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Season 2 Episode 273 - Visualizing takes practice! · 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 master mindset
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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 some visualizing.
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  You know, this is a, this is something that is not easy to do
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  for anybody, even those of us who believe we are 100% visual,
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  which I do. I'm hypervisual.
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  I see things, picture them and that piece of it is easy.
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  But actually for me anyway, that's easy.
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  It's not for everybody, but it is for me.
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  I will say this though. Holding a visualization in your
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  head is very hard work. Major, major distinction for me.
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  Being able to visualize, not so hard.
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  Holding the visualization and keeping it there long enough so
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  that you can attach a motion to it.
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  Much harder. Really, really hard.
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  And something that most of us have a really difficult time
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  doing. You know, for an extended period
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  of time. So a simple example is if I said
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  to you, I want you to focus on thinking about the number one
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  and I want you to do it for one minute straight.
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  Just think of the number one in any way that you can, whether
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  you're counting in your head, just 1-111-111-1111, which may
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  be the easiest way to do it, but to keep that going for a minute,
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  it's hard. And then it becomes, you're not
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  really thinking about the number one.
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  You're just saying the word to hear yourself doing it.
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  But you're not visualizing it. You're not holding emotion
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  around it or anything. You're just, you know, saying
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  the word does have some effect, but really it's all about the
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  emotion. So when you think about, even if
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  you think about. Like, you know, a color and you
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  say, all right, let me visualize a color, and you say the color
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  blue, and you visualize the color blue and you try to hold
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  it for even 30 seconds. It's really hard to stay
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  consistent with that. That's why monks spend so much
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  time learning how to meditate, because it's that clearing and
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  being able to control your mind and put it in a specific
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  direction. It's hard work, my friends.
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  It is incredibly hard work. And I will be the first one to
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  admit I suck. At Meditating, I That's why I
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  have different tricks and techniques that I do for myself
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  that I've taught clients. They tell all of you about The
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  Walking and visualizing, noticing things while you walk,
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  staying in the moment, thinking about one thing and saying, OK,
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  I'm gonna, you know, walk and I'm going to keep myself focused
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  for the whole time I'm walking on this particular subject.
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  Yeah, that's a joke for me. That's why I use my camera.
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  It's why I try to notice things. And even if I can't meditate, I
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  can be in the moment. I can stay in the moment.
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  I'm much better at that now. I used to be horrible at that
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  because I, you know, as a reformed, but sometimes still go
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  to, you know, certainty girl and panic and worry.
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  I can tell you that that has become exponentially better for
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  me with these strategies. But that was a big butt in
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  there. I will be the first to say if I
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  sit down to meditate, it is very, very hard.
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  And visualizing is a strategy that goes right along with that.
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  So let's talk about the fact that once you recognize that's
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  how you are and who you are, how do you visualize your goals?
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  So one the one I was just talking about using a walking
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  strategy where you're walking and you're actually thinking
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  through something from beginning to end like when I was.
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  Had the goal of doing this farm, I would visualize coming out.
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  I would walk and I would visualize coming out and
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  thinking about giving my chickens breakfast, thinking
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  about letting them out of their coop, thinking about what
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  different kinds of chickens I wanted to have, what they looked
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  like, how they acted, their personalities.
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  I would think about all the flowers that I would plant and
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  discover all the things that I would have set up for them and I
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  could hold that for a period of time.
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  When you want to do this with pretty much anything, it's the
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  same thing. You follow the the strategy of
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  saying it's easier. Not saying it's easy, but it's
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  easier when you go and you say I'm going to take something
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  through from beginning to end. So if I'm doing a creative
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  project, I will try to visualize it.
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  From beginning to end, what's my process in doing it?
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  That really helps and it makes you feel like you know the
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  project before you start. Like I knew the farm before I
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  started. I had been there 100 times.
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  I told the builder I've walked through this house 1000 times.
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  I already know it's going to work.
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  Even though he was questioning me on my placement of a pantry.
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  And I was like, no, no, no, I know this is exactly what I want
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  because I'd walked through it. So that strategy for me is very
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  strong, very top of the. Top of the stack for me, another
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  really great strategy in doing this visualizing is sitting and
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  writing. So for those of you who feel
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  like you're more kinesthetic, you're more reserved in your
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  thoughts. Sit and write them out and then
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  you can go back and read them all.
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  Super helpful. Just write a really great story
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  that you want to read every day. That's the trick to that one
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  and. The auditory people record it,
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  whatever it is, record it and really listen to it.
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  It really helps you build the muscles.
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  So today try to find something that you can visualize.
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  And before you start though, figure out where you go awry
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  like I explained mine, because you've got to handle those
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  objections to be great at it. Alright my friends, I hope you
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  have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.