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Season 3 - Episode 41 - Two activities that spark you! · 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 chicken
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  coop. Today we're talking about
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  activities that spark your spring cleaning mind.
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  So as we get ready to shift from this deep winter freeze that
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  everybody seems to be in and we know what's happening.
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  We know there are Gray days. We know all of this is still
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  taking place, but as we get ready to get out of it, there
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  are some things that help a lot. And this, this particular day, I
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  just want you to start thinking about what are two activities,
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  just two that spark you, that make you feel.
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  And when I use the word spark, I say they excite you, They make
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  you feel, oh, that that moment of like, oh, could I do that?
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  Oh, could that be exciting? Oh, what is that?
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  So think about something that really makes you feel inspired,
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  really makes you feel electric, makes you feel, you know, just
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  awake. And if you are listening and you
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  don't have something like that. And there are a couple people
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  that I know for a fact listen that do not have that I want you
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  to really think about what are those things that could light
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  you up and it can be anything. Somebody asked me a couple weeks
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  ago and we were talking about this in a session if it could be
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  playing cards. And I said absolutely.
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  It doesn't have to be a creative activity, it can just be an
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  activity. So for instance, pickleball,
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  Yes, definitely on the list. If that spark that sparks a lot
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  of people and they get very excited about it.
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  So yes, pickleball is something that can be an absolutely
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  wonderful thing and you can put it in the activity list of it
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  sparks me. I love it.
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  I love the way it makes me feel. I love the way I get to hang out
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  with other people. Fantastic.
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  It doesn't have to just be a creative endeavor.
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  And I know when I talk on here sometimes I talk about creative
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  endeavors a lot. No, I I often do that because
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  that's me and that's my stuff that I go to.
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  But it could be playing cards, it could be pickleball, it could
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  be a sport that you want to start taking up.
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  It could be swimming. If that excites you, it could be
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  something on that side of it. I personally don't think about
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  those things that much because they're not my go to things.
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  I've never been that kid. I've always been the kid that's
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  the more artsy 1, so I'm going to naturally gravitate there.
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  But you can pick anything you want.
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  Again, it doesn't matter. It could be the reading, it
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  could be the knitting. It could be like, OK, you knit,
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  you're a knitter, but you want to be a needle pointer or vice
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  versa. It could be that you just want
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  to learn to sew. I mean, learning to sew in
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  itself is such a my grandmother was a seamstress and I never had
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  the privilege of knowing her, and that always made me sad that
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  I never got to know her. She passed before I was born,
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  but it always excited me that she could, like, make clothes
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  out of nothing she could pick up.
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  My father would tell me stories about how she could pick up
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  remnants of fabric and she would see something and she'd say, oh,
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  I know I could do this with it. And he'd say I'd watch her make
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  a shirt. And I would have thought,
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  there's no way she can make a shirt out of this pile of crap.
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  But she would. And I just love.
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  I get goosebumps just talking about it.
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  Because she took something from like, nothing and she turned it
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  into something beautiful. That is what I'm talking about.
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  That's a spark. That's something there.
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  Now, did she think it was a spark?
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  I don't know. But I look at it and I think
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  it's a spark. So here's the here's the the
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  trick with this again, it can be anything.
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  And what you have to do is stop yourself judgment in the
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  process. So what typically happens?
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  You'll start thinking about something.
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  You go, no, that's not good enough.
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  Well, the first of all, it can be completely good enough.
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  Yesterday I was sitting looking at my vehicle, my truck, and my
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  farm truck is dirty because I haul stuff around.
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  I'm constantly moving bales of hay and straw and, you know,
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  food for the animals and dirt bags.
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  And yesterday I picked up a bunch of worm compost.
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  I know that sounds crazy, but I did and it it's always dirty.
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  So I was like, you know what? I want to go out and really
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  clean my truck. And I knew it was going to take.
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  I didn't even get to finish it all because I ended up having to
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  leave and go to dinner, but I got some of the inside done and
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  it was such a great feeling and that sparked me.
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  So that whole idea of what sparks you, It doesn't even have
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  to be a long term thing, it can just be short things.
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  But look for the spark and start to figure out what do I want to
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  put in there. Two activities, each like they
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  are different is ideal so that they're two different parts of
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  your brain. Look for two different types of
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  of ideas and then work them. Because I promise you, you will
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  feel so much better when you do. OK, my friends, I will see you
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  tomorrow. Have a blessed day.
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  Bye.