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Season 3 - Episode 332 - An energy shift! · 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 my studio.
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  So why am I in the studio this morning?
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  Because yesterday somebody asked me, what do you do if you just
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  are not feeling it? Like you can't seem to shake off
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  this? Like I don't know what I want to
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  do. I don't know what I want to put
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  on my goal list. I don't know how I want to
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  finish the year. I just don't know.
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  I'm stuck in a place of I don't know.
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  So this happened during a session yesterday and we worked
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  through it and I gave them this exact same exercise.
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  So I thought it would be really fun to share it with all of you.
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  So sometimes when you're really stuck, you've heard me say
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  before you have to cross pollinate things.
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  You have to bring something that you love over to something that
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  feels unknown and then you kind of ride that wave of energy into
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  it. So I'm going to use this as a
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  real example. So after the session was
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  happened early yesterday morning, I was, you know, on the
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  phone with this person and they indicated that they just were in
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  this state of almost frozen, but not quite.
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  It's like they still had things they wanted to finish up this
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  year. They knew they could make them
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  happen, but they were just kind of like, I'm tired yet.
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  I just want to sit and watch holiday movies and eat popcorn
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  and I just don't feel like finishing everything.
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  And I know I'm, I'm, you know, on the cusp of being excited
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  about going into the new year and having new things to work
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  on. But I'm like, oh, what new
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  things do I really want to put on the list?
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  And they felt like they were just so the energy shift needed
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  to take place. There was no, they were just in
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  that particular energy they were stuck in.
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  And it's very hard when you are stuck in an energy to move to a
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  new energy unless you get to a place that you can jump from
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  otherwise. Like, think of it this way.
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  If you were very, very sad about something, like very sad about
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  something to go to be happy and say, OK, I'm very happy now.
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  That's like leaping the Grand Canyon.
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  So we want to move up the emotional scale, but we don't
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  want to make you make a leap like that because it seems like
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  it's, it's unfathomable. And maybe it would be once you
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  got to that place, you wouldn't be able to stay there.
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  You'd slide back. But if you go slowly, you know,
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  tortoise, like dope, Ditto, dope, Ditto.
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  It would be a lot easier to stay there.
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  And there's also the riding of the wave portion of it.
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  So if you get excited about something and you're feeling it
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  over a period of hours, it's easier to stay in that phase.
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  So I figured I'd take you through one of my personal
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  favorites to do this. And it's going out and being,
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  you know, being super creative with just something you wouldn't
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  think of. So yesterday it's the end of the
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  year. Obviously things are, we've had
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  frost, we've had all kinds of things and there's a lot of dead
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  items on the farm, meaning lots of dead plants.
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  Things are dried up, flowers are dried up out there.
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  It looks kind of crispy. It's probably the best word I
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  can use. It's crispy out there and lots
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  of different shades of brown. So I thought, what if I did a
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  display of all the found items I could have that were consider
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  dried up and see what it looked like?
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  I'm just going to take the wagon.
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  I'm going to walk around with Clippers and the wagon and I'm
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  going to say everything that I find.
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  I'm going to try to create something out of it, a display,
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  you know, of some sort. So off I went, took my wagon,
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  took my Clippers, went out there, started cutting and, you
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  know, collected pine cones, collected dried flowers that
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  were just hanging on there. You know, they were slumped
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  over. I collected some leaves that
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  were bright yellow off of one of our little Japanese maples and
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  you know, the bottoms of acorns along with whole acorns.
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  You name it, I was finding it. Seed pods off of some of the
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  flowers that I had You, you can't imagine all the different
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  things I collected and found. And then I brought them back and
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  I took a a picture that I had painted a long time ago and it
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  was like, I think it's like 35 by 20.
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  It's very big maybe even 40 by 20.
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  And I flipped it over so the canvas part of it is facing the
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  ground. I can't see it now, it just
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  looks like the back and it's got the wood outline, the wood frame
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  of it, and the canvas is down low, can't see the picture, so
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  it's backwards. And I use that as a holding
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  frame. And I sat there for a good hour
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  arranging each piece in there to make a display.
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  I even had a big piece of wood that I found that looked like it
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  was reaching its arms up saying Hooray.
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  And I put that diagonal across it and I started just arranging
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  it, just sitting there and just putting together a puzzle that
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  wasn't a puzzle, but just a visual like, oh, what could this
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  look like? And when I finished it, my son
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  walked in and he's like, Oh my gosh, that's beautiful.
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  What are you going to do with that?
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  And I was like, oh, nothing, I'm just going to dump it out.
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  I just needed to get into a good headspace and show that this can
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  be done this way. So I took a picture of it and I
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  sent it to that client. And she was like, Oh my gosh,
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  how did this like, how did you even do that?
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  I was like, I wanted to show you.
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  So now I'm in this super creative energy based off of
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  what I just did. And she's like, I'm going to go
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  do that. I'm going to go try that out.
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  So that is a strategy that is extremely helpful.
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  Found items. Now you don't have to do it the
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  way I did it off of dried items. It could just be anything that
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  you find, but use it as a visual.
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  Think of it as you looking down at it from overhead and you
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  just, you're taking a shot of it and it's just like a still life
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  almost of whatever you find. I've done it in the past,
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  believe it or not, with things that I was donating a bunch of
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  stuff to go to Goodwill and I displayed them not in a little
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  frame like that, but I displayed them all on the floor in a way,
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  in a pattern. And then I took a picture of it
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  and I was like, that's so cool looking.
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  So you can do it with any of this stuff.
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  Now the remember, the intent isn't to print a picture of it
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  unless you love it, but the intent is to shift your energy.
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  So give it a try, see if it works and I'll see you guys
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  tomorrow. Have a blessed day.
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  Bye.