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Season 3 - Episode 234 - Optimism & Imagination · 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 from the chicken coop.
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  You can hear all the babies off in the distance peeping away
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  this morning. So I am going to talk to you
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  today about imagination and how important imagination is.
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  So in the 1800s, a French psychologist and pharmacist
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  introduced a new form of psychiatry, psychology that a
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  psychotherapy, I believe is what it was, where he called it
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  optimistic auto suggestion. And he was very focused on it.
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  I'm going to butcher his name. So please, I apologize ahead of
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  time for not being able to pronounce this very well.
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  And it's a very long name, but he was tech technically known as
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  Emil Cooe COUE with an A little asterisk over it.
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  So he was a, a absolute influence in this field because
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  he really, really studied the this, he created this method.
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  And it was all about having that incremental adjustments to your
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  mindset by completely focusing on the optimistic parts of
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  things, by looking at certain things.
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  And you can certainly, you know, look him up, see what he had to
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  say. But today we are talking about
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  something that he said that intrigued me that I just
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  recently read about, where your imagination is stronger than
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  willpower and when in conflict with each other, imagination
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  will always win. And he really believed this.
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  And I have to say, I am a huge believer in imagination.
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  I was. I spent a lot of time in trouble
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  for my imagination because people would say that I wasn't
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  paying attention, I was daydreaming, I was all over the
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  place, I didn't need to constantly be thinking about
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  things the way I was and yadda yadda yadda, and so spent a lot
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  of time in trouble as a kid for it.
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  However, I'm really glad that I never paid attention to anybody
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  about it and I kept it and it never got ruined and it's a very
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  precious thing to me to this day.
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  Otherwise, why the hell would I be sitting in a chicken coop
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  shooting a podcast from it? That came from my imagination.
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  And I have always valued my imagination highly.
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  But I understand right now that that is not something that's
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  quite as coveted as it once was. And that's a problem because I
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  do believe what he's talking about.
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  And the imagination is stronger than pretty much anything in our
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  presence. It is a powerful tool that has
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  been given to us from the universe, from God, however you
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  want to look at it. It is a tool that has been given
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  to us. And it is highly neglected right
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  now. It is highly ignored.
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  And it is highly just, I don't want to say it's abused, but it
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  is just, it's not cultivated anymore.
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  It's not coveted. It's it's not something that I
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  think should happen at all. I mean, I think we should be
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  cherishing what we have in it. And I think we should constantly
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  be cultivating it to become the the absolute supreme tool that
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  it needs to be for us. Because out of imagination,
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  everything else arises. I mean, think about it,
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  everything around you was created out of someone's
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  imagination, if not the universe and its imagination.
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  So it doesn't make a difference what it is.
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  I'm here on an iPhone and I am working this iPhone using this.
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  And this was out of someone's imagination.
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  Everything comes that way. I'm in a chicken coop that has I
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  had a vision for what it wanted to look like.
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  I could see it in my imagination.
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  It's a powerful, powerful tool. And when you utilize it as that
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  special tool, it helps you more than anything else does.
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  Willpower is strong. Determination is strong.
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  Faith is strong. Imagination is magic.
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  And when you use it as such, you become the wizard or the warlock
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  or however you want to do it, the sorceress, you become the
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  magic. Whatever that word is for you,
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  you have to make the decision that you're going to cultivate
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  your imagination. So how does one start to
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  cultivate their imagination or bring it back to life when it
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  has been neglected and suffered as it often does within our
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  society? Because everybody just focuses
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  on work and focuses on chores and focuses on paying bills and
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  they don't focus on their imagination.
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  So being very random is a great thing to start with.
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  Trying things that you would never think you would try
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  before. Taking yourself and saying what
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  are the things that I loved to do when I was a kid before the
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  world got in the way? And what were the creative
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  things you did as a child and bringing them back into your
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  life now? So that is one of my favorite
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  ways to do it. And I would really suggest, and
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  if you don't have something from when you were a child that you
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  said, I didn't love to do this, I didn't do this, I didn't do
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  this, then you just start exploring raw and new and think,
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  OK, what would be interesting to me now?
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  What would be something that would be fun to me now?
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  You pour into it that way and you just start thinking about
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  it. Because I will tell you that
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  quote. Imagination is stronger than
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  willpower. And when in conflict with each
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  other, imagination always wins. It will.
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  It can change your world. Because when something comes up
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  and it's hard and it's difficult and you need your willpower to
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  get through it. If you just stopped and paused
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  and you said OK, how can I use my imagination instead?
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  That's when magic happens. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.