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Season 5 - Episode 94 - What I am learning through this drought…. · 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 world. So welcome to the coop, and
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  let's start your day off in a fantastic way, everybody.
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  Good morning. We are in a severe drought here
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  and it's actually been categorized as an extreme
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  drought and it makes for very interesting gardening, growing,
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  farming, whatever you may, you know, want to call it.
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  Whatever I do, it's very, very challenging because there are
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  lots of things that are not getting enough water.
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  Turning the sprinklers on is wasting water.
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  So I have been really working hard to try to navigate this and
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  figure out the best ways to handle it.
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  And this is one of those things that's such a great mental
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  lesson because the truth of the matter is we have no control
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  over this stuff. Like we have 0 control over this
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  with these things when they happen and we just have to deal
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  with them. And as they show up and we have
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  to deal with them, it reminds us how little control we actually
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  have over nature. Like today they're saying, OK,
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  we're going to have some rain, but they're not saying how much
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  rain we're going to have. You have literally they're like,
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  oh, it could come in this way. It's coming from Georgia.
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  Everybody's patiently waiting to see what's going to happen.
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  And then it's like, oh, it's now the temperature is going to drop
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  again. It has been the craziest,
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  weirdest season so far. And I can do everything in the
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  world to prep for it. I can have extra, you know,
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  tomatoes. I can have extra because I
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  obsess on growing tomatoes. So I want to always have a lot
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  of them. I can have more pepper plants
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  planted. I can hold back.
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  I've still got things in the garden for that should be in the
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  garden in the garage. I've got zinnias actually budded
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  and ready to flower inside the grow room in the garage instead
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  of in the ground from dealing with these conditions.
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  So I'm like, OK, I've just got to manage my state, manage my
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  emotions through it. And I realized this morning, I'm
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  protecting some of these things way too much.
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  I should put them out and see what happens.
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  I can water, hand water, which I've been doing a ton of, even
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  started a whole new Zinnia garden and it should be way
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  ahead of where it is. But because we're not getting
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  the rain and I'm conserving water, they're growing, but
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  they're growing extremely slow. And it really makes you think
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  about how you need to marry this, you know, information that
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  I'm giving and saying, how does this show up in my own life?
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  And I do that constantly for myself and be like, OK, well, if
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  I'm not satiating myself and I'm not giving myself the right
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  conditions, I can't grow at the right rate.
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  And it comes up all the time in sessions talking to people.
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  It comes up like, well, if you don't do this for yourself,
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  you're not going to feel great. And I've even had recently one
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  of the doctors that I coach was talking about how he's
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  recognizing more and more and he thinks it's, you know, very
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  curious to him how he had let that go, taking care of himself
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  to take care of all the other patients.
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  Well, that's what happens when you're in these roles that, you
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  know, of being a healer of any kind.
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  You give up parts of taking care of yourself.
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  So all of these lessons are so curious to me and they just make
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  me think all the time about how this is not a process you do
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  once or twice or quarterly. It's a process you do moment to
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  moment every single day. Because if you don't, you will
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  suffer the consequences. You will.
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  You will absolutely not be the best version of yourself you can
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  be. And as I try to make these
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  plants be the best versions of themselves they can be, I
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  already know I'm dealing with a challenging situation.
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  So I have to think differently. I have to believe differently.
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  I have to act differently. And we have to do that for
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  ourselves too. We have to take that information
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  and say, OK, how am I going to adapt?
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  Where is my adaptability showing up?
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  Is it even showing up? And as I pivot and constantly
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  doing the pivots, like I'm really always pivoting with
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  this, especially with this water thing, because you can't survive
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  without water. Life requires water.
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  And if you hold back on the water, you cut back on the
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  what's going to be showing up in in your in your garden, in your
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  life, everything. So it's it's not a question of
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  saying I'm stuck or this sucks. Sure.
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  Is it not fun? No, it's not fun.
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  But guess what? It is a space for learning.
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  It is a space for growing. So I'm asking myself every day,
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  how can I do this better? What am I missing?
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  Anything. What else should I be looking
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  at? I'm changing the questions, I'm
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  pushing myself. I made this whole section of the
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  garden where I've got, you know, and I had planned this part
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  anyway, grow tubs, and I had planned growing right in the
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  ground. That way I've got a variable in
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  case something happens with the virus that they can get.
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  I've got lots of different things.
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  I didn't count on the fact that we'd have voles that would eat
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  roots. I didn't count on the water
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  situation. But I am adapting, so adapt my
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  friends. Learn from this, look around,
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  ask the right questions because that is the key and it's moment
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  to moment, day-to-day. All right my friends, I will see
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  you tomorrow and I hope you have a blessed day.
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  Bye.