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Season 3 - Episode 320 - What exactly sucks up your time? · 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 mastermindset
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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 let's talk about time sucks. Oh God, this is just such a big
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  subject for people. Such a big subject because
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  everybody has a different opinion on where they lose their
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  time. What sucks up your time?
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  And for most people, the initial word that I hear most of all is,
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  well, work sucks up so much of my time.
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  Work just sucks up my time. And it may be very true that you
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  have lots of things you have to do at work, but the question is,
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  are you doing them and being proficient so that you can get
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  your chores and your tasks done as quickly as you possibly can
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  and then gain back some of your sanity and some of your time?
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  And that is where the question lies.
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  It's that these moments, these little things that we do that we
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  know are taking away from our productivity.
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  Grabbing the phone and scrolling on social media.
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  Now, I'm the first person to tell you I don't hate social
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  media. I think it's wonderful.
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  I have friends all over the world that I made while I worked
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  for Tony Robbins for so long, and I will tell you, for me,
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  that is such a great way to connect with them.
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  The other night I had such a gift because I got to connect
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  with somebody who commented on a post of another person that we
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  both mutually knew. I saw his name.
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  I immediately thought to reach out to him on Messenger and he's
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  all the way on the other side of the planet.
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  And before you know it, three days later we're on Zoom having
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  a call and he's talking to me about the podcast and everything
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  else. And it was just such a gift.
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  And it was a gift made possible by social media and I love that
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  aspect of it. Now, do you have to control the
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  amount of time you stay on it? Yes.
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  Do you have to put timers on yourself?
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  Yes. Do you have to say I choose not
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  to go down a rabbit hole and never come back out?
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  Yes. Because you can't stay out there
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  all the time because you're a real world.
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  We don't live in a virtual world.
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  We live in a real world. And that's what we want to make
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  the best we can make it be. We want to curate things that
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  are just wonderful for ourselves because none of us are
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  guaranteed a certain amount of time.
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  So we have to make sure that we're doing an excellent job
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  eliminating the time suck of being on social media.
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  Now, at the same time, our phones are our productivity
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  piece for so many of us. For me, certainly it is.
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  It's where I meet all my clients.
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  It's where I record the podcast, it's where I video.
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  I do everything from this phone. So the phone is always in my
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  hand. I have to be very conscientious
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  though of what apps I'm going into and what's taking me away.
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  Where am I giving up my time. So if you've never done the time
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  study, it's an excellent little thing to do.
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  Now, obviously the phone will give you that because you can
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  look in your settings and everybody has different phones,
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  so I'm not going to go through how to get there, but you can go
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  through and it will give you where you spent, where you spent
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  your time on your phone. Droids are different than
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  iPhones, different versions of iPhones with different software.
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  You have to make sure you go and look, but it will give you the
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  whole layout of where you've spent most of your time on your
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  phone and how many text messages you mean.
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  You can find out everything about yourself.
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  And for those of us who not like to nerd out, it is really,
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  really useful. So highly recommend doing that
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  just as a check. But I also recommend sitting and
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  writing it all down on a pad because it gives you an idea of
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  exactly what you're doing. And you can set a timer for
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  yourself and when the timer goes off, you're done.
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  You walk away from it because there are some apps.
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  Game apps are absolutely addictive.
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  And while some puzzle games are excellent for your brain, at a
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  certain point they take away from your connectivity of other
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  people. So it's important to remember I
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  don't need to constantly be on a puzzle app.
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  Maybe I should put a puzzle on my table.
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  Maybe I should do something different than just staying
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  stuck in this flat, you know, as my Auntie Annie calls at the
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  flat phone. You know, she's, she's in her
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  80s and she's just the flat phone.
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  And I love that when she says things like that.
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  So being stuck there, yes, not a good thing all the time.
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  Now again, we go back and say, well, a lot of these electronics
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  help us because I have an iPad with an eye pencil and I draw
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  into it and I use that pencil for taking notes and other
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  things handy. But again, be aware this
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  conversation is all about taking away the things that suck away
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  your time and don't make you feel better at the end of it.
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  Just like if you've got chores that you know are not the best
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  use of your time and they make you stressed out to do them.
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  Grocery shopping, one of those big things.
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  A lot of people hate it. I personally don't mind it, but
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  some people hate it. So go online and order your
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  groceries and they'll have them all set for you.
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  You pull up out front and they put them in your car.
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  That time suck is gone. Make it happen.
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  If you are privileged enough to be able to pay to have somebody
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  come and help you clean your house or work with things, do it
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  because it is a huge help. It is a huge help.
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  So you're not putting your time into something and you're also,
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  you know, making somebody else's life better by helping and
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  hiring them and letting them be exposed to somebody as wonderful
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  as you and helping take care of them.
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  So never mind doing that. I mean, that is just one of
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  those things. I have some people coming to
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  help me put irrigation in at the farm.
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  I love that. Could we do it ourselves?
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  Yes, but we're also helping them and they'll be regular help out
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  here for me do anytime I need to hire somebody and they're so
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  excited about it and I'm so excited about it.
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  So find your path to getting rid of the time sucks because I
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  promise you, you will be happier.
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  OK my friends, I will see you tomorrow.
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  Have a blessed day. Bye.