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Season 5 - Episode 59 - Feeling behind! · 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. 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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  Very noisy in here today, lots of talking.
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  Sammy has apparently a big message and or she's anxious
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  about something, I have no idea. But I will say this, it
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  represents how I feel today because I have this very big
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  excitement that comes over me in the spring, but it can easily
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  morph into feeling behind and it can easily morph into oh, if I'd
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  only done this sooner. Oh, if only this had happened.
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  Oh, if only that had happened. And I start going down that only
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  if road or damn it, I should have done this sooner.
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  And when I, my head gets like that, it causes me to, to, to
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  really feel like I, I am taking the wrong approach.
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  I know that, but it causes me to want to pull an all nighter, let
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  me get back on track. And I don't want to do those
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  things anymore. I'm not at the age where I want
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  to do that, but that's my inclination almost
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  instantaneously. So tonight's the night, we lose
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  an hour of sleep. And so I'm like, well, that
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  means it's lighter earlier in the morning, which means I could
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  get outside, which means I could do this, which means I could do
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  this. And I start to pile on to
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  myself. Now I'm, I'm not doing that from
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  inspiration. I'm doing that from the
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  desperation of feeling behind and I know it.
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  So today's podcast is about me calling myself out on the fact
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  that I'm doing that to myself and really letting everyone know
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  that no matter how much you do this, no matter how much you try
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  to work with your emotions, there's always a part of you
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  that has to be on it. You have to be on it all the
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  time. Because if you don't, they will
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  sneak up and they will get you. And that is exactly what's
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  happening with me. Like I, I know, OK, I have all
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  kinds of stuff ready and I have all kinds of stuff that's not
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  ready. And there are areas in my world
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  where I am ahead, IE paperwork and taxes and all of that way
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  ahead of where I normally AM, am in the year because I'm, I was
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  always a late filer and guess what?
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  Now I'm not. But this is one of those things
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  where I'm like, holy cow, I, I can't even see the winds when I
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  start that track of going, I'm behind, I'm behind, I'm behind,
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  I'm behind. I should have bulbs already in
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  the ground. I still have bulbs that haven't
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  been put in the ground. So this is a call out to myself.
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  This is me saying stop it. This is me saying, OK, we're
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  going to go. We're going to sit down.
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  We're going to write a plan. We're not going to panic.
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  And even though, you know, this is one of those times where I'm
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  going to be traveling two days this week, speaking on Tuesday
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  afternoon, I'm going to be doing work that's outside my norm.
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  That's exciting stuff to be doing.
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  I have to shut up and leave myself alone.
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  I have to give myself a break. I have to get the brain dump out
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  on the paper, make the plan, schedule it and look at the
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  whole month so I can shut my head up.
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  Because by the end of the month, I will be caught up.
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  By the end of the month, I will be where I want to be.
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  It's just that I'm not there today and I'm beating myself up
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  for it. And I know all of you do it too
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  because I talked to so many people.
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  I have so many clients and they all say they do it and then we
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  work through it. But right now I know my head is
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  in the thick of it. So I'm going to challenge
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  everybody that if your head is in the thick of it, if you're
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  feeling it, do the brain dump, get it out, call yourself out,
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  say enough is enough, Say no, we're not doing that.
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  That doesn't work. If I'm in that headspace, I'm
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  not going to be as productive as I could be.
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  So even as I'm standing here recording this, I'm walking and
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  pacing inside the chicken run, and they're all out already
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  except for the ones that are laying eggs.
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  And I'm looking at this beautiful rose Bush that's just
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  starting to leaf out. And I can see that there are
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  some dead heads on it. And I'm like, damn, how did I
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  miss those? And I got aggravated with myself
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  while I was doing this. So instead of being that way, go
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  get the Clippers. Take care of it.
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  It's one minute's worth of work, but I'm not going to beat myself
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  up for it. So do you see the point, my
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  friends? Put it on paper.
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  Get it out of your head. Stop doing that.
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  Look at a month. Plan each thing and give
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  yourself that space. Otherwise, the you'll be doing
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  the tasks with the anxiety and the frustration that these
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  emotions and these moments create.
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  And we don't want that. We want it to be pragmatic,
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  steady, the steady Eddie one. OK, just going through it.
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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 with a big, a bigger, better calendar
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  that's thick with things laid out.
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  Have a blessed day, my friends. Bye.