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Season 3 - Episode 204 - Not Wasting Time on CREATIVITY! · 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 today we are talking about creativity, not being a straight
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  line and it's not wasting time. So often I hear people tell me,
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  well, I want to try this but I don't want to waste my time or I
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  want to experiment with this, but I don't want to waste time.
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  I can't tell you how many times I hear that and that's why I'm
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  we're actually talking about because this week I probably
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  heard it 5-6 times. And I can't stress enough how
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  creativity is not a straight line.
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  Everything in my life revolves around being able to be creative
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  and do creative things. And I really work at it because
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  it's something that fuels my soul and I can't express how
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  much I love it. It's just, it's beyond words for
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  me. But it's also experimental.
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  It's also doing things and having them fail.
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  It's also having the ability to recognize that it was not a
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  waste of time. So as many of you who maybe have
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  signed up for the newsletter know, I had a disaster in the
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  garden with many of the things that went on this year.
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  It was, you know, not at all what I had planned.
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  And it's OK because the lesson is that you have to be able to
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  pivot. You have to be able to look at
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  it and say it was experiment. It was just the way we were
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  trying things. It was the way I was approaching
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  it and it's OK. Everything that I do that's
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  creative, whether it's taking pictures or dealing with, you
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  know, raising chickens or whatever, I'm always approaching
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  it with the idea and the intent that it's not a straight line.
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  I know it's going to be wiggly. I know it's going to be a
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  hairball and messy and have things that work and things that
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  don't work. And that's OK, because that's
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  how it goes when you do this stuff.
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  And when you're when you're trying new things, it's really
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  easy to just want them to be able to succeed and be done
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  quickly. But the problem with that is
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  often you miss out on the good stuff.
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  You miss out on the failure and the failure has good stuff
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  because failure is part of success.
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  Failure is part of creativity. Failure is part of learning to
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  make something better. So I encourage you to actually
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  fail and to recognize that the line is squiggly.
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  You know, for those of you who remember Spirograph, that's kind
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  of how I think of it. It's like you put something in
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  there and it spins and it's like Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding,
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  Ding, Ding, and you're making all these different weird lines.
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  But when you pick up the tool off the page, there's this
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  beautiful design. And that's what creativity does
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  for you. That's what the experimentation
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  does for you. That's what having the patience
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  with it does. Now, what happens if it just
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  continues to make you crazy in the process?
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  So I I get that. I used to be that way.
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  And now at every step along the way, I stop and I ask myself,
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  and I actually take notes of this because I will write down
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  here's where it was a success. Here's what was great.
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  I debrief it and then I say, well, what could have been
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  better? And then I say, OK, well, what
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  did I learn? What did I take away so that I
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  actually feel empowered by the process?
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  And then I can say, what am I going to do different next time?
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  So I've got a whole boatload of notes for what I'm going to do
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  different next year in the garden.
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  I've got a whole boatload of notes for how I want to handle
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  flowers next year. All of it.
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  It just makes it easier and makes more sense.
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  So it, when you debrief yourself, you learn so much
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  about how you think, how you see, and you can go back and
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  debrief multiple times on multiple levels.
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  There's never a time to say, oh, I'm done debriefing.
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  OK, that was good. I'm done.
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  Always remember, you have the option to keep going with that.
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  You have the option to keep trying it over and over and over
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  again because you'll find different things.
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  The more you experiment with it, the more things you will find.
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  So give yourself a shot. Try that.
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  You know, I can only say this about it if you're feeling
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  frustrated and you feel like you're wasting time.
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  That's a point of view you don't have to keep.
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  You just need to keep asking different questions and
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  cultivate it. Understanding, yes, this is part
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  of the process and keep pushing forward.
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  The more you push forward, the better off you're going to be.
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  OK my friends, I will see you tomorrow and I hope you have a
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  creative blessed day. Bye.