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Season 3 - Episode 159 - Being creative is within all of us! · 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 mastermind set
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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 this morning I want to talk to you about being creative,
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  creativity. Oh gosh, one of my favorite all
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  time words things to do. I am just obsessed with being
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  creative in any way, shape or form that I can.
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  It is just something I absolutely adore doing, whether
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  it's creating gardens, whether it's writing books, whether
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  it's, you know, painting, drawing, coloring, I don't care
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  how simple it can be baking cookies.
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  I just love being creative. And for me, I think creativity
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  is a very misunderstood part of human beings.
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  You know, I grew up in a house where my mother didn't believe
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  that she was creative at all. And it always was sad to me that
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  she just would say things like that constantly.
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  She'd go, oh, well, I'm not creative.
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  Yeah. You know, your aunt's much more
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  creative than I am. Yet she used to make these
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  beautiful Afghans, and she would crochet all the time, and she
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  did needlepoint, But she would say that because there was
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  already a picture on the needlepoint that it wasn't
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  creative. It was just her following the
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  instructions or because she was crocheting and she was following
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  a pattern, that she wasn't being creative.
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  And I, I never bought the story of it, but it always bothered me
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  that she would frame it that way.
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  And as I grew up and as I, you know, learned about creativity
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  on a different level, I recognize that so many people do
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  this. So many of my clients feel the
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  same way. And they're like, well, I'm not
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  creative. But then, you know, they're
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  amazing cooking. And they're like, well, I'm just
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  following the recipe. And we totally beat the crap out
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  of ourselves by saying I'm not creative when we are totally
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  creative. Just because you're following a
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  recipe or somebody else somebody else created does not mean
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  you're not creative. Of course you are.
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  You're creating that piece. You're being creative.
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  You're in the act of creation. And we as human beings put
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  ourselves down because we think, oh, unless I came up with the
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  original idea, I'm not creative. And it's a bunch of horse crap
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  as far as I'm concerned, does not mean a thing.
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  In fact, human beings are meant to be creative, to constantly be
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  in creation. We create our outside world, we
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  create our thoughts, we create our beliefs, we create
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  everything around us. We are a representation of pure
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  potential and creation. So when you denounce that piece,
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  when you take that that factor of creation and you ridicule it
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  and say, well, I'm not creative, you are doing yourself a wild
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  disservice. You know, I have a lot of people
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  who are very analytical in thinking.
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  And so they'll tell me all the time, well, I'm not creative,
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  but they will send me spreadsheets on stuff that I am
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  blown away by. And I'm like, how could you say
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  you're not creative? You just came up with this
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  amazing spreadsheet. How you put it together, what
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  you put in here, all the data, that's creativity.
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  It might not be like art, art, paint, painting, drawing,
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  whatever, but it's still creativity.
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  And This is why I want to define this with you guys.
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  I want you to all recognize everyone has their own version
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  of being creative. Not everyone has the same gifts.
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  Thank God. I don't want everyone to have
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  the same gifts I have. And I don't want everyone to
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  want the same gifts I have. I want the diversity.
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  I want the fun stuff. I want the fact that, you know,
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  I'm. I love the fact that I don't
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  cook very well. I mean, I, Yeah, it's not my
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  thing. I can do it, but it's just not
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  my thing. But my husband's amazing at it.
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  And I'm blessed to have somebody that can whip something up if I
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  ask for it, or he can go to the refrigerator and take out a
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  bunch of random things and make something extraordinary.
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  I do not have that creativity he does.
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  But at the same time, I can look at a blank spot in our yard and
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  say, oh, I can see exactly what kind of garden I want to put
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  there and create it. And it's thrilling to me to be
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  able to do that or to sit down and say, hey, I'm going to write
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  a book and put a book together and have it done.
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  Is is just absolutely fulfilling on so many levels.
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  So I want you all to pause and really think about the word
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  creativity and the fact that creation is part of who we are
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  as human beings. It's part of our experience here
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  and understanding that you have it, understanding that you can
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  cultivate it and it doesn't have to be by a rigid definition, is
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  so important to your growth and thriving.
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  You're going to hear me say this word all the time because that's
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  what it's about for me. I want to find ways for people
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  to help them thrive, not just survive.
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  I want them to thrive and create.
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  Being creative is part of thriving.
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  Getting into that creative zone, realizing that you have the
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  power in your world to make things happen is astounding and
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  it's a blessing and we have to take it on that way.
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  So today I want you to pause, think about what is your
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  definition of being creative? How do you define it?
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  Do you see yourself that way? And how can you cultivate
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  yourself to see it that way, changing the definition of it
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  for yourself? I hope you all have an amazing
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  day and are blessed and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.