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Saving your creativity! · 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 master mindset.
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  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So I want to give you a thought about how creativity helps and
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  how ideas are such a gift to us. You know, theoretically
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  scientists don't even understand how ideas come into our head.
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  I've Heard lots of different theories on it, there's nothing
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  definitive. I've Heard lots of different
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  speculations on it, nothing definitive, I've had lots of
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  discussions with spiritual people about it, with pastors
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  about it. You know, where do ideas come
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  Come from. Well, me personally, I will tell
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  you, I think ideas. Well, you know, I'm a big.
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  Proponent of everything is energy.
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  There isn't anything out there? That's not energy.
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  Everything is energy, trees rocks.
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  They just are at a different energy than we are at and our
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  inability to grasp and speak their language does not mean
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  it's not energy. So, ideas are the same thing.
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  And for me, I really truly believe that an idea is
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  something That is alive. I think it comes into our head
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  and it's meant for us to make manifest of the idea that comes
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  in. You know, we often discount
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  ideas, we go down this road and say well it was a stupid idea,
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  maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but if you don't give it a shot
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  or you don't start to think about it or you don't start to
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  cultivate it. How will you ever know if it's a
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  legitimate idea? Or it's just you being harsh on
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  yourself and so many of us are so willing to just Move on, but
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  you got to remember the guy who made the Eskimo Pie, it was just
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  ice cream and chocolate, and he dipped it in and he made a
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  fortune with it. And there are millions of others
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  examples like that, and it doesn't matter.
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  Simple things. I mean, think about people,
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  that, you know, Colonel Sanders Fried Chicken, right?
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  Turned it into an Empire and sometimes it's recognizing
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  somebody else's idea, you know, McDonald's for what it's worth,
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  was not created by Roy. A Croc.
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  He had the idea to turn it into the franchise that it is and the
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  business. But it was originally by two
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  other guys who had this idea for burgers and most people didn't
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  think that it would ever work. So in this type of realization,
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  when you start to really pay attention to your ideas, what do
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  you do when you have a whole flood of them?
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  Like I am constantly flooded by creativity.
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  It's just, I always say it's my gift and my curse because
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  there's always so much of it. I never know what to do with it.
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  So I Give you guys a little hint, I keep a notebook called a
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  parking lot and in the parking lot.
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  I put all these crazy random ideas that I have and I write
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  them down and I want to capture them because I don't want them
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  to fly away because I really believe that ideas are alive.
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  And when they come to us, we have the chance to actually do
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  something with them. And if we don't, they'll go to
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  somebody else. That's why we often see them out
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  there. And we'll say, oh my God, that
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  was my idea. I had that years ago but you
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  never did anything with it. And then it Went to somebody
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  else and that's why I when I first heard this whole concept
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  of them being you know, energy alive energy and then they move
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  on to find someone where they can be actualized, that's why it
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  happens. So, from my perspective, if I
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  capture them in the parking lot, then at the end of every month I
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  can go to my parking lot and I can look and I can say, Okay are
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  any of these inspiring me? Do any of these make me feel
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  good? Well, the reason that I'm
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  sitting in a chicken coop, doing a podcast for you is because
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  that was one of those moments where I was like, well Is my
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  place to thrive. I mean this might be some place
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  for me to do my podcast because I would have done a podcast
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  years ago, but I just didn't have an idea of where I would do
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  it, or how what it would look like or how would I make it
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  work? And then once I had the idea, I
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  was like holy cow. This makes all the difference in
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  the world. So I think it cultivating your
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  your concept of putting your ideas in a parking.
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  Lot is incredibly important because they're safe and they're
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  there until you're ready to drive them just like a car and
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  you can go Go into it at the end of every month and you can say,
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  you know, and for me, it's like, you know, I like to look at the
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  end of every week, but I forced myself to wait a month because I
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  have so many different ones. So I would suggest you do it in
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  your time frame. It could be every month, it
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  could be every quarter, it could be once a year, but you go in.
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  And then you look and you say, okay, now that I'm not in the
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  emotion of creating the idea, let me look at it and see, is
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  there something in here that's valid that I can actually pull
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  out and drive that I want to move forward with.
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  And this is exactly what happened with the chicken coop.
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  This is exactly how it all took place.
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  So I wanted you guys to know this because I love when we get
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  up towards the end of the year. And we start thinking about,
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  okay, well, how are we finishing the year, we going to finish
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  strong, what do we need to accomplish?
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  What things do we need to still do?
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  And what things do we want to start thinking about for next
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  year? So right now we're at the point
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  where we're thinking, let's talk about finishing strong, let's
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  talk about stuff. So if you have ideas that you've
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  been sitting on and waiting on Heck, look at them, start to
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  think about what Value, they could bring to the world because
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  I like to think that my little chicken coop.
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  Idea is bringing value to you guys.
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  So go out and find your version of that because it surely makes
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  me incredibly happy doing this for all of you.
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  And I don't know, I think the chickens are pretty happy
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  listening to them all the time. They seem to be.
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  They like to come sit around and listen.
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  So, I hope you guys have a blessed day and I hope it's
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  super creative. And I hope you're flooded with
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  ideas and I can't wait to hopefully hear some of them
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  someday when you guys reach out and let me know what they are.
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  All right, my friends. I will see you tomorrow.
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  I hope you have a blessed day. Bye.