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Season 2 - Episode 195 - Do you create problems just to have something to solve? · 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 master mindset
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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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  So let's talk about the fact that human beings are problem
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  solving creatures and we go to great lengths to create problems
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  that we can solve. Humans will do more to avoid
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  pain than they will to gain pleasure, and that is through
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  that problem solving mode because without having the
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  ability to be problem solving creatures, we would not have
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  survived. So we're geared ourself, we've
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  conditioned ourself, we are true problem solving creatures.
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  So when our world starts to show signs of variation.
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  And things become different like they are right now out in the
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  world, whether it's economic or it's political or it's
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  emotional, change happens all the time.
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  It's just it's a never ending cycle.
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  It doesn't matter where you are on the farm.
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  I see it constantly. Everything is always an
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  evolution, always moving, always changing.
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  And while you, you know traverse through it all and you say it's
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  the seasons, you really have to stop and pause and take note of
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  the fact that this. Change is happening and we have
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  the ability whether or not we are going to determine it to be
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  a problem or it's going to just be the way it is.
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  And do I need to give it my problem solving attention or am
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  I giving it my problem solving attention and making the problem
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  grow bigger by me giving it so much attention?
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  So here what I'm saying. I'm not saying disregard the
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  problems because problems help us by giving us information and
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  then we can decide is this something that I am?
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  Putting my focus on too intently am I overthinking this is the
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  problem real? Is the problem perceived?
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  Am I just hearing something and then turning it into a problem
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  which is really what's happening out in the world right now.
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  So many of us here 1 crumb of information and and it starts to
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  become a blow up issue So I'm going to give you one like let's
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  just use one that's all over the everywhere right now.
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  The heat the heat is on. The heat is on.
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  Everything's everyone's talking about how hot it is and so.
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  You know, having plants, having chickens, having all this stuff,
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  having this heat is extreme. So immediately there's a thought
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  process about OK, if the heat is on, I have to protect the
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  chickens. I start to go down this road and
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  I start to get panicky because I'm hearing everyone talk about
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  the heat and how bad it is. And you know, you have to
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  protect this and you've got to do this.
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  The here's the truth. My chickens have 7 water
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  containers all over the property, spaced out.
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  They have multiple spaces for shade.
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  They have cool spots to go to. They even have a little tiny
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  kiddie pool that they could get into if they want to.
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  Plus we have a pond and they could absolutely get in there to
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  cool themselves off. I made sure that they I I even
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  took them out frozen blueberries to which they looked at me like
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  I was insane as to why are these things so hard.
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  They didn't like it. And every cooling solution that
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  I attempted to provide for them, to quote, UN quote, keep them
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  safe. They looked at me like I was
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  nuts. They looked at me like I was
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  insane and did not want to take me up on any of my offers for
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  any of the supplies. What they wanted to do was do
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  what they do and be chickens and.
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  They dug dust baths and they did it their way, and it didn't
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  require me to create a problem to solve it.
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  What it required of me was to make sure I, as the caregiver,
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  gave them plenty of water. That's what it required of me.
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  And keep them hydrated, give them some electrolytes, make
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  sure they're cared for. And you know what?
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  Everybody's fine. So the problem was perceived not
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  really real. And did it.
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  I had to evaluate that, but I didn't need to stay in that
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  place. So as we start to hear all these
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  things about what the economy is doing, politics, wars, sickness,
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  whatever it might be, we have to stop and pause and ask ourselves
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  what are we doing? Is this energy helping me?
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  Am I? Is it moving me closer to where
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  I want to be? Or is it moving me further from
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  where I want to be and. Sometimes shutting down all the
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  noise is incredibly important so that we don't keep taking it all
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  in and causing ourselves even more of a problem by taking in
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  the negativity, because that negativity is toxic.
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  It's that water barrel. Like I've talked about this so
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  many times, you've got the rain barrel, it's filled with nice
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  fresh water. You put one drop of arsenic in
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  it, Hell it did. That one drop of arsenic in that
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  huge rain barrel is not going to kill you.
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  But would you drink the water? No.
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  So you've got to protect your mind from this and you've got to
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  make a choice about are am I going to use my problem solving
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  skills for the greater good, or am I going to create problems
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  for myself that I essentially am going to drive myself crazy
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  with? It is imperative to stay on it
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  and not go off the down the rabbit hole and off the rails
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  with this, so I hope this is helpful.
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  Use it for the greater good and don't make it toxic for
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  yourself. All right, my friends.
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  I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.