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Season 4 - Episode 326 - Working on inspiration for the coming year! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happened to be a farmer.
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  This is my Chicken coop and I come out here.
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  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, good morning.
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  So yesterday we had a very special day.
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  We got to go to Magnolia Plantation, which is one of the
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  oldest plantations in in the United States.
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  It's considered a romantic one because it's all gardens
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  planted. So it was right up my alley.
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  And there are a huge amount of camellias blooming right now.
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  So they're they're, they're ready to burst.
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  And then there's a whole bunch of early ones that have bursted
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  and they are just gorgeous and beautiful.
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  And it's, it's quite the stunning place, but we got to go
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  there and spend hours walking the plantation.
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  And I haven't done that in a very long time.
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  We used to be members there and just with the farm and
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  everything else, it changed once we moved out to the farm.
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  But going back there, spending time walking through, having the
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  experience of being there, it just reminded me about those
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  small things that make you unplug from the moment you walk
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  into this place, you feel like you've been transformed into
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  this glorious old world garden. And it gave me such inspiration
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  for the things that I want to do out here.
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  Like I was standing there looking at one of their
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  vegetable gardens and I was like, I want to do this and I
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  want to do that. And I think I want to change
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  this and I want to do this. And it just gave me that oomph
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  of remembering how important inspiration is to us.
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  Like there is nothing more important than having
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  inspiration because once you have that, you can allow
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  yourself to be more creative, to do more important things than
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  you ever imagined because you've got that inspiration.
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  Like if you don't know, you don't know.
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  So you have to go explore. You have to be an explorer.
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  So this, this kind of lit a fire under me to be more attentive,
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  if you will, to looking at what's around me, where I am and
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  saying, OK, not that I'm not that I don't do that because I'm
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  always taking pictures of everything in my world, but I'm
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  talking about outside my world. Go look at other places.
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  See, so I'm on a mission while I'm on my break over the next
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  week, because I don't actually start backup coaching until
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  January 5th. I am going to be going to all
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  different places that I can to look and say what the
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  inspiration, what am I looking for here, what do I want to do
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  and really hunkering down and making my plans.
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  Now, I typically will take two full days and do planning for
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  the whole year before the end of the year in between Christmas
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  and New Year's. That's always my jam.
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  And I might change that up because I'm sitting there
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  thinking I might just take this whole time until I go right back
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  on the 5th to say, OK, what, what is my inspiration?
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  What am I looking for? Not just sitting and doing it on
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  paper, but being out on my feet, taking pictures, going places,
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  looking at things, trying to make decisions about stuff.
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  Now here's what tends to happen with me when I do this.
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  The plan gets so enormous and so big that it becomes
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  overwhelming. And then I have to like, temper
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  myself and say, OK, well, this is what I'm going to do now.
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  But often I've noticed that what I do is I then forget the other
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  things that I want to do. So this time, I'm not going to
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  do that. I'm actually going to be
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  changing up how I do things completely.
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  And I'm going to be looking at seasons and planning seasonally.
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  And I feel like that is such a big thing to look at because
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  once you do, once you change things, you pay attention to it.
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  It's not so rote in your head. It doesn't become so conformed
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  warmest in your head. So take that into consideration.
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  Think about how you want to approach this.
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  Think about how you want to inspire yourself before you do
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  anything. Do you need to just take a few
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  days and go start looking at stuff outside of your world to
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  be inspired? Like if you want to create art,
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  let's say you wanted to learn how to knit or you wanted to
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  make stuff and you wanted to learn how to do that, then maybe
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  hit a bunch of different knitting stores.
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  Go and check that out. If you want to paint, take a
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  couple of different painting classes.
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  It doesn't matter if they're online or locally, wherever you
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  are, but try it. See, just experiment, look at
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  stuff that might be different because that's where we get our
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  inspiration from. That's where we start thinking
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  about things differently. So in in the big picture, you
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  can create and come up with something completely new once
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  you're inspired, it's not about going out and trying to find
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  what someone else did and replicate it.
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  It's about figuring out how you can take what someone else did
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  and make it better or bigger or completely different.
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  That's the cool part about inspiration.
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  How can you make it completely different?
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  So I hope this is helpful. I'm going to go start making my
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  plans and I hope you guys have a very blessed day and I will see
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  you tomorrow. Bye.