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Season 4 - Episode 32 - Six more weeks of winter? · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happened to 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 from the chicken coop.
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  It's Sunday so it's a later start.
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  Girls are already out here eating their pasta and today we
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  are talking about the fact that Punxsutawney Phil just saw his
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  shadow. So I guess we have 6 more weeks
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  of winter, which doesn't thrill anybody when you hear it.
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  But what's really funny was I was going to talk about
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  something completely different, but I was watching the whole
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  ceremony and it really struck me about how excited this old
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  tradition is and how these things make people so happy,
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  these little tiny things and being able to tell.
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  And then I thought, OK, well, is it really real?
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  Like, does this this this Groundhog really predicted the
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  winter? And do we really buy into things
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  and what we buy into? And it's very interesting
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  because I did the research going, you know, immediately to
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  the Internet to find out, and there was a reporter who did a
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  whole thing about it. And for where Punxsutawney Phil
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  lives in Punxsutawney, PA, he is 80% accurate, which cracks me
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  up. And furthermore, this has been
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  going on so long and it's so interesting.
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  And you watch them all dress up and it's all very elaborate and
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  the whole thing. And they read the scrolls.
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  And it's so driven by tradition. And it just makes me realize
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  again how we are such creatures of habit, absolute creatures of
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  habit. We love our traditions.
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  We love the things that allow us to feel connected, and this is
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  one of them. And I am right in the midst of
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  that this spring coming out and we're, you know, cleaning out
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  the garden, redesigning things every year.
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  For me, it's just like a little bit of all right, tweaking,
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  let's do this, let's try this, let's do something different.
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  And all of that is just part of that ritual of springtime.
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  So since it's the beginning of February, we have to back up and
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  ask ourselves, OK, we're getting in that slushy area where we
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  definitely want the winter to be done, where where we feel like
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  we're done hibernating. We want to come out and we can
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  get frustrated very quickly. And we have to look for the
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  habits of that so that they don't become something that are
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  taking over. Like just keep an eye on that.
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  This is not what this is about, but just keep an eye on that
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  because that can happen where you're just like.
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  Oh, I just want it to be done. I want it to be done.
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  I want it to be done and. You're so focused on what you
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  want it to not be that you forget what you can look at.
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  So right now the, the, the things that you can look at in
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  the ritualistic part of this is, OK, what are the things this
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  time of year, things you to do? What are the things that you can
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  be ready to do? Like so for me, it's buying the
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  seeds, you know, cleaning up all the gardens and getting them
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  ready. But this year I'm like, we're
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  really digging into it. Mark is helping me and we are
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  pulling out, We're burning the edges so that we don't have
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  these. We have this invasive weed here
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  that's terrible. And we're getting rid of that,
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  trying some different things, non chemical.
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  I'm completely organic here and trying some different things to
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  get rid of it. But he's going to also burn the
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  edges. We're going to do cloth around
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  the edges to make sure that part, that the cloth, the ground
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  cloth to make sure that it's protected so that it can't get
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  into the garden this year. And just going through all of
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  those little tiny things, the cleanup, the spring cleanup is
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  it just feels so good. And even though it's cold and
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  I'm wearing a winter hat out here and it boots and mittens, I
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  am thrilled that I'm on the cusp of it and I'm relishing the time
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  that I have. If it is another six weeks, it's
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  OK. I'm going to start the seeds
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  inside. I'm going to go through all the
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  little things that matter in my world to make me feel like I'm
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  on tap task with it all and set it up so that it feels
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  incredibly good. So point is, as I'm talking
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  about this and as you're hearing this, I want you thinking about
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  those rituals that you can start to put into play.
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  If you have some, great. And if they're healthy, even
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  better. If they're not, let's get rid of
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  them. And if you haven't gotten any,
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  figure out which ones that you really want to start to employ,
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  put together and get out there. Because it does make a world of
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  difference, my friends, when you feel like you can do that.
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  I mean, it makes a world of difference.
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  It it puts you on a path of being super productive and
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  feeling like, OK, I'm on task, I'm ahead of the game.
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  And even if you're a procrastinator, this is one of
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  those times that you can look at it and say, well, nature's
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  letting me know that it's time to start looking at things and
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  start time to start setting up my wins.
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  So I hope you guys work on that and I hope you have a blessed
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  day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.