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Season 4 - Episode 327 - When Creativity makes your head on fire…. · 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.
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  Well, as you can hear this, she's got a lot to say this
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  morning. Good morning from the chicken
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  coop. I feel like that sound is a
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  great lead in to what I was going to be talking about
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  because my head is so filled with ideas and it feels like
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  it's on fire. Part of the reason this happens
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  for me is based on the fact that often times because I'm, when
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  I'm coaching, I mean, I coach a lot of hours every week.
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  And I have a lot of people that I work with, which I'm extremely
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  thrilled about and grateful for because I just love, love, love
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  my clients. And I'll help them in any
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  possible way that I can when I'm working with them.
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  And it takes a lot of my creative energy for that.
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  But when my creative energy is sitting neutral like it is right
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  now in the middle of vacation week, you know, we're finishing
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  today, Sunday, we're finishing up.
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  I, I have been off, I was off Wednesday, I was off Thursday.
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  I was off Friday, Saturday, and now today, Sunday.
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  And we're leading into my second week of vacation, which is
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  really unheard of. And it usually only happens
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  around the end of the year and Christmas.
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  And my brain goes on fire because it's kind of like opened
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  up for business, my own business as opposed to pouring it into
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  everybody else's. And what's fascinating to me
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  about this process is how much my, my expansiveness of this
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  comes in. It's, it's kind of like I start
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  thinking about all kinds of things.
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  I start projecting like, OK, give you a great example.
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  I don't know if I, I talked about it on here.
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  I can't remember if I talked about it on here or I was on
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  Facebook or Instagram when I talked about it, but we got a a
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  baby albino snapping turtle a couple about a month ago.
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  Maybe two months ago, we got a little baby albino snapping
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  turtle because much to my surprise, I didn't know it was
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  arriving. But Mark just just decided that
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  he was going to get a baby snapping turtle.
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  And me being me, I don't mind when things are added to our
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  array of animals at the zoo here because I would have them all.
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  I have no problem with I have no sensibility.
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  Let me just come right out and say it.
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  I have no sensibility when it comes to creatures and I want to
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  love them all. And it's very much AI think it's
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  a thing from my childhood that my mother was a big lover of
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  animals and we were allowed my my father never said no because
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  it was often said no to him. So he just was like, sure, let's
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  get it. And so we ended up with lots of
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  different things. But anyway, baby albino snapping
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  turtle, and he's talking to me about how right now it's in a
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  tank and he's probably about the size of a 50 Cent piece.
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  His shell is like the size of 50 Cent piece.
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  And you know, he's going to get bigger, obviously.
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  And they live for a very long time.
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  So we have to make sure we plan for this.
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  And like, you know, if something happens to us, where is he going
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  to go? Like you have to have these
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  conversations when you take on an animal that can live between
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  60 and 80 years. So and how you can train them
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  and yes, you can. They get very used to you.
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  They know what to expect and they are they can be very, very
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  sweet, not in cuddly sweet, but they are not going to go and
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  attack you like you think they normally would.
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  So Needless to say, here he is talking to me about how this
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  turtle is going to progress and how we're going, where we're
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  going to put him from when he goes from the tank.
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  So it was a casual conversation. That's what it started off as.
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  And then my creativity took over and I said, well, you know, you
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  could make an enclosure right at the entrance of the house.
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  You could make like a waterfall enclosure up on the porch to
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  protect him. He'd have the morning sun and
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  you could put like a little waterfall into the big tub
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  because he's got 100 gallon tub that he bought.
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  And I said we can build it up. We can put plants around.
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  It would be quite beautiful. The sound of the waterfall is a
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  plug there. So now my brain is going the
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  next thing you know, he said, all right, well, that's good.
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  I said, but what happens after that?
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  Like he was, he was settled with that for right now because we
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  are very different in how we plan things.
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  So my brain immediately goes to, you know, we're going to need a
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  bigger spot for him. And ideally, you mentioned and
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  that this is me talking to him, you mentioned that they need
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  they ideally they need a mud bottom to go into to hibernate
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  for the winter. And he's like, yeah.
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  And I said, so why don't we take over this section of the lawn on
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  the edge of the house coming around and we could turn it into
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  this whole big enclosure for him.
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  So he could have different areas that he could go to and he could
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  be in the water or he could be out of the water, whatever he
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  chooses. We could really like turn it
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  into something. And he just looked at me like
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  eyes bugging out. And he's like, that's a big
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  project. I'm like, I'm not saying I want
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  to do it right now. And then I saw what was going on
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  in myself. I, I witnessed how my brain was
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  on fire. And that led to me, you know,
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  and it all started because of building this damn bird feeder
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  for the crows yesterday, going out and getting stuff and then
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  thinking, OK, well, what could I do elsewhere?
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  And that question, how can I make this even better?
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  What can I do elsewhere? Where can I create this?
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  Oh, I should call Stefan and ask him to come here and see if he's
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  able to do this. And I want to do this.
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  And I want to do this. And before you know it, there's
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  steam coming out of my ears. And I'm like off and going.
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  Now, typically what I do is I try to pace it, temper it, try
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  to say no, that's not right now. Because if it affects me during
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  the weeks when I'm working, but right now in these couple of
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  weeks, I'm just capturing it all.
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  And I encourage you to do the same.
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  If you are on a break and your head is on fire, capture it all.
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  Don't make yourself feel bad for not being able to do it right
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  this minute, but just capture it all so you have it, Hunker it
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  in, write it down so you have it, and then look at it and say,
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  OK, where can I slot this in? So that's what I'm doing.
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  I'm capturing everything. And now I'm going to start
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  making my plan for the year. And because we're coming up to
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  New Year's Eve and I'm so excited because I'm going to sit
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  and I'm going to plan and I cannot wait, cannot wait.
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  It's going to be one of those classic ones.
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  I've got it all laid out. It's going to be cold outside.
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  We're talking sit in front of a fire and get all your stuff and
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  plan, plan, plan. So I encourage you to do the
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  same. Don't shut your brain off,
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  right. Let it all come out.
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  See what shows up. 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.