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Season 4 - Episode 159 - Losing enthusiasm & flatlining · 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 happened 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, hey?
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  Everybody, good morning. Let me ask you a question.
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  Do you ever feel like you lose your enthusiasm for whatever it
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  is that you're working on? I mean, I think it's a pretty
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  common feeling, and I've had it myself and it comes from being
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  misdirected, getting pulled in 20 directions among a billion
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  other things that it could be. But yesterday I had a major
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  challenge with my computer. Like I'm talking a major
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  challenge with my computer where all of a sudden something that
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  has a TB of memory is telling me that it doesn't have the ability
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  to upload videos. And of course, you know, this
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  happens and I'm in the midst of trying to upload videos because
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  that's when that would show up, right?
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  And I can't get them over to where they're supposed to be.
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  I'm super frustrated. And I've got to go to the Apple
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  Store. So head to the Apple Store, get
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  in there, and right away, you know, I had an hour, had a gap
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  in my schedule, had somebody change their time to another day
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  this week. And I was like, OK, I'm going to
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  just run down and take care of it.
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  And they'll be able to fix it. The Wizards that they are walk
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  in, they look at it and they're like, yeah, we're going to have
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  to wipe the whole thing clean. Sometimes when this happens, the
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  whole thing was just this one little tiny pocket of stuff that
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  was clogged up. Doesn't even matter what was
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  wrong with it. They had to wipe it clean and re
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  back it up from, you know, my, the, the whole cloud.
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  So I had to, I said, well, I can't do it now.
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  I've got to come back. I've got too many things, other
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  things to do and I'm going to come back at the end of the day.
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  So at the end of the day, it's much quieter.
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  There's not as much drama going on there.
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  And I walk in and I get this amazing two team guys,
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  technicians trying to figure out what did I do that initiated
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  this problem to begin with? Because it was holding on to
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  memory and it wasn't letting go of the memory from all this
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  other stuff that I had been doing and it was causing it to
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  dog out. And I kind of got into this
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  conversation station with the guy while we were sitting there
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  working on it. And I said, it's funny how it
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  does that. It's like it's remembering
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  everything and it's clogging the system.
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  It's kind of like what we do. And he said, what do you mean?
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  And I said, as humans, this is kind of what we do.
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  We hang on to so many memories and it just dogs us out.
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  And he's like, what do you, I don't understand.
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  And I said, well, when you hang on to so many things, you, you
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  start to feel burdened. You start to feel like you're
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  flat lining. You start to feel flat about
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  things. And it it and it happens.
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  And he goes, I feel that way right now about my projects and
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  the stuff that I'm doing outside of this.
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  And we get into this very deep conversation.
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  And he's like, that's such a cool analogy.
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  I never thought of it that way. And I'm like, yeah, it'd be
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  great sometimes if you could just wipe your memory clean, but
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  then you wouldn't be you. So you have to have the memory.
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  He's like, so how do you get out of it when you feel like you're
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  flatlining? How do you feel like it when you
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  just, you lost your mojo? You know, I have a lot of
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  clients that say I've lost my mojo.
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  And the thing that we have to remember is in that process of
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  losing things and they're not really gone, OK?
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  They're they're there, they're just not prioritized.
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  They're not at the front of the bus, They're not the emotions
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  driving, they're at the back. And often it's because we stop
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  doing the things that we know matter.
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  When we stop doing the things that we know matter, that things
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  that change us, that help us, that's when we start to get into
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  trouble. So it is imperative, it is in,
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  it is critical that we constantly remember we have to
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  do certain things to help us feel good about everything.
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  We can't just cut that out. We can't just put it to the
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  side. So one of the things that I had
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  done before that was a very major like problem in my world
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  for me creatively was I stopped taking out my large Canon
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  camera. I stopped taking close up
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  pictures for the most part. I'd pull it out here and there,
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  but it wasn't part of my daily activity because I was so
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  focused on creating video content.
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  And we're getting, you know, we have to get this video library
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  built up for the YouTube channel and they're releasing them and
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  they're working on them. And it took me out of of things.
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  Not to mention there were just other things in my personal life
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  that were calling for attention. And those things pull from
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  where, where, what time you have.
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  But I stopped doing the things that made me feel filled up.
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  And I was explaining that to him and I said I caught it really
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  early. So it doesn't affect me, but it
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  does affect me in a smaller way. It still does.
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  I still have to work on it. I still have to progress with
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  it. I still have to make it work.
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  So the point of this today is to say if you feel like you're
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  flatlining, if you feel like you've lost your mojo, if you
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  feel like you're going into the southern summertime mindset of
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  like, oh, it's so hot, I'm just going to sit and have a tea.
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  You know, that's fine. It's fine.
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  Just be aware of it. Choose to make sure that you are
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  putting yourself in a place that you can get out of it quickly,
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  unless you like to stay there, but this is for those that
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  don't. Make sure you're doing something
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  to fill yourself back up so that you can tether to that mojo,
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  tether to that good stuff. Because when you're flatlining
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  you, you have to know there is always a way out of it.
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  It's just a question of what you're tapping into within
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  yourself. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.