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Season 3 - Episode 174 - How often do you DEBRIEF your day? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermind set
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop, along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So I'd like to talk to you a little bit about taking the time
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  to reflect on your day at the end of every day.
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  Now for some people, this may seem like an arduous task and
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  they just want to be done with the day and move on.
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  But here's what's so important about it.
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  There is not really a solid way to get better at things if you
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  don't do the work and figure out where you need to shift in order
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  to be better. And that can only happen through
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  the process of reflection and making decisions about, you
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  know, what's next. And again, that all starts with
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  a debrief of yourself and what happened and being able to
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  decide what that's going to mean to you.
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  So some people will tell you, you know, you have to do a
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  gratitude list at the end of the day.
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  And I think that those are very powerful, and I do believe they
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  work. But what I consider to be a
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  preliminary to that is sitting down and debriefing the day and
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  saying OK in a very like specific format of asking
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  yourself what went well today and answering it, writing it all
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  down, what could have been better and writing it all down.
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  And then how do I close the gap for tomorrow so I know I don't
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  repeat the same challenges from the day that I just had.
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  So for me, this just shows that you're a thinking growth minded
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  person and you can move forward with what you've learned from
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  your day so you don't repeat the same issues.
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  So often times we run into this with our kids and I think that,
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  you know, school is coming back up soon and people are going to
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  be getting their kids ready in the morning and out the door.
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  And if I can tell you one point that most people struggle with
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  it is getting ready for school and getting out the door.
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  It is arduous for people because you're not the only person
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  getting ready and the kids have to be on point.
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  Everybody has to be in a good mood and it's often a huge hot
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  button for a family. And if people have some people
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  have trouble getting up in the morning and some people have,
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  you know, have trouble being organized.
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  This is one of the biggest hot buttons that I can tell you.
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  I typically see it. And even if you don't have kids,
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  it's getting out the door in the morning, getting yourself out,
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  getting your partner out the door.
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  You're However, even if it's just the dog, sometimes this
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  drives people insane. So what I suggest is looking at
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  the situation and saying, what are the hot buttons?
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  Where are the things that we can improve upon, what works, what
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  could be better and how do we close the gap?
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  And one of the biggest things that you can do is preparation
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  the night before, which is why you do the debrief the night
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  before. So you have the information
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  right in your hands and you don't stop until you have it
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  handled and you know you're set for the next day.
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  Does this seem like it's a pain in the butt to do it every
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  single day? Yes, and it works.
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  And when you do it every day, you might not have a long list
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  on most days. It might just be a very short
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  list. You've got a nice long list of
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  what worked and a very short list of what didn't work.
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  So you know what you can repeat, but I will tell you one of my
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  greatest lessons in this was with my chickens themselves of
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  like, OK, getting up in the morning, taking care of all
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  these animals, taking care of my gardens, moving, taking care of
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  all my plants. This is running a farm is not an
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  easy thing to do. And having extreme awareness of
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  what's working and what's not working makes a tremendous
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  difference to your process. So I will tell you without
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  question the best thing that I did was figure out what's
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  working for my process in the morning because I start coaching
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  very early with my clients in London and in Scotland and in
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  Australia. So it's I have to be up and I
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  will tell you having nailed down, OK, these are my
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  processes, this is how I'm going to do things.
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  Thinking about everyday, what worked, what could have been
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  better, what worked, what could have been better, what worked,
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  what could have been better and how do I close that gap has made
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  it so much easier for me out here in the mornings.
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  And it gives me time to do this for you.
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  I mean, Can you imagine if I wasn't, if I wasn't having that
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  happen, I would never have time to be able to do this.
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  So the debriefs and then taking that information and actually
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  putting it into play, actually putting it into something that
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  can be utilized is the power of the information.
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  Because having the information is just one thing, but having
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  the power of using that information is a completely
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  different thing. You know, are you going to have
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  all the smarts in the whole world?
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  But if you don't use the skills that you've been given, they
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  mean nothing. And this is where it comes into
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  play in a big way. So I'm going to challenge you
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  guys to go off today. Spend your day and debrief
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  yourself at the end of it. Sometimes some of my clients
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  like to do it throughout the day.
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  I personally was just an end of the day girl and I like to write
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  it all down at at the end of my day.
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  But some people like to do it throughout their day.
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  They just keep a little notes in their phone and they say, OK,
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  here's my debrief for the end of the day.
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  And then they work on the what could have been better as well
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  through at the end of the day. So it's not just that they're,
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  they're just kind of capturing the whole thing throughout the
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  day. But at the end they write it all
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  down. It doesn't matter which way you
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  do it as long as you get it done, but then you utilize that
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  information and you help yourself grow it and get to the
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  next level. So go out there, challenge
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  yourself, figure it out and debrief yourself because that's
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  how you get to that next level of greatness.
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  I hope you guys have a fantastic day and I will see you all
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  tomorrow. Take care.
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  Bye.