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Season 3 - Episode 149 - Are you working YOUR best effort? · 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 today we are talking about 100% effort.
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  I I just have like so much to say about this subject because
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  it is one of those things that I think we as human beings have
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  such a tendency to give ourselves slack on.
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  Just had a discussion with my son about this, have discussions
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  with clients about it all the time and it in our family, we
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  have this whole dialogue about, well, what's the level of effort
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  you're putting into something? Are you putting 100% effort in?
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  And I think that rarely do we measure the effort we're putting
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  in and saying before we start a project, am I going to go into
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  this at 100%? Often what ends up happening is
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  we just jump into something, whatever it is that we're doing
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  and we work on it. And who knows if we're actually
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  putting in 100% effort because we never actually articulate
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  that piece to ourselves. We just don't do that.
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  Making 100% effort takes making that decision before you go into
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  it saying to yourself, OK, I'm going to do this at 100%.
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  Now I've used the example before about the podcast and doing this
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  and I held off on a long time doing a podcast because I wasn't
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  at the point where I said, hey, I'm willing to do this at 100%.
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  But once I recognize that I could do this from the chicken
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  coop and that I, I had this opportunity to, you know, I'm
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  here everyday all day seeing my chickens doing things and I
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  really wanted to make the effort in that with them.
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  And it, it just kind of all fell into place.
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  But once I said it, OK, 100% effort, mean I was going to do
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  this and I was going to shoot this every single day no matter
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  what. And so that's what's happened
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  because I made a commitment to it.
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  And in my head, 100% is 100%. So asking yourself this question
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  before you need it is the key. Can't ask yourself that question
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  when you're in the middle of it. You have to make the commitment
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  beforehand. And that without question is a
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  foundational piece of success. If you are willing to ask the
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  correct questions prior to needing them, you get the result
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  you want. When you just kind of run
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  through the motions and you're taking on the the oh, I'm going
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  to do the task and what not, OK, you just don't get there.
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  Now let me use another simple example for you.
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  Let's say you are writing a piece of paper and you crumple
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  it up and you throw it towards the trash can in your office or
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  whatever room you're in and you miss the trash.
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  Do you actually get up and throw the paper in the can or do you
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  leave it there and say I'll get it after?
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  Now this may seem like a stupid example, but it's a really
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  telling thing because in the moment your intention was to
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  make it in the trash can. That moment you had every
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  intention to get the paper in the trash can.
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  And the moment it didn't happen, rather than getting up and going
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  over and correcting what happened so that you completed
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  the task at 100%, you stop and you settle for doing it later,
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  which to me is not 100%. Now again, this is again, may
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  seem like a silly example. However, it's very telling
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  because it gives you insight to yourself and your mindset about
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  how you handle things. So if my intent was to get that
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  in the trash can, I'm going to complete my intent and I'm going
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  to get it in the trash can. I'm not giving up on that
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  because that doesn't serve me. That allows me to have a
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  behavior that does not serve me. So you have to ask yourself, am
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  I throwing for the can and to get it in or am I just, I'll
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  just throw it towards the floor, I'll wait.
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  Nine times out of 10, that's not the case.
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  You wanted it in the can. So you have to check in with
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  yourself repeatedly asking before the key here is before
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  you go into something, What is my intent with this?
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  Am I going to do this at 100%? And if you're not going to do it
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  at 100%, you have to check in and ask yourself what's the
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  reason I'm not at 100%? Am I?
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  Am I just dabbling right now 'cause there are times when I,
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  I'm like, I'm dabbling. And if I'm dabbling, then I'm
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  doing it for whatever reason, fun, whatever I can come up with
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  any way to define it. But if I'm dabbling, I'm OK with
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  it. But just know you're dabbling
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  and don't put it out there that you're going to do something at
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  100% if you're not. And I think that most of us
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  think we operate on 100% all the time, but we don't.
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  So you have to make a decision knowing yourself going into this
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  year, really strong and formidable and be that force
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  that you want to be across the board for yourself, not for any
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  other person for yourself. Ask that question, am I at 100%?
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  Am I going to be at 100% with this?
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  Am I committed to doing this at 100%?
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  Or am I dabbling and see where you go?
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  All right my friends, I will see you tomorrow.
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  I hope you have a blessed day. Bye.