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Season 4 - Episode 157 - Saving… · 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 happen 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 to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the 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 chicken coop.
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  So we're going to talk today about saving, and you might be
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  thinking I'm talking about saving money because that's
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  where the word saving comes in with most people.
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  I need to save more money and I need to manage my money and all
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  these things. But I'm not talking about saving
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  money, I'm talking about saving time.
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  And saving time to me is the most important thing because
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  when you recognize how precious time is, you all of a sudden
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  change your whole dynamic and how you interact in the world.
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  And time to me is one of those things.
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  I got to be honest. I mean, I, I do a lot during a
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  day and I am up early. I work my butt off and I am
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  constantly moving and there are so many little details in the
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  day that I have to pay attention to in order to keep everything
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  flowing and moving. Well, one of those big things is
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  being able to be efficient with time.
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  And I think it's one of the most overlooked things that I can.
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  I can really say in coaching, one of the first things that I
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  work on with people is, all right, are you managing time?
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  Like where is all your time going?
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  What are you, you know, spend your time doing?
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  All of those things make such a huge, tremendous difference.
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  And when you start doing a time analysis to save time to say,
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  OK, where is this time going? Where do I have to put my energy
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  to and things like that. All of a sudden you start to
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  have a very different approach, let's say to your, your day,
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  your week, your month. And I like to break it down like
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  this. I really do think of it in terms
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  of days, weeks, months when I'm looking at it.
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  So today I will be spreading out my entire week of what who want
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  to get done because I had it all planned out for Friday and then
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  I learned something that's happening this week.
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  My husband is going to be taking a class next weekend.
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  I didn't know about this, but this is going to engulf his
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  entire weekend. So that changes my trajectory of
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  what I've got to get done and just because it allows me the
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  functionality to do some different things than I might
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  normally have done during those times.
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  And my son is in an apprenticeship and that requires
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  me to drive him certain times. So you know, I have to rebalance
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  my week, if you will. So when considering this, when
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  you're considering saving time, it's not just about doing an
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  inventory of the tasks and who you know what you're doing and
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  all of that. What it's really about is am I
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  efficient with my time? Am I doing things in a way that
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  allows me to be ultimately efficient?
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  And sometimes we don't. Like I will tell you one of the
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  things that I am super efficient with is how I get ready and come
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  out and do this and how I get the chickens ready in the
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  morning and all of that. Like I don't have to think about
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  things because I planned it out. I tried it a bunch of different
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  ways. I see exactly what works and
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  then I run with it that way makes a big difference.
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  Huge difference as a matter of fact, because I, I've cut down
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  probably I would say a good 25 minutes on my morning tasks by
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  being efficient and having things ready ahead of time,
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  spreading things out differently, having having
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  myself set up so that I can get out and do those things
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  differently. And I think when you are looking
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  at all of your tasks, when you're looking at the stuff that
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  you are, can you hear them squabbling right now that that
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  was all over a little piece of salmon.
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  So when you're when you're looking at all of your tasks and
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  there are tasks on the list that you don't like to do, those
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  tasks will be the ones that tend to take you longer if you don't
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  approach it with a different outlook.
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  So if there's something there that you do not, you know, you
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  do not like to do it. I don't care if it's folding
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  laundry, making beds, going shopping for groceries, whatever
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  it is, it will take you longer because you don't like to do it
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  If unless you acknowledge that, OK, I know I don't like to do
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  this. I have to be be more efficient
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  and asking the right question. What do I need to do in order to
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  make this easier, better, more tolerable?
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  Any kind of fun? What do I need to do in order to
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  shift that and feel better about it?
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  And when you start asking the right questions, you can.
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  So like for me, I don't, I don't like shopping.
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  I hate shopping, but I love it if I can go when there's nobody
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  else there. And that was a distinction I
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  came up with a long time ago. So I don't mind going and doing
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  grocery shopping, but I want to be like the first one in the
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  store. I don't mind going and, you
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  know, looking for, you know, all the supplies I need for the
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  animals. But I don't want to go if
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  there's a crowd. I don't want to wait in line.
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  I don't want to feel constricted in my time and that someone's
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  stealing my time because I have to wait in line or I have to sit
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  in traffic. So just like my son does not
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  have to be to work or to his apprenticeship until early like
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  little bit later in the morning, 7:30.
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  But I dropped him off at 7 in order to beat the traffic.
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  And so he found out a few other other of the other guys are also
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  doing that so that they can beat the traffic because there's a
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  distinct difference between getting there at 7:30 and
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  getting there at 7. The traffic is nonexistent when
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  we leave our house at 6:30. It is completely and totally
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  bombed if we leave our house 15 minutes later.
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  So these are the things you look for and you try to grab it back.
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  And hopefully this is helpful and you give it a try.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.