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Season 4 - Episode 225 - Throw in the towel? · 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.
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  To teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy.
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  Into the. World.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the porch. The very dark, very early porch
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  and the storms have stopped. We've had great weather the last
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  couple days. Things are drying out.
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  But as I walk around, I'm looking at quite a few things
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  that have died off. And one of my projects was to
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  put some tractor seat plants out around this entrance when you
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  come in. And they're supposed to be very
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  durable and they need a mix of a little bit of sun and a little
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  bit of shade. And they do really well when
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  it's half and half. And apparently the, the ground
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  is so saturated that they are flopped over and looking
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  terrible. And I don't know if they're gone
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  or not. I don't know if I've lost them.
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  So today's conversation is about what do you do when you're,
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  you've done all this work and then you find that it flops.
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  Now I'm using this in an example of plants, but I, I mean, this
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  happens across the board. This, this happens wherever you
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  go. I'm also in the midst of
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  revamping my website and going through and cleaning up a bunch
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  of stuff after a year of having it the way that it is, I'm
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  seeing what's working, what's not working, what do I want to
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  change? And organically, for me, this
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  time of year is one of those times where I just say, oh, it's
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  like back to school in my head. There's that back to school
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  thing. I was always grilled into it.
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  I loved that going back to school.
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  I loved the learning, didn't love the environment, but loved
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  the learning. And really just always loved my
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  books, my book covers, getting all the school supplies and
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  doing all that and getting organized, cleaning up my room,
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  getting it all ready. And to me, this is like all this
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  time of the year anyway, where you would look at this, you
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  would clean up, you would straighten things out, you would
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  start to go down that road. But all those storms, you know,
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  we had this intense, crazy heat and then it was followed by the
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  storms and 10 inches of rain in one day on top of already
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  saturated ground. It just took things out.
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  So as I sit here and I look and I say all that effort was put in
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  and, you know, things are not working the way I had intended
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  them to work. So now what?
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  What do I want to do? How do I want to see this?
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  And this is the gift in doing it in real time in the farm,
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  because it reminds me not to give up.
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  It reminds me that this is a condition for right now.
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  It reminds me that says, OK, that doesn't mean it's a
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  disaster. You know, flowers have been
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  beaten up. Flowers are now going to seed
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  head. And you look at it and you think
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  it's dead, but it's not dead. It's filled with seed.
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  The potential is huge in there. So I could keep walking around
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  and I could keep saying, oh, it's a problem.
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  Oh, it didn't work out the way I thought.
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  Oh, it was supposed to be this. But the truth is there's so many
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  lessons in that. And every time I see a flower
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  that died off and went to a seed head, I go, that's not actually
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  what's happening. It's not dead.
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  It's just not the way it was. And I look at the website like
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  that, I say it's not where I want it to be, but it's not
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  dead. It's not, it's not that it's not
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  functioning. It's just changing.
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  And this is part of understanding ourselves as the
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  creatures we are, we, we have these constant needs to grow
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  anyway. So we're always going to be
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  evolving. Things are always going to be
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  growing. Things are always going to be
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  changing. And there's not a lot that if
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  you're a growth mindset, you've heard me say this a bazillion
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  times, you're going to keep doing this.
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  So I'm not, I have no intention to give up on any of this.
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  It's just recalibrating. It's a new school year.
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  It's going back and looking at things slightly differently.
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  It's taking on whatever nature is giving you and saying, OK,
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  this is this is where I'm headed.
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  This is the the space I need to go into thinking about it at
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  this point in time. So rather than, you know, go
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  into a state of overwhelm with it all, rather than get myself
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  into a place where I'm completely like just, Oh my God,
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  I got to can't believe I killed all those plants and this is and
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  I didn't kill them. But I would think that because
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  there's not great drainage over there.
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  But they did really well all summer long.