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Season 4 - Episode 71 - Goodnight lessons · 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 let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good evening from the chicken coop.
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  I'm actually out here tucking all the girls in and doing a
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  head count. And every night I come out to
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  the coop and I walk through and I count them to make sure
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  everybody's here. And if they're not, I go looking
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  for who's missing to make sure nobody got killed or taken and
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  like, kind of go through it while they've been out on the
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  farm all day. And one of the interesting
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  things that I love about this little act at the end of the day
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  is that when I come in here, I collect the eggs.
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  I make sure that I've got them all because, you know, somebody
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  will end up sitting on eggs and then getting angry that I'm
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  taking it away from them. But it's so interesting to me,
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  the patterns of how the chickens behave with each other.
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  And it's so interesting. Just like humans, the chickens
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  have friends that they sit next to every night.
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  The same chickens sit on the same sides every night.
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  When they come in, they can either go left or they can go
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  right. Now, ironically, just like
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  humans, more chickens go. Out of the 61 chickens that I
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  have, more chickens go to the right than the left.
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  Only 19. Between 18 and 20 typically sit
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  on the left, but it the average of every night, like tonight is
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  19 and the balance of everybody else is on the other side.
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  And the Roosters always sit next to the same hens, which is
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  funny. They rarely sit next to
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  different hens and you will find that the same hens that grew up
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  together sit together. The ones that have been with me
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  the longest, they are the ones that sit together.
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  It's like they have their little cliques.
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  They have their little friend group that they stick with.
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  They also have there is a chicken that she does not like
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  anybody, anybody. Her name is Hootie.
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  She's very much an introvert. She looks like an owl more than
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  a chicken in her face. She sits by herself.
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  Now, why am I telling you all this?
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  Because I think it's interesting.
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  We like to believe we're the only ones that have these types
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  of situations and these types of things that go on in the world.
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  But out in nature, we can find it over and over and over again
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  that there are patterns of animals that have friends and
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  groups and the way that they bond and they mourn when they
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  there's someone that's lost. Like right now I have two ducks
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  that showed up in the pond and they are a bonded pair and they
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  have laid eggs, although I don't see her sitting on them that
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  much. Maybe she still hasn't started
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  the process yet and she's still laying eggs.
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  But they're a bonded pair and they take care of each other and
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  he protects her. And it's, it's a very
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  fascinating thing for me to say. Geez, we like to think we're so
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  special. And guess what?
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  We're not, Because just like in humans, sometimes, you know that
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  there's a lot of parables with the hens.
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  We've talked about this before, about, you know, how the hens
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  get along and it's how humans get along and how they pick on
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  each other, and it's the same thing.
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  But at the end of the day, when I come out here and I look and
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  see how they do this and their patterns are the same, it
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  reminds me of how our patterns are the same and how much we
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  have to really work to break them and change them.
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  If we want to reach our next level of greatness and we want
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  to continue to grow, we have to break our patterns.
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  Now The thing is, most animals don't break their patterns.
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  They just do what they do and that's why humans have the gift
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  of free will and being able to say, you know what?
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  I don't like that. I need to break my pattern.
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  I need to do something different.
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  I need to change my approach. I need to go in a different
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  direction because the patterns are very hard to break.
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  They're very powerful. Just like the girls coming in
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  and doing the same thing every single night.
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  The patterns are hard to break. If I was to go up and take one
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  of these chickens from the left and put it on the right, it
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  would immediately scurry down can go where it wants to go
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  because it's set in its pattern. It knows what it wants to do.
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  I can pretty much tell you the first ones that come out every
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  day, they know who they are, they're going to get out that
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  door 1st and we are we are the, the, the factors that can
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  change. We can come in our world and we
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  can change it when we recognize that we have the ability to
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  shift the pattern and we realize that about ourselves.
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  So what patterns do you need to change right now?
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  We're coming to the end of the first quarter.
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  We're getting to that mid point in March where we're looking at
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  things and we're looking at those 90 days.
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  And are you satisfied with those 90 days?
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  Have your patterns been serving you or do they need to change?
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  What has to happen for you to get to that next place?
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  That's what's so important to ask yourself right now.
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  And if you like where you're going, great.
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  What can you do to expand on it? But if you don't like what
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  you've got going on, now is the time to really look at it,
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  discern it, and decide what you want to change.
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  And just don't go in and always pick the right or the left, just
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  because it's where you've always been.
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  Make a choice that serves you all right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.