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Season 4 - Episode 148 - Don’t give up · 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 be
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  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
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  thinking and just bring some joy.
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  Into the world, so welcome to the.
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  Coop and let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. It's very, very early morning
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  and part of the reason I'm doing this so early and in the garage
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  is yesterday. Well, the last two days I have
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  been taking on the interior renovation of the chicken coop.
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  And one of the interesting things about me doing this is I
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  talked about this that you know, they like change.
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  I love to be creative and dive in.
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  In the process of doing this inside.
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  I knew, I mean, chickens are messy.
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  Let's face it. And we had a, we have a huge
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  coop. It's 20 feet.
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  I think it's 20 feet or 24 feet by 14 feet.
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  It's very big and double doors that open up.
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  It's like a giant shed. It actually was built by the
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  Amish, which is I love saying because they make amazing
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  things. And it was delivered, built off
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  site and then delivered, which is another amazing thing to
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  watch happen with this little tiny cart that comes in and puts
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  it where it's supposed to go. But anyway, I don't want to
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  digress down that hill. The coop inside originally I had
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  painted it. We added box lay boxes for them
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  and they were, you know, when I had fewer chickens, they had
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  plenty of of room to lay eggs. Well, as it turned out, they did
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  not have enough room to lay eggs.
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  So I wanted to incorporate more lay boxes and remove the
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  sections inside that we had built in for the baby chicks
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  when we had them and come up with a better system for that
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  because we only have those for a very short period of time and
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  then we have big chickens way longer.
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  So weighing the priorities out chose to go ahead and do this.
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  Now in the process of doing it, we had to RIP out the two
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  brooders that we had in there for the baby chicks to give the
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  big chickens more space. And then I had to decide where
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  am I putting more lay boxes? And I didn't want to cut another
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  hole in the wall to build a like a bump out for lay boxes, which
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  is what we did the first time and that still works great.
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  And they love them all, but they argue and sometimes there's two
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  hens in one box because they all have to lay eggs at the same
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  time. So I got this idea that we were
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  going to put these little shelves that popped out of the
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  wall along the side wall, and then they could jump up onto
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  those shelves. And I say a shelf, but it's more
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  like a box that hangs. And then they could jump up in
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  there and they could lay eggs. And I would then want to paint a
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  mural that goes along with those little shelves.
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  So in the process of this, which sounds like, OK, that's enough
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  work as it is, Kim Then I decided, OK, I'm going to
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  repaint the entire inside of the coop because it's gross.
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  Like if that's just what happens when you have chickens.
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  So I had to clean it all out, wipe it down and then I take the
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  and paint the walls. Well, of course I have to
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  because inside is you want it to be as bright as you can for them
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  because that's what makes them lay.
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  So it has to be bright white. When you paint bright white, you
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  have to go pretty thick to make sure it's covering everything
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  and the rollers going on the wood that is in a shed.
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  Mind you, it's not like the highest of quality woods finish
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  wise. It's great wood, but it's just
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  not finished. So it sucks up the paint.
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  So all these little factors started adding up and what was
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  supposed to be a one day project of my vacation turned out to be
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  roughly a three day project of my vacation.
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  And I'm happy to say that except for the mural portion,
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  everything else is done. The inside has been painted, the
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  whole coop has been scraped out, cleaned, scrubbed, all fresh
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  straw. Everything has been manicured
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  and fixed. And now I just have to and the
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  and the new boxes are mounted on their painted bright yellow
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  popping off the white wall and I just have to paint the mural.
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  Now here's where this gets to the point of today.
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  So we've talked before about how things can become bigger than we
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  thought. So in the process of doing this,
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  this became much bigger than I thought and I had a choice.
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  Mind you, the weather during all of this was it and still is
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  extremely humid. So I am outside.
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  I am drenched from head to toe in this coop doing this work.
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  There aren't fans out there. There's no electricity so that
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  the chickens can't get in trouble because coops burn often
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  and so you keep electricity away as much as you can.
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  And mind you, here I am dripping wet painting and having I'm
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  right-handed. So you like you, you continually
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  use your right hand so I can feel my arm burning.
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  And I have to talk my aunt myself off the ledge because I
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  have to tell you how many times did I hear myself say, what did
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  I decide to do this for? Like what was the reason?
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  And I had to keep reminding myself, what was the reason?
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  Why did I do this? And in that process of coaching
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  yourself, you all have to coach yourself at some point or
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  another. We all have to coach ourselves.
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  And this was my point of doing it.
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  I had to coach myself. So I'm in there.
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  I'm talking to myself and I'm saying, what did you do this
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  for? Because you wanted to be a
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  certain way. OK, great.
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  Well, now you're on your path to that.
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  It took longer than you thought. So what?
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  So what are you going to give up?
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  And that was the question I kept asking myself, are you going to
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  give up? And the answer is no.
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  What's the point of doing it and then deciding to give up?
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  So I want you to realize, and the reason I'm being very raw
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  and honest about this is because we all want to do that
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  sometimes, even me. And guess what?
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  I didn't give up. And I got through it.
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  And I can't wait to put up pictures of it when I finish the
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  mural. All right, my friends, don't
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  give up. I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.