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Season 4 - Episode 207 - Back from our trip! · 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
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  let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody good. Morning.
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  I am actually back at the farm and I could not be more excited
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  to get back and see everything after the trip.
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  You know, the trip was 10 days, nine days, 10 days long.
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  I lost track of time. We flew the red eye home, which
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  was not easy, which is why I disappeared for a couple days
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  trying to recuperate a little bit.
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  And I've got Lucas home and he is actually not feeling so well
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  now after a trip like that. Sometimes when you go to live
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  events and you throw yourself in all the way, which he did, you
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  come home and you just get sick. And that's what's happened.
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  He's just not well right now. So no work for him today and
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  he's in bed and keeping him in. But in any event, back on the
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  farm. And I just wanted to, you know,
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  explain a little bit about the whole mentality of why I put him
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  in such an an event to begin with, because, you know,
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  honestly, this this type of event, which was the Tony
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  Robbins Global Youth Leadership Summit, it's once a year.
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  It's quite an opportunity. He ended up going there with 450
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  other kids from 49 countries. And literally they fly in for
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  this event. Parents who have been to live
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  events of Tony's and you know, or online events decided that
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  they want their kids to go. And he had such an experience.
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  One of his roommates was from India.
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  He met kids from all over the place, all over the world, not
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  just all over the US, but all over the world.
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  And he just came back and he has this different air about him
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  where he's more confident, he's more descriptive.
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  He's telling me things like they give them exercises and they're
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  all working together. And he was explaining how it was
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  so frustrating to him that they were trying to do 1 exercise
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  that was a marble run. And everybody had a piece of
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  wood that they had to hold that had the track.
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  And then they would put the marble and they had to have it
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  run and go get in the bucket. So the marble would run down and
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  fall in the bucket. And he's like, you know, you had
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  so much time to do it. And whoever had the most marbles
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  in, at the end, their team wins. I said, how many marbles did you
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  get in? He said two.
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  And he was so frustrated. And he said, you know why I was
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  so frustrated? Because everyone was just trying
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  to give their opinion and no one was listening as to what would
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  work. Now you have to remember he's in
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  incredibly mechanically inclined.
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  So he looks at something and right away he can judge it and
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  be like, boom. And I said, all right, So what
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  was the biggest problem? And he said, well, mom, he went
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  like this. Everybody had their piece of
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  track and they were supposed to focus on getting that marble
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  down the track into the bucket. And it was very clear to me that
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  instead of focusing on your piece of track, which is what
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  they were doing, they had to watch the marble and see where
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  the marble was going, not their piece of track.
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  They had to make sure that they were focused on that marble and
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  as it came down, they could adjust their track.
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  If they just kept their eyes on the marble, they would have been
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  OK, not what was right in front of them in this case.
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  And it so reminded me of where Wayne Gretsky used to talk
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  about. I don't skate to where the puck
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  is, I skate to where the puck is going.
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  And it was so interesting to hear him describe something like
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  that. Like if you just watch where the
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  marble is, then you're going to be able to anticipate and adjust
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  as it's coming towards you as opposed to just standing there
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  and not seeing what's happening up above you.
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  You can't make any adjustments. And he knew that.
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  And it was massively frustrating for him.
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  He's like, you know, we managed to get 2IN and he was.
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  So he's like, it was just stupid because nobody would listen.
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  And I said, So what was your big take away?
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  And he's like, the big take away was everybody has an idea and
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  everybody wants their idea to work.
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  Unfortunately, nobody wants to listen to say which idea is
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  going to be the strongest idea and which one should we test?
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  And there wasn't enough time. And I was like, wow, such an
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  such an observation. Now there was more to that that
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  we talked about afterwards about how he could have spoken to
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  them, how he could have made his because he was, he was saying to
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  them, hey, let's do this. But it didn't get through
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  because there were so many leaders that the whole thing
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  about this, remember, it's a leadership event.
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  There were so many leaders. And I explained to him, listen,
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  in life, we all have things where we can be the leader, but
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  we need followers because if we don't have followers, you're not
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  going to get anywhere. So you were just in a group with
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  a bunch of leaders, and this is what happens.
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  And I explained my experience to him doing these exercises in the
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  past. And he was like, yeah, I get it
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  now. I totally get it.
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  And it was just so, so cool. So in any event, we're back,
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  we're happy we're at the farm. Update from the farm while we
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  were gone was the heat was so intense we lost 2 chickens but
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  the rest of them are OK. Lost lots of plants, the heat
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  was just overwhelming, 112° in humidity is just too much.
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  So lots of clean up to do and lots of things to work through.
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  But I'm very grateful to be home and very grateful to be able to
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  be at it again. So I hope you guys have a
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  blessed day and I will be back and see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.