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Season 4 - Episode 124 - How can boredom help? · 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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  happened to be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast.
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  To. Teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring some
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  joy. 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 from
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  the chicken coop. So today we're talking about how
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  you make your path when you have big shifts taking place.
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  And it's not the it's not something that you know, a lot
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  of people, they think they have to know where they want to go.
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  But what if you don't know where you want to go?
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  What if you're just like in this very contemplative state about
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  all the possibilities? What's the best thing that you
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  can do for yourself? Well, here's I'm going to share
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  with you the information that I shared with a client the other
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  day because he and I got into a very deep discussion because he
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  doesn't have to move. He doesn't have to do anything
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  different, but he's bored. Like he just feels like, OK,
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  it's Groundhog Day and I, I need something more.
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  That was like the, the precipice of the whole jumping off point.
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  And one of the things that when you start this process and you
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  start to feel bored, you have to ask yourself, well, up until
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  this point, have I really been using my creativity?
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  And the answer is no. OK, I can guarantee you if
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  you've been experiencing boredom, you're not using your
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  creativity. Now, for those of you who don't
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  believe you're creative, well, I'll say that's a crock.
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  You are, it's not a question of if you are creative, you of
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  course you are creative. It, it's a question of how is
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  your creativity showing up? And sometimes it shows up in odd
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  ways. And you know, therefore we shut
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  it down because let's say, let's say this like if you're being
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  creative and you're cooking and you're saying, well, I'm trying
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  to lose weight, therefore I can't cook.
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  We shut it down because we think we don't want to make things
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  that are delicious. And I want to eat them because I
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  like to, oh, I like to cook Italian food.
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  Therefore, it leaves you out. Well, why don't use your
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  creativity to cook Italian food, but make Italian food that's
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  healthy? There's a, there's a thought in
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  that, right? Try to reinvent the recipes.
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  But sometimes as simple as that may sound as I say it, guess
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  what, People don't think of that.
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  They just kind of go through the motions and shut stuff down.
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  And this is exactly what was going on in this case, because
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  this person is incredibly creative in many, many ways.
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  And one of the biggest ways is musically.
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  But he had only been listening to music, not playing music or
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  writing music or any of the above.
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  Therefore there was this gap, there was a huge gap in how he
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  was processing and he was not being creative.
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  And that was where the hang up was coming in.
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  So here, here. The interesting part of this
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  whole, you know, discovery, if you will, of what we were going
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  on was that he had so it's so much he could offer in so many
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  different ways, but the reality was that he felt very frustrated
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  with himself because he just kept focusing on the boredom.
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  That's all he could see was the boredom, the boredom, the
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  boredom, the boredom and saying, I don't know, I must have to do
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  something different. I must have to be doing
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  something different. And that was not the case at
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  all. That was not the case at all.
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  So here's here's a distinction for you to think about.
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  Here's something that you can really dig into and think about
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  is are you getting to the point where you feel bored during a
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  day? Start like right from the
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  morning? Are you bored with your morning
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  routine? Well, I like my morning routines
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  because I utilize them to get very centered.
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  So boredom isn't part of it. Are there times throughout the
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  day that I experience boredom? Rarely because I always have
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  this creative mind going. And but I cultivated that I
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  don't have to struggle with that.
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  Like I'm always thinking about, oh, what can I do with the
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  garden with this? Oh, where can I plant flowers
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  with this? Oh, what can I make those, you
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  know, those window boxes look like I'm always working on
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  something like that and I just have it wired into me.
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  But that didn't happen overnight, my friends.
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  That was like a long standing process of me working on it.
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  So I, I encourage you one to look at the spots where the
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  boredom is coming in and then say, is this long standing?
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  Is this something that I I recognize readily because I used
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  to have the boredom? When I recognized it, then I was
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  like, no, wait, I'm creative. I can come up with all these
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  things and I conditioned myself to never have it.
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  But boredom is actually a really good tool to give you the
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  recognition of saying something has to change.
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  So if you're experiencing the boredom, that's the first clue.
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  The second thing is really looking at how you're pacing
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  your day, your week, so that you see the waves of where it shows
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  up and you can recognize like what is what are those little
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  whispers of things you feel like doing to that pull you in?
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  So if it's just sitting there and doom scrolling and looking
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  on the phone, it shows up. That's a definite sign that
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  something needs to be done because you can say it's
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  entertainment, but for me it's boredom.
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  It's like bubble gum. It's not giving you any
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  nutrition, but it's letting your mouth chew.
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  And it's important to remember. Look at that.
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  And thirdly, when you start to feel like you're just doing the,
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  the sigh all the time, that is a big sign that you have to go and
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  look and say, OK, if this is taking place, I'm, I'm
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  experiencing this boredom. I have to first before I do
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  anything, figure out where that boredom is coming from, Where is
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  the big piece of boredom? And then start to look at what's
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  next. What's the thing that I can do
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  next that's going to really help me move through that?
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  And that besides identifying where it's coming from, the next
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  step of that is really saying, OK, now that I know where it's
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  coming from, what am I going to do about it?
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  What's the thing that I want to do to counteract this?
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  Because once you identify what you're going to do to counteract
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  it, that really helps. And even if it's just, you know,
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  sitting there and making the list of things you can do when
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  you feel bored instead of what you've been doing or the things
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  you've always wanted to do, it's progress.
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  So start with that. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.