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Season 4 - Episode 59 - The internal argument because of seeds · 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 let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody. Good morning.
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  You are actually with me inside of my garage while I am getting
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  ready to plant seeds this morning.
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  More seeds. I've been planting seeds and I
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  have the opportunity to plant about 450 seeds if I plant them
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  in the larger containers and I could double that if I went down
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  to the smaller sides. I just haven't decided.
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  And a lot of it's flowers. So for those of you thinking I'm
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  planting all vegetables, I'm not.
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  I have a lot of vegetable seeds planted.
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  Probably we'll end up with like 200 plants that are vegetables.
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  However, the rest of them will be flowers.
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  So why am I talking about seeds? Well, the the Buddhist monk
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  Tyknahan is very famous for talking about how you have to be
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  in right thinking. And he talks about the words
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  right a lot. At first that used to rub me the
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  wrong way because I'd be like, well, is it right or is it right
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  for him, or is it just right in general?
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  But over time of studying his, his, his, his work on Buddhism,
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  I've really come to understand it.
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  And in Buddhism in general, that right thinking means it's moving
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  you towards what you're looking for.
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  And that right can be different for other for people.
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  Some things are not right for some people and they're right
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  for others. Just like me digging in the dirt
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  is clearly not right for some of my friends who would never touch
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  dirt. And then there's me, who's
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  always in the dirt. And that's right thinking for
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  me. But anyway, back to the seeds.
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  So this morning I'm here and I'm getting ready to do some
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  flowers, and I pick up a package of cilantro and coriander seeds.
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  But cilantro is the outcome unless you let it go to seed.
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  And then we change the name to coriander.
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  It's very funny, but I have this package and I have one from one
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  company and one from another. And I thought to myself, jeez, I
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  was very diligent this year. I paid attention to order from
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  just this one particular company that for, for certain herbs
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  because they don't bolt in the heat.
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  And I was really paying attention to temperature
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  conditions. This is a very big shift for me
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  because normally I'd be like, oh, let's try it and see.
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  But this year I'm looking for, for proficiency and making sure
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  I'm doing the right thing for myself, an outcome as well as
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  the plants and possibility. So I see this package and I flip
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  it over and I start comparing the notes between the two of
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  them. And I look and one of them says,
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  OK, if this was packed for the 2024 season.
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  And then one of them says it was packed for 2025.
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  And it confirmed that on my list, I, I had the ones that I
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  wanted to for 2024, 2025. I, this 2024 one was a leftover
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  from last year, clearly. And I just didn't plant it.
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  Now here's where it gets really interesting.
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  Ticknahan is also talking about a lot about watering the correct
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  seeds. In your mind, what's going to
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  flourish is what you give attention to and what you feed
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  and what you water, which is perfect for.
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  It's exactly what I teach my clients all the time.
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  You have to cultivate, you have to choose.
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  You have to really work on the right thinking for yourself.
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  So here I am with these two packages of seeds in my hands
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  this morning very early and I'm looking at them and I'm saying,
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  well, I want those seeds from 2024 to have a chance.
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  I definitely want them to not be stuck in a package.
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  I want them to have a chance. Just because someone said they
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  were packed for 2024 does not mean that they are not going to
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  be successful. And on the other hand, my brain
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  is going, yes, but this is the, this is what we bought these
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  seeds from high mowing for because 2025 is supposed to be
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  this. And we know that their seeds are
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  super successful. They're organic, they're super
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  clean. We know.
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  And in my head, I have this argument going on between two
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  versions of myself. And both of them are very
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  positive versions. And my positive versions are
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  arguing. They're having this debate about
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  which ones we should cultivate, which ones we should plant,
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  which ones we should care for. And then in steps, my
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  imagination, my creativity runs to the front of the bus and
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  says, well, why don't we just plan both?
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  And I immediately recognize that now I've got a a, the duality of
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  conversation going on in my head is off the chart.
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  And then it becomes the practical certainty girl
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  standing there with her clipboard having a conversation
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  about, wait a minute, we don't want to take up more space under
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  the lights. We only have so much space under
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  the lights. And we still have packages and
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  packages of flowers to plant. So what are we going to do?
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  We have to be, we have to be very careful about this.
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  And all this chatter is going off because I want to do the
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  right things. I want to have the right
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  outcomes. And I want to make sure that I'm
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  living into the person that I know I am, which is always
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  trying to cultivate the most I can out of anything, anybody
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  anyway. So I had to stop and pause and I
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  said, you know what, I'm going to go shoot the podcast right
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  now while all this chaos is going on in my head so that
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  y'all know I have these issues too.
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  Now, most of the time it's like this, All the positives are
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  arguing in my head and trying to figure out what's the best way
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  to go. But in this case, my solution,
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  my creative, my imagination came up with the best idea, that the
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  2020 Fives will go under the lights in the garage and they
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  will have a massive different environment, but nonetheless an
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  extremely right environment for them.
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  And the 2020 fours will go into the herb bins that are outside
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  already and I'll hold them back a bit.
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  I'll let them go because cilantro goes very quickly in
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  this house anyway. So I will plant them in probably
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  3 weeks, 4 weeks once I know I'm past the frost and give them a
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  chance to grow outside. And it'll be a great comparison
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  for conditions and we will see what happens.
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  But the point of today's podcast is to make sure you understand
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  no matter who you are, no matter what you do, you will have
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  debates with yourself and you will have to choose.
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  And in the process of choosing, you have to decide which ones
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  are the most right for you, which ones are the most aligned
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  with who you want to be. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day. I'm going to go finish planting
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  some seeds and get ready to go get the girls out.
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  And I hope you all have a very, very blessed day.
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  Bye.