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Season 5 - Episode 45 - The process of tracking · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happened to be a farmer.
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  This is my Chicken coop and I come out here.
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  Every day to. Record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some. Joy into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey everybody, good morning.
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  So let's have a conversation about tracking now.
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  I spend a lot of time with clients figuring out what works,
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  what doesn't work, and how we close the gap.
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  That's a big part of my role with people is to help them stay
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  on track emotionally so that they can stay on track with all
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  of the things they want to get done or achieve or however you
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  want to look at it, intentions, whatever you want to call it.
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  So a big part of that is looking at like the the macros as well
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  as the micros, meaning the big stuff and the little stuff.
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  And it's very easy to look at the big stuff all the time.
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  It's very easy to look at big accomplishments.
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  It's much harder to track the small stuff, but the small stuff
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  is what adds up all the time. You've heard me say that like if
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  you do something once a day, you know, for 30 days, all of a
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  sudden you've got 30 things done.
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  And that's a miraculous outcome in many ways, which is like
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  something that I've been practicing on the YouTube
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  channel, going over there and doing a video just a short
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  everyday for now. I'm well over 30 days now, but
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  it's, it's made a huge difference in my psychology
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  about building videos. It went from being arduous to
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  fun. I've I finally am nailing down
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  like how I want to use the channel, what I want to use it
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  for now, seeing what people respond to so I can figure out
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  how to help them the best. It's really quite a fascinating
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  puzzle for me. But that wouldn't have happened
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  if I hadn't started just doing one thing a day and tracking it
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  and making sure that I'm doing that one thing per day.
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  Now, this time of the year gets very, very tricky for people
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  because it's tax time coming up and everybody has to get their
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  information together and everybody has to work on it.
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  Doesn't matter if you are a corporation or not.
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  You have a sooner deadline if you're a corporation and you
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  have to have all your stuff in submitted, you know, to the
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  government in March instead of April.
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  And so there's lots of things that happen and clients start to
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  get very stressed out about stuff because they have to
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  perform the act of putting everything together, which can
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  be arduous and tedious. And everything that you think is
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  not fun, it all flows right to this time of year and it gets us
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  all very, very frustrated. And I'm not just speaking for my
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  clients when I say that, I'm speaking for myself too.
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  I doing that paperwork is just not ever been fun for me.
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  One, it's the stress of, of the unknown of like, if I don't look
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  at it all year and then all of a sudden it's like, Oh my gosh,
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  you owe money. And why should I be surprised by
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  that? If I know that I work and that
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  the government takes money, I shouldn't be surprised by that.
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  In fact, I should be prepared for that if I were doing things
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  the proper way, meaning tracking.
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  But I have never, ever, ever been great at doing that work
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  because I avoid it. And that's what happens with
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  most of our stuff. So when tax time comes, it
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  amplifies the stress of what we are not, and it puts us in a
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  position where we have to look at the behaviors and the things
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  we've been ignoring. So for me, and that was a big
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  thing. So at the end of last year, I
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  really did make a commitment to say, OK, I'm going to have it
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  all done now you know, that I changed the structure of my
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  company. I'm going to have this all done
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  way early and I'm going to have everything to my accountant by
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  the end of January. Well, I, I struggled, I got it
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  done, but I was a week late. So I got it to him the first
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  week of February, which he was still really thrilled about.
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  And because it gave them the time to get everything that they
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  need. And I'm now I will have all my
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  answers and everything back by the end of the month.
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  And I've never in my life gotten it done that early, which got me
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  super excited again about, OK, well, why was it still miserable
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  to do it? And it was still miserable to do
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  it because I was not doing the monthly stuff again.
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  I just put it off. So I've made a decision of how
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  am I going to change that? Like, sure, I persevered, I
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  sucked it up and I got done what I had to do.
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  But I could have made it a lot easier for myself if I'd just
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  done some things differently. If I had just said, OK, monthly,
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  I'm going to do this work just like I have to bill clients
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  monthly. Like we have no problem going
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  out and billing most of us. We have no problem doing all of
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  that. But it's the tracking, it's the
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  keeping part, keeping details and keeping that part up to date
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  that kills us all. So when you make that decision,
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  you're able to change it. So as I go through and I made
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  that decision, I'm already changing things that will help
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  me so that the end of the year, it's going to not be arduous at
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  all. It's actually the intent is to
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  have it done, have the outcome done.
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  But it's also not just using it with this.
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  It's doing it in the sense of saying, OK, I'm going to do this
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  with my workouts. I'm going to do this now with
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  all the little things. Keeping your refrigerator clean,
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  cleaning it out at the end of every week before you actually
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  go grocery shopping will help you not stack things in there
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  that you don't want to push to the back.
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  And then you have this big mess to clean up.
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  And I promise you, you feel so much lighter when you live like
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  this because you're not forcing something.
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  So look at what needs to be tracked, whether it's the taxes,
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  whether it's other billing, money, refrigerator, I don't
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  care what it is. Look at your tracking now as we
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  approach the middle of past the middle of February.
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  But as we are right there, right on top of it, we have to look at
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  it because if we can fix it now, we won't have to deal with it at
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  the end of the year. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day. And I just want to add one more
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  thing. You know what, if you track it
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  now, you're going to see your wins sooner and you're going to
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  feel better. So I hope you have a blessed day
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  and I will see you all tomorrow. Bye.