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Season 4 - Episode 12 - Facing the Ugly Truth · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to 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 we're talking about facing the ugly truth today because
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  it's around us and we have to face it.
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  Now there are two situations that I'm going to bring up in my
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  own personal life because it it just they're, they're happening
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  live. And it will help to understand
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  it's not just about one thing where the ugly truth shows up.
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  It shows up across the board. So yesterday I had a day planned
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  where I was going to go do a bunch of chores and get lots of
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  things done so I could come back and have a nice evening family
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  food, chicken, white bean, chili, all this stuff.
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  We were like going to chill out. Everything was going to be great
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  and all of a sudden we came back home and one of the girls was
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  out on the lawn dead. And I knew immediately something
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  was wrong because there was a vulture sitting on the post to
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  the main garden. And vultures don't just come
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  down unless there's something there.
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  So somebody obviously killed one of my Bard rocker girls and she
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  was really not in good shape. It wasn't just that she was
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  killed, it was that she was really torn apart.
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  And it was AI was hysterical, of course, because it happened when
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  I was not here. And immediately I go into this
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  phase of being angry and frustrated because this happens.
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  And if you're a regular follower, you know, we have
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  phases of this that seem to take place.
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  And it's not something I do well with because, you know, I don't
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  like to lose them. They're my pets.
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  We use them for eggs and we use them for to give them love and
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  have them as pets. But we do not, we do not eat the
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  girls. So it's it's just it's not
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  something that I can entertain ever doing.
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  So here we are dealing with the ugly truth of the fact that
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  we're coming into this phase of the year where these things
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  start to happen. And I get very wound up about
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  this. And immediately I, I just feel
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  this wave of like, I have to put them all inside.
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  I have to stuff them in. I have to do, you know, keep
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  them safe. But the truth is they would have
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  a very, very limited life if I did that.
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  And I have to allow myself to say, Nope, they're allowed to go
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  out. They're allowed to free range.
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  And I have to figure out what I'm going to do to make sure I
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  know where the attacks are coming from when you're going to
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  get killed. Finally, we have Internet that
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  we can use so that the I could get trail cams so we could see
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  what's happening. My guess is it's a hawk that did
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  it, couldn't pick her up after he did it.
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  And then the vultures saw her dead and decided to come in and
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  do what vultures do, which is like, you know, natures cleanup
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  crew. And that's how she was so torn
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  apart because it didn't look like it was a normal thing.
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  And we are completely fenced in. So, you know, it, it was
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  something, maybe it was random, maybe it wasn't, who knows.
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  But I have to not put my head in the sand so I can't I can't go
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  ostrich myself and say OK, I'm going to ignore it.
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  Now the second one that happened is here.
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  I am totally different type of story here.
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  I am going to order all the seeds for the veg, for the big
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  vegetable garden. And I've got a bunch of stuff
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  that's already been sent in. I like to get from different
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  places. I like to get very old world
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  seeds organics, things like this.
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  So there's this catalogue called the rare seed Catalogue and it's
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  tremendous. It's huge.
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  And they actually make you pay for the catalogue, which I don't
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  mind because there's so many great varieties in there and
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  strange and different varieties. But when I get it, I immediately
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  go into this place of, oh, I want that.
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  Oh, I want that. And then I have to face the ugly
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  truth that I can't have all of them because they don't all grow
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  here. Well, and not only that, but I
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  cannot grow 87 varieties of things and it becomes
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  overwhelming. And then I start to feel this
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  emotion of going, I'm so sad. I don't have more space.
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  I need to make the garden bigger.
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  I need to have this. And I start to catastrophize all
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  the good stuff that I have because it's not enough.
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  I start to go down this road. Well, it's not, it's not going
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  to work, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Not all of this, mind you. All of this conversation is
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  taking place in my head. I am not saying this out loud.
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  I'm taking the catalogue. I'm circling things.
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  I'm I'm preparing what I'm going to order.
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  I've got a cart open on my computer.
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  But I'm not saying it out loud, but I know in my head I have to
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  face the ugly truth that I don't have room for all that stuff.
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  And I don't even know that I would want to have room for all
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  of it because it would mean so much more work.
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  So point of this conversation today, no matter what you're
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  doing in your life, sometimes you have to face the ugly truth
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  of what is and you have to stop and pause and say, hey, it's OK.
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  I can still get in the right emotional head.
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  Be excited about what I have to fix it.
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  Be grateful that you know my rest of my chickens are totally
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  OK. The Roosters had them safe,
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  everything was fine, everything was fine.
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  And that I have this big beautiful garden that's already
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  tremendous and huge to work with.
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  And maybe I can try to be creative about it, but the point
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  is I can't do that when I'm in that state, running around in my
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  head, going down the rabbit hole of panic.
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  I have to face the ugly truth and then get myself grouped back
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  up. 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.