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Season 4 - Episode 16 - Lifelong learning · 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, good morning everybody. From the very, very, very cold
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  area, which is not my thing anyway, very dark girls are not
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  awake. And I knew this morning I was
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  going to talk to you about something that's near and dear
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  to my heart, which obviously any of you who follow me regularly
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  know I'm obsessed with growing things.
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  So this is the time of the year when you start to get things
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  ready, start looking at things that you want to plant.
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  And I am actually in a workshop. This is the second time I'm
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  taking it. I have I signed up for it last
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  year and it was a very big deal for me.
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  Put on by floret flowers And you have to apply early and then you
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  get in at the workshop is already closed and but they send
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  you this beautiful workbook and you're designing your cut
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  flowers your garden. Now why are we talking about
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  this? Why does anybody care about
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  this? Because part of of the the
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  importance of this to me is that it feeds this this belief that I
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  have a core belief is you always keep learning.
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  You never ever stop learning because when you stop learning,
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  you lose your curiosity. You just completely lose it and
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  you don't you don't pay attention to it.
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  And when you are a lifelong learner, that is something that
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  keeps you curious. So no, I'm not going to become a
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  flower farmer where I'm just growing far flowers all the time
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  and farming just flowers and selling them.
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  That is not going to happen because my passion is doing what
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  I'm doing right now, talking to you and coaching and training
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  people. However, having a, a, a, a a
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  moment where I can completely be consumed by flowers, growing
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  flowers, understanding flowers, it, it makes me a better coach.
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  Now how does that happen? Because it's something that that
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  we all know happens, but we don't consciously think about
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  it, which is cross pollination. That's like what I, I like to
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  call it, meaning if I'm really good in one area, I can take
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  those skills and cross pollinate them into another area.
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  So if I become better at growing vegetables and flowers, I'm
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  going to be better at growing anything because I can go over
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  there and think of the principles, not necessarily the
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  specific strategy for something, but the principal.
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  So cross pollination is a very important thing to learn.
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  I've talked about it on here before, but since it's the
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  beginning of the year, we're touching on it again and I'm
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  restarting the course now. One might wonder if you took the
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  course last year, Kim, why are you taking it again?
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  One, because it's a huge course. And two, because I'm still
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  struggling with a lot of the parts of my farm with flowers.
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  Now it is definitely a situation that shows up because of the
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  the, the climate, the amount of water, everything.
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  I'm in zone 8B and that is a very interesting zone to be in.
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  It gives me all kinds of opportunities and all kinds of
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  challenges. One can get excited about all
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  kinds of opportunities, but the challenges are still present
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  with it. So it's very important that I
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  understand as much as I can about doing this.
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  Also, I have, I have a real struggle with actually cutting
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  the flowers. I love to grow them and love to
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  photograph them, but when it comes to cutting them, I really
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  have a hard time because I feel like, well, I'm taking them away
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  from what they were supposed to be doing out there and I don't,
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  I just want to let them sit there.
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  So over time, at the last three years, I, the first year it was
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  a disaster. I couldn't get anything to grow
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  because I had these wrong seeds, wrong bulbs.
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  Things would grow, but they wouldn't flower.
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  I had it all wrong and I had to go back to this learning phase
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  and that's when I got involved with the course.
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  So the course just restarted and they just opened up week 1 and
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  we're diving into it again. And I have to say, even though I
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  took it and going through it and looking at it again, it is
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  extraordinarily wonderful to be putting myself into a situation
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  where I am learning again at that level about something
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  that's just nothing but a complete passion.
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  So the question I have for you is when's the last time you were
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  learning about something that was just for a passion?
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  Just not not for something that you say is work.
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  I need to know this. I need to do my extended
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  studies, I need to get my credits, my continuing
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  education, none of that. Putting that all aside, when's
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  the last time you just decided to try to learn something
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  completely new? And it is incredible if you
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  haven't done it in a long time, the studying factor, the reading
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  factor, the keeping up factor, my friends, it's hard when you
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  get older and you haven't been in school for a long time.
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  But it is joyous when you start to really start see yourself
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  remembering things and terrible with scientific names.
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  I always have been. But I really love the fact that
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  I'm I'm really trying to learn them.
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  I'm studying them and saying, OK, what is this name?
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  What is this name? This time around, I'm going to
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  be doing flash cards with them so I can try to remember them.
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  Now who's going to come and quiz me?
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  Is, is the Martha Stewart Flower Police going to show up here and
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  quiz me on it? No, but guess what?
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  It's just going to make me feel good.
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  So go out there and say, hey, I'm a lifelong learner and I'm
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  starting this off right now. Pick something and start it
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  because I promise you it will make you feel incredible.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you later. Bye.