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Season 5 - Episode 107 - Drought can be shifted! · 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 happen 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.
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  If you hear some water running off in the distance, it's
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  because that represents the project over the weekend, which
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  was installing a fountain on the porch.
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  And it's actually a little turtle pond that has a fountain
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  in it. And it's because one of our
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  little pets is coming outside. It's an albino snapping turtle,
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  and he's going to live on the porch in a pond that we made for
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  him. But it's dark and it's early and
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  I'm sitting out on the porch and I want to talk to you about
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  drought. So physically, we are in the
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  middle of an exceptional drought here.
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  I've never seen it this dry here.
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  It's unprecedented. I From what I hear, it's very
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  rare and normally we're dealing with too much rain this time of
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  year and this time we're dealing with not enough.
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  And that just made me think about how things flow in our
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  lives too. We will want something and want
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  something and want something and want something and want
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  something and keep obsessing on the fact that we don't have it.
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  And I am obsessing on the fact that we don't have the rain I
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  want because everything has to be watered.
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  And when they're brand new and you're putting them out, which
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  has been going on for the last month, month and a half, where
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  I'm bringing things out and planting them, we're still
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  considered in spring. So they're little.
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  And I can't just turn on big sprinklers or water systems to
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  irrigate them without running risk of ruining things.
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  So it forced my hand in changing a plan and it made me think
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  differently. I look at the soil and when I
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  water the top of the soil, it's it's dust.
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  It just moves around like soft baby powder is what my son
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  described it like yesterday when he was helping me.
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  He's like look if the the water hits it and you don't use the
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  sprinkler like the the soft shower spray first on the nozzle
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  head it. If you hit it with just the
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  flow. It just moves it like soft baby
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  powder. And I thought, wow, he's
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  absolutely accurate. That's exactly what it looks
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  like. And this is what happens in our
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  minds as well. Like we have to do things gently
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  when we're in these quote UN quote droughts.
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  So some of us might be in a drought for financial stuff.
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  Some of us might be in a drought for emotional stuff.
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  Maybe it's looking for love, trying to find a partner.
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  Or even if you're with a partner and you feel like that you guys
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  just aren't clicking and you feel like you're in a drought.
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  And all of a sudden that drought starts to dictate so much in
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  your life. I mean, it really starts to
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  dictate a lot in our lives. So the question is, what do you
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  do when you're in a drought and you feel a certain way?
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  How do you handle that drought? And most of us would want a
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  flood because we feel like, OK, I've got to go in there and just
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  have it all. But the reality is it would, it
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  would move us just like that big stream of water would move the
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  baby powder. It just pushes it to the side
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  and it never actually satiates it.
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  And that's we, we start to act that way ourselves, like we
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  can't get anything from it. It's actually quite disturbing
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  when you think about it the right way.
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  So the truth of the matter is that we need to focus our
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  attention and intention on being able to take the sprinkles, turn
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  things on, just sprinkle stuff on.
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  So if you, if you're in a drought of any kind, think about
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  what is, what are the small things that would matter.
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  Now I know this sounds crazy, but I've had clients in the past
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  do this, especially if it's a financial drought and you're
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  trying to attract more money. When you find a penny on the
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  ground or change on the ground, celebrate it.
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  It doesn't matter if it's a penny, it's cash flowing to you.
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  Celebrate it. Just be like, oh moneys flowing
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  to me. And I I honestly believe that
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  abundance flows like that. So you have to celebrate every
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  little tiny win. And it also works when you're
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  looking and saying, what am I spending on that I don't really
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  need? And those subscriptions that's
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  like the sprinkle you go in and you look at what are those $10
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  ticks, those $12.00 ticks that we all get hit with.
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  We all say, I want to watch that movie.
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  Let me sign up for Disney Plus or let me sign up for a
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  Paramount Plus or all this stuff.
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  And all of a sudden you forget it.
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  And that's why I don't like subscriptions personally,
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  because you forget about them. And before you know it, what's
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  happening, Oh my goodness, you're, you're tapped out.
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  So you clean up your subscriptions.
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  If you're looking for love and you're trying to find more
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  friendship or more love, go and do something really small.
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  Celebrate something really small.
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  If someone smiles at you, celebrate that.
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  Say, oh, that look, that's that coming my way because it changes
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  the flow of your enemies and it turns the drought around.
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  Because just like the weatherman said this morning, very early,
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  4:00 AM forecast, he said, you know, when you're in a drought,
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  it kind of puts you in this place where we keep having the
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  drought, we keep having the drought, the conditions that
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  cause the drought keep sticking around more and more and they
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  cause more of those conditions. Boy is that isn't the best
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  metaphor. I don't know what is.
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  So change the small conditions and we'll start to see things
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  change. 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.