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Season 3 - Episode 308 - The leaves are finally changing color · 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 we are finally blessed with having the leaves change color.
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  It's hard to believe that we are into November and we still have
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  so many green leaves and so many trees still have not changed
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  because the weather's been so warm.
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  However, we are finally getting the leaves to change color.
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  And for me, this, this is such a profound.
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  I love fall just because it's such a clean up time on the farm
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  and I get to go through. And I think it's hardwired into
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  me from my mother because she was always so into fall cleaning
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  and spring cleaning. It was such a big deal for her.
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  She would constantly talk about doing that and she would change
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  the curtains in the house and we always had different curtains
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  going up. I think that's why I don't like
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  curtains, quite honestly. But we always had the cleaning
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  aspect. And that I love, I love being
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  able to just jump in and clean things and get everything
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  beautiful and organized. And it just makes me feel
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  wonderful to have that happen. And the leaves changing
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  represent that, but they also represent something else.
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  And I, I think this is what's so important when you use the tree
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  as a metaphor, because we look at trees and they're kind of
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  like in our world, but we don't pay attention to them.
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  Like we unless something happens in one falls and we have to deal
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  with it or we are really like obsessed with trees.
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  I have to be admit I'm a bit obsessed with trees.
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  And we watch them transform and change and see, you know, what
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  it is about the trees that look different over time.
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  So we're very blessed to live near live oaks and live oaks,
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  you know, they, they're phototropic.
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  So when they have more space, they spread out wide and they're
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  very, very beautiful as they do this.
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  So on the farm, as my husband has cultivated, getting rid of
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  trees that will impede that are impeding the progress of the
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  live oaks, We've watched them grow and expand and they're
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  beautiful. Now they don't lose all of their
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  leaves. They only lose some of them in
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  the in the winter, but not all of them.
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  And purposefully, they just not, it's not something that
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  naturally they do. So watching them, you can see
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  them transform from season to season, but you really have to
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  look for it. And what I love about that is
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  that it makes you be aware of the process and it makes you
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  stop and see how each season brings something different to
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  the tree. Each season gives something
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  different. And it doesn't even have to just
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  be a Live Oak, but when you look at a regular tree, a deciduous
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  tree that loses its leaves, you watch it as it goes from this
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  state of looking dead in the winter to to getting these
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  beautiful bright buds. And then these leaves that come
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  out that are this glorious shade of bright spring green.
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  And then they start to darken over time as they sit out in the
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  sun. And then they start to transform
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  into their colors over the fall. And then they shower us with it.
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  That's how I see it in my head. They shower us with color
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  visually, and then they fall on the ground showering us with
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  their beautiful colors. And think about it.
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  We people drive from far and near to go see the leaves change
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  because it's such a phenomenon. And guess what?
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  The tree isn't dead. The tree is not dead.
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  The tree is just putting on its show.
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  It's just going through its seasons very much like human
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  beings do. So we have to know what season
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  we're in, and we're going to work accordingly and say, OK, my
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  leaves are just in bright color right now.
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  I'm putting on the show. And then guess what?
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  I'm going to need to rest. And here's the tricky part.
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  This does not have to be a year in process.
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  You could be taking that metaphor of the tree and using
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  that in the course of a month, two months, it doesn't matter.
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  Just because the seasons are in specific seasons calendar wise,
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  it does not mean that we have to be that way.
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  We can be in a different place. So some of my chickens right now
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  are molting and some of them are not the younger ones have not
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  molted yet because it takes they're, they're not even a year
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  old. So it takes usually like before
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  you see a really hard molt like 18 months.
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  So some of them look absolutely gorgeous right now and some of
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  them look absolutely homeless, terrible beat up chickens.
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  But the process of that, they're each in their own season, yet
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  we're in a calendar year where it's fall.
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  So don't get hung up on the time.
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  Get hung up on what you want, get hung up on where you are.
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  Read the clues, focus on it and say to yourself, OK, this is
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  where I am right now and I'm traversing through this very
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  well. Going to the other side.
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  Be patient with yourself and just watch it and learn from it
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  and say, OK, and you can even timeline this.
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  This is actually a fun exercise. If you want to timeline a month
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  and say, OK, there are four weeks in a month.
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  I can timeline each week so I can get things done and then the
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  last week I can rest of the month, or I can sit back and
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  enjoy and recoup the rewards of what I've done.
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  So think of it that way. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.