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Season 5 - Episode 130 - Surviving vs Thriving · 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
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  be a farmer. This is my Chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day. To.
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  Record a podcast. To.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey everybody, good morning.
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  I am in. Front of our.
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  Turtle enclosure. And this.
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  Little guy. With, I mean, I did.
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  Not imagine I could. Ever bond with a snapping
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  turtle? But this little guy is an albino
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  snapping turtle and we we got him.
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  I did not get him. My husband got him on a whim,
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  saw him he was. The.
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  Size of maybe a 50 Cent piece and got him and you can hear the
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  water running in the background. We've got a fountain in there.
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  We went all out building this thing.
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  He was in a tank for the winter and he grew.
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  To vote the size of two. 50 Cent pieces and then.
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  We decided. He had to come outside for the
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  summer. But of course, me being me, I'm
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  like, Oh no, he needs to have something really cool.
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  So we created this jungle. Waterfall enclosure.
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  Out of. 2 tanks, lots of plants. My husband designed this pump.
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  My son the plumber set the whole thing up and we have this on our
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  porch now. This and when you come up the
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  front stairs. Of our house.
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  This is on the right hand side and it's big and it's filled
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  with plants and you know, we put the.
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  Turtle in it. And at first I was like, you
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  know, OK, in the tank. When he was in the tank, he was
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  always hiding. And I and I get it, he's he was
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  small and he's also albino, which means he's very sensitive
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  to light. But he was always hiding.
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  And then we put him out here and all of a sudden everything
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  changed. Everything changed.
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  And I was like, what is going on with this guy?
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  And he is active. Constantly.
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  He's out swimming around now. Full disclosure this.
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  Tank that. We have built outside this.
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  Enclosure. We have has.
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  It's a. 300 gallon tub that's filled with like 100 gallons of
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  water and then up above we've got a.
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  Smaller 150 gallons and that. Comes out, he can't get to the
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  smaller one that's just for the waterfall, but down below he's
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  got 100 gallons of water. It's movement.
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  He's got plants. And one thing that these turtles
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  love to do is dig in the mud. So the planted we've got
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  papyrus. And pots inside.
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  And he can dig down into that dirt that's in the papyrus and
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  he loves it. And all of a sudden, his entire
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  demeanor has changed. He has become a completely
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  different animal. Like a completely different
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  animal. He's out.
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  Swimming all. The time he's interacting, he
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  pops up. When he sees you come over, he
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  comes out and pops up and now I find myself talking to him.
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  We're still trying to come up with a great name for him, but
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  he's we're waiting for his personality to come up.
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  And all of a sudden it's like he's got a personality and he's
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  so cool. And I was thinking to myself, I
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  wonder if this is just because of his size, his age.
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  And then I really started thinking, you know, you know
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  what this is. He's come into his own based on
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  the fact that we put him in a different environment, we gave
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  him a different place and now he has stepped into thriving.
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  He went from being surviving, being in a totally survived
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  where he was, but he's now thriving.
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  And you've heard me talk about this over the years, surviving
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  versus thriving. And I can safely say that now he
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  is thriving. And I am a happy camper.
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  And I'm somebody that can sit there and say, yeah, OK, it was
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  not cheap to do this little thing.
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  And if you're going to have something, you take full care of
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  it the way it needs to, and you help it to thrive.
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  But we forget to do that for ourselves.
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  And you look at something and you say, does it really need to
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  have all that? No, it didn't need it, but
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  that's what it took to get it to that place where it can actually
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  thrive. Now take that and extrapolate
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  that lesson out to yourself. How?
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  How do you consider what you're doing for yourself?
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  Are you thriving? Have you set yourself up to have
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  things that help you thrive? For me, being around plants all
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  the time, things that are flowering, things that are
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  growing, things that are expanding, that to me is
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  thriving. That's where I have to go to
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  thriving. I love that.
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  That to me, when I come out on this porch to sit, see the
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  turtle, see my flowers, overlook what I've done, working on
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  cultivating constantly, what can I do to make things feel better,
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  be better, look better? That is thriving.
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  And it does it take work? Yeah, pretty much non-stop
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  because I'm constantly out here working on something.
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  However, that thriving could not be more important.
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  So it leads me to be a better mom, a better partner, a better
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  coach, a better friend, all of those things because I have that
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  energy to share. So it's not a selfish act.
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  Thriving is not selfish, it is necessity.
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  It's an absolute necessity if you want to take yourself to the
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  next level as well as those around you.
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  So check in, ask yourself, am I surviving versus thriving?
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  And what do I need to do to change that?
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.