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Season 3 - Episode 188 - Patience and curiosity mixed with chickens · 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 evening from the chicken coop.
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  That's right, I said good evening because it is night time
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  and I am attempting to get all of them inside the coop.
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  Now somebody asked me what happens at night, so I'm
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  figuring I should shoot the podcast out here one night so
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  everyone can hear it. Now the big girls, they all put
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  themselves to sleep without a question.
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  In fact, all the chickens that we acquired from the neighbor,
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  well that just moved in on their own and decided they were
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  abandoning the neighbor and moved into our place.
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  They put themselves in here at night.
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  I don't even have to worry about them.
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  But these little girls and two Roosters that we hatched out and
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  got on April 15th, they are like the tweens and they don't want
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  to go to bed. They want to stay out.
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  It's been raining for the last two hours.
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  They're all excited about bugs and they just don't want to,
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  like, tuck themselves in. So I have to wait it out
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  patiently. And patience when I am not
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  coaching is not something I am great at.
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  So this is, you know, God's way in the universe's way of telling
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  me, hey, listen, you got to be patient with them while they
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  walk in and out. And they want to sit with me.
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  And some of them want to snuggle Gladys and Rufus, and they just
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  want to hang out. And I don't have a lot of
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  patience at night, which is why I don't coach at night because I
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  don't have a lot of patience at night.
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  I just want to be done. I want to sit down and read.
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  I want to color. I want to do something creative.
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  I don't want to, you know, be patient, so to speak.
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  So this is always a challenge for me.
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  And I love it because it pushes me because I love them so much.
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  So it forces me to step into a different mindset around it.
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  So when I come out here, I'm watching them all trying to find
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  their space. And there's part of me, my
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  emotions are split. Part of me is going hurry up,
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  hurry up, hurry up, come on, come on, come on, come on.
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  And I feel like that side of me that grew up in the Northeast is
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  just like, come on, let's go. And then there's the other part
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  of me that's like, oh, I want them to take their time.
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  I want them to feel comfortable. And I'm doing all that stuff
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  very torn, very hard for me. It's a very tough thing.
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  That's why I figured I'd share this with you because it
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  requires me to think differently.
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  It requires me to set myself up to think differently while I'm
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  out here. So I tend to, oh, there you go,
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  you like that. He's doing that right in the
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  middle of the coop, so you can imagine how loud that was.
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  But anyway, it requires me to set myself up differently.
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  So I have to come out here and while I'm making the walk from
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  the house out to the chicken coop, I'm telling myself that
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  I'm just going to be chill. I'm just going to go out here
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  and I'm going to be super chill. And I'm just going to wait
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  patiently. I'm going to watch them.
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  I'm going to see where they decide to sleep because all the
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  littles are still trying to figure out where they're going
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  to go. And the big girls are like,
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  yeah, you're not coming up here with me.
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  So it's, it definitely has a hierarchy.
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  It's really loud and it definitely has a feel of like,
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  you know your not allowed to go in certain spots because you're
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  still too little. So I like watching how they're
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  figuring it all out. I like watching what they're
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  doing and how they're doing it and what they're seeing.
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  He thinks it's morning because I'm out here doing this.
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  So he's showing off right now. But in any event, the most
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  important thing to remember is going into it with a state of
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  saying, if I can use one of my superpowers, which would be
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  curiosity and say, how curious can I be about doing this out
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  here at night, then maybe it would work out OK.
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  Maybe I can go out there and I can be patient.
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  And every night I do my best to come out here and be as patient
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  as I possibly can be. Getting them all inside,
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  watching them walk in circles, looking at me like why are we
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  doing in this and trying to get him to go inside.
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  So I look at this as it's a test for me and every night when I
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  come out here and I'm pushing in my head with the come on, come
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  on, come on. I stop and I pause and I try to
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  interrupt it with gratitude. I interrupt it with curiosity.
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  I talk to myself and say, OK, how many times can I tell myself
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  that I can find something I'm curious for without interrupting
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  it and losing my train of thought.
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  So it's not like how I can force it, but it's like I want to keep
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  a continuous train of thought about curious.
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  Like I'm wondering what the chickens are thinking.
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  I'm wondering why this one particular 1 keeps coming out
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  the door no matter what. Like what is it that she sees?
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  What is she looking for? What is she trying to notice?
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  I'm wondering why there's always one of the girls happens to be
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  Samantha that just wants to be out wherever we are.
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  She's just super lovable and very curious.
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  So I look for all those little things and it helps me.
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  So if you adopt that principle into your own world, how can it
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  help you? And that's why I thought I'd
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  share out here tonight. So I'm going to go try round
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  these chickens up and put them inside and I hope you guys have
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  a blessed day when you hear this and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.