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Season 4 - Episode 100 - The Dull Knife · 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. I'm standing here in the garage
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  very early getting ready to go out, do some work today.
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  In between, I've got a couple of little gaps in my schedule where
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  I can go out and do some work. But funny story about yesterday
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  and wanted to share this with you.
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  So my son who is Mr. Mechanical, always Mr. Mechanical said
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  yesterday afternoon I had this person who had to move at the
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  last minute. So I have all these bags that my
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  son helped me go get the other day of in dirt just to go into
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  these tomato bins that we're using instead of the ground
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  because of this virus that plagues me, that drives me
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  insane. So I have a lot of tomatoes.
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  I'm pretty obsessed with growing tomatoes.
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  I've got I think 36 plants and I had bought 20 gallon fabric bags
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  to plant these in and protect them so that they can't get the
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  virus. I got half of them set up,
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  needed more dirt, run back to buy more dirt and set it all up.
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  Now if I can get help doing some of this bag lifting.
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  These are 50 gallon bags. They're big, they're heavy.
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  I can do them by myself, but if my son is available, I'll ask
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  for some help. So he, he comes out to help me
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  and he said, where's your garden knife?
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  So I've got this specific Japanese garden knife that I
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  love to use. And he picks it up and he goes
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  to start using it and stabbing the bag to, to cut it and then
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  dump it into it. And he stops and he grabs my arm
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  and he said, what are you doing with this knife?
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  And I was like, what are you talking about?
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  It's the knife I always use. And he's like, this knife is in
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  terrible condition. This knife is dull and that
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  makes it dangerous. And I was started laughing and I
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  said, oh, I've heard that about kitchen knives.
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  And he proceeds to go on and tell me about how all knives, if
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  they're not sharp, are more dangerous than if they are
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  sharp. And I said, that's interesting.
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  I have not heard it phrased that way before.
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  And he's like, oh, yes, if the knives get at all dull, if these
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  knives get at all dull, they become extremely dangerous
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  because you can hurt yourself. And, and I mean, I, I've always
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  heard, heard about the whole thing, sharpen your knife, all
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  of that. But he gave me such a clear and
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  direct message about this, like, look, you need to pay attention
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  to this. This needs to be taken care of
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  ASAP. There is no exception to the
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  rule We have. You either get rid of this knife
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  or you go get, you get it sharpened.
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  I mean, we'll see if dad can do it.
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  He's like, but I don't know the shape, the curve of it, it might
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  not be able to be sharpened. So I started thinking about that
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  in the metaphor of like, OK, well, this is a tool that I use
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  all the time and I didn't even realize that it had become dull
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  because I had I become desensitized to it.
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  It goes in the ground. I'm constantly chopping with it,
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  digging out roots. It's like, it's a Japanese knife
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  that's like serrated on one side, sharp on the other.
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  And it's kind of shaped like a scoop, but a skinny scoop.
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  So all of this, you know, is such a great lesson in the sense
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  that we pay attention to things when we when we know that
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  they're like really bad. But what happens when we become
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  desensitized and we don't recognize how bad it's getting?
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  Because I didn't even recognize that this knife was that dull.
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  I knew it wasn't as sharp as it used to be, but I had become
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  comfortable. I had become the proverbial, you
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  know, frog in the pot of water, not even noticing it.
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  And then he proceeds to tell me how it slows down my progress
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  because it's not that. And that's when it really got to
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  me. Oh my gosh, this slows down my
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  process. This is making it harder for me
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  to succeed and get done out here quicker because time is valuable
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  to me. It's one of my greatest assets,
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  finding time, having time. So where is this showing up?
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  So I immediately came in, put the knife on the bench where
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  it's I'm currently looking at it and said, OK, I've got to get
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  this taken care of or I've got to go get a new knife because
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  this is not working. And then it got me really
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  thinking about skills overall. What other skills need to be
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  sharpened? What other things?
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  Where do I need to put in some new rules?
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  So I did some new recordings for my mantras.
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  I got, I've been listening on repeat to the same audible for,
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  I don't know, the last month and a half.
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  And I typically do that where I'll get into something and I'll
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  listen and I'll listen and I'll listen and I'll listen.
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  And I was like, Nope, you know what?
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  I'm going to pull up a new one. Something I haven't heard
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  before. I'm going to start diving into
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  that and immediately it gives you a shift, a boost, you start
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  to feel better. So now I'm spending my, you
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  know, the rest of this week looking around and going, all
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  right, what else do I need to tidy up, sharpen so that I
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  recognize how I can actually be at that level and at that best?
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  So the question of the day is, what do you need to sharpen?
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  My friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.