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Season 4 - Episode 267 - Chores & Joy! · 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 afternoon from the chicken coop.
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  I am talking to you out here because I just finished up.
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  It's almost the end of the day. It's actually very dusk.
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  They're all starting to come in to go to bed.
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  Although there's a bigger thing happening because I changed the
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  coop out today. So change the coop out day
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  happens about every two and two weeks. 2 1/2 weeks depends on
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  how bad it is on what kind of weather we've got.
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  But what I do every couple weeks is I completely swap the coop
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  coop out where I take all the straw that we have inside the
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  coop wheat straw I use on the on the floor, although the floor is
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  tiled because yes, I'm insane and I tiled the floor of my
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  chicken coop because I didn't want having the grossness on the
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  floor. But we take all of that and we
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  move it outside. Well, I take all of that and I
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  move it outside And it's part of that whole process is to make
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  sure I can see if there's anything happening in the coop.
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  And chickens can get things very quickly and if you ignore stuff,
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  it blows up just like in life. But this is such a great
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  metaphor and it's why I do what I do.
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  I will come out here and I will swap this coop out.
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  I right down to the tile, put everything out and I look and I
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  look in the corners and I see is there anything happening?
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  Do we have any bugs? Is there any rodents?
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  Is there any infestations of something I need to pay
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  attention to? Clean out all their egg boxes,
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  put in new straw, put in fresh herbs for them.
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  Get there stuff all cleaned out, scraped down, whatever needs to
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  be taken care of is taken care of.
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  And this ritual that I created in this, which it really is a
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  ritual for me is hard work. It takes me about an hour and a
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  half, two hours. And usually I'm doing it at a
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  different time of the day. But sometimes when it's like
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  cool and if especially in the summer, I'll do it in the
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  evenings because it's cooler. So today just happened to be a
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  day when I was not having sessions late in the day.
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  And I said, OK, I'm going to do it this evening, let's see how
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  it goes. So I get it done.
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  Now the funny part about this is 1.
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  It satisfies me because I'm sitting here and I'm going, oh
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  wow. All right, their coop is all
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  clean and I know there's nothing out there and I don't have to
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  worry about anything. And it's just good to check on
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  whatever projects you have. Like in general, it doesn't
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  matter what you do. You should know what's going on
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  with it just happens to be my chicken coop.
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  Well, it also happens to be a thrill for them and they get so
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  excited on this day like Amelia. You've all heard me talk about
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  Amelia before. She is my right hand chicken,
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  always involved with everything and she will just stick right to
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  me the whole time. I'm taking out all the straw
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  because she knows there's going to be bugs in there and she
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  knows if I stick with mom, I'm going to find them.
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  And she cackles the whole time and she gets so excited and goes
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  through the whole thing and she waits while I'm opening up the
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  new bales of straw because she knows they'll be things in
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  there. And it's so funny to watch how
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  their personalities come out. So right now everybody's like
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  doing their thing, going around, digging through stuff.
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  And there are some that are completely disinterested in this
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  process and they go right up and they go to bed in the rafters.
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  And then there are the rest of them that are my normal crew,
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  like Amelia and Sabrina and Delilah and who else is out here
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  right now? Red is out here, Samantha's out
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  here. They're all digging around.
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  They're so excited in this. Some of them are outside digging
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  in the old straw looking for bugs, and some of them are
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  inside digging in the new straw. And it just makes me think
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  about, you know, yes, they have a little tiny chicken brain, but
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  they're even able to experience that level of like, ooh, joy,
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  excitement, get involved, whatever their emotion, I'm air
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  quoting there is for them. And it might just be, you know,
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  a stimuli response, who knows? But whatever it is, it comes
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  across in a certain way and maybe I'm anthropomorphizing
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  them. Okay, So what here's the deal.
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  It makes me feel good doing this process and I know it makes them
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  feel good. So it compels me to do it even
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  more and set up things for them and change things.
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  Like when you change their surroundings around, they get
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  very excited. It's like humans like, you know,
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  you change your living room around.
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  We all want to feel that's change.
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  Like oh, I want to get new pillows for the season or I want
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  to do this. I'm getting new sheets.
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  It's there's just something inherent in us that says when
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  you do those things, it makes you feel good.
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  It makes you feel creative. It gives you a boost of joy.
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  The serotonin goes off and you're like, oh, that's so fun.
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  So the, the, the, the point of having this chalk today was it
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  can be in the simplest of things.
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  I'm cleaning a chicken coop and I got a boost, so don't miss
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  those small spots because that's where the sweet stuff is.
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  It really is joyful to do these little tiny things and see and
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  you got to just seek them out and find them.
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  All right my friends, I will see you from a very clean chicken
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  coop and I will talk to you tomorrow.
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  Have a blessed day, bye.