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Season 5 - Episode 7 - The magic of layering! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my Chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast.
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  To. Teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring some
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  joy. Into the.
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  World. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the studio.
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  As I stand here talking to you, I have in my hand and a brand
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  new engraving pen. This was a gift from my son for
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  Christmas and it just arrived. It was late.
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  Apparently it got completely lost, which freaked him out, but
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  that's a totally different story and that's not what we're
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  talking about. Anyway, it arrived today and I'm
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  super excited. And if you are in a certain
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  algorithm, you get lots of ads. So you may have seen an ad for
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  this, but this is a little engraving pen that's like a
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  laser. And you can actually engrave
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  wood with it. You can do stones, all kinds of
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  things. I have been wanting one of these
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  forever. I've been talking about it.
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  He heard me. He said I'm going to get her one
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  for Christmas. So it's in my hands.
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  I'm so excited about it. Now here's the challenge.
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  When you're creative, sometimes you have the exuberance of
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  seeing something new and going, Oh my gosh, I can't wait to use
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  it. And then sometimes you have the,
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  this is really cool. I have no idea what to do.
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  And you have that blank canvas, so to speak, in front of you.
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  You can do whatever you want, but yet you're like, I don't
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  want to put paint on the paper. Now, having gone to many, many
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  paint classes in the past, I can tell you I have experienced this
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  so much. That first swipe on the paper is
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  hard. It's just hard.
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  It's complex in my head because once you make the commitment to
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  putting the brush in the paint and the paint on the paper there
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  you believe you have it. That's it.
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  But very, very long time ago, I had a teacher who said to me
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  that it's not the first stroke that totally matters.
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  It's the layers, it's all the additional pieces.
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  And at the time I was frustrated with that comment because I was
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  like, no, you, you have to go in.
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  You have to like make the commitment and and be ready to
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  do the and he's like, no, you have to make the commitment to
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  just showing up. And when he said it, I kind of
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  was like, Oh my God, I got it. I got it.
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  But not until I really like dove into self development.
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  Could I cross pollinate this idea and bring it over to life?
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  And this pen in my hand and me standing in front of these
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  little, I have these little wide pieces of board that I want to
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  practice carving on. But even those I don't want to
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  waste because that's how my brain works.
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  Like, oh, I could use this. I could put these around stakes
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  on my path while I'm walking. So as I'm walking, I can see the
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  messages that I carve into them. How cool would that be?
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  And of course I like that idea. So I don't want to quote UN
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  quote mess it up. So I'm sitting there going, all
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  right, I genuinely need just a practice piece to get my hand on
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  it. But then and I start doing that
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  old pattern of it's the first stroke.
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  It's the whole thing. It's not about the layers.
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  It's not about all the other pieces that come into it.
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  And this is such an amazing metaphor for our life because we
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  have to think in layers. We have to think in multiple
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  actions. We have to think in things that
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  are going to build upon themselves.
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  And when we do, everything gets better.
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  You know, you see these fantastic drawings or paintings,
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  you go in a museum and you see them and you don't think that
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  that person just did that with that first layer, didn't mix,
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  didn't go back, didn't tinker with it, didn't go back and just
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  constantly be on that like, oh, let me touch this.
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  Oh, let me touch that. Of course they did.
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  You're seeing the end result. I'm seeing the end result.
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  I'm not seeing the path. It's like showing up in my
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  garden in the middle of of spring or summer and it's
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  gorgeous. That took so many steps to go
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  and make that happen. And that's like our life.
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  Everything has so many steps and we don't even think about the
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  number of things that someone has to do in order to get to
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  that space. We're always looking at those
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  end results and going, wow, I want that, but not thinking
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  about all those steps. So as I hold my pen and I get
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  ready to do this and I, I felt that angst come up again.
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  I was like, oh, you know what? I need to I need to put this in
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  check. I need to give myself a reality
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  check here and say, no, this is about the layers and I'm
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  entering into a layer phase. So I'm going to challenge you to
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  do the same thing. Think about the layers.
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  Think about the start. The start is not the end.
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  And if I make a mistake, I listen.
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  I've been making art for a really long time.
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  I know how to fix it. I know what to do.
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  I know like if I'm taking pictures I might post one
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  picture and you see that one picture but I took 50.
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  Literally. I took 50 pictures to get that
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  one picture and I might move 1/2 a foot, maybe an inch lower,
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  higher, moving to the side, different layers.
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  So remember the first step is just showing up and then the
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  rest of it layer it. Give yourself the chance to
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  enjoy the beauty that comes out of layering.
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  All right my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I will
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.