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Season 5 - Episode 103 - Many things are intertwined…. · 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 happen 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.
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  To the coop and let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody. Good morning.
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  We are in the middle of an extreme drought where I live and
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  this is not something that is normal at all.
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  I don't think we've seen this happen since I think they said
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  2002. And it's normally like our
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  normal wet time of the year where we would get more rain.
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  And I would be saying, wow, we've got a lot of rain and
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  dealing with how to not have plants drown.
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  Instead, I'm dealing with how to not have plants just shrivel up
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  and die and, you know, just. Wither away.
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  Because of the fact that there is 0 water coming from the sky
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  and even when it does fall occasionally, it's not a soaking
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  rain. It's just a like a little bit of
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  a spatter. The ground looks wet and you
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  think oh it rained, but when you put your finger down in the soil
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  to see how far down that water soaked, it might be an eighth of
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  an inch. And I'm not even joking.
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  It's next to nothing. So why am I talking about this?
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  Well, one, it's irritating me and I'm having to manage my
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  state as well as I'm managing water.
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  Now, I have irrigation and I could turn it on, but the
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  problem with turning on irrigation is that a lot of
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  other things get wet. And if we're going to conserve
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  water and we're going to be on the water situation, I want to
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  make sure that I'm doing my part and I'm not being wasteful and
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  I'm making sure that I'm doing the right thing by keeping the
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  water to a limit. So I have to hand water
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  everything. And one that takes extra time,
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  which I actually don't even mind because it gives me a really
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  solid chance to keep eyes on plants to know that something's
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  there. Like yesterday is a perfect
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  example. If I had used irrigation, I
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  would have never seen that. We had some weird little eggs
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  that got laid on top of the zucchini plant.
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  And by me noticing that immediately, I was able to say,
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  OK, this is a pest bug. I took my picture of what the
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  eggs were. I put them into the ChatGPT
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  assistant app that I created for the garden, and immediately it
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  identified exactly what it was. And I had seen that bug in the
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  garden and I knew OK. They have.
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  To go so that was helpful and I always say keep your eyes on
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  things. So this is helpful, me being
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  able to do this. But the real crux of this whole
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  thing in in the going through the drought and the and the hand
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  watering is it makes me stay in the moment so much more because
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  it slows me down. I can't just go out there and
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  quickly water everything. And if it wasn't for the problem
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  and what I was dealing with, I wouldn't have slowed down as
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  much. I would have missed the bugs,
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  the plant would have been eaten and I would have had a bigger
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  issue. So there are are consistent
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  times that we find in our life show up and we think we have
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  everything handled and we don't. Recently I had another thing
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  come up where I was like, OK, you know what, I'm I'm good.
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  Everything's covered, Everything's covered.
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  And then you find out, oh, things aren't covered on your
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  insurance that you thought were covered because you didn't know
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  the questions to ask and the person that you're having do
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  your insurance doesn't have the didn't ask the questions.
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  So it becomes a constant and never ending.
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  And when I say that constant and never ending, I genuinely mean
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  constant and never ending necessity to be able as human
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  beings. To constantly check in and ask
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  the right questions as well as giving ourselves that that need
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  to have our eyes on things. Because the.
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  More we put our eyes on things, the better off we are to make
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  sure we're handling everything as quickly as we possibly can.
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  It is never a good thing to let things sit and and I'll stand by
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  that till the cows come home because no farm, pun intended,
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  there. But it is necessary, so
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  necessary to make sure we do that.
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  And. All those little things that I'm
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  noticing as I'm walking around and watering and picking up on
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  things have been. Nothing but helpful.
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  So while it's. Frustrating that I'm dealing
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  with this while. It is.
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  Actually, some days so irritating because I'm leaving
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  the farm at the end of the day, every day, soaked in water
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  because you have to drag hoses, you have to water everything.
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  You're kneeling down, everything you know snapping back.
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  At you, you. You.
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  Have water everywhere and thank. Goodness.
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  It's at least warm so I'm not freezing doing it, but is it a
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  pain in the butt? Oh, you betcha.
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  And I have to admit that it is for me, constant state
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  management to not keep going. Come on, rain, rain.
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  And I keep thinking, what is the mood I'm in when I'm doing that?
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  Well, it means I'm desperate. So therefore am I manifesting
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  it? Well, no, I don't believe that
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  I'm manifesting or not manifesting rain because Mother
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  Nature has her own idea of what she's going to do.
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  But in the meantime, I. Do believe.
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  That I'm contributing to my problem in a great way and that
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  I needed to stop it. So how do I stop it?
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  Basically for me, it's just recognizing it and course
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  correcting it every single time it shows up.
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  And that sounds so simplistic, but that's exactly how I do it.
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  When I hear myself say it, I'm like, Nope, we're not doing
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  that, stop it. Nope, we're not doing that, stop
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  it. And then I reframe it and say
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  I'm so grateful that it's raining.
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  I'm so grateful that it's raining, even though if it's not
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  raining, I'm going to stay in that state of gratitude because
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  I know it's going to rain. So I hope this is helpful to
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  you. I hope you go back and you look
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  and see what you can put eyes on.
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  Quicker that. Will help you and I hope so much
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  that you guys are in a space where you might not have that
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  time of aggravation and irritation but if you do, I hope
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  this is helpful. All right everybody, I will see
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  you tomorrow. Bye.