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From the porch this morning! · 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 master mindset.
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  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places for chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning. I Say from the chicken coop, but
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  I would be lying to you. It is from my porch,
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  overlooking, the chicken coop, which is I don't know, like a
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  football field length away from my house.
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  I am shooting this podcast this morning in the midst of
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  hurricane Ian as it comes up and hits the South Carolina coast.
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  And I, you know, I like to keep it real with all of you guys all
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  the time. And I am not letting the
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  chickens out in this storm, so they are locked up.
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  I'm not going to disturb Of them.
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  And I didn't want to miss you too in my podcast because I know
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  for me, it's a commitment that I like to keep.
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  So we are shooting from the porch.
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  And we are talking today about how you have to Pivot sometime,
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  and how you have to just laugh about it.
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  How you have to just say, okay, you know what, this is, what has
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  to be done. So, you know, these things show
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  up in our lives hurricanes storms, personal tragedies, all
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  of it shows up and how you handle it is what makes all the
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  difference in the world. So I have a big beautiful porch
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  and I thought to myself, well I could skip it, I could do that,
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  but that would be out of line with my character and it would
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  drive me crazy to know that I have been shooting all these
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  days and I missed one because of a little rain and some went even
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  though we call it a hurricane, right.
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  So I made the decision that this would be a great lesson and that
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  it would be something to talk about with all of you.
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  And I think, you know, I think back on other times where I've
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  let things Get in my way and I haven't decided to Pivot and
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  I've let the situation take over rather than me making a decision
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  about how I wanted to handle it. And the older I get, the more I
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  realize I do have complete control and so, do you we all
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  have complete control over ourselves.
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  You know, it's funny, I've went this morning to let my dogs out
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  and I insist that I get my dogs outside quickly so that they can
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  go to the bathroom and my Bulldog because So I don't know
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  if any of you have ever had a bulldog of any kind, whether
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  it's French American English. I happen to have a very large
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  American Bulldog, who is very, very stubborn, and he looks at
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  me. Like, I'm not going out there
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  and I'm like, no! No, no, you got to go out there.
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  You got to go out there and he refused to go and no matter how
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  hard I tried. I couldn't get him to go out
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  there. And that's part of this
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  situation. I could have stood there and got
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  mad, I could have said you need to go.
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  You need to go, come on, come on, come on, come on.
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  I could have tried to push him. But to, what Avail?
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  I mean, he's a dog, I can't squeeze them to make them pee,
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  and there's no need for me to be angry about it.
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  At some point, he's going to get full enough where he's going to
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  say, alright, I'm going to go and I'm going to pee had to let
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  the situation go. I don't have to let it carry me
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  all day. This hurricane coming had to
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  lift. Let It Go.
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  Couldn't sit there and say, hey, I'm going to be upset about
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  this, this summer. We had so much rain.
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  It was insane. We had a first Route.
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  And then we had so much crazy rain that I lost so many plants.
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  Those of you that know me. Well know, I and I use my farm
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  to teach you guys things, right. I lost about 80 plants or so I
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  lost most of my vegetable garden with all of the rain because it
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  just didn't stop. And I could have sat there.
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  I could have been upset. I and let me say this.
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  I was sad but I didn't let it become my Dominant emotion.
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  And as we've talked about this before, that's where that
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  switching the bus driver, it comes in.
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  I just said, okay, what lessons have I learned?
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  What else can I pull from this? My flower garden first year, I
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  did a flower garden then posting about that on social media and,
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  you know, the lessons from that flower garden have been so
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  Grand. It's ridiculous because I wanted
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  flowers. So I went out there and I
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  stubbornly planted all kinds of flowers that I wanted.
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  Well, guess what? In mice.
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  Stubbornness I didn't really think about the self Carolina
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  heat and guess what? It's hot.
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  And I knew that I knew how hot it was.
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  I just didn't think about it. I was like, oh, they'll be fine.
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  Well, guess what? Flowers don't Bloom if it's too
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  hot for them in the certain zones and this was my first time
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  growing flowers. Now I'm great at growing
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  vegetables, but I am not so great at growing flowers, so I
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  have to learn. I have to think about this.
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  I have to plan better so this time I'm going to start putting
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  out flowers. Is that are for next year.
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  I'm already planning flowers that will be flowers that are
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  good for intense heat because intense heat is what we have.
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  And ironically in the vegetable garden, the things that I didn't
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  even realize that I had put in there, crazy things seeds that I
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  had gotten for a certain beans from Thailand and whatnot.
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  They did really well because they have similar types of
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  things. Lots of rain intense Heat, So
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  point is I while it upset me to no end that I can't do canning
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  right now that I can't create all of my pickled peppers and
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  all the stuff that I love to do it.
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  Didn't it didn't change the core of my being about being happy.
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  I didn't let it shift me. I chose a better driver.
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  I did the pivot. I said, okay, how else can I
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  view this? How else can I make this a win?
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  What else can I look at? What can I learn from it asking
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  better questions. Focusing on that.
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  So today while this hurricane is Raging and you know I'm
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  completely focused for all my friends in Florida who have gone
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  through a living hell and I have been non-stop focused on seeing
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  them safe and thank God, they are all safe.
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  We all have to pray for the fact that there are people out there
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  that have absolute devastation and we have to focus on the fact
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  that, you know, we can pivot for ourselves in whatever's going on
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  for us today. And we don't need to whine about
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  it and we can choose to be happy, no matter what, because
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  like the Dalai Lama says, the purpose of life is to be happy
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  and nothing makes you happy except choosing to be happy.
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  So I hope you have a blessed day, my friends and if you are
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  in this mess, stay safe. And I will see you all tomorrow
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  but the chickens hopefully by