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Season 4 - Episode 6 - Pulling your passion into your world · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to 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 morning from the chicken coop.
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  Let's talk about a little trick that I do that helps me really
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  stay motivated, not just at the beginning of the year, but in
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  process of what I'm doing or pretty much anything that I'm
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  doing. This trick is that I try to find
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  a way to be passionate about something, but is there a thread
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  of something that I can pull in that will make me be passionate
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  about something? And this isn't about faking it.
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  I've often talked to clients about this and they'll say,
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  well, isn't that faking it till you make it?
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  And I'm like, Nope, it's not about pretending.
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  What it's about is saying there's something here that I
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  can find a way to be passionate about.
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  Now, let's use this podcast in his example.
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  So we are on year 4 of doing this podcast.
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  I still can't believe we're on Season 4 and in the process of
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  doing this. At the beginning, you know, I
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  wasn't sure if I was going to like it.
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  I did it for 30 days and then I said, OK, I'll continue to do
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  it. And over time, I've thought to
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  myself, OK, I have to find ways to keep this, you know, fresh
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  and new. And I have to be excited about
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  this and you know, to keep it good or great to even get to
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  outstanding in the process. And talking about things and
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  changing subjects, trying to find different things is not
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  easy. I have to be first to admit
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  that. And I'm always seeking content.
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  I'm always making notes, I'm always reminding myself, oh, you
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  want to talk about this or you want to mention this.
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  But there is one thing that I can always bring to the table no
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  matter what I feel about. If I'm motivated to go and do
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  it, if I'm not motivated to go and do it, if I'm just sick of
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  doing it one day and I'm just like, I don't feel like going
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  out and recording because I'm just in a quiet mode.
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  There's one thing that I can always rely on for myself and
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  that is saying I'm always passionate about teaching
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  somebody something. So when I feel like I'm off or I
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  feel like I've, you know, I've glided to the side and I'm not
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  exactly on point anymore, I'll say, OK, what can you teach?
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  What part of this can you teach? And as soon as I use that, it
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  triggers in me that desire for the passion part of it.
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  And it's just, it's just part of it.
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  I can also pull that in with creativity.
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  I can say, all right, what can I bring that's creative today?
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  What can I do that's from my imagination?
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  So I kind of have the this these three big chunks.
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  The teaching slash learning for me is such a big deal.
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  Then I've got the imagination, which is a huge big deal, and
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  the creativity, which is another big deal.
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  So I can go to those 3 anytime I want and utilize that as a tool
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  in helping me. Now I can do that across the
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  board. So as I stand out here and I
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  look at the garden, which had its disaster last year, of this
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  unknown fungus that's in the ground that you can't see, you
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  can't get rid of it. And now they're telling me five
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  to seven years, you can't plant tomatoes in there directly into
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  the ground because it will infiltrate them.
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  It has something to do with nightshades.
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  Anyway, I don't want to digress and go down a plant diagnosis
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  situation, but I look at that and I could be easily
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  discouraged. I would be lying to you if I
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  wasn't telling you that there is a part of me that gets
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  discouraged with it because I love tomatoes and they're my
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  favorite thing to grow. And I just absolutely cannot
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  tell you the difference between a homegrown organic tomato then,
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  you know, a store bought tomato. It's it's like night and day
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  Anyway, I couldn't stand here and I could look at it because I
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  see right from the girls coop, I see the garden.
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  It's right off to my left and I could get very discouraged.
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  But when I say to myself, this requires you to be imaginative.
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  This requires you to reimagine the garden.
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  This is going to require your creativity immediately.
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  It's like a shot in the butt. It just helps me go boom, OK,
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  And then I start thinking, and then I'm like, OK, I want to go
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  look at books. OK, I want to pull out all my
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  books. I want to read.
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  What can I do? What are other ways to
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  circumvent this? And all of a sudden, because I'm
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  doing that in an imaginative way and I'm saying, OK, well what if
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  I did these raised bed things? What if I instead of doing it
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  just the traditional raised beds, I did the bags and I put
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  them in the bags and I'm like, OK, well how would that work
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  with irrigation? OK, well, let's talk to my
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  irrigation guy about this and see what he has to say.
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  But I'm using all of these tools, these three tools that
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  are my like secret weapons to say, hey, I can get past this.
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  Even things that I don't want to deal with that are irritating,
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  frustrating things that I don't want to do.
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  Like I don't want to deal with trying to figure out how to, you
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  know, fix this ground. I mean, this is the, it's
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  crappy. I spent all this time trying to
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  make it perfect, and now all of a sudden I have something I
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  can't see, can't test for, I can't get rid of.
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  Of course, it would be aggravating.
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  It would be stupid to say that it's not.
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  However, it's not taking me out because I'm going to use those
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  three things and I'm going to take it to a different position.
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  I'm going to take it into a different vein, and then I'll be
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  able to solve it. So try that for yourself.
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  Again, it's not about faking it. It's about using other tools to
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  help yourself go past it. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.