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Season 2 - Episode 275 - Are you comfortable in your surroundings? · 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 master mindset
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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're talking about surroundings and are you
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  comfortable in your surroundings?
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  Now the chicken coop, let's take a second here.
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  I know, I know some people have said to me that I am extravagant
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  with my chickens. Now I have very specific take on
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  this because I think their surroundings makes.
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  Like you know, a huge difference.
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  Because I know that it does for me.
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  If I'm in a place that doesn't make me feel good, If I'm in a
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  place that makes me feel constricted and and just
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  absolutely, I think the word just yucky, that's probably the
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  best word I can use for this. If the place makes me feel
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  yucky, I'm not going to want to be the best me I can be.
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  So when I started off with my chickens again.
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  After, you know the incident when I was a child, and for
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  those of you who are new, don't know that sidestep 2 seconds.
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  When I was a kid, we had chickens and I went to school
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  one day. I was probably like six or seven
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  years old and they were all killed by the neighbor's dog.
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  And then my mother would not really let me have them again
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  because she said that they'll just keep happening and she
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  can't handle it. And she they They never even
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  made an attempt to figure out how to not have it happen.
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  Which? Really frustrated me, but
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  actually it's probably one of the reasons I'm the coach that I
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  am today and the person I am today.
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  So Needless to say, back to this.
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  So when I started this off and I was like, OK, I want chickens
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  again. The very first thing that I
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  asked myself is how do I want my chickens to feel every day?
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  Now, I know that may seem like a stupid thing, but if I've got
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  dog people out here listening, you all know how you want your
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  dog to feel every day. If you've got a dog Walker or
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  you take them to doggy daycare, or you work out of your house
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  and you take time. Like I work out of my house.
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  So my dogs are with me all the time and I have my dog walk with
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  me all the time and I know I have this whole thing in my head
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  about how I want my dog to feel every day.
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  I want them to feel happy. So when you start thinking about
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  how you pour into certain things, our animals and I start
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  like no chicken coop, how do I want them to feel every day?
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  If I'm going to eat their eggs, I want them to feel happy here.
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  And I want them to feel filled with love.
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  I want them to know I care for them.
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  I don't want them to run when I call them.
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  I want them to come to me. So the scoop is designed for
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  them to feel good. And our surroundings are
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  supposed to lift us up. Our surroundings are supposed to
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  make us feel. Great.
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  Now, they don't have to be fancy, they don't have to be
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  expensive. But they do have to make you
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  feel good. And there are a bazillion ways
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  to create this. If you've never been on
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  Pinterest, go ahead and Google. Great spaces with low budgets.
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  It's not about the money, my friends.
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  It's about how you intend to feel in the space and starting
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  off that way. It does not have to feel like
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  it's expensive. When we were building out our
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  farm, we were in a rental that was very small and we stayed in
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  it. We thought it was going to be
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  for a year, but we ended up staying there six years, almost
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  seven years, because we had to find the right front, the
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  property, We had to build the house, we had to design the
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  house. It was a complicated process and
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  it was not fancy by any stretch of the means, and it wasn't bad
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  because of how we made it feel. How we did certain things, you
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  know, I can even remember moving when we moved in, they had this
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  weird door that blocked off the living room from the kitchen on
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  the left, but there was a like a partial wall and then there was
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  a wide opening like cut out. To the dining room, which
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  connected to the kitchen. And this stupid door was like,
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  right in the way. And I said to my husband, that
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  just makes this place feel so clogged.
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  That was the word I kept coming up with.
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  It's clogged. And he's like, want me to take
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  it off the hinges? I'm like, yes, take it off the
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  hinges. And we stored it.
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  And it made it feel so much better because it wasn't like a
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  block. And sometimes it takes taking
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  the door off the hinges. Sometimes it takes taking it off
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  the hinges in your mind where you say, OK, I'm just going to
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  move that. I'm just going to take it away.
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  But your surroundings matter. They matter to the chickens.
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  I'll tell you, I don't have to force my chickens to go to bed
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  at night. They go.
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  I have neighbors who are chasing them all around, trying to force
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  them in. One neighbor uses a hose to try
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  to get them in, which just pisses me off every time I hear
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  about it and see it. But I'll tell you what, I don't
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  have to do that. You know why?
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  Because they like where they go. And yes, my chickens are
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  spoiled. And I know I did that on purpose
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  and partly, maybe completely clear.
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  Did I do it for myself? Yes, I did do it for myself
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  because I am a Gold Star girl. I have no problem admitting it,
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  and I wanted a Gold Star for the quality of the coop I gave them.
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  So what? Big freaking deal.
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  That's me. Do that for yourself.
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  Whatever you need to do, do it for yourself.
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  And it doesn't mean you have to get new stuff.
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  It means you just have to make those surroundings feel the best
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  you possibly can, because that's what you thrive in.
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  When you're put in the right dirt, you grow.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day.
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  Clean up those surroundings and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.