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Lessons from a camera · 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. Good morning from the chicken
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  coop. So today I want to talk to you
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  about cameras, huh? Probably saying why are we
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  talking about cameras on this? Well, any of you who know me and
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  have followed me for any period of time, know that I'm a little
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  obsessive, we're taking pictures, whether it's my iPhone
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  or my Canon, I really am into my cameras and taking pictures with
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  them, because it's part of a mindfulness practice for me
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  where I use them to notice small things.
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  And I look for great shots and Things, whether it's in my
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  chickens flowers, the plants we grow out here on the farm,
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  whatever it is that we're doing. There's always part of me that's
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  very focused on that. But today, I want to talk to you
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  about what you can learn from focusing on the attributes.
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  The camera can bring to you. And I know that sounds really
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  strange but when you start to think about it cameras, teach
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  you so much. And in the process of being, you
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  know, aware of the The camera aspects, the camera actually
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  gives you this ability to focus on what's important, right?
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  So think about this, you have your camera, you don't focus on
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  what's unimportant. You focus on what's important,
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  you focus on what's in your line of sight.
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  What you want to hone in on and isn't that what we do when we're
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  talking about our life and our goals, we want to focus in on
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  something that's important to us.
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  So You have to choose carefully what you focus on and what your
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  intent of the subject is. And most of the time, we are
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  trying to capture a good stuff. We're trying to take pictures of
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  great things. We're trying to get just that
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  right shot. Most of us, unless we're news
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  photographers, I'm not looking for the bad things.
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  We're trying to capture great pictures of our family.
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  We're trying to capture great pictures of what's going on
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  around us memories, you know, and this is so important in our
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  lives. Like if we're focused on this
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  think about that. You want to focus on the good
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  stuff you want to say to yourself.
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  Wow I want to be like the camera today I'm going to focus on the
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  good stuff. Inevitably, you're going to take
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  a crappy shot. There's no question about it.
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  I take lots and lots and lots because having a digital camera,
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  you can take a ton and you don't have to worry about it.
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  You have to take those pictures and take film in have it
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  developed like you did in old school days and you can just
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  trash those pictures and start all over again.
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  The beauty of digital art, it's just, you know, there's
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  something to be said for old-school art and there's
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  something to be said for digital art because it is fun to be
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  able. Just take hundreds of pictures
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  and I do that with my chickens. I mean people look at pictures
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  and they'll say, wow, that's an amazing shot.
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  Well you're seeing one of many hundreds that I took in order to
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  get that one shot in that right position with the right lighting
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  across their eye or their face. So, you know, you've got to be
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  willing to sit there and say to yourself.
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  Yep. I I'm very aware of the fact
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  that I'm going to have Shots that just don't work.
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  I'm going to have things that are just bad shots and that's
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  okay because I'm still going to continue to take another shot
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  and wow what an important lesson in life, right?
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  Take another shot. Don't try to complicate things.
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  Just take another shot and at some point you're going to get
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  exactly what you're looking for out of them.
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  And if it means that you have to move over a millimeter and take
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  that shot, you do it. The I mean, that's what I do
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  constantly. Because that one little shift,
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  that one little different perspective.
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  I can tell you one of the things that I learned when I was in art
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  school that really like elevated.
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  My photography, not that this is a photography lesson, but it was
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  hey, don't just stand up from your own perspective, whatever
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  height you are, squat down, get low on the ground.
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  Stand on top of something else, take a different angle and isn't
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  that true in life about perspective and general?
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  Don't just take it from one point of view, look around, try
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  to find multiple perspectives that you can see something from
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  because that's the power in changing, your view about
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  whatever is happening in your life and it's the lesson in the
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  camera to get a good shot, change your perspective because
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  God knows the moment. You do that, you get an amazing
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  amazing outcome from it. And you know, here's the thing,
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  no matter how many bad shots, you take, no matter what is out
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  there, when you're dealing with the, you know, art and your
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  Creating with a camera. The fun thing is that sometimes
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  those mistakes shots actually turn out to be really silly,
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  especially when you look at them in a series.
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  So the lesson is when you're too in life, when you're looking at
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  all of this and you're saying, wow, that that seemingly was a
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  bad shot but that led to this and that led to this and that
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  led to this. And you can see how it leads up
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  to the good shot. So those bad shots in a lineup
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  when you have the perspective to look at it in a line, Changes
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  everything and that's what you need to do for yourself.
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  So today's lesson be like the camera and I will add this in.
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  If you do not have a mindfulness practice that includes taking
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  pictures with your phone, add this one in because I promise
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  you it will absolutely thrill you to walk around and say what
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  are the cool things that I can take pictures of today that no
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  one else notices? I spend all my time on the phone
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  during the day walking around talking to clients.
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  And I'll tell you, I'm Probably on average, take about 25 shots
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  a day of different things. That I notice as I'm walking
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  around, it could be something as simple as my shoes.
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  It could be something as Fabulous As a blooming flower.
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  It could be anything that I see, but the great part is I'm always
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  looking and honing in on something creative and it really
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  does make your brain become more attuned to that creative
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  process. So I'm going to throw down that
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  challenge. I hope you guys have an amazing
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  day, and I remember be A camera and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Have a great day. Bye.