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Season 3 - Episode 310 - Nourishing your dreams · 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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So let's talk about nourishing your dreams sounds kind of
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interesting when you think about it.
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Nourishing a dream. Well, it's a dream.
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So how can I nourish it? And the concept of this really
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comes from envisioning comes from having a big part of
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imagination take the take the driver's seat with it and really
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fueling what you want. Now here's there's a little
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trick here, because it is very hard for human beings in general
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to hold a consistent thought for a long period of time.
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And, and this is for myself is it's just as much for me as it
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is for everybody else. In fact, my imagination is so
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in, in, you know, just that crazy external mode, it goes off
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and all of a sudden I am down a rabbit hole in a completely
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different direction, not even remotely remembering where I
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started. So I have to really work hard at
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this. And nourishing a dream is about
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taking it to that full vision, which means you have to think it
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all the way through. So I'm going to use the farm as
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an example because it's the best way that I can tell you how I
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did it. I got very clear on the fact
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that this was what I wanted when I was young and I knew that that
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was my long term goal. And I used to think about it
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often, but I didn't nourish it. I would talk about it.
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Everyone that knew me knew I wanted chickens.
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My friend Alice used to laugh about it all the time.
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She's like, well, you know, when Kim gets 5 acres, she's going to
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get all of her chickens. She's going to have all of her
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animals. That's like her main goal.
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Like everyone knew it, but was I really nourishing it?
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And early on, as much as I wanted it and I really wanted
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it, I wasn't nourishing it daily.
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I wasn't saturating the ground so I could get it to sprout.
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I was doing work. I was living in the space of
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everyday life. And I would think about it.
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I would think about it probably every couple days, but I wasn't
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thinking about it every day. I wasn't sitting down and
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looking at it. So when we made the move from
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north to South and we knew our outcome was to really have this
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now, I was like, I have to do the work of nourishing this.
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I have to think about this often more than you know, here and
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there. I have to feed this.
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I have to put this into my imagination and let it grow.
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So that's exactly what I started to do.
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And no joke, every day I would pull out my what I wanted
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because I had written it all down.
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And I started with something just writing.
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That was it. I would read it.
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Then it got expansive to go into vision boards where I would take
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cut out pictures of other people's stuff that I loved.
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Glue it. I'm a glue paste, put it on a
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board, get myself, you know big boards and put it on there.
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I actually have multiple vision boards.
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If any of you have followed me for a long period of time, I
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usually keep multiple vision boards of all different things,
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but I started looking at those every single day.
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I had them in my office on the wall and then I started really
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seeking out where we would go and look at farms.
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We would go and look at houses, we would go out and see them.
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I would tour all different types of places here and constantly be
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thinking about it where it was like every day I was in the
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details of it. Then I went even further to say,
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OK, what would this look like? And I started designing it on
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paper. Even though I am not a architect
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or a draftsman by any stretch of the means.
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I did take some classes on it when I was in high school and I
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sat and I would start drawing it out on paper.
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I knew exactly how I wanted, I wanted a, you know, a dirt
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driveway coming up. I wanted it windy.
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I wanted a wrap around porch in the front.
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I knew I I like it things asymmetrical.
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So I wanted everything symmetrical.
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I just wanted everything to be in this space to be balanced.
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I knew we wanted to have a kitchen where my husband could
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really cook because he loves to do that.
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And I started taking those pictures and envisioning them
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not just as a distant observer, but being in it, like I was
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walking through it. And I really started pushing it.
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I was nourishing my dream. I was seeing myself in my dream.
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I was seeing myself with my chickens.
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I was seeing myself taking care of them, sitting with them,
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carrying them, giving them treats.
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I was living the dream in my head.
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And then guess what happened? Now it's here and it it
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honestly, it came about in such what I would say, did I work my
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butt off? Of course I worked my butt off
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because every dream requires work.
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However, the the things that came together and how it came
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together, such an amazing experience.
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But it all fell together because I was nourishing the dream.
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So ask yourself, what am I doing to nourish my dreams?
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No matter what, it is All right, my friends, I hope you have a
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blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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Bye.