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Season 3 - Episode 199 - Pasta day and decisions! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop, along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So today is pasta day in the chicken coop.
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  And as many of you know, I like, you know, seeing pictures on
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  social media, I bring out platters every morning to my
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  animals and they consist of fresh veggies and different
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  things all the time. Sometimes I just clean out the
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  refrigerator with it. It's like a very useful thing,
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  but every so often when it's not too warm, especially in the
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  winter, I do it more. But in the summer when it's
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  really hot and it's been really, really hot, I haven't given them
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  pasta in a while. So today is probably the first
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  time that these teenager chickens, so to speak, are
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  having pasta. So I bring out the platters and
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  basically this is just little shells, boiled, put coconut oil
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  on them, olive oil on them, and crushed red Peppers.
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  And today they always have. Every day they have bananas and
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  every day they have some other kind of fruit, whether it's
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  blueberries or raspberries. Today it happens to be
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  raspberries on top, but the littles haven't seen the pasta
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  yet. And what was interesting about
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  this was I put it down and all the big girls immediately went
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  to it. And the little girls didn't even
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  know what to do. Some of them stood back, some of
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  them watched the big girls, some of them dove right in.
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  It was just a, a melee of like, what is the right thing to do?
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  And it got me really thinking about normally I wouldn't talk
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  about something like this, however, got me thinking about
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  how humans approach things as well and how humans get very,
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  very wound up when they have to make decisions.
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  And this platter, putting it down on the ground is a very,
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  very like immediate thing. All the big girls, there are 33
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  big girls and they come rushing. So they want to get their
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  breakfast and they're going to get it quickly before it's gone
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  because they understand how this works.
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  And then you've got all the littles, which there are 28
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  littles who are trying to figure out how to, you know, get in
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  there. And it's so funny to me to watch
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  them figure out like, do I mimic what the others are doing or do
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  I not? And as I started watching,
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  because now I've gotten all their personalities pretty
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  clear, there are some that consistently hold back no matter
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  what they see anybody doing. There are those that are just
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  all in right away, no matter what anybody's doing.
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  And then there are the middle of the roads that will take a piece
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  and then they run off and they don't need it, but they take it
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  off and then they want to see what it is.
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  They want to explore it first and how much that mimics human
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  behavior in most things. How we get stuck in that same
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  thing where we don't actually just say, all right, I'm going
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  to dive right in. I'm going to or we do say, I'm
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  going to watch and see what happens here.
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  I'm going to see what everybody else goes through and then I'll
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  make a decision. And I think it's very parallel
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  to how a human being thinks and how a human being gets involved
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  in this stuff. And when you pay attention and
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  watch yourself, am I, what am I doing?
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  Am I following the crowd? Am I jumping in with the crowd?
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  Am I standing off from the crowd?
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  It really helps us understand our own behavior.
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  Like am I in the midst of it? Am I leaving through it?
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  Or am I just standing back watching the fray?
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  Now, I can tell you there are times for myself personally when
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  I will jump in and I will take the leadership role and I will
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  go right in. And then there are other times
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  when I just stand back and I'm like, yeah, I'm not so sure
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  about this. I want to watch and see what
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  happens. I find myself in that observant
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  role as I get older more and more because I want to watch the
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  behavior of everyone else going on before I actually make a
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  decision about what is actually happening.
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  And I think as we get older, these things happen.
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  We become more directed to be in the place where we are going to
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  go in that observation mode and we don't jump in quite so
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  quickly, which is fine. There's nothing wrong with it
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  and there's nothing wrong with any of these.
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  It's just having us take a look at it and be observant with it
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  and say, well, what does that get us?
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  What does this behavior get us? Because remember, the more we
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  observe things, the more we can shift and decide.
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  So for me, the the being the observer and watching, watching
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  and pulling back gives me Peace of Mind that I didn't make a
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  decision that was going to be quick.
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  Quick, yes, fine, I'd make quick decisions, but it wasn't well
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  thought through. And sometimes I have to say to
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  myself, I need 24 hours to make that decision so I can go
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  through the whole process. Now sometimes there is just no
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  way you have to make a decision, especially life and death
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  things. You got to just jump in and go
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  and that's it. And that's fine.
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  I mean, if that's what has to be done, that's what has to be
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  done, no questions asked. But I'm not talking about those,
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  I'm talking about the normal things.
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  So before I walked out here, perfect example, I have want to
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  order a new bed Topper because we have a very nice mattress
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  that my husband got because it was good for his hips and great,
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  you know, that's fantastic, but it doesn't work for me and my
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  style of sleeping. I want squishy, he wants hard.
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  It's a pain in the butt. I was going to get a new
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  mattress Topper. I watched a commercial for it
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  and then I was like, OK, I'm not going to pull that trigger right
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  now. I'm going to do more research
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  and that's OK. But that's one of those
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  observant ones. Now when I was younger, I might
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  have just ordered it immediately, but the point of
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  this is saying it doesn't matter who you are in the world.
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  It doesn't matter what you do, you, you have all three
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  capacities. You have many different
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  capacities when it comes to this.
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  So it's watching yourself and doing it with the awareness that
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  you're doing it, not just randomly doing it and holding
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  yourself back. Because sometimes when you're
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  not aware, then you make those mistakes of staying in those
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  spots of pulling back too long. So hopefully this was helpful
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  today and I will see you guys tomorrow.
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  Bye.