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Season 5 - Episode 122 - Allow for the mundane to be magical! · 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 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 just finished doing
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  all of my morning chores and for me, I love calling it that.
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  It doesn't bother me I don't think of it in terms of like,
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  oh, that's a bad thing to talk about chores.
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  I actually it's just part of my world so I don't think about it.
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  These are just the things that need to be done to care for
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  everything, and I'm happy to do them.
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  And one of the interesting things about being on a farm is
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  that the mornings are very, very routine and you have things that
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  have to be done. Chickens have to be taken care
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  of. Feed the birds.
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  Make sure all the plants came through the evening OK.
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  Check to see if anything got hurt in the garden overnight or
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  eaten overnight. Make sure everything is good.
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  Pull any vegetables that are ready and because they're
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  starting to, you know, be ready, double check and make sure all
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  the bird feeders are full. Everybody has water for the day.
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  In this heat, no plants look saggy.
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  So this process from getting everybody taken care of besides
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  my dogs, it, it, it takes a good 90 minutes.
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  Like if I'm really honest, it takes a good 90 minutes just
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  because I know I'm going to be distracted when I'm doing it.
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  And, and it's not a bad distraction.
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  It's like I come out, I take pictures with my camera.
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  I'm not just my phone camera, but I actually will come and
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  take pictures of flowers that have started to bloom overnight.
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  Like I've got a lot of dahlias that are coming up right now and
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  they're bursting open. And the thing about these
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  dahlias is I grew them from seeds.
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  So I didn't buy bulbs knowing what was in the package.
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  I grew them from seed, which I find to be like, do you remember
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  when you were a kid and you'd go into a candy store and you'd buy
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  the little brown packages of things that were like, it's a
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  mystery pack and you open it and you get so excited and you
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  didn't know what was in it. And most of the time it was crap
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  that was in it. But you get so excited to buy it
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  to see what could possibly be in it.
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  Or you know, if you collected cards, any types of cards, you
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  couldn't wait to open the package to see what's in it.
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  That's how I feel about growing dahlia from seed.
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  And if you like surprises, I will tell you some of the best
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  dahlia seeds like this I've gotten are from floret flowers.
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  And it's the, the bees choice is what she calls them dahlia seeds
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  from and it's called bees choice.
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  And they are stunning. And, and guess what?
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  On in, you know, underground, you're getting a dahlia tuber
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  based on that flower. So if you really like it, you
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  can end up pulling that out and making sure that you, you know,
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  divide them, they're going to come back.
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  It's a beautiful thing to to have this experience.
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  But anyway, it is for me. But anyway, the chores are part
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  of the fact that I set my day up to feel like I'm winning.
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  So I I look at these chores and I think the mundane is
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  miraculous, magical. It's moving to me.
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  I, I truly believe that and I feel as though when I'm doing
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  it, I and I stop and pause and I get quote UN quote distracted.
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  I have so much more going in my mind.
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  I have so much happening when that's going on, like as I'm
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  walking and talking to you, I'm walking over to check another
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  set of dahlia tubers that came up because I know like, wow, OK,
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  this is really awesome. Maybe there's another surprise
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  in this. Maybe it's something I didn't
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  know about. And and you know, I get excited
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  so it takes me longer. But in letting myself do that, I
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  have this experience, this wildly wonderful experience of
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  not knowing what I'm getting from moment to moment and it
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  feels tremendous. So I am big on allowing those
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  things to happen. I'm very big on letting yourself
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  have experiences and see how things, you know, flow and show
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  up. And I think when we do those
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  things for ourselves, we give ourselves a lot more of a chance
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  of enjoying the rest of our day because we are not being
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  ridiculously rigid about stuff. And I feel as though when we do
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  that, everything else in the day feels better, flows better, and
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  shines better. So look for the mundane to be
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  magical. Look at your chores and love
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  them. Because even if there's a
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  distraction, it's going to lead you to something wonderful, at
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  least if you focus on that. 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.