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Season 3 - Episode 250 - Your most valuable gift · 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 mastermindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop, along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So today we are talking again about our creativity in the
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  sense that it's the most valuable gift we have to shape
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  our goals. You know, oftentimes people come
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  with goals that other people put on them.
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  So in other words, they'll show up and they'll say, well, my
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  boss says this, or, you know, my spouse wants me to do this or my
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  parents expect me to do this. And oy, that is such a hard
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  thing to take in because when you start to think that way,
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  when you start to go down the road of having all of your
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  desires, your goals come from somebody else, you have to look
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  at it and say, did I give up that power?
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  Did I just give it away? Or did I not even know I had it?
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  And am I using my creativity to come up with my own goals so
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  that I can feel just as happy having some of my own goals as
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  their goals? So because sometimes when you're
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  working for somebody, you have to, you have to take on their
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  goals. If you've agreed to go to work
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  for them, you have to take on the goals that they have because
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  you've agreed to work for them. And that makes sense logically,
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  but that does not mean that you have to give up your creativity
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  in the process. And a lot of times right now,
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  as, as we've talked about before, when you have
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  instructions with creativity, earlier in this week we talked
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  about that, it becomes hard to be creative because the two
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  don't coexist well. But that doesn't mean that you
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  give up your personal creativity.
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  You have to find spaces to execute your personal
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  creativity, which I think to me is if you're having a struggle
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  with that in this world right now, there are so many variables
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  for this. Because if you're tied to
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  electronics all the time, there are plenty of ways you can use
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  your electronics to be super creative with them.
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  Video production, audio productions, doing, you know, AI
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  stuff, working, learning how to code with AI, there's so much
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  creativity that can take place and you don't have to be afraid
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  of it. You just have different tools to
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  use with it. If you want to go old school,
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  then you start thinking about, OK, I have to put some real
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  goals out there that are very old school now.
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  I like mixing it up. I like doing it both ways
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  because I think they're directly tied to my goals, my creativity,
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  my imagination are directly tied to my goals.
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  So I'm always pushing, always stretching, always trying to see
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  and how to how to manifest in that process is using your
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  creativity because it's your most valuable gift that the
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  universe and God have given you. So you have to take that on and
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  say I'm going to make sure no matter what goals have been put
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  upon me, I am going to invent my own.
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  And I'm going to allow my imagination to have a bit of a,
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  as my Australian friends say, walkabout where it's completely
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  weird. It's out there.
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  I'm just going to go have some fun with it.
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  I'm going to try something I've never done before, so give you
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  an example of this. I have these pieces of wood that
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  we cut. We had a tree that got destroyed
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  in a hurricane and it was this massive, beautiful tree and a
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  whole big section. Live Oak to be specific.
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  For those wondering what kind of tree and they're, the live oaks
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  are a very unique tree because they're phototropic.
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  So they keep growing out and big and they're just amazing
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  looking, but they are very susceptible because of the way
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  they grow in hurricanes to breaking off huge branches.
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  And that's what happened. So this giant branch broke off
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  this tree that was probably about 250 years old.
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  And I, being the soul that I am, could not let that just get cut
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  up. I just couldn't let it just do
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  nothing. So and I got a mobile sawmill.
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  Now this is where creativity and imagination come in.
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  And I was like, what can I do with this?
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  Because it was giant and you couldn't just you could have got
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  cut it up, but it would have been too rough to cut it with a
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  chainsaw. So I found somebody who had a
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  mobile sawmill and he came down here and he planked it 2 inches
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  thick from all of the the pieces that he had.
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  And I currently have it for like it's literally three years.
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  It's been drying because it takes forever.
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  Hence it's called Live Oak to dry.
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  And we're going to have a, a dining room table and benches
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  made out of it. But it has to dry to a certain
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  point before you can work with it.
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  And it takes years. And I knew that going in, but I
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  still wanted to do it. In the meantime, I have extra
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  pieces that would not work for the dining room table, but
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  they're beautiful and I've had them sitting outside so they
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  could weather and get that very Gray, kind of Nantucket Gray
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  look about them. Beautiful, beautiful pieces of
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  wood. And I've been just trying to
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  decide like the shape of the wood looks so cool.
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  What should I do with this? So I recently saw on Instagram
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  this little laser pen that you can use to draw with and it
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  burns into wood or metal and it's super cool.
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  Now, I have never done this before, never have I worked with
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  this before. But you know what?
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  I ordered the pen because I want to see what I can create with it
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  because this is my imagination. And the goal is to have artwork
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  for my studio that we record classes in.
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  And I, I don't want to buy it. I want to make it because I feel
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  like that's my creative space. Just like the chicken coop is a
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  happy place and the farm is overall teaching mindfulness.
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  So everything has a purpose. And the point is, go out and
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  find your creativity. There you go.
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  Rufus agrees that you have to go find that creativity and believe
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  it's your most valuable gift. Shape it.
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  Allow your imagination to infuse your goals with it.
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  And life changes, my friends. OK, I hope you guys have a
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  blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.