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Season 2 - Episode 362 - Possibilities and organizing · 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 mastermind set
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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.
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  From the chicken coop. OK.
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  So talking about possibilities again in all your ideas and all
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  the things that you are considering for going into the
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  new year. So we talked about that at the
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  beginning of the week and how you're just capturing stuff and
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  going through it. But I wanted to be specific with
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  you about one of the things that I go through in my process,
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  because I feel like sometimes that helps to know how other
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  people do things. And this is a big one for me.
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  So when I start capturing things in general about my new year, I
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  have to be really careful that I stay out of my how head, meaning
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  I'm not going to be thinking about how I'm going to get it
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  done because it's just a possibility.
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  It's an idea I'm in complete imagination, creativity, and I
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  don't want to see myself go down that rabbit hole of getting in
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  how head. So when I start off this
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  process, the rule is written at the top of the paper.
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  You know, possibilities, ideas, creativity, whatever you want to
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  put up there, you put it there and then you just start doing a
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  big brain dump. But as the week goes on and
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  again, this is over the course of time, I'm doing this.
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  And actually today as I'm talking to you about this, I'm
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  standing in my office and I'm looking at these big sheets of
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  paper that I have so that you can understand exactly how I go
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  about it. I feel like if I'm in the space,
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  I can transfer it better to you. So as I'm doing this capture,
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  something that's very important for me is to be able to
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  delineate the fact that I'm not in how head I have to keep going
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  back to that. And I will tell you it sneaks up
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  on me even now, even after all these years of doing it.
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  It is completely and totally a possibility that you keep
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  hearing in the back of your mind this little.
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  Oh well, I don't know how. Why would I put that down?
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  I don't know how I'm going to get that done.
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  But if it if it knocks, put it on the piece of paper.
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  If it's there and it's saying hello, hello, hello, put it on
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  the piece of paper. Because remember, the paper
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  should be labeled in a way that allows you to just say, I'm
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  capturing thoughts, I'm capturing ideas.
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  I'm not actually putting them out there yet to say, OK, now
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  I'm looking for my how or I'm going in that direction.
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  So it's very important get them all out once they're on that
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  piece of paper and over the course of days, super important
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  that you recognize that as you're going through it.
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  You can still hear Raven off in the distance from my office
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  because I've got a window open. It's nice and cool here this
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  morning. It feels really good.
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  So one of the next steps for me is taking them and putting them
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  into index cards. I love to use index cards
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  because I can sort them that way.
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  So once I start getting a really big page and a big pile, I will
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  take those index cards and I will write on them.
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  It those individual ideas and thoughts.
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  And then I start chunking like items.
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  I start moving them around. I start looking to see, do I
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  have commonality here? Is there something that's a
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  thread between any of them that I can then take and use in a
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  theme of some sort? Is there enough there?
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  Like what I'm noticing about this year for me is I'm kind of
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  working in things of of monthly. Like I seem to be thinking
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  almost each month is going to have a theme.
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  And again, I'm taking you through this process as I'm
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  doing it live, so please know it's not, it's not like it's,
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  it's very fluid. It's not confined to a box, so
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  to speak. So right now, as of today, as of
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  Thursday, I still don't have it all laid out.
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  I'm still thinking about it. It's on those cards.
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  But what I'm noticing is I've got some sort of a theme going
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  on and I've got something that I think is, oh, I may actually do
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  this a little different this year.
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  I may theme out each month and have something each month that's
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  going to kind of drive me. Or I may have an overarching
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  theme by the time I'm done. I don't know.
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  But my point is keep working. Use the things that you use.
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  I have a lot of clients that love post it notes.
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  So if you want to work in post it notes work in post it notes
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  you don't and that way you can see them up on the wall.
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  I like to do. I used to use post it notes.
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  Honestly the reason I stopped is the glue wears off too quickly
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  and they blow around. It drives me crazy.
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  So I started using the little cards and then I can bulldog
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  clip them or paper clip them all together.
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  And I actually like using the four by 6 recipe cards.
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  So think about what way works for you some people.
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  I have a friend, dear friend, I love so much and she is obsessed
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  with Trello boards and to her the Trello boards are super
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  important. I can't work like that.
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  I have to be on paper because if I try to work in something
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  that's not paper it, it just doesn't go computing in my head
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  the right way. So think about the way you want
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  to do it, and at the same time just allow it to happen, but
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  keep considering. OK, I've got to stay out of the
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  how head. I'm going to start the the
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  chunking process. I'm going to notice things, but
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  I'm going to stay out of the how head.
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  All right, I'll see you tomorrow with an update.
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  Bye.