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Season 4 - Episode 299 - The Chatter during our Chores… · 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.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the. Chicken coop.
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  So have you ever considered the amount of chatter that goes on
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  during your chores? Now we talk a lot about mine
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  chatter and you know most of us are aware of it.
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  But I'm talking about the chatter that you really don't
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  think much about, the one that goes on while you're doing
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  chores. And some of those chores can
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  make the mind chatter go completely away.
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  Like I can tell you when I'm gardening, my mind is quiet.
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  It's kind of like the dirt shuts my head off, which is lovely.
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  And I love it. And it makes me feel fantastic
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  because it completely takes everything away.
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  And I so appreciate that. And then there's the mind
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  chatter that's like when you're doing little chores like folding
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  clothes or in this case, why we're talking about this is this
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  morning I was every morning I prepare a platter for the
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  actually 3 platters for the chickens.
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  I have so many, it started out as a single platter.
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  And I'm talking about like a metal cookie sheet, big standard
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  size for cookie sheet. And I do two of those and then a
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  round one that's like for a pizza.
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  And I don't even know how it started that the round one got
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  in there. But I think it was because I had
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  chicks at the time and I needed to give them something too.
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  But every morning, my intention is to give them fresh vegetables
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  and fruits so that their digestive system is nice and
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  clean. So most mornings they get
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  something like shredded zucchini or and squash with blueberries.
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  And I put hot, hot pepper flakes on it and melted coconut oil.
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  And then I surround it with some sliced bananas and some oatmeal
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  that has not been cooked. They love oatmeal that has not
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  been cooked. They love it cooked too, but
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  they really like it that way. And I find that when I do these
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  things, they they stay. They've just stayed.
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  It's so healthy. And it's my intention when I'm
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  doing this little tiny task in the morning and it takes me up.
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  Yes, it takes me extra time. It takes me about 10 minutes to
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  get their stuff all together. But you know what?
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  I look at them and I see how healthy they are and I see their
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  feathers and I see what they look like and I'm like, no, you
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  know what? This is worth all of the extra
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  time to make sure that they stay healthy, just like cleaning out
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  their koopas. But.
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  During that time. When I'm preparing the platters,
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  I've created a habit of sitting there and saying to myself, OK,
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  I'm going to direct the mind chatter and rather I than saying
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  I have to hurry up and get this done, I say I'm so grateful for
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  my chickens. I'm so grateful for the gifts
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  they give me. I'm so grateful for the fact
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  that they're all so healthy. I'm so grateful for the fact
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  that they love their breakfast. Platters, I'm grateful that I.
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  Have. Them to.
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  Care for? And I and I change the list up
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  because I just run it in my head randomly.
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  I don't have it written down, but I.
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  Control those. Thoughts during the?
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  Task. And what's?
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  Interesting about doing that and it's and it's really become very
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  much a a ritual for me is that it makes such a big difference
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  to how I feel about doing things so when I'm.
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  Doing it I'm not like. Oh, I got to get this done.
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  I got a hurry. I got to get out of here.
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  This is. Such a nuisance.
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  I never think that because I've never once had that thought
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  around it. Because I've controlled.
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  It right from the beginning and I've worked really hard about
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  having the intention with the task intentions and.
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  Tasks link them up so. When I'm dealing with my dog and
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  he's very drooly and I have to wipe his face and instead of
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  complaining about the drool, which believe me, I did because
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  he was just such a drooler, I mean like bubbles coming out the
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  side of his mouth. I would have to reframe that for
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  myself. And I started to say, OK, every
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  time I wipe his drool, I'm going to kiss him on the forehead.
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  And now he actually expects that.
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  And I say and and he looks at me like he puts his head up, like
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  he's waiting for me to give him a kiss on the top of his head.
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  And that has taught me about that, the power of intention,
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  because now it's a moment for us.
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  So when he's drooling, I'm like, okay, here come kisses and he
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  wags his tail and I wipe his face and then I kiss him.
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  But in my head I'm saying okay, the drool means kisses.
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  And instead of saying drool, now I need to wipe it up again so
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  that those little twists really matter to your well-being.
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  They matter because it gives you the opportunity to decide what
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  that chatter is going to say. The chatter is going to.
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  Happen my friends, it's very hard to quiet it.
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  And I mean I genuinely say this unless you are an avid meditator
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  and you sit down to meditate regularly for a an extended
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  period of time each day to train the quiet.
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  You have to. Recognize.
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  That that is a skill. A lot of us don't have.
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  It this. Person that's talking to you
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  does not have that skill. And the way I quiet my mind is
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  when I'm gardening, I can go immediately to the garden, put
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  my hands in dirt and and I'm just done.
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  It doesn't matter even if I'm doing seeds I I have this like
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  everything decompresses and I'm focused on them, but that still
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  doesn't make the chatter quiet. So I'm intending those seeds to
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  be happy and grow and love their life.
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  The dirt though, when I sit in the ground, everything.
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  And I mean everything quiet. So you have to just deal with.
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  The chatter. Don't make yourself feel bad
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  about it. Intend something great, put that
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  energy somewhere else and because the outcome is to feel
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  great and this will help that. So I.
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  Hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.