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Season 3 - Episode 284 - Create big! · 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,
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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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  Let's talk about creating big. What do I mean by that?
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  Well, for me, I don't like to do things small.
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  I'm kind of not a small person when it comes to this stuff.
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  If whatever I'm going to do, I'm going to try to do it big.
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  I like to paint big. I like to create big gardens.
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  I like to create obviously big groups of chickens.
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  I feel like sometimes when you do things big, you have a really
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  massively wonderful experience because it's something that's,
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  you know, outside your comfort zone.
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  So it's like instead of planting 3 plants, I'll plant 30 plants
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  and I have a wiggle room if something goes wrong.
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  But the thought of creating big, what I'm talking about right now
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  is getting to that fact of like, what are the goals that you
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  want? And are those your true goals?
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  Or would you love them to be bigger?
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  Would you love them to just be more?
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  Would you love them to be like, you know, more robust, more
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  intent, whatever that might be? And that's the the essence of
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  today's talk, thinking big. So as we come, you know, through
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  October, everybody's starting to talk about next year, what
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  they're looking forward to, goals.
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  And people often, as they start to contemplate this, they say,
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  well, I don't want to push myself too hard or I don't want
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  to set myself up for a disappointment where I won't be
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  able to do something. And I often chuckle at that
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  because you can't get anywhere unless you decide you're going
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  to push yourself and make things happen and go outside your
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  comfort zone and think big. Like really start to create in a
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  massively different way. And that requires different
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  types of thinking. And the very first step in this
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  is always saying, well, is this, if I had no boundaries, if I had
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  no limitations, if I could do whatever I wanted to do and
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  didn't have to worry about XY and Z, whether it's money, time,
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  space, people, what would I want?
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  When's the last time you asked yourself that question?
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  Like when's the last time you allowed yourself to be creative
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  in a big, tremendous way? That's the key to this.
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  And that's what I want you to think about.
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  Because before we get to goal setting later in the year,
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  before we get to all of these these facts and we start really
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  honing in on stuff, we have to pay attention to one very
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  important aspect of thinking big and creating big.
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  It's that we have to allow ourselves to do it first.
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  If we don't allow ourselves to do it first, we'll never get
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  anywhere. We'll never never even get past
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  the first step because we take ourselves out before we even
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  start. We shut ourselves down, we pull
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  ourselves away and we stop the whole process because we're
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  like, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's too much.
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  So I could tell you, you know, I have this farm, I've created
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  this and now I've recognized, wow, I have AI more ideas of
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  things I want to do. I have more ideas of stuff that
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  I would want to create. And quite frankly, that could
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  involve more projects, bigger pieces of property, something
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  that gives me the place to create an actual studio where I
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  could throw clay, have classes, let people come and learn, put
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  up all kinds of stuff for trainings at the farm.
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  And that's a big thought. That's a thought of like, wow,
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  do I really want to start over again?
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  And as soon as I asked the question, do I really want to
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  start over again, I recognize I've gone to the wrong place
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  because I'm not in a place of do I really want to do it?
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  The question was, if I was creating as big as I could
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  without limitations, would I do it?
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  And the answer is yes, I would. I would handedly.
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  I wouldn't even hesitate if I knew that I did.
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  I could just like go out there and create whatever I wanted in
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  any way I wanted to. 100%. I would be the first person out
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  there saying I want to have a big giant barn.
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  Very similar to anyone who knows P Allen Smith.
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  He's a gardener, landscape expert that's on PBS, and he has
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  this beautiful place in Arkansas called Moss Mountain.
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  If you ever get a chance to go visit, it is tremendous.
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  He has it open to the public so you can go see it.
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  And I would love to duplicate what he's got.
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  And he's got this giant barn where he has events.
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  And I would just love to be able to do that so I could invite
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  people to come and train and have all kinds of experiences in
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  that world, doing that stuff with the farm, with the animals
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  and everything. So I have to stop myself and
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  say, so my limitation comes in when I don't allow myself to
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  just create big. So as the first step, as we
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  before we get into goal setting, before we get into anything
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  else, just take the first step. Allow yourself to create big.
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  What would you do if you didn't have limitations?
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  What would you do if you knew that you had 0 limitations on
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  your thoughts? That's the question of the day,
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  my friends. Go create something big in your
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  head. All right, I'll talk to you
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  tomorrow. Bye.