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Season 4 - Episode 67 - Giving up or letting go? · 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 from the chicken coop.
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  So today we're talking about what's the difference between
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  giving up and just choosing to not pursue something.
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  There's a massive difference my friends, Massive.
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  And this was brought up to me yesterday by my irrigation guy,
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  believe it or not. So we had to get irrigation just
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  because it's impossible to keep up with watering everything.
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  I would be out here for hours watering and it just doesn't
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  work in the heat of the summer. You just need irrigation to keep
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  everything healthy. So last year we had a company
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  come out and we put in irrigation for the main
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  vegetable garden and all the flower gardens and just ran a
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  line out so that the I didn't have to have hoses everywhere
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  for the chicken coop and the rabbits and everything else.
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  So we ran this whole system out and the the the guy is just
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  super chill. He's one of these guys that like
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  when you talk to him, he's just very low key and he's like,
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  yeah, that's cool. And he's just kind of got this
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  really nice mellow vibe to him. So I called him because we had
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  an issue with the vegetable garden.
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  One it one of the ones that come up, I water it from the top.
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  I don't water from drip irrigation for many reasons, But
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  so it's, it's irrelevant. But there's a post that comes up
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  in each corner and in each middle in the 50 by 50 square.
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  And one of them was broken off while we were taking out the,
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  the, the fabric to get ready to, you know, put the nutrients back
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  in, put all the chicken poop back into the garden and
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  everything else. So it turned out that it snapped
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  off and I had to call him and have him come out.
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  So I said to him, you know, I have this situation with the
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  tomatoes and I can't plant them in the ground.
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  He's like, wow, I've never heard of that out here.
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  And he's like, yeah, people don't usually discuss that stuff
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  with me. And I'm like, really?
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  Because you're kind of like a knowledgeable guy would think
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  that people would talk to you about.
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  He goes, yeah, well, if it doesn't have to do with the
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  specific subject, then they kind of don't bring it up.
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  And I was like, OK, So what are your thoughts on it?
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  So he and I are discussing the idea of using the the bags.
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  They're like fabric pots, essentially.
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  And we're going to plant them in fabric pots.
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  It'll be above the ground. There'll be no way for the roots
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  to get in the ground, which is where this virus comes in and
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  kills the tomatoes. So we were discussing the way to
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  do it. And I said, you know, I'm at the
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  point now where it gets me so frustrated.
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  I just want to give up. And he looks at me and I know I
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  wasn't dead serious that I was going to give up.
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  I was just like, I'm so frustrated.
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  I just want to give up. He looks at me and he's like, no
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  man, you can't give up. And I was like, oh, I'm not
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  really going to give up. He says no, no, no.
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  He's like, let's let's try this. And if that doesn't work, I'll
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  come up with this. And if this doesn't work, I'll
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  come up with this. And he started laughing.
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  He's like, you're the last person that I think I would ever
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  expect to give up. And I said, well, I wouldn't,
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  but I was. I just get so frustrated with
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  it. And he goes, no, we're not
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  walking away from this. He's like, I don't, I don't
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  think there's a reason to walk away from it.
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  And all I think we have to do is just figure out a better way.
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  And I, you didn't ask me before and now I'm, I'm willing to
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  help. So I paused and I thought, isn't
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  that funny? Because like he said, nobody
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  asks him about stuff like that because he's just water.
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  He's not plants. So you know, every, I've gone to
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  every plant source that I knew around here to talk to them
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  about it. And nobody has any ideas.
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  And here I am thinking, OK, I'm I'm running out of ideas.
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  And I talked to the water guy and he has more ideas than
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  anybody else had, and he's from a completely different source.
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  And then that got me thinking about how the difference is
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  giving up means I still have the desire to do it.
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  Of course, tomatoes are my favorite, most favorite thing in
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  the world to grow. So why would I give it up just
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  because I didn't have the right answer?
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  And that's what was happening. So giving up in frustration and
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  still wanting the outcome is very different than saying, you
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  know what? I just don't, I don't want to do
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  this anymore. And, and there's no frustration.
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  It's just, oh, I did that. I'm done with it.
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  It's kind of like we used to have an RV and we used to go out
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  RV ING and then once we got the farm, I was like, OK, I don't I
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  don't need to leave like I did when I had the RV.
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  That was fun when I did it because I didn't necessarily
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  love where I was living and I wanted to be able to.
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  This is pre the farm before we had built it all out and we were
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  in a rental and it was small and I didn't love that.
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  I mean it was great. Don't get me wrong.
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  I was very grateful for it, but I wasn't like I didn't want to
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  be there all the time. I wanted to be somewhere else.
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  So the RV was a solution that's A and when I was done with that
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  solution, I was like, no, I'm good.
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  I'm all set. I wasn't running away from it
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  because I was frustrated. I was moving away from it
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  because I was done with it. Do you see the difference?
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  And this, I'm not even close to being done with it.
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  And it's so funny how it infiltrates mindset.
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  It infiltrates everything where we are with this stuff.
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  And the farm just continues to show me lesson after lesson with
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  this. So remember, sometimes asking
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  somebody who has a completely different aspect of, of, of the
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  world can really bring you some enlightened thoughts because my
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  guy Josh really did it yesterday.
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  So I hope you all have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.