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Season 4 - Episode 277 - Timing is one my personal challenges! · 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 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. Good morning, my friends.
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  We are on the porch. It is still raining.
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  It'll eventually stop raining. It's lovely way to start the
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  day. Anyway, timing is everything.
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  We often hear that we were like, oh, you know, timing's
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  everything. I'm not sure when I should jump
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  in. And we pause and we allow.
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  We have so many conversations about time as human beings and
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  it is my observation with myself.
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  I'm not going to speak for everybody right now.
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  I'm going to speak for myself, but for me only if I'm not
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  coaching and I'm just in Kim head, which is exactly where I
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  am right now. I will say I have a tendency to
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  want to jump in and try to both feet in the paddle all at once
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  and say let's see what happens. And that does work a lot of the
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  times. I'm not going to lie, it does
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  work a fair number of times, but there are times when it doesn't
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  work and my timing is off. And the farm has really taught
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  me about timing and I as much as I want to grow certain things,
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  they're just not always going to grow year round.
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  And as much as I want to be able to do certain things, it's just
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  not going to work year round. So we have this constant battle
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  inside of myself where I argue with myself about what is the
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  right time to start projects and do certain things.
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  So I've been out here doing this now on this particular farm,
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  like my whole life I've been, you know, growing things.
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  And when I lived in Rhode Island, I didn't have a big
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  place to do it. But when I was in Massachusetts
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  and I was a child, there was a lot of time that I was able to
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  grow things throughout the summer with my dad, his
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  brothers, all of that. I mean, they were just, it was,
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  it was part of my life. But I did what they were doing.
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  I just mimicked what they were doing because I was younger.
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  And now I'm here and I've been doing this about five years now,
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  and I have recognized that I must work with the rhythm that
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  is handed to me. And Mother Nature does not like
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  to bend. So therefore I must work with
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  her. For instance, I cannot grow
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  flowers in October that are the flowers that I love.
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  Like zinnias are still blooming, but they had been blooming all
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  all summer long and they are dying off.
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  But there are some that are still blooming and they'll
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  continue to go. But I cannot plant new ones
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  right now. I can't wish that into fruition
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  unless I have a greenhouse now. I can force it if I have a
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  greenhouse. If I made the decision to say I
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  want to put up a big, heated, beautiful greenhouse, which I
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  would love to do, just in the plans of when that will happen.
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  It's not a question of if it'll happen.
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  It's a question of when it will happen.
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  But it's a timing. Again, everything is about
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  timing and that drives me personally crazy because I want
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  everything now. I don't have patience for things
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  to do with myself. Very different with my clients,
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  very different when I have my earphones in and I am coaching
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  people. But when it comes to me, I have
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  to practice this and timing is everything.
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  So this time of the year is always difficult because I have
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  nothing to tend. That's growing.
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  And I keep thinking to myself, well, I should, I should have
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  something. And I talk myself into the state
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  of like, I've got to do this. I've got to do this.
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  So I have morphed that now into, well, what's the projects that
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  we're going to work on for spring and let's get a head
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  start, which my certainty girl loves being early and having a
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  head start. So I'm starting my planning for
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  what are we going to work on now?
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  What are the things that we're going to put into play at?
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  What gardens are we expanding? What gardens are we growing
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  like? I spent a whole bunch of time
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  putting that energy that had to go somewhere, and that's what
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  this is about, because you've got to put that energy
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  somewhere. If you don't, it will keep
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  looping you back to what it wants to do and force you to do
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  something prematurely that you may not be ready for.
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  So I, OK, I want to work on a really extensive herb garden.
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  Like not just a few herbs. I want an extensive herb garden.
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  I want to be able to do something that is extraordinary
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  with all different types of herbs.
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  So I've got this, you know, wild idea, and now I can sit and plot
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  it out. So I spent all this time going
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  back to the original herb gardens of the 1700s, looking at
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  what they planted, you know, what it did, what were the
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  mythical things that these herbs did?
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  What were the practical things that these herbs did?
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  And it was thrilling over the weekend to actually sit and do
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  this research and say, wow, I can do this or I can do this and
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  I can do this. And there were even these little
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  packets that one of the seed companies that I use were
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  selling that said the Witch's Garden.
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  And I was like, oh, what is that?
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  And I open it and it's, you know, very common herbs that
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  we've all heard heard of and you probably used, but it was
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  packaged in a way that was like interesting how they could put
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  that together and say, OK, these are things that were thought of
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  by witches, but when you do the research, it's really true.
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  They were Now we use them as common things.
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  It's very intriguing. So again, timing is everything
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  and putting that energy into something that can work.
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  Sure. But the on that actually is
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  going to be out, but I have to order all the seeds now or I
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  miss out. So the point of today's
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  conversation is to talk about timing and really study timing
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  for yourself and not saying is it the right or wrong time, but
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  giving the energy to the process of the planning in the right
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  phase and saying, yeah, there's always, there's always a right
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  time to work on your projects to a certain level.
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  And you just have to decide where that energy is going to go
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  at that right point in time. Like, I can't put it into
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  planting, but I can put it into planning.
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  Nice twist on words there. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.