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Season 3 - Episode 6 - Working on your knowledge base · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermind set
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Very glad to say Irene has stopped and we are back outside.
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  So it's lovely. Very early morning girls are all
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  out here clucking around and getting broody for the season,
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  which cracks me up because today I wanted to talk to you about
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  working on knowledge. And this is a funny thing
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  because the more you understand about chickens in general, the
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  more you want to study chickens. And there's so much to
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  understand and know and the hierarchy and everything else
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  that goes on. And broody chickens tend to be
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  very difficult to deal with. And broody just means that they
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  want to sit on eggs, they want to take a bunch of eggs and they
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  go through these moods and they're very indignant.
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  They puff up like a giant marshmallow and they just want
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  to sit on eggs for 21 days and have babies.
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  Now some of them, there's, it's a crapshoot.
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  You never know when they're going to be good at it and when
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  they're not going to be good at it.
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  So I have a couple that are very good at it and then I have a
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  couple of new ones that are from last year's chicks that really
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  want to do this right now and they're all walking around
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  puffed up. It looks quite funny.
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  But knowledge base, right, That's what we're talking about
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  today, knowledge base. So I am very big on constant and
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  never ending learning. So I'm going to come right out
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  and say if you are not identifying yourself as a
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  constant and never ending learner, I am going to suggest
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  that you go and start adding that to your identity.
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  I am a constant and never ending learner.
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  That's what you have to tell yourself so that you seek out
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  knowledge, you seek out information, you seek out
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  expertise, you try to learn as much as you can and even if you
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  read something on a subject, you don't take that one thing to be
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  all there is to it. Now I have read many books on
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  chickens, understanding their language, their different
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  clocks, but guess what? I still keep reading, I still
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  keep searching, I still keep studying and I still keep making
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  observations because I actually have a knowledge base myself, as
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  well as, which is practical in the moment from years ago and
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  now the last few years. Doing this, having them here, as
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  well as many, many, many books on it and studying them, being
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  broody is really what's quite fascinating to me because
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  there's no rhyme or reason as to when it starts.
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  Like it's winter, Why would she want to sit on eggs and bring
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  babies in the cold? Who knows?
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  Like, I still keep trying to seek out these answers and
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  there's a lot of speculation on a lot of things.
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  But again, the point today is knowledge base, knowledge base,
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  knowledge base. So whatever it is that you want
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  your knowledge base on, you have to own the fact that you're
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  willing to do it and keep learning it.
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  Just like with the vegetables and the gardening and the
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  flowers. So I recently signed up to take
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  Florette Flowers course and it it's for people who are wanting
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  to create a flower farm, I like to to actually make money with
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  it. Now I certainly don't want to
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  change my business to go from being a creative strategist and
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  executive mindset coach over to being a flower farmer full time
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  where I'm making money from it. However the point of doing that
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  is it creates a knowledge base for me between you teaching you
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  guys learning myself and melding the world of farming and growing
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  animals, vegetables, all of that into ourselves.
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  So taking this course very in depth, expanding my knowledge
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  base massive can I use it to cross pollinate over 100%.
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  So the point of of this exercise today is to ask you what do you
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  want to learn this year, What is your focus for what you want to
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  expand on your knowledge base. Now for those of you who are in
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  technical fields, if you're at engineering, if you're doctors,
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  if you're lawyers, if you're always in your own knowledge
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  base, it is highly beneficial to do something that is not part of
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  your standard knowledge base. Just like me studying mindset,
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  psychology, neuroplasticity, all of that stuff, it's fantastic.
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  I do it all the time and I cross pollinate because there are
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  things that I can pull from these other areas of my life.
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  The farming, the growing the chickens, all of that into
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  common understandings for everybody to understand.
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  And it helps me stay focused, sharp and and keep learning.
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  So the point is, find something outside of your field to study
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  and watch what happens. Because not only do you become
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  happier and more fulfilled, but you actually feel smarter.
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  I'm not even joking. You actually feel smarter
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  because you're learning something new.
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  You're not just adding to the same old, same old.
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  It's fun to do that. However, it's a lot more fun
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  when you learn something out out just outside of the realm and
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  and just your normalcy and and feel spectacular in the process
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  of doing it. Like, it's very funny because
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  while I'm talking to you about this and using these broody
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  chickens as a metaphor, I took all of the girls out that were
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  broody sitting in their egg boxes waiting for other chickens
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  to lay eggs. Because they don't lay eggs when
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  they're broody. And then all of a sudden they'll
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  they'll pirate the other eggs from other chickens and then
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  they'll sit on them and they'll scream at them and they won't
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  let them have them. So I emptied them all.
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  I made them come out and eat breakfast because they won't
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  even eat. They won't drink.
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  They'll just sit in there for 21 days and I make them come out
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  and eat and drink, and then they'll go back in if they're
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  sitting on eggs. If they're not, I just keep
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  taking them out throughout the day.
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  This little girl, Delilah, our rescue girl from last year, this
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  little girl, she is a hoot. She's decided that she's going
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  to sit on eggs and she is part Americana.
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  She Raven is her dad and her mother is a Leghorn and they
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  tend to be very stubborn breeds, both of them.
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  And she is beyond stubborn and she is so large right now.
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  I took her out twice before I started shooting the podcast and
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  she just hauled her butt right back in there again.
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  She went and ate breakfast, hauled her butt right back in,
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  found the only box that I had an egg in.
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  Somebody had laid an egg early and she's now sitting on it
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  again. So do you see why this is
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  fascinating to me to figure out this piece of the puzzle?
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  Because what makes her drive? What makes her want that drive?
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  Anyway, I need to go read. All right, my friends, have a
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  blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.