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Season 3 - Episode 51 - The pure potential in seeds · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermind set
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So today we are talking about seeds starting and what does
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  that mean in the big world of self development and self
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  improvement and all of that? Well, you probably heard me say
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  this if you're a long time listener, you know, I'm obsessed
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  with the fact that I can grow pretty much anything and I love
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  the idea of getting new seeds. I love seeds because they're
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  little packages of pure potential.
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  And in the world of self development, we're always in a
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  place of pure potential. Apparently she thinks so too.
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  In any event, the the seeds are just, you know, they look like
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  nothing, really. Most of them look like nothing.
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  I have some that are so small I need to use tweezers to put them
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  into the dirt that I'm starting. And some of them tomato seeds.
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  I mean, think about a tomato seed.
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  We all can't wait to have a beef steak.
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  Tomato. Well, those of us who love
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  tomatoes anyway. And those seeds are so tiny.
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  And just the the idea that that beautiful little thing can grow
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  into something tremendous just blows my mind.
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  I think that's probably the my biggest love of it is that it's
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  this seemingly nothingness that turns into something incredible
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  and I love that. So as you're as you're going
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  into the springtime and you start to maybe you're a
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  gardener, maybe you're not a gardener.
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  Maybe it's not spring quite yet where you are.
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  For me, I'm starting things inside you tend to, you tend to
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  want to get excited and get into it.
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  So the metaphor that I want you guys to think about the seeds,
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  starting in the regular world of what you're doing, this is like
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  the context of an idea. We all have ideas, we all want
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  to run with our ideas and they're all just in our head.
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  Meaning it's the seed. It doesn't look like anything.
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  It just looks like nothingness. Yet it's huge.
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  It has just an amazing potential.
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  Sitting there in this little tiny package that looks like
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  nothing. Well, that's like your ideas.
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  And you can actually sit there and look at your ideas in your
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  head and become very myopic, meaning that you can't see
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  outside of yourself, you only see what you see.
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  So if you start off and you're positive about it, that's great.
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  But if you start off positive and then you Click to negative
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  and then you start, yeah, but this won't work and you start
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  talking yourself out of the potential before you even put it
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  in the ground, you're in trouble because you can't.
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  You can't allow yourself to not even try.
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  So there's a there's a rule on the back of the packages when
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  you buy little seeds and you'll probably see it if you if you're
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  a gardener, you know germination rates.
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  So they'll say, well this this particular variety has a 60%
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  germination rate. Not great in the big world of
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  germinations for farmers and people who love plants.
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  However, some of them will say 90% germination rate.
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  And that all that means is the likelihood of that seed to
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  sprout and get started. And some seeds need different
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  things to get started. Some seeds need to be cold
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  stratified, they need to go into the freezer so that they get
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  triggered amazingly by really cold weather.
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  And then that means, oh, I should start growing.
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  Or some of them need to be wrapped in paper towels, wet
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  paper towels and put in the refrigerator and then they'll do
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  it. Or some just need to be be put
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  into wet paper towels and then you just leave them on the
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  counter and they start to sprout.
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  Either way, it's it's allowing the seed to take off.
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  And here's the thing about ideas and where this bridge, this gap
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  bridges so well because you have an idea and in your head again
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  you get myopic. And if you're talking yourself
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  out of it without even looking at what can be done to get
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  started, what even looking at what you can do to have some
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  progress and some forward motion with it, you'll just let that
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  seed not germinate. You'll become a statistic.
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  Gosh, isn't that terrible when you think about it.
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  And from the terms of, you'll just become a statistic, another
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  person with an idea who never took it forward.
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  I hate the sound of that. It it never makes me happy.
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  So the way to get past this is to set yourself up and say, OK,
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  when I have an idea, when I have that pure potential in my hand,
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  just like that seed, I'm going to put it out there.
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  I'm going to give it the opportunity to go do what it's
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  supposed to do. I'm going to understand that
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  sometimes there's a germination rate that's off on it, but I'm
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  going to make sure I plant it with enough things around it
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  that make it go forward. So if you've got an idea for
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  something that you know you want to do, and whether it's a
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  business, it's a hobby, it's something you want to make you.
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  You sit down and you brainstorm all the ways you might be able
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  to jump into it, get it going, start that little piece.
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  You don't need to talk about it to people because we all know
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  that's the killer of dreams, talking about them.
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  I can't stress this enough. If you don't have a trusted
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  advisor to share it with, that's not going to tear you apart and
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  just tell you all the reasons why it won't work.
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  Because they're not doing anything, sitting on their own
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  ass, doing nothing, then you definitely do not want to do
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  that. You want to make sure that you
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  are in the the position of saying Nope, I'm going to plant
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  it in the right space. So you brainstorm it yourself
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  and then you start with one little piece, 1 little piece, 1
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  little piece. And that's where it starts to
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  take off. Just like that little tiny seed
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  will sprout into something. So use and remember the
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  metaphor. And if you are gardening, I hope
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  you have great germination rates and I hope you have pure
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  potential showing up in your world and have a blessed day.
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  My friends and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.