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Season 5 - Episode 21 - Hunting for all the hidden eggs. · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good afternoon from the chicken coop.
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  So today I feel like I'm on an Easter egg hunt because these
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  girls have been laying eggs random places and it is cracking
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  me up. Like why all of a sudden with
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  the chickens lay eggs in random places?
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  This gets my brain going. Of course, then I have to start
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  exploring what's going on? Is it the is it because it's
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  like we don't have the warmer weather, They're cold.
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  There was another door open. What is happening?
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  And it makes me go into this deep contemplative place about
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  how how interesting they are all the time and how it just feeds
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  my imagination caring for them, which puts me to the point of
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  today with using your imagination.
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  So a couple weeks into the year, we tend to flatline and we tend
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  to start thinking about, you know, being tired.
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  I already have people saying, Oh my gosh, this weather, the snow,
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  it's killing me. I feel so blah, blah.
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  And everybody's just saying it, whether it's dark or cold and
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  it's cold here. It's like going to be really
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  cold tonight, like 26°. And part of our problem is that
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  again, we're in the dead of winter and we're grinding
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  because it's January and we all have to be chipper and working
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  on our stuff. But you must use your
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  imagination right now. You must use creativity to make
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  you feel good. So when is the last time you did
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  that? Whether it's making a meal
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  that's really interesting, whether it's doing something
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  different like learning an instrument.
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  I don't care what it is painting.
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  It could be, you know, getting an on your iPad.
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  Do you remember when you were a kid doing hidden pictures?
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  Get an app for hidden pictures and just sit there and be
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  creative and do the app, but you've got to do something
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  creative to save yourself from this.
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  So for me, my creative thing right now is I am on an egg hunt
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  and I love it. Thinking about what are they
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  thinking? What are their choices, and just
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  diving into solving the mystery. Nancy Drewing, the whole thing.
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  That always makes me feel very excited when I get to do those
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  things. Like it's a puzzle.
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  Working with my clients. Every time they show up, there's
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  something new I'm working on. So it's always like putting the
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  puzzle piece together and that is exciting for me.
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  I think that's what keeps me going so much is that everything
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  is different. Today.
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  I've been helping one of my clients design their YouTube
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  banner and you know, their marketing.
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  Another client, we've been working on her marketing
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  somebody else. We're working on the products
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  that she's creating. I mean, we're all over the place
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  with this stuff and it and it feels so good.
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  But that is by design because I know that's how my brain works.
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  So if you're not having that happen right now, you really
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  need to dig into that. Or you know, what if you just
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  don't have even the strength for that, grab a really good book,
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  grab a mystery, maybe go back and reread a Nancy Drew or Hardy
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  Boys that we all loved so much when we were kids.
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  But do something that triggers it.
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  Do something that triggers it. You know, a couple months ago, I
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  got a new version of Spire Graph.
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  If any of those remember Spire Graph, those hand tools that you
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  can, you know, draw with and make the little circles.
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  And also, you know, you when you do that, you get new pens and
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  you're sitting there and you're enjoying it.
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  Play with it. Etch A Sketch.
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  Oh my gosh, how much fun did we have with Etch A Sketch when we
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  were a kid? Feels like it's old school when
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  you have an iPad. But guess what?
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  It's so much fun to be able to do it, find something and
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  trigger it for yourselves because I promise it will make,
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  it'll lighten up the day, it'll lighten up your mood, and it
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  will lighten up that feeling of drudgery.
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  Now, if you're not in drudgery and you're still feeling like
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  you're cruising, fantastic. That's wonderful.
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  But still use the creativity to think.
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  Ask a better question and say, how can I make this even more
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  exciting? How can I make this even better?
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  Look at it, dig into it and see. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a very blessed day and I am off to go look for these
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  darn eggs that they've hidden everywhere.
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  All right, take care and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.