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Season 4 - Episode 108 - Maintenance · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to 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 early morning.
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  Maybe you can hear the frogs off in the background.
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  I'm not sure if you can. They're starting to come out.
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  Not as, not as many as I would have hoped so far.
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  But they're here. So today we're talking about
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  maintenance. That's the neighbor's rooster
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  because I'm on a different part of the.
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  Property. And you can hear the neighbor's
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  rooster off in the back and he does sound different than ours.
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  But it's pitch dark here. So today we're talking about.
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  Maintenance and maintenance is such an important thing in our
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  life. And when you think of the word
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  maintenance, most of the time you hear it and you say, oh,
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  I've got to have my truck needs maintenance, my car needs
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  maintenance, my water heater needs maintenance, my air
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  conditioning unit needs maintenance.
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  We can go through a list of items, you know, physical items
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  in our world that need maintenance because we're used
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  to that now. In my mind, maintenance comes
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  across everything because in order to keep things at their
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  peak performance, you need to maintain them so they can stay
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  at that level. And that includes most things
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  around us. Like I need to maintain the
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  gardens. I need to go out and pull the
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  weeds. If I don't pull the weeds, we
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  have a major problem. If they take over, if I don't
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  maintain the the dirt Rd. coming in, if we don't take care of
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  that, we end up with potholes in it.
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  And what's, I mean, everything you think about it and you stop
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  and really pause. How many people get their nails
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  done? I'm not one of them.
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  OK, Full disclosure, I think you all know that already.
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  But they go and they have to have their nails done.
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  You know, often every two weeks they have to go get a fill.
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  Pedicures, you have to shave. Men, women, who however you
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  identify, you're shaving. If you're a human, probably
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  you're shaving. This is a super important thing
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  to think about because where in there do we say I need to
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  maintain my emotional balance? Where do I say I need to
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  maintain my state of mind, my mindset, my I need to maintain
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  my peace, right? We don't use those words
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  typically strung together and it's a problem because if you
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  don't maintain this ideal, you can't keep it easier to keep it
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  under control. So in other words, if I, if I
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  wait too long, like I'll give you a great example.
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  So last year talk house maintenance.
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  We always have to have power washing done on the houses
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  because if we don't, we end up getting the the pollen sticks to
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  everything. We end up with a Sheen of a
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  color of the pollen and then it turns into this slightly green
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  mold and it's really weird and it's just a heat related,
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  moisture related thing. So we have to maintain and do
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  power washing of the houses. So last year we had the pollen
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  and the season was very stretched out.
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  We had two waves of it and by the time we got around to
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  getting somebody that was able to come, it was so late.
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  My husband was like, I'm just going to power wash myself and
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  he did a a job on this. Now he did the job that he
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  wanted to do on this, but it's not like when you hire somebody
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  and they come and they do every nook and cranny and they're
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  doing this like high, high level job.
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  We have a smaller power washer. He did the best he could with
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  what he had and it and no one else would have noticed.
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  But I noticed because this is how my brain works.
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  So this year, even before the pollen came, I'm looking and I'm
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  like, OK, there are so many spots here that really need it
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  and the ceilings outside of the on the porches need it up really
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  badly. And that's a hard thing to do on
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  your own. So the maintenance was done, but
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  it wasn't done thoroughly. And that compounded the problem.
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  And it's the exact same thing that happens in our brain when
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  we don't maintain our state of clear thinking of our chosen
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  curated thinking, pulling in what we're looking for instead
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  of reacting to what's happening around us, which is very easy
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  right now, to react to everything that's around us as
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  opposed to pulling in what you want.
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  We have a harder time maintaining it.
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  It's harder to get back from it. And that's the part that always
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  befuddles me, because if we're willing to shower and brush our
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  teeth and get our hair cut and do all this, there should be no
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  reason why we don't want to maintain our thoughts.
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  We don't want to maintain our mental health and our emotional
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  health and our emotional intelligence, all of that.
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  And it's not a hard process to do because you can do it in 5
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  minutes a day. You can do it in 2 minutes a
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  day. You can do it by reading and
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  taking in something, using recordings.
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  Record yourself when you're in a great state and then listen back
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  to it. Take a voice memo to yourself
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  and give yourself a pep talk and listen to it every day.
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  Jumping on here every day is a way to do it.
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  But there's and there's a million other things that you
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  could do but do it. Find something that works for
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  you to take the edge off the maintenance and make it easier,
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  because I promise you, the hard part is digging your way out.
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  Just like it's harder when you have to lose a bunch of weight
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  and you're trying to lose 50 lbs instead of losing 5 lbs.
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  If we caught it at the 5 LB mark, we wouldn't have a
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  problem. If we can't have to wait all the
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  way till it gets to 50, it's a lot harder.
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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.