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Season 4 - Episode 177 - I’ll do it later · 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 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 from
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  the chicken coop. So let's talk about leaving
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  things for later. We all do it, we all say it, we
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  all understand it, but I'd like to give you a little reminder
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  about later. And later is a very tricky
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  subject, because yes, there are. Times when you say.
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  Well, that's on my schedule for later and that's not what I'm
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  talking about. I'm not talking about things
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  that are scheduled. I'm talking more about the
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  things that we know we want to do, but we don't prioritize
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  them. And the other day I was working
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  with a client and every so often people will get stuck.
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  And just so everyone knows when you're listening to this, I am
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  full blown in the middle of doing chores this morning.
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  So I I'm doing this while I'm doing chores with you.
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  So you will hear the background noise of this because I do not
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  have voice isolation on for this call.
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  So you will hear everything just like you normally do.
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  It's just I'm not doing chores. I'm usually done, but it's very
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  early and I'm trying to get to the garden before I have to go
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  out and do some other chores today and it gets too damn hot.
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  So we're doing chores together. Anyway, back to this.
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  So one of the things that was really important for me is to
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  understand her level of commitment to certain things
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  that she was working on. So every so often I will jump on
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  a call with a client when they're really, really stuck
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  about why they're not getting more and more things done and
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  you know, important things, things that we know she wants to
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  inherently do, but she's just not getting them done.
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  So we jump on a Zoom call and I will whiteboard with them
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  certain things that I know I'll make them give me all the
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  categories of their life. And then we start to talk about
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  the categories and then we start to talk about levels of
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  commitment and we go through the whole thing.
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  And there was this major distinction in the process of
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  this because while everything, when she you talk to her,
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  everything is always, Oh no, no, this is super important.
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  It's super important. It's not as though she's rating
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  them with numbers and saying, oh, this is a 10 or this is a
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  nine and then this is a 7 or this is a six.
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  So once we started diving into that, we were really able to
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  understand why some things were just being left behind.
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  And, and that's, that's the, the crazy part about all of this is
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  that when stuff starts to get left behind, you look at it and
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  you go, well, I want to do it. There's no question.
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  I want, I want it. So the reason is what am I
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  doing? Why am I not following through?
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  Why am I not taking the, the, the time to do what I said I
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  needed to do or wanted to do? And the big thing comes down.
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  It's just not at the hierarchy of where you want it to be.
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  I mean, that's the truth. If you go back and you really
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  start measuring things about how important something is to you,
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  you're going to start to see that ultimately a big part of
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  the reason that you are where you are is because it's just not
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  a high enough priority. And that high enough priority is
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  such a big deal. I mean, it is such a big deal
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  because once you start to recognize, wait a minute, I said
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  this was really important to me. But once I started using numbers
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  instead of words, everything changed.
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  So when you start to rate something like for instance,
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  when I was on this call with her and we were working through it,
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  she rated something as an 8.5. Now you might be laughing, OK,
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  somebody actually said 8.5, yes, but this is what it's all about,
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  8.5. And then the another one was
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  like a 10. So as soon as she said a ten, I
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  knew even that little smidge of a difference, even that little
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  teeny weeny smidge of a difference makes a huge
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  difference to her attention and focus in an outcome on
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  something. So I was able to say, do you see
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  right here, this is what I'm talking about.
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  This is the difference. This is where we have the
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  biggest struggle and, and right away it was like, oh, there's an
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  understanding with that. Yup, I see.
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  So you either have to change your approach so you get stuck
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  out of later or recognize that you're just going to keep
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  repeating the same pattern over and over and over again and
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  getting frustrated. And here's the part of this
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  that's so challenging is that we recognize all of this.
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  We start saying, I'll do it later, I'll do it later.
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  But you know what happens later? You lose interest and then one
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  day turns into two turns into 10 and a night turns into another
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  night and on before you know it, somebody's grown up and you've
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  missed out on stuff. Life keeps going by and you
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  don't want to get to that point where you're like, I don't even
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  have a chance to do this anymore because now I physically can't
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  do this for whatever reason, God forbid, or something else
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  happens. Or you just say, oh, you know
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  what, now this person person doesn't even want to take the
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  trip with me or do those things. So it's really important to
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  remember. Don't put it off and understand
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  the the, the relativeness of doing something later or making
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  sure something's a priority. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.