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Season 5 - Episode 10 - The right tools for the job · 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, hey?
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  Everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  The girls are having breakfast. I'm sitting out here under a
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  tree. It's.
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  Later than normal. Sun is up so it's not 6:00 in
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  the morning. Now we're talking about tools.
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  Believe it or not, it's crazy to me how having the right tool can
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  change the way you feel about a task.
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  We're going to talk about my boots and I consider my boots a
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  very important aspect of my day. So when I come out here in the
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  morning and I go. To the.
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  Chicken coop. I never wear my normal shoes,
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  sneakers, whatever. I always wear my boots.
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  My literally these are called muck boots, which is just the
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  best. Now I never had muck boots, OK.
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  I always would go in to Tractor Supply and I would buy cute
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  boots that had chickens on them or whatever little thing that
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  they put on and these rubber boots.
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  But here's the thing. Inevitably, these boots would
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  fall apart. They don't last a long time.
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  And I got really frustrated with the fact that I would be out
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  here, it would be muddy. It would be whatever the rain
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  comes and boom, my boots leak. And I would get infuriated about
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  that. And I would say I need to go get
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  a new pair of boots. And then I would go right back
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  to where I had gotten those boots and I would buy the same
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  damn boots. And so earlier, few, probably
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  like maybe 8 months ago when we were in a really, really
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  torrential downpour season, like we had days and days and days
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  and days and days of rain. My boots leaked again.
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  And I didn't even think anything.
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  I was like, I need new boots. And I make an offhand comment in
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  the truck to my son who's extraordinarily practical with
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  things. And he says, I said, I need to
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  go to Tractor Supply. You want to go to Tractor
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  Supply, I need to get new boots. So he's like, sure, we go and I
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  go pick him up and he goes, aren't those the same boots you
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  had? I said, yeah.
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  And he goes, well, you know, they're going to leak.
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  And I said, well, that was the last pair.
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  He goes, well, actually it's been quite a few pairs.
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  And I started laughing and I said, you know what?
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  You're right. And he goes, why?
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  Why do you want to keep getting those?
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  And I said, I don't know, I just like them because they have that
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  on there. And he goes, well, you need a
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  pair of really like boots that you can't break, boots that
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  you're not going to ruin with all the things that you do.
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  And I just stopped and looked at him and he turns around and he
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  says to me, mom, you got to have the right tool for the job.
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  And I just paused and I was like, Oh my gosh, how right is
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  he? So I bought these again, they
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  were at Tractor Supply. That's The funny thing.
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  And I, and this is not an endorsement for Tractor Supply.
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  This is just the place I shop all the time.
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  And lo and behold, there they were, muck boots.
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  They're not attractive. They're all black, but they're
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  super comfortable and they never have a problem.
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  And I'm like, why didn't I do this before?
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  What was the reason I didn't do this before?
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  Well, I was emotionally purchasing the other boots.
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  Instantaneous emotions were showing up for me when I walked
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  in and saw the cute little boots with the flowers or the chickens
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  or the peace signs, and they were selling to me.
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  But the muck boots are really like very practical black, solid
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  black boots, rubber on the bottom, neoprene on the top.
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  I mean, they're, they're like indestructible boots and they
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  have them made for, I mean, they, they fit me.
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  I have them. So what was, what was it that
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  was happening to me? Because I was emotionally caught
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  up in the cuteness, not realizing that that part was
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  really becoming a problem. The the cuteness was not giving
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  me what I essentially needed in having a really, really good
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  pair of boots that I could do whatever I wanted to in like.
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  So I had to stop and say to myself, this is not the right
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  tool. So now here I've had these boots
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  for months and this morning I come out and it's warm, there's
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  no rain, but I still put my muck boots on and I think, huh, right
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  tool for the job. I still hear him saying it in my
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  head. I can hear that.
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  Get the right tool for the job. I come out here and of course
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  I'm not paying attention and I step in chicken poop because
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  there's, there's chicken poop in the chicken coop run area and
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  I'm opening the gate. They're leaving.
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  And here I am and I look down and it's on the bottom of my
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  boot, but I don't care because it's on the bottom of a boot
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  that's meant to do the job. And I don't have to worry about
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  my feet getting all crapped up literally.
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  And I just started laughing and I thought, where else does this
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  show up in life that I don't have the right tool and I really
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  need to have the right tools Immediately I walk in and I've
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  got this beat up old broom that I refuse to throw away because
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  I've just been like, oh, it, it still works.
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  But it, you know, sometimes brooms the handle twists off the
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  bottom. Well, it happened this morning
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  and I looked and I said this is not the right tool for the job
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  anymore. So I'm going to finish this up.
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  I'm going to go in and get dressed and I'm going to go to
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  Lowe's and buy a new broom because I need the right tool
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  for the job. And I'm going to go and make a
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  list today of all the things that I am tolerating as tools
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  that I know are making my job harder.
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  And I'm sure there are a few. I, I know there are some,
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  especially when it comes to being here on the farm.
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  Like I tolerate tools that need to be sharpened or need to get a
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  better tool for the job because it's just like, oh, I don't like
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  to be wasteful. But again, where else does that
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  slow us down? And where does that prevent us
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  from being more successful? So my friends, what tools do you
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  have that you need to replace and get better tools for the
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  job? I'm going to go buy some stuff
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  today. I hope you guys have a blessed
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  day and I'll see you tomorrow.