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Season 5 - Episode 55 - What lights you up? · 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 morning. We are sitting in front of a
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  bunch of seed trays and we are getting ready to plant seeds for
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  the year. And I have waited a little bit
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  to to get up and do this. I'm a little, I'm probably like
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  a week and a half later than I normally AM doing it because the
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  weather is always so questionable and I don't want to
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  put them outside and have a cold snap and stress myself out.
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  So I'm like, OK, I'm just going to wait till I came back from my
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  trip and then I'm going to go about it.
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  I also have changed my formula based on something that I
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  learned from Floret Flowers. Now, if you do not follow Floret
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  Flowers and you are into growing anything, she is brilliant at
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  testing and trying things. So she created a new mix for
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  seedlings and I'm emulating that.
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  So of course this is a big endeavour because you're not
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  just buying packages of soil and coming in and, and putting it
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  together. You know, like you always have
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  that mix. If you're, if you've ever done
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  the beginning of starting seeds, there's a seed starting mix and
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  it has to be very light and puffy so that those little tiny
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  seeds when they, when they sprout, can actually dig down
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  quickly and get to that water and get up to that sun.
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  And this all teaches me so many things about us as human beings.
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  I, I can't begin to tell you how much it, it just provides for
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  me. So when you think about it, we
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  want to start things off in the best conditions.
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  Even ourselves doesn't always work that way.
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  And sometimes we can just take root wherever we are.
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  But when it comes to the seeds, I really want to like use that
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  metaphor for myself and for this.
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  So I go and learn where I can the most, the quickest, the
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  best. And if you've never followed
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  Aaron on Florette, look up Florette flowers, follow her on
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  YouTube, sign up for anything she has that's free.
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  Because no matter what you're doing in your life, if you watch
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  stuff like this, it cross pollinates into other areas.
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  So that being said that I mixed up all of this, went out and got
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  all the supplies and I mean there was so much medium that
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  you need because for the mixture I had to mix it in the back of
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  my F-150. I put down a the tarp and I
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  mixed it all in there and it as it turns out, it's like it was
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  perfect. It was a great idea and I have
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  now I'm waiting. I need to order some more pots.
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  I didn't realize that I was short some pots so and some
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  trays and they're all coming from Amazon this week.
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  So we will be starting off with everything and it like right
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  fresh from the beginning. And the crazy part about all of
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  this is how excited this moment is for me.
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  I look at this and, and you may not get yours from growing
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  things and smelling dirt and putting stuff together.
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  I find this is my, it's like a jolt of of happiness for me
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  because it's the beginning of something extraordinary and it's
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  going to push me in different directions.
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  So I am beyond excited to be smelling the dirt, to be filthy
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  again being outside. So the question today is, what
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  does that for you? Is that like walking into a
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  fabric store? Is that like you smell it?
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  Is that like walking into a bakery where you smell things
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  because you love to bake? Is it like getting your hands?
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  What makes your hands and your brain stimulated like that?
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  Because here's the crazy thing, we are not meant to be
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  stationary. We are meant to be doing things.
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  So if you're stuck sitting at your computer and you have
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  nothing that makes you feel this way, find the thing that makes
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  you light up like this. Because I can promise you, I'm
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  so excited. We're getting another hour of
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  sunshine coming up, according to the clock anyway.
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  I'm so excited that we have these things available to us and
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  we can pour into it at this point because it makes us
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  better. It makes us better people, it
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  makes us more excited, it gives us more.
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  So don't miss this spring sitting there and thinking, you
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  know, I'm not going to do anything for me.
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  I'm going to encourage you, even if you just plant an A deck
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  planter of herbs that you can use for cutting, there is
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  nothing more exhilarating than being able to walk out and cut
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  fresh chives and add them to your food.
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  There's nothing more exciting than being able to use your
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  basil to make, at least in my world, there's nothing more
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  exciting than saying, OK, it's basil.
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  And I made my own pesto and it's extraordinary and just so
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  flavorful. So again, please make sure you
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  use this time. Ride off my energy.
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  Find something because it will change the way you show up.
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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 and I hope you're growing something.
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  Bye.