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Season 3 - Episode 252 - Wisdom from Maya Angelou · 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.
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  So we're going to wrap up our little week here of creativity
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  with a quote from the famous Maya Angelou, one of my most
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  favorite poets out there. You can't use up creativity.
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  The more you use, the more you have what a great belief to
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  adopt. This is not just a quote, my
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  friends. This is a belief system to take
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  on. This is something that is
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  absolutely tremendous as a belief system.
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  You can't use it up. It never goes away.
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  It doesn't dry up. It actually grows the more you
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  use it, the more you're cultivating it, the more you're
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  moving it in a direction that says, hey, I am on path
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  understanding. I've got this tremendous gift,
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  as we talked about earlier in the week.
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  And the more I use this gift, the more it gives me in the
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  process. How powerful is that?
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  I mean, it, it's, it's like believing, you know, if I go
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  take a teaspoon of ocean water, the ocean doesn't look like I've
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  taken it away. It, it just doesn't happen.
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  And the more and more I use it, the more it grows, the more it
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  flows. So for me, I've adopted this and
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  I say the more I use it, the more it grows, the more it
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  flows. Because I know as I start using
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  it, it starts to come out. So it's kind of like the better
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  you feel, the better you feel, the better you feel, the better
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  you feel and you start to get in that zone and the zone is what's
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  so important. And you create that zone
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  yourself. No one can create that zone for
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  you. Now recently I had a
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  conversation with someone who said, well, I feel like I'm I
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  can't get back in the zone. And they had been trying to do a
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  lot of work, self reflection and getting themselves going on
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  writing a book. And part of the struggle that
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  sometimes we go through in the process is not only do we think
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  we're not creative, lots of people believe that, but it's
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  not true. Everyone is creative, just in
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  different ways. And it comes out in all
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  different, varies various ways. But the, the purpose of that
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  comment was to say, you know, I, I just don't feel creative right
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  now. And through some questioning,
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  going back and forth in a dialogue, we discovered that he
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  was basically spending a lot of time by himself because he was
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  struggling in a different aspect of his business.
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  So because he was spending so much time by himself, he wasn't
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  tapping into anyone else's creativity.
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  He wasn't tapping into anything that made sense outside of
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  himself. So therefore the world kind of
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  slowed down and he kept seeing being the problems, he kept
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  feeling the problems. He kept recognizing all that,
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  but not ever saying let me put that aside and let me go do
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  something creative just a little bit just to break the barrier
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  down. And for, and often times it can
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  be physical creativity as well. So think of it this way.
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  If somebody says, hey, you know, I'm not, I don't think I'm a
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  creative person or I'm trying to do something creative and I'm
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  stuck. You can also go and go to if you
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  go to the gym and work out, you go to the gym, but you do
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  exercises you don't normally do. You start doing different
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  aspects of moving your body in a different way that breaks the
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  pattern that starts to open it up and it says, OK, now my
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  creativity is moving. Now I'm I'm getting myself
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  moving because I'm trying something different.
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  And I want you to recognize in this today what what that quote
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  really means is you, you can put this to work in so many small
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  ways. So even going in the gym and
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  saying, OK, how can I do this workout different today?
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  What can I add to my workout? That's creativity.
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  That's that's creativity being utilized.
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  And the more you do those little things, the more everything else
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  changes. So adopting that belief is going
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  to change everything for you, and seeing it in everything lets
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  you have more of an experience with it to feel like you can tap
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  into it. So if someone says to me, have
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  you been create creative lately, I can always answer yes.
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  Because it doesn't matter if it's something silly like every
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  morning, I feed the girls these breakfast platters.
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  Sometimes it's leftover, sometimes it's shredded
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  zucchinis that we do. Sometimes it's yogurt, it's
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  cucumbers, bananas, it's always bananas because they go crazy
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  for bananas. Sometimes they make them oatmeal
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  pasta. Point is, I do something
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  different all the time and I bring it out to them.
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  And that's a form of starting my day off in my happy place, being
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  creative with just making chickens breakfast platters.
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  And as silly as that sounds, it's stimulating creativity.
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  Always coming up with podcasts every day, stimulating
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  creativity. So go look for your little
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  creative pieces and remember, the more you use it, the more it
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  grows and you can just engulf yourself with it and really feel
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  inspired and fabulous in your life.
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  All right my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I will
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  see you all tomorrow. Bye.