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Season 5 - Episode 81 - When what you do WORKS well…... · 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.
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  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.
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  Our conversation this morning is going to be a little different.
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  It's on the fly because I walked out this morning to do my rounds
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  and check very early lights, grow lights are not on in the
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  garage and and the tomatoes have made an exponential jump
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  overnight where when I went to bed they were not touching the
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  lights and now they are. They are completely touching the
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  lights. They have encroached on every
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  single bit of the space that they have.
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  I've only got about 3, maybe 4 inches.
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  I can raise the lights. And I mean, then they're going
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  to have to go outside. And it's still in the like high
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  50s here at night. And tomatoes really like much
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  warmer weather. And we're supposed to be getting
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  that for hopefully this weekend. I can hold them off and I can
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  keep them in here. But it presents such an issue
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  because I don't like to put things in the wrong conditions.
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  We talk about conditions a lot because I really believe
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  cultivating your conditions is, is the way to go.
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  Now the zucchini, completely different story.
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  It's gigantic and it needs to go out and it's going to go out
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  hopefully tomorrow. I'm holding it back one more
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  night because it's going to be pretty chilly tonight.
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  And then hopefully it will be able to go out tomorrow.
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  And I, you know, it's a more resilient vegetable, but the
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  tomatoes are delicate. And I like to think of all of
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  these as parts of us. You know, there are parts of me
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  that are more delicate and there are parts of me that are more
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  zucchini like where I can just, like, take the conditions.
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  But knowing this about yourself is incredibly important.
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  Now here's the funny part of this.
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  I prepared. This is the crazy thing.
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  I actually prepared saying I am not putting them in earlier.
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  I usually start mid March growing them so they have plenty
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  of time to get to this point that they are right now.
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  But because I did a new method of the soil and put them in
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  better conditions, they grew exponentially.
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  So how often do we do this to ourselves?
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  Because we make things better for ourselves, we grow
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  exponentially. And then we're like, oh crap,
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  where do, what do we do now? Where do we go?
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  Where do we go? What do we do?
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  How do we, how do we go from this point forward?
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  And it causes us to sit to, to freeze often because it doesn't
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  always fit into our quote UN quote goals.
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  And we get stuck. We'll be like, oh, my goal was
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  to have this by then, but this is too quick or too soon or this
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  or that. And we start to pull ourselves
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  back, which is the worst thing we can do because we worked
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  really hard to get to that point.
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  And and we don't want to have to recalibrate or redo or rethink
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  because it's too scary or whatever it might be.
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  And the reason this is so important to evaluate for
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  yourself is goodness gracious, you don't work all this time and
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  so hard and getting somewhere and then all of a sudden decide,
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  yeah, you know, this is too fast.
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  I need to slow down. I hear that a lot.
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  Yet we create those conditions that are too fast or too much or
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  whatever it might be, and we have to pause and really, really
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  look at it so that we can say, hey, no, I made this happen like
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  I'm standing here and I made this happen by doing what I did
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  and taking the time and investing the time and the money
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  into the soil. This is a good thing.
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  It's a quality problem. I often use that phrase with
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  clients. It's a quality problem we have
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  right now. So when we are in this position,
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  we have options, but we have to sort them out.
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  So I'm going to use the tomatoes as an example, but this is
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  something that you do in every situation.
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  The first thing you do is you, you stop and you pause and you
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  say, OK, how much, how much time do I have left that I can keep
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  them in here? Well, I've got about.
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  I'm basing time in inches right now.
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  I've got about 4 inches. Like I said, I can bring these
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  lights up about four inches, maybe three.
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  With the light itself being tight, tight, tight to where it
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  is. I can get tighter with it.
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  OK, great. Perfect.
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  That's what we'll do. We'll bring the lights up as
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  high as we can. And what else can I do?
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  I can shut the heat pads off on the bottom so that way it stops
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  that growth in the soil. Like I can slow them down by
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  shutting the heat pad off, which is something I'm going to do
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  just enough not to hurt them, but just enough to help
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  condition them to what they're going into because that soil
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  outside is going to be colder. So I can do that.
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  And then I can look at it and say, OK, I've got a couple days
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  where I've got to, you know, warm them up outside in the sun
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  before I just put them in. Otherwise they'll get burnt and
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  they'll be unhealthy. So I've got to do start bringing
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  them in and out and in and out, which today is not the day
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  because it's windy and tomorrow is maybe the day.
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  But we'll see. It all depends on this wind in
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  because it's high, highwind. But I can look at all the
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  conditions and I can see where I can tweak things.
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  And that's what we have to do in our life.
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  Look at your conditions, stop, pause, look at the conditions,
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  start to tweak, and then you can make small micro decisions
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  around it rather than just throwing in the towel and being
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  like, Oh no, I'm panicking because panic doesn't get us
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  anywhere. All right, my friends go look at
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  it and I'm going to figure out what to do with these tomatoes
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  and I'm going to make a lot of notes for next year.
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  So I know because this will be helpful next time around.
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  OK everybody, I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.