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Season 2 - Episode 126 - Creating your parking lot. · 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.
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  Along with all her chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop so Today we are talking
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  about a parking lot and I'm not talking about your traditional
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  parking lot of where you put your car.
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  But what I am talking about is this concept that I have been
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  doing for years and years and years for myself about grabbing
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  ideas and not necessarily being ready to drive them.
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  But capturing them in a place where you can keep them safe
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  until you're ready to drive them or release them so that they can
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  go away and somebody else can bring them to life.
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  Life. So parking.
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  Lots to me are a part of an everyday process because it's
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  just inherent nature of someone who's creative or who wants to
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  be creative to have a place where they can, you know, spend
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  time during their day, thinking about things to be creative.
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  The more time you spend in creativity or allowing yourself
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  to be creative and whatever form that takes for you.
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  The more likely you are to be a happy person, creativity is a
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  huge, huge gift. And we as human beings often
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  forget how much we need it and we put it aside and we think
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  it's a luxury and it's not the more, you cultivate your
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  creativity, the happier your soul is it's just that simple.
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  You know, one thing that you can learn from the Bible is talking
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  about, you know, just diving into it.
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  You can feel how creative God God is in the process throughout
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  the Bible and I truly believe that we are meant to co-create.
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  That's why we have the tenacity to keep creating, keep coming up
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  with things, no matter how much you do.
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  No matter how much you work on something, you're always going
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  to want to change it. I don't care if it's something
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  simple like your business card. I mean stop and pause and think
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  for a second how often have you had different designs on
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  business cards like you think you got it?
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  Okay, that's it. I got a new logo and then before
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  you know, it you're designing, another new logo, and another
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  new business card and adding Nothing else and changing your
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  website. And that's just a minor thing.
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  Getting new furniture, redoing your house.
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  It's all part of that same thing.
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  But those creative juices that I'm talking about.
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  Those are really essential. And those ideas that I'm talking
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  about have to be captured somewhere because if you don't
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  put them somewhere one it stresses you out to keep them
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  all in your head and it causes anxiety to think.
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  Oh, there's so many things I want to do and I just am not
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  getting them done. So, Add that to your daily
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  functional to do list. And before you know it you're
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  about ready to have a breakdown over, what?
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  You can't get done and it's supposed to be fun but using a
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  parking lot putting them into this.
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  So simply it's a notebook. For me.
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  It's a notebook that is labeled the parking lot and I just write
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  down random ideas in there without filter.
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  That is the key to the whole thing.
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  It's without filter, not having anything.
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  You know, allowing myself to be critical of it.
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  Just put it in there. Typically what I do is I capture
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  them throughout the month and then at the end of the month I
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  sit down and I go through all the ideas that I had.
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  And I say hmm, okay, I still like this one and some of them I
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  look and I say what the hell was I thinking when I wrote this
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  down but a lot of times I go, wow, that was actually really
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  good, you know. This podcast was something that
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  went into the parking lot and then you know, came to fruition
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  when I went back and looked at it was like oh that's a pretty
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  darn good idea. So the s Essence of it is doing
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  this without judgment, which is extremely hard for us because we
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  judge everything all the time. So it's incredibly important
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  that you do it without judgement that you actually work on doing
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  this and replace of neutrality acceptance.
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  And just saying, hey, I'm brainstorming.
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  That's what I'm doing. I'm just simply brainstorming
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  and when you write it down you can actually like I like to make
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  Little Mark's next to the ones that I feel completely.
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  Inspired by in the moment, the ones that like I'll even get
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  little stickers to myself sometimes.
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  But a little gold strikes to ones that I particularly find
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  interesting in the moment and sometimes I'll even write down
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  in there at like where I was when I thought of it so that I
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  can remember the energy I was in and feel that same state being
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  in vagrant, you know, filled with that just excitement about
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  it. So however you want to do it.
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  It's fine. I have a lot of people who will
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  sketch and do it with sketches. You can Mind Math in this book,
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  it doesn't matter. It's just a place of neutrality
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  for all your excitement and creativity to reside until
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  you're ready to do it. So whatever works for you, set
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  up a notebook, start capturing it, and watch how it transforms
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  you and don't wait until the end of the year to go through it.
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  I mean seriously do it like every month, where you go
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  through it and you look at your ideas and you say, OK, this is
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  fantastic because sometimes we start things and then they don't
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  feel right? We have to get Get rid of them.
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  And that's totally okay, that's called being human.
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  So except your humanness, get a Creative Juice, going in your
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  head and run out and get yourself a parking lot notebook,
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  and start capturing. All right, my friends.
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  I hope you have a great day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.