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Season 4 - Episode 147 - Hanging onto the creative process · 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 happen 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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  Hey everybody, good morning from the garage.
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  So I'm in the middle of a project that I absolutely have
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  been waiting so long to do. I'm doing a renovation on the
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  chicken coop and I hinted here and there that we're working on
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  it. But today there's a big part of
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  it that I'm working on and my son made a comment to me about
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  it this morning and I thought that I would share because he's
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  like, you know, I, I don't know why you, you are doing so much
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  with the chicken coop. Like, why do you care about
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  that? And I was like, well, I care
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  about it because for me, this is one of those things where I am
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  showing my creativity. Like I love to be able to go in
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  and show creativity everywhere I go.
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  That's what feeds my soul. And being able to reinvent their
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  environment constantly really does that for me.
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  Like, not even joking. And plus, chickens absolutely
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  love the, they are very curious creatures, which gets them in
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  trouble sometimes, but they love when there are changes
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  happening. So I've removed the brooder
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  boxes from the inside. We're creating this new lay box
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  system on the side because often they argue about boxes.
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  So I'm trying something new, working on putting together
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  something special as a creative project for me inside the coop,
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  which will be kind of fun. And it's just, it's one of those
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  things where it doesn't matter what other people think.
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  So he's like, this is silly. And I said, OK, you might think
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  it's silly. I think it's really cool.
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  And I stopped and thought to myself, how many times when
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  someone makes a comment, are they the pin to your balloon?
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  Do they suck the air out of the room?
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  And I, it's very funny because I have a barrier to this.
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  Like someone may try that often they make little comments,
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  whether it's my husband or my my son or anybody else.
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  They'll just say, oh, that's weird or whatever.
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  Always turns out fine in the end.
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  I've had multiple people in my life tell me, I don't know why
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  you would go ahead and do that. And then they're like, wow,
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  that's so cool. When we were building our house,
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  I would say something in the builders like, well, that's a
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  silly thought. And I'm like, no, we're going to
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  do it anyway. And you know, just one thing
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  after another would come up like this and I would progress
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  anyway. And I want to give you some
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  insight as to how my brain works with it so you can see how I, I
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  shift it so that you can go out and do the same thing.
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  So first of all, I believe that ideas and creativity are alive.
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  They're energy, they're pure potential energy.
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  So when you are in that state of mind and you're positive and you
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  have, and you don't have to be positive all the time.
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  I'm just saying you're positive, you're creating, you've got an
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  idea, and then someone comes along and they're essentially
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  the pin to the balloon. It's your job in that moment to
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  be very clear about the fact that what you were given is that
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  little gift you were given, that one little piece that that idea
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  that it flies into your head. You know, it's proven.
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  They do not know how ideas arrive.
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  Scientists have yet to figure out how, how does an idea
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  arrive? Where does it even come from?
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  And lo and behold, when you start thinking that way and
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  you're saying, wow, this is an energy, this is a lie that just
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  arrived into my head out of nowhere, just like what I'm
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  working on right now. I came out of nowhere and I
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  searched online to see if other people had done it, if I had
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  accidentally seen it somewhere. And I was like, no, it doesn't
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  look like it has. So OK, I'm going to just do my
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  version of something unique. And when you start that process,
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  it's in order to not have someone come in and discount
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  you, especially if it's something that you really want
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  to focus on and really want to do.
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  Doesn't matter if it works, doesn't, none of that matters.
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  What matters is that you're coming at it from that positive
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  energy and you're saying, OK, I'm giving it a try.
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  If it's a fail, it's a fail. And if it doesn't work, OK, I
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  tried. I kept the energy going.
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  I thought about this and I kept the energy going.
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  I invite creativity in all the time.
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  Therefore, I get more and more creative over time.
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  The, the creativity just keeps arriving, keeps arriving, keeps
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  surviving. So I, I basically tell myself
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  even before I come up with something, hey, you know what?
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  This is just going to keep happening.
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  This is going to keep happening. There's no question about it.
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  People are going to always discount what I'm thinking
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  about. And that's OK.
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  They can do that because I know I'm going to just keep going.
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  I'm going to keep being creative.
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  And if I have a fail, it's a fail.
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  And if it, if it works out great.
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  And if it doesn't, that's OK too.
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  I learned something in the process.
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  That's what it's all about. If it, if it, if it doesn't
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  work, I learned something. I can take what I, I've, I've
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  got the essence of it. And now I know how to move
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  forward. So remember that because
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  nothing's more important than hanging on to that creativity.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.