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Season 3 - Episode 13 - Asking for the opportunities and it’s not what you think · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermind set
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
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  Hey, everybody. Good morning from the studio
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  because guess what, it's raining again.
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  We are in this lovely weather pattern and the rain is just
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  happening again. So we are inside because it's
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  still dark and raining. So today we're talking about
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  asking for opportunities. People think that opportunities
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  just come popping up. And while that may be true a
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  percentage of the time, what happens is that we make our
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  opportunities. We have things that show up and
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  that is directly correlated with how we present ourselves in the
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  world of opportunities. Meaning we think about asking
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  for them, we are creative and looking for them.
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  We start to connect dots and we say, Oh well, what if this could
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  happen? Now this is a very complex
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  thought process when you are by yourself in your head because
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  guess what, driver shows up? How?
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  How just jumps up and starts running over to the driver and
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  says, Oh no, no, you, we can't do that right now.
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  So let's say, let's say creativity is driving your bus.
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  And for those of you who may be new, I'm reflecting on the
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  content that I wrote in the book Who's Driving Your Bus?
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  Which basically, in a nutshell, says that all of your emotions
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  are available to you at any point in time, like a bus in
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  your head. And whoever is driving the bus
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  predicates your entire experience.
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  So if my certainty girl is driving the bus, then that means
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  every choice she makes is going to be through that portion of
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  her process. She's going to be thinking of it
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  that way. So she can it be wonderful?
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  Yes, it can be wonderful. But most of the time she's a
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  pain in the butt. So I try to keep her at Bay when
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  I'm in the process of doing something creative because she's
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  very good friends with how and when, how comes up to the front.
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  The two of them are just easily taking me out.
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  They're easily saying, well, I don't think that that's going to
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  be a good idea. That's going to be a lot of time
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  that's going to be this. They're going to give me their
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  opinions, which are valuable at other points in time, but not in
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  the opportunity creative process.
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  So think of it that way. Anybody who hasn't heard that
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  before, obviously you can get the book on Amazon if you want
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  to read it and and dive into it deeper, but that's it in a
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  nutshell. So now back to this.
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  So let's just say that you've got opportunity thinking about
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  this. You've got creativity driving
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  the bus. You're big in that opportunity
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  phase and all of a sudden something shows up, fear,
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  anxiety shows up, something shows up, some very specific
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  thing shows up for you and it takes you out because it's
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  trying to protect you from the risk.
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  It's trying to mitigate that risk and pull you back and say
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  if I do that, there's going to be a problem.
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  So it pulls you way back and all of a sudden you let go of the
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  opportunity before you release it into the world.
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  Now when I say release it into the world, it means you have an
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  idea and you throw it out there. Emotionally, you're putting it
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  out there. It's like fishing in a pond.
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  When people go fishing, they put the bait on, whether it's a worm
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  or it's a family or whatever it is, they put the worm on the
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  hook, they sit down and they throw it in the water.
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  So they are really having an intent that they are going to
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  catch something. They have every, every outcome
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  in their head says if I do this, I could possibly catch a fish.
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  This is how it works. When you go look for
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  opportunities, you have to bait your emotional hook and put it
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  out there and say, OK, I'm throwing it out there.
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  And you do that by having the idea to begin with and
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  cultivating how much you believe in the idea.
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  That's like the worm on the hook, my friends, but you have
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  to really believe it. You have to be in this place of
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  being, like, so imaginative. You're seeing it as if it's
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  already happened and you're putting it out there that way.
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  You're like, OK, I'm excited about this, and even if you
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  can't see if it's already happened, you're excited.
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  Your energy, your emotion that's driving you is excitement.
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  So as I am progressing through putting my stuff together for
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  the new year and saying well, what opportunities do I want to
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  create? I don't say what opportunities
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  do I want to stumble into. I'm saying what opportunities do
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  I want to create? What are the things that I know
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  could be very valuable to me and my happiness and my business and
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  my family? That's the part that you have to
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  cultivate, and you have to let yourself have the idea, because
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  that's the worm on the hook. If you can't do this, there's no
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  way that whoever you would need on the other side of this out in
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  the universe could come to you because you don't even believe
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  in it. So how could they?
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  We must believe our own ideas and opportunities beforehand and
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  get into that energy, because once you're in that energy, that
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  is like the fish swimming right by the hook.
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  Once you're in that energy, it's like, oh, there's that hook,
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  that shiny hook. You are being bright, you're
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  being, but they're just, everything's being drawn to you
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  because you are so excited. So remember that as you go
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  through this process of being in the month of setting the stage
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  for all the opportunities, because January sets the stage
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  for all the opportunities, remember that you're you're
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  supposed to be cultivating that. So go figure out, am I actually
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  welcoming opportunities? Am I allowing myself to even
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  have them? All right my friends, I hope you
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  have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  And hopefully it will not be raining tomorrow.
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  Bye.