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Season 4 - Episode 325 - Living Symbiotic · 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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  Good morning everybody. So I bet you can hear all this
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  noise in the background of the crows and a screeching hawk off
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  in the distance it they keep going in rotation.
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  And this is the symbiotic nature of it looks like the crow is
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  further away. The Hawks are getting, the crows
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  are getting closer rather than the hawk is getting further
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  away. But you can probably hear the
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  crows going crazy. And part of the reason that this
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  is taking place is because I feed my crows peanuts and I
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  trade them peanuts for alerts. And they're very, very smart.
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  They are American crows and they are very, very, very smart.
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  And they will but like totally stay around if you bribe them
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  too. And they give alerts for for
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  things when you get, you know, hunkered down in your
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  mindfulness and you pay attention to what's happening
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  around you. It's not just the crow being
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  noisy. He's telling you something and
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  he's screaming. And that is because we have a
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  very, very large hawk that keeps coming and bothering the girls.
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  So you can hear that, you know, obviously it's early.
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  It's not as early as I normally am out here.
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  It's a little bit later and you know, day after Christmas and
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  I'm out here enjoying that. I don't have the hustle and
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  bustle to go off. And all of a sudden the crows
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  start going crazy. And then you can hear my
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  neighbors goats off in the distance hitting their metal on
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  their their pen that they aren't because they're goats and they
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  do those things. But Needless to say, so this
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  trade that I do with the crows is very important because I try
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  to live very symbiotically with them and they can be a real pain
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  in the butt. People will say they steal baby
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  chicks, they do all kinds of things.
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  But these crows have never done one thing other than work with
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  me. And I work with them.
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  So I provide them with things that they like, like peanuts
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  that are shelled and peanuts that are unshelled.
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  And I put them on a flight deck and they can fly in and they can
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  grab them. And then they will make sure
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  that if there is a hawk around, they they do not like Hawks.
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  And they let you know. Now I've talked about that
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  before, but why am I talking about it again today?
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  Because I'm trying to work on really hunkering down, moving
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  into the new year on the very symbiotic nature of the farm and
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  myself and everything else. And I have taken this gap of
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  time between now and January 5th, where I am currently
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  working on plans for the new year, getting ready to put stuff
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  together, but trying to also just take time and relax because
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  I want to notice all of these things.
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  I want to be aware of what's going on around on the farm.
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  I want to see even more I and I see a lot, but I know I don't
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  see everything. So I have promised myself that
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  going into 2026, I was going to not be so focused on just
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  outcomes and you know, those minutiae things of ticking the
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  box because I'm very, very good. I'm not even very good.
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  I'm excellent at that. If you give me a list of tasks,
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  I'm going to do every single one of those tasks the way they need
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  to be done. But that means that sometimes I
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  miss other things. I forget about other things or I
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  get so hunkered in that I forget about it.
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  And this morning when I heard all of this going on, I was in
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  the process of getting all their breakfast platters ready.
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  And I could hear it inside. It was so loud.
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  And I was like, wait a minute, what is going on?
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  And I stopped and I came out and I was like, oh wow, there's
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  there must be something annoying them.
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  And sure enough, it was this gigantic hawk back again.
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  And so if I was just in the mode to tick the box, I would not
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  have even been paying attention. I would have been like, OK, do
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  this, do this, do this, do this, do this.
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  And that part of the drill makes me miss other things.
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  So I am going to be even more mindful.
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  The goal is being more mindful. The goal is being more to live
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  in that symbiotic nature and pay attention.
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  The goal is to make sure that going into this, I'm going to be
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  really, really focused on being present.
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  So that also means that I have a very high need to make sure that
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  the next week that I have off that I'm spending it the right
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  way, hunkered down. And not just tasks, because I
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  got a bunch of tasks I want to do and I will do them, but I
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  have to also make time for other things.
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  So it's a balance, my friends, it's a balance.
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  So if you are sitting home and you have some time off and
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  you're thinking about all the stuff you should get done and
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  you're shooting all over yourself, great, I understand.
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  I'm doing that too. And I think it's important to
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  remember about being, who do you want to be over these days?
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  How do you want to show up for yourself?
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  What do you want to notice? Like, I can stand here and I can
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  look over and I can see that crow still sitting in the tree
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  over the over the chickens while they're having their breakfast
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  stuff. And he's just watching and
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  paying attention. And I can turn around and I can
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  see all the little songbirds getting ready to come into the
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  flight deck where I put their bird food out.
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  And I can see all the bubbles coming up in the pond.
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  And I'm very hunkered into it and paying attention to
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  everything. And it's not exactly peaceful
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  out here this morning because you can hear gunshots off in the
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  distance because one of our neighbors has a place where he
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  goes shooting and he uses it often.
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  But it's just pay attention to that part of you because it's so
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  important to success. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.