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Season 4 - Episode 255 -The monkey swing · 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.
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  To be. A farmer.
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  This is my chicken coop and I come out here.
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  Every day to record a podcast to.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some. Joy into the world, so welcome.
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  To the coop and let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good early morning.
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  So how often do you neglect parts of yourself that you know
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  are parts of you you can't neglect?
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  It's a great question, right? Like right away you start
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  thinking like, what is that? What are the parts that I
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  neglect? So I didn't realize how much I
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  was neglecting my gardening part of myself because it's just part
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  of my identity. So sometimes I don't pay
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  attention to the fact that it's been a hot minute.
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  Well, this time of year is very tricky.
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  Where I live, the hottest parts of the year are September,
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  August and September, really hot, hot, hot.
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  And we've had some blazing hot, like over the top humid gross
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  weather. And because of that, my main
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  vegetable garden got put to the side.
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  Like I couldn't get out there except to take what we had left
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  over. Because honestly, we lost so
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  much because of the heat. It no matter how much you
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  watered it, it was just too hot and the plants couldn't survive.
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  They just don't survive in that kind of heat.
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  So we lost a lot of things, which was fine.
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  I mean, it was we had pulled a ton of stuff.
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  We lost a ton, but we pulled a ton.
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  So it was, it was good. And again, gardening for me is
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  always learning and an adventure and thinking about like, OK,
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  what can I do that would be different to help it.
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  But in the in any event, I wasn't planting, I wasn't in the
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  dirt, I wasn't wedding, I wasn't doing anything because it was
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  just too darn hot. You walk outside, you go to do
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  something and you're covered in sweat because it's 100%
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  humidity. So things started to cool off.
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  The last couple days have been there have been some heavy
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  clouds, some rain, and it's a great time to pull weeds.
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  And I would love to be able to plant a winter crop where I go
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  out and plant some microgreens, some spinach, just and onions,
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  just some stuff that I really want to try doing.
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  Now, I've never done winter cropping before, so it's not
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  like in the forefront of my mind to hurry up and get out there
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  and get it done. I'm just like, all right, I'm
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  going to experiment. This is another one of my, oh,
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  let's just see what happens. I'm experimenting.
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  I'm I'm just testing things. So yesterday I had a couple of
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  people that needed to move their schedule around and I was like,
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  OK, and it was cool. It was, it actually feels like
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  right now it feels cool here, which is insane.
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  So I said, I'm going to go out and I'm going to open the gates
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  to the garden and I'm going to go in and I'm going to let the
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  chickens come in with me because normally I don't do that until I
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  pull back the fabric and everything.
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  And I'm going to just go and pull, pull some weeds.
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  And it started out with just some simple like I'm going to
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  pull some weeds. And it turned into a full blown
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  like experience physically for me because I didn't realize how
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  bad I felt until I knelt down and I started pulling weeds And
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  I was like, Oh my God, I miss this so much.
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  Like I missed being in the dirt. And I know that sounds crazy,
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  but I was neglecting that part of myself.
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  And I can't even go weed in the flower gardens because here's
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  the part, all the butterflies have laid eggs.
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  They're actually going into chrysalis's.
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  They're in that pupating state. And I can't pull out weeds
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  because they attach to those flowers.
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  So the flower gardens, they look like hell, my friends.
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  But I know there's a purpose to this.
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  So I'm like totally happy with the beautiful transformation the
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  way it is that what does that do?
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  It means I can't weed. I can't do anything.
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  So I'm neglecting the part of myself that needs that so much.
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  So when I got into that vegetable garden and I
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  recognized, Oh my God, my hands are dirty, my feet are dirty,
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  I'm filthy. I mean, I was covered.
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  I was pulling weeds. I had dirt all over.
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  When my, when I, my alarm went off to tell me my next call was
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  coming, I was laughing because I said, Oh my gosh, thank God I'm
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  not on FaceTime or I'm not on Zoom because I look like a
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  homeless person in the, in the sense that I'm filthy right this
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  second. So I, I just felt like I man,
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  OK, this was a huge thing for me.
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  I I was so happy to be dirty and to be putting my hands back into
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  something that meant something to me that also triggered
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  something unexpected. There was a massive amount of
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  excitement about replanting the garden, which I was like, oh,
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  I'm yeah, that's cool, I'll try some winter vegetables.
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  But I wasn't excited. I'd never done it, but this
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  kicked my excitement up. So the point of today and the
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  point of talking about this is sometimes you don't realize
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  you're neglecting parts of yourself, which is great.
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  We can all fix that. We can understand that.
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  But we also don't realize how they monkey swing to something
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  else, which is my excitement for planting this next level.
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  It was like that catapulted me into that next phase.
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  It was like, oh, this is good. Oh, this makes me feel good.
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  Oh, this decompresses me. Oh, and I had all these moments
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  in my head and I was like, wow, OK.
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  Not to mention that the girls were in there with me, which was
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  so much fun. And they were getting really
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  annoyed. It was very funny, my friends,
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  to watch them get like very annoyed because the fabric is
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  still down. So they were going right to the
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  spots where I had pulled the stuff up, where I had cut the
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  fabric, and they would stand there and just talking to me as
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  if I needed to hurry up and get that fabric off, which I will,
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  but just not right away. And they're going to be really
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  irritated with me when I have to shut them back out once I plant
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  the stuff that's coming up. But they're going to have fun in
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  there for the next week or so while I get this in order.
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  In any event, I wanted to share that with you because remember
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  those items that you neglect, once you start fixing them,
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  monkey swing to the next ones. I hope you guys have a blessed
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  day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.