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Season 3 - Episode 293 - Grow what you want in your imagination first · 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 today.
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  This is a little bit of a farm lesson about growing in the
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  sense of what's in your mind. Now, as you know out here, we
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  grow lots of things and I'm always experimenting.
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  One of my greatest new little experiments that we'll be
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  talking about is Loofah, which I don't know, it was a, it was a,
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  it was an impulse purchase because the girls at the herb
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  farm had loofah plants gone growing.
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  And I was like, oh, let me try it.
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  I've never tried it before. And I got to tell you, it is the
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  most fascinating thing to watch what happened.
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  But that's for another day. Today we're talking about
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  growing things, but growing in your mind.
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  So this gets weird at the time of the year when people start
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  thinking about, you know, next year and what they want to focus
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  on because it's our nature to think, Oh, yeah, I'm all psyched
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  up and I'm going to get it. But the where is the best place
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  that you start that like, how do you start that process and feel
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  empowered by that process? Everybody always wants to know
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  the steps. Where does it begin?
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  And it begins first in your imagination.
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  It begins with your creativity and your imagination.
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  And I might not think that that's where this would start
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  because it always seems to go back to practicality with us as
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  human beings. However, it is truly one of the
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  most amazing things when you let your imagination run and your
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  creativity run prior to setting your goals, because then you can
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  actually start to discern, is this something that I, I truly
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  really want? Or am I just, I'm doing it
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  because I have to tick the box. We talk about that a lot like
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  this is what I, I don't want to have to go to work, but I do it
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  because I need the money. And that way we start to base
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  our goals based on the fact that I need the money as opposed to
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  what do I really want out of the process.
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  So when you start way at this point at the beginning, and you
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  start with your creativity and your imagination and you hold to
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  that. Now this is where it gets really
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  tricky holding to that because I can't begin to stress enough
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  that this process is very challenging for us based on the
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  fact that we unequivocably come back to interrupting ourselves
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  when we are in a creative process.
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  And we'll say, oh, but I don't know how I'm going to do that
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  and therefore I'm going to just let it go or it's not going to
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  work. We we cut ourselves off at the
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  knees before we even get started.
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  One of the greatest things that I have experienced for myself is
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  the fact that I covet my imagination and my creativity.
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  I think it's one of my superpowers.
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  I've talked about it many times and I don't let things get in my
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  way with it. I refuse to let things get in my
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  way with it. If I'm going to do something
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  creative, I'm going to be as creative as I possibly can in
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  the process of being creative and then I will trust 100% that
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  this is going to unfold. If my if my emotion behind it is
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  completely and totally engaged with it and there is excitement,
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  there is passion, there is that feeling of exuberance, then I'm
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  going to be able to figure it out on the fly.
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  I know that about myself and I know that to be true for anyone
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  who does it that way. Because you're holding in the
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  creative space, you're holding in the imagination, which is
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  pure potential by the way. The universe provides us with
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  that as it is pure potential. And think about just how
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  creative the universe in itself is with all the strange things
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  that we have. I mean, all you have to do is
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  think of a platypus to say, wow, if that isn't the most creative
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  thing. Because let's face it, if we had
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  a child and a child blew and drew an animal on a piece of
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  paper and it was a platypus, we'd be like, oh, no, that's not
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  in reality. But guess what?
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  It is because it is so massively creative.
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  Look at it. It's, it's just a reminder to me
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  about how when we think things won't work, oh boy, they can
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  remember the platypus. So back to this holding true in
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  your imagination first. The key to this is getting into
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  that headspace and feeling super connected when you're doing the
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  creative stuff. So a little trick for me as you
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  go, start to go through this and think about what do I want, you
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  know, to imagine for myself for next year, maybe for next month.
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  It doesn't matter the time frame, it's just what do I want
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  to imagine for myself? And the very first thing as you
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  start to go through and start to imagine for yourself is
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  remembering the in the imagination process.
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  It matters where you're doing it.
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  If you're doing this and you're trying to do it in a place where
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  you know it's not going to work, IE in the middle of your office
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  and you know it's stressful and people are bothering you, don't
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  do it there. For me, there are some very
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  sacred places I like to go to do it.
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  So, you know, I have a favorite tree that I love to visit and
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  that tree just is so it's so huge and so awesome.
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  And that tree makes me feel like 1,000,000 bucks when I'm there.
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  I can't explain it, but I feel that way.
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  So when I go and I sit at that tree, I've actually written part
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  of the bus book at the tree, which is crazy, but I would go
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  and sit at the tree for hours and write at the tree.
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  And it really why paced at the tree.
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  But it, it, it actually really totally engaged me in that
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  energy. That's what I'm talking about.
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  If you like to do it where nobody can like essentially
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  notice you and you want to do it at a cafe and the cafe is noisy
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  and you think, why shouldn't be doing this there?
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  Don't shoot all over yourself. Just say if that's where I feel
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  empowered, that's where I'm going to do it.
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  Start with the place, start with the right tools and let your
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  imagination go because I promise you it will be worth every bit
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  of it. So go back and figure out what
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  do I want to grow in my imagination 1st and get that
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  part down. All right my friends, I hope you
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  have a blessed day and I will see you soon.
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  Bye.