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Season 4 - Episode 286 - Conditions and questions · 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. 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 everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So conditions are about to change.
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  We've got a weather forecast that the, we're getting this
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  massive blast from the north, it's coming down South and that
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  things are going to be cold below freezing.
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  And it's always funny to me when this happens because there's
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  part of me that grew up up north where it's like, So what?
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  It's below freezing, no big deal.
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  It's like that's what we do. And then there's part of me
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  that's southern and goes, Oh no, Oh no, how cold is cold?
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  And I start to panic just in general because I don't like the
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  cold weather. But then there's a part of me
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  that's like in that space of like, OK, plants, I have to
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  think about the plants. So as human beings, we know when
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  we get alerts like the weather alert, we have to take, you
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  know, advice, the advice that they're giving us and say bring
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  in any delicate plants you have, bring in anything that you don't
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  want to be affected by the cold. Make sure that your pipes are
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  drained for outside so that nothing freezes.
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  You know, all the all the good stuff that's pretty standard and
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  normal and whatnot. Well, here's the funny part.
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  We'll listen to certain things like that, but when we get
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  alerts and warnings about things that are coming as adults in
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  other ways, we don't necessarily always pay attention to them.
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  Now, I'm not saying panic, but you have to, you know, assess.
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  Is this going to be serious? Is this going to be something I
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  need to be prepared for? Do I want to be prepared for it?
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  And sometimes we just have the wrong emotion driving when we're
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  assessing things and that's the problem.
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  So I could sit there and I could put like, like not put, but you
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  know, anxiety and certainty are always right towards the front
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  of my bus. So I could easily just let them
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  take over and be like, OK, we have to bring everything in.
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  We have to do this. We have to do this, but because
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  I have been at this so long, managing my emotions and
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  choosing them, I'm like, OK, let me see what's real, what's
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  perceived and what I need to pay attention to.
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  And I know I have some very delicate plants like a
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  coleandra, which is a nickname powder puff.
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  Those need to come inside. I know that they need to come
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  inside for this. And I could have brought them in
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  already because it's gotten just below 50.
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  But it's OK that nothing happened there on the porch.
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  They're tight to the house, so they're OK to that to that
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  point. But going down below 40, that's
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  a danger. So that's a real that's a real
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  thing. And I can be prepared for that.
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  When it's something that's like borderline succulents, things
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  like that. I have to think about it, OK,
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  what what's real and what's perceived.
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  And I ask myself that question a lot.
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  As you know, if you're a regular listener, questions are my best
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  friend. They have been my whole life.
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  I endured 6th, 7th and 8th grade facing the wall because I asked
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  too many questions. So this is not just something
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  that's a learned behavior from, you know, the, the, the job that
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  I do in coaching people, this is ingrained in me to be curious
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  and ask questions. And I often didn't ask the right
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  questions. So now I, I work very hard to
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  make sure I'm asking myself the right questions so I don't panic
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  and in conditions that are surrounding us, we need to pay
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  attention. So if you're in a company and
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  you see things are changing and you don't like how the culture
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  is going and you don't like certain attributes of what
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  they're doing, those are conditions changing, my friends.
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  And you have to ask yourself, do I want to be a part of this?
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  If you know, you're in an industry where it tends to have
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  toxicity and you're like, okay, I still like what I do, but I
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  don't like the conditions in which I have to do it.
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  And you're currently in a position where you could start
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  something on your own, become a consultant, do it in a different
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  way so that you control the conditions.
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  What's that? What's wrong with trying that?
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  I mean, for goodness sakes, I'm in an industry that has tons and
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  tons and tons of people in it. And some of them, to me are
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  false prophets. Some of them are charlatans.
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  Some of them try to take advantage, and I try to avoid
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  all the noise and create the conditions in which I want to
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  operate because I'm in charge of my own ecology, my own economy,
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  my own drive. I am in charge of all of that.
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  And when I believe that and I wholly own that, then I can
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  create whatever I choose to create.
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  Now, that may sound silly and it may sound bold, and somebody
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  might say, well, you know, you can't just force yourself to
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  fly. But there are ways I could fly
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  if I chose to fly. I could get a jetpack if I
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  wanted to. There are ways that I could make
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  things happen. And sometimes you run into the
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  questions of like, well, do I really even want this?
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  And that's something we have to keep asking ourselves, too.
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  So conditions matter, and we always have to look at them and
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  ask better questions of them. So first and foremost, I'm going
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  to get my plants ready to come in because these conditions are
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  real, not perceived, and I've got to get some of them in.
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  Not all of them, some of them. And really what's crazy is some
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  of them do well when they have a little bit of cold, all of a
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  sudden you'll notice they, they have a different look about them
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  and it makes them more resilient.
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  And some have to be cold in order to flower.
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  Some have to have that cold snap in order to do other things.
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  So know your plants, know yourself, and go out there and
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  figure it out, all right, What the conditions are ideal for
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  you. Figure it out and know what
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  matters. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.