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Our creative connection · 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, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the Chicken Coop.
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  So today, let's talk about creativity, one of my favorite
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  subjects. Anybody who knows?
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  Me personally, follows me online knows that I am.
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  Very, very, very, very very, very attached to being creative,
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  was built up in me. When I was little, I have always
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  had my head spinning since the time I can remember about coming
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  up with ideas and things to do and things to create and it's
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  just been a part of my life. I have distinct thoughts being
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  like a four-year-old. Wishing that that I'm we had
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  colored glue and mixing paint with glue in my dad, getting
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  really annoyed with me because I had all these different colors
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  and glue, which now is a whole industry and I laugh every time
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  I see it. Inside all the Korea, the
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  Crayola displays at Walmart, makes me laugh.
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  But anyway, creativity is such a huge part of us as people.
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  And I know, there are those of you listening going, I'm not
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  creative at all. And that's bullshit everyone is
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  creative in their own unique. Ways we just don't always see it
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  as creative. We don't call it creative, we
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  don't acknowledge our creativity, we put it in a box
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  and say, oh well, I'm not that creative.
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  I can't draw. And my mother used to say that
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  all the time. Well, I'm not creative at all.
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  I can't draw. But it was such a crock because
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  she could actually make Afghans like, nobody's business and
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  design them herself and she would needlepoint and she would
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  do all these other things, she couldn't cook.
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  And no, she couldn't. Raw at all.
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  But boy, could she needlepoint. And could she crochet?
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  And I just always admired that because I don't have those
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  skills. I don't needlepoint and I don't
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  crochet. Yes, I paint.
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  Yes, I take pictures. Yes, I Garden.
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  Yes, I do, lots of things, but not those things.
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  So it comes in many forms. Creativity.
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  Can come in cooking, it can come in gardening, it can come in
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  anything. Like I have a client who gets
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  Her nails done and she tells the girl what she wants to have the
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  nails, you know, the color that she wants them done.
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  And then she goes home and she paints little pictures on her
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  nails, so her she's right-handed.
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  So it's always her left hand that has a little pictures, but
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  she will paint a scene going from one to the other.
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  So she still goes and gets the nails done nicely.
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  But then she comes back and she paints on them.
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  These little scenes, which to me is amazing.
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  And she says, well, I'm not really got creative.
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  And I'm like, what about your nails?
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  So she goes, well, I guess so, but she doesn't acknowledge And
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  the point is when you don't acknowledge this, you are again,
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  beating yourself up and not allowing yourself to step into a
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  whole different level of greatness.
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  Now why is this so important with creativity?
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  Because it's the root part of our soul.
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  Its it is built into us in such a way everything that you see
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  around us in the world has been created everything that you see
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  around us has been created. When you look at I mean I I'm
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  standing out in the chicken coop and I look at this awesome Coupe
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  that they have and that's a shed.
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  I bought a shed and had it they designed it to help me have it
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  for the chicken, somebody created that that's creativity.
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  How else can we do it? Putting the swings up
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  creativity. All These Little Things add up
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  and they make our lives great, but they can't do it when we
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  say, well, I'm not creative because immediately that's what
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  you start acting like. Well, I can't think of something
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  I'm not - oh my gosh, such a silly way to put our focus and
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  attention out there. So I'm going to challenge you to
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  actually go through a process with yourself and say where do I
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  show up creative every day? Where are my little tidbits of
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  creativity. I don't care if it's how you put
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  your food on your plate to eat dinner.
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  Making it look beautiful like a chef did it.
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  Sprinkling it with herbs putting a little drizzle of sauce around
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  the Outside edge having it looked so fancy.
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  You know, great example, bartenders are fabulous with
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  this bartenders might say, well I'm not creative.
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  I just know how to make drinks. No, you're creative the way you
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  make the drink, layered in the glass.
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  The way you have those little garnishes on the top.
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  All creativity. We see it.
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  In our mind, we try it, we put it out there.
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  Make somebody smile, even ourselves.
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  Making yourself. Smile is important.
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  So I want to put you guys in a position where you start seeking
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  it regularly because this will level up everything else you're
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  doing. If you're running teams, if
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  you're running your own business, if you're even if
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  you're working in a business and you're doing your a job for a
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  company, when you cultivate your creativity and I do mean it's a
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  cultivation process, you have to work at it.
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  You can't just say oh I'm creative and then never do
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  anything with it. That's not how it works.
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  You use it or lose it and it Not get stronger, if you're not
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  working, it's a muscle. So, think about all the little
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  places where you can sprinkle creativity in your day, you
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  know, if you follow me on social media, you'll see pictures of
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  how I give the chickens breakfast and bring out platters
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  to them. And I'm always creatively
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  thinking of different things I can offer them how I can put it
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  out and serve it to them. It seems stupid but it's all
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  part of creativity, you know? Although my husband teases me
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  all their the Martha Stewart chickens.
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  They're so spoiled. The reality is it's part of my
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  mental health and my mental well-being to use my creativity
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  all the time to interact with them, to be with them to provide
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  food and shelter and nice things for them.
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  It's all part of my creativity. That's why it's so important to
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  me. So, go out, cultivate some
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  creativity for yourself today and every day and I promise you
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  you will see magic happen in your life because the necessity
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  of creativity is non-negotiable. Sociable it has you have to have
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  it you have to put it into your life because the more you do it
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  the better you feel it's a direct connection so go be
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  creative and I'll see you guys tomorrow.
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  Bye. Sociable it has you have to have
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  it you have to put it into your life because the more you do it
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  the better you feel it's a direct connection so go be
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  creative and I'll see you guys tomorrow.
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  Bye.