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Season 2 - Episode 360 - The week of possibilities! · 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 mastermind set
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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
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  coop. So let's talk about the week
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  between Christmas and New Year's.
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  So for a lot of people, this is the time when the world kind of
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  slows down because, you know, corporations, businesses,
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  people, vacation schools, everything tends to slow down
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  and kind of time out. Everybody just kind of takes a
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  collective breath. And for me, I thought it might
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  be kind of fun to share what I do during this time, because I
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  think of this week as nothing but possibilities.
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  The week between Christmas and New Year's for me, is all about
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  what's possible. What can I create?
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  What can I think about? What can I brainstorm?
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  All the stuff that you normally just don't have the time to do?
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  This is a time where it's it. It's pure creation.
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  It's pure possibility. It's pure potential.
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  You just have to decide what you want it to mean to you.
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  So you know, it's kind of funny. Everybody goes about it their
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  own way. But I think that one of the fun
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  things that I think is important during this time is to just kind
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  of collect information. Don't have to do it the whole
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  time, but the first couple days, like for me, today, tomorrow,
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  the next day is all going to be leading up to New Year's.
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  I'm going to be just kind of collecting thoughts,
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  information, ideas, capturing them all on giant post it, notes
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  on cards, whatever. I feel like using at that point
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  in time, and I'm going to make sure that I'm very, very
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  diligent with not deleting anything.
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  Again, you've heard me say this before and other times, but you
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  you really have to not delete ideas.
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  Ideas aren't meant to be that, just that, ideas.
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  So you put them down, but you don't actually delete them when
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  they're in your head, because if you're deleting them when
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  they're in your head, that means you've already decided before
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  you've even seen them on paper that they're not valid.
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  And that's where you're mistaken, because there are lots
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  of times that, you know, ideas that sound terrible in your head
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  might actually be good on paper. So when you start to put them
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  down, you start to get like, oh, well, wait, there's a crumb
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  here. So I'm going to challenge you to
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  go out and say, OK, if this is the the week of potential and
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  I'm going to talk more about this, this week, but really
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  owning the fact that you're just going to capture ideas.
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  So whatever we've got going on this week, whatever you're
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  doing, whatever you're working on, just keep capturing
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  different ideas. Just keep putting everything on
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  paper. Just keep thinking about it and
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  and stewing on it. And in a good way, not a bad
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  way. Creating a Stew you actually
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  want to eat instead of creating something you don't want to eat,
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  but really making it something that is, you know, compelling
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  something that is just fun to do.
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  Make the whole process fun. Don't make it arduous.
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  And if you've been feeling like you've just been stuck, you're
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  in the rat race. You don't like the way things
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  are in your life, well, the message for you this week is OK,
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  let's reimagine it. What can you do if you feel like
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  a bump on a log? And I had somebody text me that
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  the other day so And I know this person listens.
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  So if you're feeling like you're a bump on a log, then do
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  something about it. Plant something near yourself,
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  Do something. You are not a bump on a log.
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  You have choices. You just have to be willing to
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  actually take the action. And that's where it starts with
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  this imagination first. Imagination and creativity are a
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  superpower, and if you are not using them to help you, then
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  that is a problem. And part of this is when you
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  keep it in your head, you judge it too quickly and then all of a
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  sudden the idea is gone. It's like, oh, it's stupid.
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  I don't want to do it. It's dumb, whatever it might be.
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  But that's not the case. The case is that it's fabulous,
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  potentially, and you don't even know it because you didn't put
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  it on paper or share it with a trusted advisor who can help you
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  say, wait, there is something in this and I'll tell you, you
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  know, a Podcasterman chicken coop is not necessarily what you
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  would think is a sane idea, but guess what?
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  It's just insane enough that it works.
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  So give yourself the gift, the possibility, the intention of
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  saying I'm going to go. Let myself be as creative as I
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  can possibly be. I'm going to enjoy myself in the
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  process of this. I'm going to celebrate this week
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  in between and really kind of own the fact that I have the
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  ability to do anything that I think about if I really, really
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  put it on the paper and get it out of my head.
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  So work on that. Stay in a state of possibility.
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  Tell yourself right at the top of the paper, Write down ideas,
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  possibility, creative outlet, whatever you want.
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  Call it, put it on the paper and start filling it in.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.