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Season 3 - Episode 355 - The Power of Paper & Pen · 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 mastermindset
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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. How are you?
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  We are in the garage because it's still raining anyway.
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  OK, let's get to this. It's dark, rainy, cold.
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  And I wanted to give you some food for thought today about
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  actually how you put your stuff together for the year because
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  there's some important aspects of this.
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  And I was in a conversation with a friend of mine yesterday.
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  And as we were debating the, the path of how you get people to do
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  things and how you make things happen.
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  One of the things that came up was, well, is it really
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  necessary to write them all down And meaning putting your goals,
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  your intentions, your outcomes on to a piece of paper.
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  Well, I have some very strong beliefs about this because I
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  think when you put pen to paper, pencil to paper, anything in
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  front of you on paper, somehow for human beings, there is a mad
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  connection. For us, it, it puts us into this
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  very divine place. It's why we still, even though
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  we have electronics, we still buy books.
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  I mean, Amazon still sells tons of books.
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  I have clients who will literally say to me, hey, I
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  purchased the Kindle version of your book and I still purchased
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  the paper version of it because there's something about the
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  highlighter, there's something about being able to annotate.
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  There's just these little things that connect us and when we sit
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  and really like scribe things out, it changes the wiring for
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  us. So I am a very firm believer of
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  writing your thoughts and goals down.
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  And I'm a very firm believer in doing this in places that feel
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  sacred. I think when you know you have a
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  specialized spot for it, something that you go to.
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  And it's just about this. That's why having a book for a
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  specific year can be empowering in a big way.
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  You know, people get very unnerved about journaling
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  because they think, well, what if somebody finds it?
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  What if they see my inner thoughts?
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  And I understand that. And I'm not saying, you know, we
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  pretend we're like kids again and we go buy a locked journal.
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  But what I am saying is those papers mean something to us.
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  And somehow you have to find a way to choose to get past the
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  fear of putting it on paper if you have it, or just even
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  believing that it doesn't have an effect because it has a
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  really profound effect. So how do I do it?
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  Well, I have multiple ways that I do it.
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  And I think what's important is to cover all aspects of it.
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  So while I do vision boards and everyone knows about that, I'm a
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  big believer in treasure maps, vision boards, changing it up.
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  I like to write down my wins all the time so that I can see them
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  all. And I know in a day I can prove
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  to my certainty girl that I actually did a lot.
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  And and then that makes her feel good if she knows she did a lot.
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  So logging all of that is very important as well.
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  But in the beginning of the year, I love to be able to sit
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  down and actually have them all written out.
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  Now, there are different ways I've tried this.
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  I've tried it in a book that's just dedicated to it, but I feel
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  that there's some disconnect for me.
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  When I actually close the book, I feel like they're gone.
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  I can't see them, so I love to be able to do something that
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  makes it so I see them all the time.
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  Now what I've tried as of late, which is very different and
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  interesting, is to say I'm going to put them all on note cards
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  that are big, like the six by I think they're 6 by 4 and inches.
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  And those cards then rotate so each one of them has an outcome
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  on it. And I have one of those little
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  tiny stands that I got from the dollar store that's like a photo
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  frame stand. It just looks like a little
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  easel and then I rotate those and that sits out on my design
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  table and when I go in every day, I take a card and I rotate
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  it. So I am seeing them, I am
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  engaged with them, I'm noticing them, I'm looking at them.
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  I can keep one in the front if I choose to.
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  And this is really felt good to me as of you know that I started
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  doing it about four or five months ago and I really like
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  doing it this way. I think that this is how as of
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  course we are now at the end of the year and I'm getting ready
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  because today, tomorrow is my day of saying, OK, actually it's
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  tomorrow and the 1st I'm going to be really hunkering into
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  outcomes and goals and I'm going to do this method because it
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  feels to me like this one really works that way.
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  I can also decorate them, I can put stickers on them, I can
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  color them, I can watercolor on them.
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  I can really make them feel divine.
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  And that is the outcome for this.
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  So I encourage you, paper, paper, paper, put stuff on
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  paper. Make it so you can see it
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  because then you remember it. If we cannot see something, we
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  do not remember it. And that works through all
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  aspects of our lives, not just this, but even marketing
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  yourself. I'm constantly telling my
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  clients, if you want loyalty, they have to see you.
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  They have to be actually able to remember you.
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  So you've got to go out there and look for it.
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  Don't be mad. If your clients go somewhere
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  else, it's because they didn't see you.
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  So please, paper, pencil, ink, something, go do it.
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  All right, my friends, I will see you tomorrow.
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  Have a blessed day. Bye.