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Season 4 - Episode 189 - It’s all in what you notice! · 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
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  let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. If you hear Thunder in the
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  background, it's because we're about to have a thunderstorm and
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  the lightning is going off and it's dark and it's cool.
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  And I just finished sitting on the porch doing my morning
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  meditation. So I am recording it from here
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  instead of the coop with the girls this morning because of
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  the storm. OK, so I want to tell you a
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  great story that happened yesterday.
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  It's very hot here, very humid. It's been dry.
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  We are still not at our normal levels of water.
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  And I have water stations all over for animals.
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  You know, I've got multiple spots the girls can go and get
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  drinks during the day. I've got bird, three different
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  bird feeders. I've got a butterfly water
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  feeder, which is really just a saucer filled with these little
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  round marbles so that they can come and land and then they can
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  drink the water that's in there. So yesterday here I am, there's
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  a spot between the garage and the house and it's we enter the
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  back door there all the time. And I was out there and this big
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  beautiful swallowtail butterfly. If you've never seen them, look
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  them up. Swallowtail butterfly.
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  It's they're like the size of my hand.
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  They're yellow. They've got this crazy blue that
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  comes out on them. They're just stunning.
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  And I've got this whole farm covered in flowers that are, you
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  know, pollinator food. So we attract a lot of
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  pollinators. Typically this year it seems to
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  be a little bit lower than normal.
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  I'm not sure why, but maybe I'm just not seeing them.
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  So I don't make a big deal out of that.
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  I just keep planting. And the more you plant, the more
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  that comes. But that's not the point of the
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  story. The point of the story is that
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  this big swallowtail butterfly is landing between the buildings
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  and it's on the ground. And I walked by it.
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  At first I saw it and I beat me being me.
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  I said, oh, good morning. And I walked by it.
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  And then I something made me stop and I turned around and I
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  went back and I and it was on the ground and, and it was like
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  crawling on the stones. And I was like, that's really
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  interesting. And I paused and I said, why
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  would that be doing that right there?
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  And I realized that that's a track where the runoff comes off
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  the roof when it rains. And it had rained earlier in the
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  day, but a very like earlier in the morning.
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  But it was a very short period of time.
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  It wasn't anything that would do anything, nothing of substance,
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  but there was probably more water in that soil there than
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  anything. And I backed and I and I looked
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  and I was like, Oh my gosh, she's thirsty.
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  And I ran in the garage and I got a bucket and filled the
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  bucket up with water. And about 3 feet from her, I
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  started pouring the water into the stones because it's crushed
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  bluestone right there and that along that way.
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  And it's pretty packed down. So when you put water on it, it,
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  it will sit there for a few minutes, but it's still under
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  the stones. So she's like a little elevated,
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  but there's water there. So I pour it and all of a sudden
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  she starts flapping her wings but staying there and moving
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  around and drinking. And I sat there and I watched
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  her for a good 3 minutes and I'm not exaggerating.
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  It was it was a good 3 minutes. I just sat there and watched her
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  and thought to myself, how cool is this that she came to get
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  water. I happened to be walking by.
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  I'm air quoting that because that didn't happen.
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  It was one of those things that was meant to be.
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  I saw her. I didn't ignore it.
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  I didn't just say good morning and walk by.
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  I came back and I, I recognized there was something.
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  I was curious because you guys know, I'm always saying
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  curiosity is a superpower. And when I stopped, I got to
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  actually see her drinking and at the when I was like after three
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  minutes of just sitting there and just watching her and I
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  didn't even try to photograph it because I wanted to be so
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  present with the moment. I didn't go run and get a
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  camera. I didn't pull out my phone.
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  I just sat there and watched her.
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  And the, the coolest experience for me was knowing that one, my
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  personal belief is that, you know, she chose to come to this
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  farm. So here I am knowing I'm, I'm a
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  caretaker of this beautiful creature and truly believe that.
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  And two, I didn't just rush by. I didn't go in such a place in
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  such a way of my day that I rushed by and didn't notice her.
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  I noticed her and I and I was curious.
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  So I was able to figure out what she needed.
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  And for me, that was such a great gift of the day.
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  And I'll be a small gift. It was this connection back to
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  Mother Nature, the universe, God, whatever you want to call
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  it. It was a connection back to
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  something and it just, it made me feel so full.
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  So I encourage you to have these moments.
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  I encourage you to look for these things because they are
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  all around us. I could have walked right by her
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  and not had it, but I drew, I truly believe that they are put
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  all around us. And when you stop and you pause
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  and you look, you find them. So go seek my friends.
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  All right, I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.