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Season 4 - Episode 39 - The SNOOZE button on the alarm · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to 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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  Well, it's actually good afternoon.
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  Actually, it's good evening. If I'm accurate beyond measure,
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  the girls are being tucked in right now and very noisy because
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  they're all trying to find their ideal spot and I am shooting in
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  the evening. That way it can be up and bright
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  and early ready for everybody. So today we are talking about
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  the snooze button on your alarm. This snooze button.
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  OK, so I don't wake up with an alarm.
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  Full disclosure, I just wake up. And I know that's weird, but
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  there are those of us out here who don't need an alarm, and I'm
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  one of those people. I have an alarm.
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  I own an alarm. I put it beside the bed.
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  However, I don't use it because I just set my internal alarm
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  that says, hey, wake up here and boom, I wake up now the alarm,
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  we're talking about waking up because so many people are
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  looking for extra time right now to say I need quiet time to get
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  this done and I never have the time.
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  Well, my opinion is you make time for what you want.
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  And when I was going, you know, just this past summer when I was
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  writing the book, you know, the emotional dilemma of leadership,
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  I was adamant that I was going to get that book done.
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  And I was up every single day early.
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  And when I say early, I was up at 4:00 AM and I would just wake
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  up at like 355 three, you know, 54 O five.
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  I was waking up at 4:00 AM every single day.
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  And that gave me roughly 2 hours of time before I had to start
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  getting everything else ready in my world.
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  And it was magical. And I had actually transformed.
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  I was normally waking up early anyway.
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  I would normally wake up at like 550, but this was like adding
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  that extra hour was making a tremendous difference and I
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  actually couldn't believe what a difference it was making.
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  So I, I just incorporated it into my life now pretty much
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  every day I wake up anywhere from 4:00 to 4:30 and I'm up and
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  I'm out early and I'm, you know, doing whatever I'm working on
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  for writing, for blogs, for content, making plans for what
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  we're, we have coming up in the business, working on the farm,
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  planning the garden. That's something I'm currently
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  doing, sketching out the layout of the garden and all of that
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  stuff. So the point of talking about
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  this getting up early is how do you gain that time?
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  But really, I want to point something out to everybody.
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  We all have the same 24 hours to work.
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  We've all agreed upon this concept of time and they're the
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  24 hours in it. Now, here's what's tricky.
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  That's that alarm. That alarm clock comes with a
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  snooze button. And when you hit that snooze
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  button, what is actually happening?
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  Like when you stop and think about it for a second, what are
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  you doing when you hit the snooze button?
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  You are. You are basically delaying the
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  inevitable. All you're doing is delaying
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  getting up and getting going. And you are ensuring you are
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  ensuring that you 90% of the time are going to stress
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  yourself out because you slept in past when you wanted to.
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  Because here's the trick. If you set the alarm at a
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  certain time when you were in your right way of thinking, in
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  your right mind, in your abundant mind, in your moving
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  forward mind, you were saying I have to get up at this time in
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  order to make this happen. And you set a time, you picked
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  it and you put it out there. And then the alarm goes off and
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  you're like, Oh no, Oh no, I'm just going to shut that down.
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  And before you know it, you're back to sleep and you're not
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  doing what you intended to do. You're acting into what you
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  decided to do in a moment when you were not in the right mind.
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  You are now in the sleepyhead and you're letting the wrong
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  emotion choose what you're doing next.
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  And that simple act of pushing that button says so much.
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  My friends, I cannot, I cannot stress to you how much it says
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  about where your mind is and what is happening so and where
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  your emotions are. So how do you break this cycle?
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  Well, first and foremost, when you set the clock, are you
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  setting your clock for a time that says, hey, I'm setting this
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  and I know without question, I know without question that I am
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  needing to get up at this time. I want to get up at this time
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  and I'm going to commit to getting up at this time.
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  So if you're not committing to it, then why do it?
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  Why not? Why not just say screw it, I'm
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  not even going to set the clock. So if you set the clock, commit
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  to it in your head. Say this is what's happening,
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  I'm doing this, set the clock. And then before you fall asleep,
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  remind yourself, I do not lie to myself.
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  I tell myself the truth. If I want other people to tell
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  me the truth, then I therefore have to tell myself the truth.
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  Because if I'm not telling myself the truth, then guess
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  what? Other people have permission to
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  lie to me as well. So you can see how this works.
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  If you're telling a lie to yourself, this is what will show
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  up. So give it a try, see if that
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  helps you get up early and buy some some time for yourself.
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  That is truly time for you, time you can get out there and do the
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  things you want to do and no lying to yourself.
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  Be truthful about it, set the intention and do it.
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  And it's life changing, I promise.
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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.