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Season 5 - Episode 96 - What do you believe you are NOT good at? · 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.
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  Way. Hey, everybody.
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  Good morning. What do you believe you're not
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  good at? OK, now I'm asking this question
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  for a very specific reason, because I believe I'm not great
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  at cooking. I, I can do it, but I'm, I, I
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  don't make things that are outstanding typically.
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  Now when I say that, it's really strange because I do make
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  Thanksgiving like I'm the person that does Thanksgiving, but it
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  takes me 3 days of getting ready for it.
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  It takes me all this time to plan for it.
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  I, I get very overwhelmed by it. I have to work really hard at
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  putting it all together. And it is, it is a challenge for
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  me to say the least. To say the least, it's a
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  challenge for me. So I whenever I have a thought
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  about wanting to do something like that, like do a big meal,
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  put something together, I always get to that place immediately of
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  like, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no. Now this is happening live as we
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  talk about it because my guys are out hiking and they're in
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  the hills of like North Carolina.
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  It's like out and the deal is that it was supposed to be
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  spring decent weather. Well, it turns out as I see it
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  on my screen as I'm watching all of this, it's very, very cold.
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  So I am, you know, when by the time they get home, they're
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  going to be really, really cold. So I thought, oh, wouldn't it be
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  nice to come home to a nice hot meal yes, that would be lovely,
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  wouldn't it? So I'm thinking I can do this.
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  Then I start getting completely overwhelmed with the thought of
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  like, OK, well, what would I make and what would that look
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  like? And how how would I put that
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  together? And what would the timing be?
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  And, and my brain instantly goes to overwhelm with it.
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  Like, I'm not even talking a little, I'm talking a lot
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  because I have to try to quote, UN quote, figure out what would
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  work. And especially with timing, you
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  know, So of course I start to say, OK, I, I remember my
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  grandmother always having things in a pot because having six kids
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  in the house, me being one of them, and then all the other
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  kids running in and out of the house all the time, she would
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  always have a pot of something that was ready to go.
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  It wasn't as though she was ill equipped at any point in time to
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  feed anyone. At any point in time, the woman
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  could just whip out stuff and have it ready.
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  So I remembered, oh, she had a crock pot.
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  OK, I have a crock pot and no, I don't have an insta pot.
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  You know, I, I just don't have one.
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  I'm, I don't even have a microwave because I hate them so
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  much. So I, I'm here, I am like, OK, I
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  could do this or I could do this.
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  And I start thinking it through and mind you, it's pouring here.
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  Thank God it's pouring here because we have a real issue
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  with rain right now and not having enough of it.
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  We are way behind. We are considered in an
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  exceptional drought, which never thrills anybody.
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  When you're in that and you can hear me in the background, I'm
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  doing chores because it's in between the rain, so I can run
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  outside and take care of the chickens.
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  And I'm, I'm just like, Oh my gosh, OK, I I've got this crock
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  pot. What am I going to do with it?
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  So I start looking up recipes and there's very few recipes for
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  crock pots. It's all talking insta pot.
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  But I'm like, OK, doesn't matter.
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  I can, I can make this work. I can do like a extended version
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  of it. It doesn't have to be the way
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  they're saying. I can just use it like the slow
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  version. I remember my grandmother having
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  things cooked for 678 hours. It's OK.
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  So I'm talking myself off the ledge constantly and this got me
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  really focused on look how look how crazy it can make you when
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  you think you're not good at something.
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  Now I'm not saying give yourself false credit where credit is not
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  due because that's not my jam. I'm saying give yourself a
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  chance. Tell yourself OK, it's OK, you
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  can do it. Will it be perfect?
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  Probably not, but that's OK. It doesn't have to be perfect,
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  it just needs to be. Something.
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  That they can eat when they get home.
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  It does not have to be perfection.
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  So I'm, I'm like, I go through, I've got all these cookbooks
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  because I love cookbooks. I love the idea of the
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  cookbooks. And that's what's funny about
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  it. I will hand the recipes to mark
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  and be like, oh, can you make this or can you make this?
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  And if it's a recipe, I should be able to follow it.
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  But I got so freaked out by failed things before with it
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  that I just tell myself, oh, it's not my jam.
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  I I don't do that well with it and it's all crap.
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  It's all crap. I can do it, I should do it, and
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  I'm making a decision to practice that.
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  And this year I'm doing it in even a bigger way, because if
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  I'm growing all these vegetables, I certainly am going
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  to try to cook with these vegetables more than I normally
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  do, and I'm going to make it work somehow.
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  So I've got the Christopher Kimball vegetable, for those of
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  you who don't know, he's a PBS guy and he has a show on there
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  and he's got tons of cookbooks out and he's based out of
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  Boston, which is, you know, hometown for me.
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  So I'm like, OK, I want to, I love his stuff.
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  And it's always, he's got a book called Cookish that's amazing.
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  And I can do little things in there.
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  So I'm like, wait, I'm OK with this.
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  I can actually do this. So I am off to go and say I'm
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  going to go pick up this meat. I'm going to make this for when
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  they come home and we'll see if it's a success.
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  But either way, I'm not going to allow myself to think I'm not
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  good enough to do it. I'm just going to do it and
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  we'll see. And if it sucks, we'll go out to
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  dinner. 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.