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Season 5 - Episode 5 - A project, an idea, and a different outcome... · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happened to be a farmer.
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  This is my Chicken coop and I come out here every day.
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  To record a podcast to. Teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring some
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  joy. Into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Everybody, good morning from my
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  workshop in the garage. So I'm looking at what we were
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  working on our project over the last few days has been this crow
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  feeder. And of course, because I had the
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  best laid plans, I drew them out.
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  I used Chaji PT to help me create a, a buy list, a cut
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  list, everything that we needed. And then I was so excited, this
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  cute little design, because again, my crows are very
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  important to me on the farm. I know that that sounds crazy.
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  Most people want to get rid of crows.
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  I want to attract crows because they protect the chickens.
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  If you give them treats, they stay and alert all of the other
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  animals. If there's Hawks air attacks,
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  they're very good at air attacks.
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  And they let them know. And then that puts the Bluebirds
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  out. And then the male Bluebirds go
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  crazy and they go after them. So it's like this, it's like
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  this little alarm system built into nature, but you just have
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  to know how to work with it. And crows love shelled peanuts.
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  They love whole peanuts. They don't care what it is.
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  If it's a peanut involved, they will actually be completely
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  thankful and stay around. And then as soon as something
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  flies into their territory, they screech at the top of their
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  lungs and then we know and the chickens run.
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  It's a really great system. So I decided I wanted to make
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  this crow feeder that was separate from my regular bird
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  feeders because it's important that they have an area that's
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  big enough for them because they're very big.
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  And so I got this in my head and I was like, OK, I want to do
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  this and I want to do this. And I have a pet peeve with all
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  bird feeders out there because they don't protect the seed from
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  the water coming in and you end up throwing away so much food.
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  And of course, there's no incentive for these companies to
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  improve their bird feeders and save food because then, you
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  know, you don't buy bird feeders often and you buy food all the
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  time. So the more food waste there is,
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  the more of an incentive there is for them to keep these
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  feeders minimalistic, protecting the food.
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  So I, I had this idea, of course, I go to Mark and I'm
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  like, OK, look, this is what I want to do.
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  And we discuss it and he says sure.
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  Now when I know when he says sure, that means OK, he'll do
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  it, but that doesn't mean he's going to do it the way I want it
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  done. So I was very meticulous in my
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  plan. I said, OK, I'm going to put it
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  all together. I'm going to make sure it's
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  there if he sees that it's there.
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  And of course, it's more intricate.
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  There's lots of things he does not have a full workshop to like
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  be making dowels and doing all these little things that were
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  involved in the original 1. So he sits me down and he says
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  the material is not going to work because you want this to be
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  sturdy. These are big birds.
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  You have to consider these things and of course, I feel
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  like this is the pin to my balloon.
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  I could you just see it pink And then I'm and I'm feeling crappy
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  about it. But he's like, I'm not saying
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  I'm not going to do it. I'm just saying we have to be
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  adaptable. So he says this to me and I'm
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  like, oh, OK, so maybe we have to be creative in the process.
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  So I'm trying to shift my emotion through this and follow
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  along because this is very important because I have to keep
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  shifting my emotion. So we go to the store.
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  He wants to use this composite material because he says it's
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  stronger. It's not going to weather, it's
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  going to last a lot longer. Then we have to go through
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  iterations of what's going to work in the bottom so that
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  there's drainage. Because what I said I wanted, he
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  was like, no, it's going to rot. You need to have this.
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  I was like, OK. And I guess that when we planned
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  it with the GPT, it didn't consider certain things, which
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  we know it doesn't unless you tell it to search for things.
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  But in any event, here we are. I'm standing in front of a
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  version of this right now and it does doesn't look like what I
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  thought it would look like. It doesn't look bad, but it just
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  doesn't look like what I thought it would look like.
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  I wanted this cute little peak gabled roof.
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  He's like, no, you, you that's just going to complicate things.
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  We don't need that. And I get it.
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  He he's, he's looking at this at practicality, and I'm looking at
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  this from the standpoint of yes, functionality, of course, but I
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  also wanted it to look really cute.
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  So we have this, you know, flat metal roof on it.
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  It's very tall. It's very simple and there's
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  absolutely nothing wrong with it.
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  OK, I want to be that very clear and I'm super appreciative of
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  it. But does it look like, you know,
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  Martha Stewart did it? No, because it's very
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  functional, but it's not adorable.
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  Like that's the point. And what do I do with this?
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  So I sit here and I look at it and I think to myself, well,
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  this doesn't start off like what I want.
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  This doesn't finish up with what it started off like.
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  And I had to shift myself. So I was like, okay, I love the
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  fact that I'm going to be able to feed the crows.
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  What was my biggest outcome? Feeding the crows?
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  Is it sturdy for them? Yes.
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  Does it give that food protection?
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  Yes. Is it going to do its job?
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  Yes. So I had to get myself shifted
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  around that to make sure that I understood we are meeting the
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  outcomes. Does it have to be adorable like
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  Snow White herself constructed it?
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  No, no, no, no, no, no. It just has to be functional.
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  And are there things that I can do to make it cute?
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  Sure. I'm absolutely 100% positive
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  about that, but it required me shifting my entire and going
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  entire mindset about it and going back to my, you know,
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  original thought of my outcome is to feed the crows.
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  And sometimes when you feel off, that's the best thing you can
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  do. Go back, question yourself and
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  get back into the right state of mind so you don't get
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  disappointed when you still have your outcome.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.