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Season 4 - Episode 154 -My curiosity is challenging my patience · 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
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  let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. I am standing in front of a
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  giant trellis of green vines that I'm growing inside my
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  garden. And this green trellis is filled
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  with something that I've never grown before, and it is called a
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  Mexican Gherkin. And these are super tiny little
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  cucumbers that are supposed to be ideal for making Gherkin
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  Pickles. And they are super tiny, like
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  really tiny. And they're ideal for growing up
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  the trellis and covering the trellis.
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  And they send out all these beautiful little arms that grab
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  onto the trellis. And it's already like, let's
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  see, it's probably almost halfway around a big giant
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  trellis that's in. It's about 3 feet, 3 1/2 feet
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  wide. And at the very peak of the
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  archway, it's probably about 9 feet.
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  And it's about halfway up it at this point.
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  And it's filled with the vines. Now, here's the tricky part
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  about this. There are there were weeks ago I
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  was noticing that there were tons of little tiny flowers and
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  these little tiny flowers had these little tiny cucumbers
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  coming out, but they were like so small, like the piece of lead
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  on a pencil like that bin. And this is when it was much
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  shorter. And I was getting very nervous
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  that they were going to because if I even touched them, which I
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  did, I knocked them off and they hit the ground.
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  And then I was super frustrated that I even touched it and it
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  broke off and it hit the ground. So I decided I was going to
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  leave it alone and I just walked away from it and said I'm just
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  going to wait and see what happens.
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  Well, you know, I'm very curious.
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  So I kept walking over and I'd say I don't see anything, but I
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  didn't touch any of the leaves. And it almost looks like English
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  Ivy. If you've ever seen a English
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  Ivy wall, you know, it gets like very dense and thick.
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  It almost reminds me of that and it, it, it's and it's thick like
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  the, like the leaves are covering things.
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  But my curiosity, I was trying to keep it at Bay and I would
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  just stand here and I would look at it and I'm right in front of
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  it right now as I'm talking about it.
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  And I would be like, OK, I'm just not going to touch it.
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  I'm just going to keep looking at it.
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  And I would never see any of the little cucumbers.
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  I thought they all fell off or the birds picked them off and
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  then ate them and that was the end of it.
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  So here, lo and behold, here we are today and I'm standing out
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  here thinking, OK, it looks beautiful.
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  I'm going to love having this grow up.
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  It's going to be a nice spot in the garden just to look at.
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  If nothing else. It's pretty.
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  I created something pretty and I happen to just like lift up.
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  I say I happened, but really I was like, well, I might screw
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  it. I might as well look and see.
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  And I lift up a few leaves and I see one of them underneath and
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  it's fairly large. For what it had they have been
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  it's like the size of a small grape right now.
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  And I got super excited. I was like, they're growing,
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  they're growing, they're growing and I'm looking and I'm like, Oh
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  my God, when do I pick them? What is this?
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  And I feel all that, that excitement and thrillingness
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  coming through me and I'm like, should I pick it?
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  When do you pick them? How big do they do they get?
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  How how big do you know? And I start running through all
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  of this in my head and I'm like, what do I do, 'cause they're so
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  fragile, the way they're hanging on.
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  I was like, oh geez, I don't know if I should pick them.
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  I don't know what I should do. And I stopped myself.
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  And I said, you know what? This is a great time for me to
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  record a lesson and talk to myself.
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  As much as I'm talking to you about don't touch them.
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  It's being patient. It's allowing myself to
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  recognize I need to be patient. I need to allow myself to just
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  take the time to chill out and not touch it.
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  Don't go near them, Kim, and focus on letting them grow.
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  And I will know. I will do the research.
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  I'm not going to touch them until I absolutely know I should
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  touch them. What's the average size that I
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  should let them get to? But here's what's beautiful.
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  I was patient until I knew. And then once I knew, I became
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  impatient again, which is ludicrous, right?
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  Because now at least I know they're growing.
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  You would think, oh, you can be more patient now that you know
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  they're growing. Well, it doesn't work like that
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  in my head. It means, oh, now I have
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  permission to go ahead and actually get in there.
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  And no, I don't, I do not have permission for myself to just
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  get in there and start like doing this.
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  What I need to do is stay focused on what it is that I
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  need to stay focused on, which is coming out here to take a
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  picture of the original flower that I was headed to do that was
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  on the okra and stay away from the tiny Gherkin cucumbers and
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  focus on what I need to focus on the photography, not on the
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  stuff that I do not need to focus on.
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  So I'm sharing this all with you to tell you it happens to me.
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  I have to not be so impatient. So I'm going to go do that right
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  now. I hope you guys have a blessed
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  day and I will see you tomorrow. Bye.