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Season 4 - Episode 311 - The Possibilities Exercise · 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.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy.
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  Into the. World.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey, everybody.
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  Good morning. OK.
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  How many times have you heard yourself say, I can't even
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  imagine that this is the spot I would be in, Whether it's a
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  positive or negative, there's a reinforcement in that in a clue
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  as to what direction we need to be going in.
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  So the first words you hear there is I can't even imagine,
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  but that imagine is the clue. We reinvent ourselves repeatedly
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  through our imagination. And when we don't reinvent
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  ourselves through imagination and when we don't use it in a
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  positive way, it does have a negative effect.
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  I I'll be the first one to tell you because I can see it in
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  everyone that I work with. If you're not using your powers
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  for the greater good of yourself, they will turn on you.
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  And I have like personal experience with my imagination
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  teaming up with my anxiety and torturing me.
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  So I have a very big imagination.
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  I've always been told that since I was a kid staring out the
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  window, hearing that people say come back from the clouds, get
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  out of your imagination. Stop being a space person.
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  You know, like all these little comments that my teachers would
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  make. I mean, if you're a regular
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  listener, you know, you've heard me say over the years that my
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  teachers from 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, I faced the
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  wall because I asked too many questions.
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  And I was always, you know, talking about, well, what if?
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  Well, what if? Well, that's imaginative.
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  That's living in your imagination.
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  But when it's not utilized for the greater good, it can cause
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  problems. It will imagine all the
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  disasters. It will imagine the problems
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  because it's trying to help you. And I used to hate it.
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  I used to hate that part of myself and I because I didn't
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  understand it. I didn't understand it at all.
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  Well, this we get to this time of the year and you can hear in
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  people as I'm talking to them as we're working through things and
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  I'm seeing, OK, look, let's not set goals immediately.
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  Let's just start off by possibilities, OK?
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  This, and this is an actual exercise that I'm having
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  everybody do create your list of possibilities.
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  Before you even sit down to do goals, please make a list of
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  possibilities. What interests you?
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  I'm not saying we're going to drive it and use it, but what
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  interests you? What are the things that give
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  you a glimmer, a spark, or maybe it's a full blown bonfire, but
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  what is it? What are the possibilities?
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  And this is a really hard exercise for people because
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  they're like, well, I mean, I don't know if I want that.
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  And I'm like, Nope, Remember what I said?
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  It's just possibilities and they can't get past that fact that,
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  well, I have to assess it. I have to go through it.
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  They're not letting their imaginations go and and have fun
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  and run in the field of flowers in my head.
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  And that's detrimental to your well-being, like detrimental to
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  your well-being. It is something that's so
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  important, so important to work on all the time.
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  Growing your imagination, putting your imagination into a
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  different headspace, putting your imagination out there so
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  that you can feel that you have stretched it, that it is working
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  for your greater good, Not just looking at the disasters that
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  could possibly come up, because it can go in any direction.
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  It's, it's like water. All right, let's think of it
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  this way. Water is a life force in human
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  beings and on this planet. It for everything we anything
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  that's alive, it needs water. Anything that's an Organism, it
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  needs water typically. I mean, there are obviously
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  there are very few things that are out there scientifically
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  that do not, but they thrive on something else, whether it's air
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  or whatever, we they need water and it's again a life force.
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  But what happens when there's too much water?
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  There's death. So it's the exact opposite, life
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  and death. If I over water a plant, it
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  drowns and dies. And as humans, if we put
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  ourselves in, you know, to water and we're breathing it in, we
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  can die. But when we drink it, it not
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  only sustains us, it makes us healthier.
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  So think about your imagination the same way.
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  It can be used for the greater good, sustaining something
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  amazing for you and helping you grow, or it can be used for your
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  demise. And when you start to do this
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  exercise of possibilities, and I really want you guys to sit down
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  and with a piece of paper and say, OK, what are my
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  possibilities that I would love to invite into my world
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  potentially for 2026? And that's it.
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  It's not an exercise of am I going to do them?
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  It's like, well, what would I potentially like to do?
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  What are the things that interest me?
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  Not picking them yet. I'm just making a list of
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  possibilities. And it's very freeing and very
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  exciting. When you actually put pen to
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  paper and try it and do it. I promise you it unleashes
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  things. Now you're going to hear the
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  chatter that says. I don't know if I can do that.
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  I don't know if that's going to work.
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  Why would I even think of that? Put it aside and say right at
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  the top of the paper, this is a possibility list.
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  It's not a definite list. And free your mind up and your
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  imagination and let's see where you go from there.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.