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Season 3 - Episode 146 - Imagination is stonger than willpower · 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 from the chicken coop.
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  You can hear all the babies off in the distance peeping away
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  this morning. So I am going to talk to you
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  today about imagination and how important imagination is.
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  So in the 1800s, a French psychologist and pharmacist
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  introduced a new form of psychiatry, psychology that a
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  psychotherapy, I believe, is what it was, where he called it
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  optimistic autosuggestion, and he was very focused on it.
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  I'm going to butcher his name, so please, I apologize ahead of
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  time for not being able to pronounce this very well.
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  And it's a very long name, but he was technically known as Emil
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  Kuei COUE with an A little asterisk over it.
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  So he was a, a absolute influence in this field because
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  he really, really studied the this, he created this method.
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  And it was all about having that incremental adjustments to your
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  mindset by completely focusing on the optimistic parts of
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  things, by looking at certain things.
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  And you can certainly, you know, look him up, see what he had to
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  say. But today we are talking about
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  something that he said that intrigued me that I just
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  recently read about where your imagination is stronger than
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  willpower. And when in conflict with each
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  other, imagination will always win.
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  And he really believed this. And I have to say, I am a huge
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  believer in imagination. I was.
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  I spent a lot of time in trouble for my imagination because
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  people would say that I wasn't paying attention, I was
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  daydreaming, I was all over the place, I didn't need to
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  constantly be thinking about things the way I was and yadda
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  yadda yadda. And so spent a lot of time in
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  trouble as a kid for it. However, I'm really glad that I
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  never paid attention to anybody about it and I kept it and it
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  never got ruined. And it's a very precious thing
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  to me to this day. Otherwise, why the hell would I
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  be sitting in the chicken coop shooting a podcast from it?
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  That came from my imagination. And I have always valued my
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  imagination highly. But I understand right now that
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  that is not something that's quite as coveted as it once was.
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  And that's a problem because I do believe what he's talking
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  about. And the imagination is stronger
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  than pretty much anything in our presence.
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  It is a powerful tool that has been given to us from the
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  universe, from God, however you want to look at it.
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  It is a tool that has been given to us and it is highly neglected
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  right now. It is highly ignored and it is
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  highly just, I don't want to say it's abused, but it is just,
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  it's not cultivated anymore. It's not coveted.
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  It's, it's not something that I think should happen at all.
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  I mean, I think we should be cherishing what we have in it
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  and I think we should constantly be cultivating it to become the
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  the absolute supreme tool that it needs to be for us.
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  Because out of imagination, everything else arises.
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  I mean, think about it, everything around you was
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  created out of someone's imagination, if not the universe
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  and it's imagination. So it doesn't make a difference
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  what it is. I'm here on an iPhone and I am
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  working this iPhone using this and this was out of someone's
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  imagination. Everything comes that way.
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  I'm in a chicken coop that has I had a vision for what it wanted
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  to look like. I could see it in my
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  imagination. It's a powerful, powerful tool,
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  and when you utilize it as that special tool, it helps you more
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  than anything else does. Willpower is strong,
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  Determination is strong. Faith is strong.
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  Imagination is magic, and when you use it as such, you become
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  the wizard or the warlock, or however you want to do it, the
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  sorceress. You become the magic.
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  Whatever that word is for you, you have to make the decision
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  that you're going to cultivate your imagination.
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  So how does one start to cultivate their imagination or
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  bring it back to life when it has been neglected and suffered,
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  as it often does within our society?
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  Because everybody just focuses on work and focuses on chores
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  and focuses on paying bills and they don't focus on their
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  imagination. So being very random is a great
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  thing to start with. Trying things that you would
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  never think you would try before.
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  Taking yourself and saying what are the things that I loved to
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  do when I was a kid before the world got in the way?
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  And what were the creative things you did as a child and
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  bringing them back into your life now?
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  So that is one of my favorite ways to do it.
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  And I would really suggest, and if you don't have something from
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  when you were a child that you said, I didn't love to do this,
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  I didn't do this, I didn't do this, then you just start
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  exploring raw and new and think, OK, what would be interesting to
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  me now? What would be something that
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  would be fun to me now? You pour into it that way and
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  you just start thinking about it.
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  Because I will tell you that quote.
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  Imagination is stronger than willpower and winning conflict
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  with each other. Imagination always wins it.
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  Well, it can change your world because when something comes up
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  and it's hard and it's difficult and you need your willpower to
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  get through it. If you just stopped and paused
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  and you said OK, how can I use my imagination instead?
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  That's when magic happens. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.