
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  then he calms down in like 20 minutes.
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  But when he comes out, he's just all full of himself and very
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  cocky. I know, I know where that term
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  comes from because it's very true.
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  And he's just very cocky. And so for me, one of the
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  interesting things is that when you start caring for them and
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  you know their personalities, you start to just find more joy
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  in things. You start to handle things
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  differently and it's looking for those little points of joy in
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  the mundane. When you can find joy in the
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  mundane in the chores, everything starts to shift in
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  the day. Everything starts to have a, a
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  different feeling about it. Looking and making sure that you
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  know they're all OK. It it just, it's part of this
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  whole caring identity that we create.
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  So this is not something that I take lightly because it really
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  does feel to me like they matter and I matter to them.
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  So it's a it's a very useful, useful thing to incorporate when
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  you decide you want to really find joy in your life, find joy
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  in the mundane. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.