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Creating white space in your head · 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 for 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, we're talking about design and white space, we might
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  be saying, what the heck does this have to do with motivation
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  and feeling good or different ideas and perspective?
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  Well, in design, there is a concept of having white space
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  where your I can rest, where you can see nothing, so to speak,
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  where there's just space because it allows something else to jump
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  out. And when you're working with
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  type, Rafi and photos and trying to catch people's attention.
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  Simplicity is often really, really useful and years ago.
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  Many years ago when I went to design school, this was one
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  concept that I had a really hard time learning because I was so
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  into the vibrant colors. I was so into filling,
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  everything that I could in a frame of a picture or a painting
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  with all this wildness and I'll be first, it was one of the
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  harder classes that I've ever had to deal with in composition
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  when they were talking about, use the use of white space.
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  And it really tripped me up so fast forward, I had to learn it
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  over and over and over and over like many lessons in life.
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  We have to learn them over and over and over and over and this
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  use of white space. Really became something in my
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  world that I struggled with because I kept going back to
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  what I knew and what I knew was Fine.
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  But it wasn't on trend for where we were headed.
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  It wasn't when we were doing design work in a studio that I
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  used to own and it was you had to really pay attention to this
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  piece. So I had to keep changing my
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  perspective over and over and over and it was annoying but
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  eventually I got the gist of it. Eventually I started taking
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  simpler pictures. Eventually I started designing
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  in simpler ways with text and with using white space and it
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  really became something that I enjoy.
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  And now I think I've probably gone to the other end of the
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  spectrum based around the fact that I study mindfulness and
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  mindfulness is all about Simplicity and all about, you
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  know, taking that stripping away, the chaos stripping away,
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  everything that doesn't work in the in the equation so that you
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  can get back to a state of simplicity.
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  Part of what I enjoy, most of all about what I get to do with
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  you guys, is keeping the concept simple short to the point so
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  that you guys can make them work.
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  And you know, the chickens always make me, they
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  consistently remind me of how things I just need to be simple.
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  They are simple creatures and they are super smart contrary to
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  what people think, but they are very simple.
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  And when things are done the right way and then done in the
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  simple way they respond and they loved it right now, they are All
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  engaged in digging about pumpkins because this morning,
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  they're having a feast of all the pumpkins that were out for
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  decorations. And now they're all chunked up
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  and they are just pigging out on them.
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  So that's why it's kind of quiet out here this morning because
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  they've all got pumpkin face, I should take some pictures and
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  put it up so everybody can see it.
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  But anyway, back to this theory of simplicity.
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  So as we are working on this place of Simplicity in our, in
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  our minds and we are trying to create this white Space.
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  If you will for ourselves in mindfulness, this comes into
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  looking at where those points on.
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  And we've talked about purging before but we've never purging
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  our stuff. But really I want to talk today
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  about creating Simplicity in your mind.
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  What's the simplest way to go from point A to point B?
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  How do you make things so simple for yourself that it doesn't
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  have to create those aggravation.
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  So it's a different perspective of looking at something because
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  remember, the more Respectives that you can create the more
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  likely you are to get a better outcome because you've got
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  different perspectives of doing it.
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  So start to look at how you can create more white space that
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  Simplicity that clean. Space not just in your
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  surroundings but in your head. So for me that will come into
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  simplifying lists simplifying, things that I have to get done
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  instead of having just a bunch of Things like today.
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  Perfect example, I had to do a bunch of errands, so I sat down
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  and I actually mapped out how I wanted to drive the route to
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  keep it as simple as possible. So I didn't feel like I was
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  running around everywhere even though I had to go to multiple
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  stores, that helps it. Create Simplicity one, don't
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  complicate things that you don't need to complicate.
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  Most of the time, we make things way more complicated than they
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  need to be especially when it comes to dealing with the
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  holidays. So look at how can you make this
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  holiday season? Simpler for yourself.
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  How can you make it so that you don't feel overwhelmed by it and
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  keep it clean and tight and easy.
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  So you don't feel overwhelmed by it.
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  If that means doing a little bit more shopping online, don't feel
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  bad about it. If it's going to keep you sane,
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  if it means giving fewer gifts, don't feel bad about it.
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  Simply say this is not a time where I think it's going to be
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  good for me to exchange. Be honest with people if you
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  feel that way in your lamenting giving gifts Talk about it or
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  keep it simple and just do something that people love,
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  maybe just keep the gifts really, really simple and really
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  inexpensive cook for somebody do something.
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  That means something to them as opposed to spending money on it
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  and putting yourself into debt over it.
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  But in any event, this is all about Simplicity and creating
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  white space in your head. So work on that see where those
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  Hang-Ups are and try to figure out how to get rid of all that
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  clutter. I hope you guys.
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  Eyes. Have a very blessed day and I
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  will see you all tomorrow. Bye.