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Season 3 - Episode 267 - The garden never stops · 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 mastermindset
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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 you can hear way off in the distance the geese flying over.
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  It's that time of the year. They're starting to move on and
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  they're flying over. So it's a perfect introduction,
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  I think, to today's topic, which is the gardening never stops,
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  the garden never stops. And I always used to think it
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  was seasonal. And then I moved to a place
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  where I have the option to do it longer.
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  And it really made me think about even when I was up north,
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  the garden is always in its own function.
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  The garden's always doing its own thing.
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  And I am very much a part of always being out there.
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  So that actually is gardening, cleaning up, doing all these
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  things and getting it ready for the next part of it.
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  And fall is such an important time because everything is going
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  to seed. Everything has its little, you
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  know, transition that it's going into.
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  Strangely enough, because of the odd weather we have had, there
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  is so much, there's so many things that are growing again.
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  I've got loofah growing again like it didn't go all summer and
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  now it is because the conditions are right for it.
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  The plant hung on and now I've got loofah sponges coming up,
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  which is fabulous and odd and such a surprise surprise.
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  But the garden is telling me it never stops.
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  And from my perspective, there's Every season has something to be
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  done. And it's such a metaphor for
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  life. Every season has something to be
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  done. Every week has something to be
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  done. You know, one of the things
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  about Martha Stewart that always made me so curious about who she
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  was as a person is when she had her magazine in the beginning,
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  she would put her calendar and she would tell us what was on
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  her calendar for the month. And she would tell us that this
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  is what she was doing for gardening or this is what she
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  was doing for TV appearances and all of this stuff.
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  And it really struck me when I was younger, 'cause I would get
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  the magazine all the time before they no longer made the
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  magazine. I was, it always struck me as
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  such an important thing that this woman was always planning,
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  always looking ahead, always seeing what she would do, how
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  she would organize. And I, it had a huge impact on
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  me as a person because I think it's part of where I got I, I
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  learned all of that. It was not something I learned
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  in school. It was not something I learned
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  from my mother. My dad was definitely not a
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  calendar guy. He was just a get out there and
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  do it guy. But I definitely obsess on the
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  planning, the laying out, the 306090 days, going through it
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  all and the garden has just added on to that.
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  And then thinking about, OK, well what are the seasons that
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  we all go through in life? It's all interconnected.
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  And because the garden never stops, you have to think, well,
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  I never stop. There's always something
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  happening. There's always things that I can
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  do out here. So at this point in time,
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  getting ready to collect seeds from flowers, getting ready to
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  go in and clean up, open the gates, let the chickens go in
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  there, clean out all the grubs and the bugs, you know, we're
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  right on the precipice of that happening, which is awesome.
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  I always love that. It's like cleaning out a dirty
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  kitchen drawer that's been sitting there for too long.
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  Cleaning just makes me happy. But when you start to think
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  about how how we do that in our own mind, what part of this are
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  we doing for ourselves? Are we taking on that this To Do
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  List thing never ends and we feel overwhelmed by or we just
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  say that's life. It never stops.
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  It's always something going. And when you make those small
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  little curiosity points for yourself, you go, oh, OK, you
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  don't feel bad, you've missed something or whatever.
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  You you can take it into a very different perspective.
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  It's powerful, really powerful when you do that and recognize
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  every month has something. So we can learn from Martha that
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  every month always has a plan. Every month always has things to
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  do. And some of them are repetitive.
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  I used to love when she would talk about how at in the spring,
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  this is when you clean up for this.
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  And you know, in the fall, this is when you do this very
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  fascinating, very cool. And I completely concur.
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  It helps a lot. And when you recognize it and
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  tie it all into nature and life, you start to feel a lot more
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  calm, a lot more present. And that's what this is about.
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  That's what I would always hope for you and wish for all of you
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  and intend for all of you that everything that all this work
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  that we do everyday is to help you settle down, feel more
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  complete, feel more positive, feel more intentional and calm
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  in the process of it all. Because you know, it's an
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  ongoing process and there's always a new beginning.
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  You know, the next moment is a brand new beginning.
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  As soon as you close your eyes, guys, it's a brand new
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  beginning. As long as you're willing to do
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  the work, it can be. So I hope that you guys have a
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  blessed day. I hope this was helpful and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.