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Season 4 - Episode 129 - Efficiency · 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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  happened 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.
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  Teach distinctions. Possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking and just bring some joy.
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  Into the world, so welcome to the.
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  Coop and let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey, everybody, good morning. So we're talking about
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  efficiencies and I don't mean like an efficiency washing
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  machine. I'm talking about our own
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  personal efficiencies and doing an audit on our own personal
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  efficiencies. So I'm going to give you an
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  example because I think it's super important to look at how
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  we do the things we do. Not just the things we do, but
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  how we do the things we do. Because if you're taking more
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  steps than you need to, then the old phrase of you're bringing
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  the piano to the stool instead of the stool to the piano really
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  does play in. So let's talk about simple
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  things. I'm in the kitchen.
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  Let's use this as an example. I'm in the kitchen.
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  I am making lunch for my son to take to work and the pantry is
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  behind the kitchen. So it's like a walkthrough.
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  It's like a circle. So I've got like a a giant donut
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  that I can walk through constantly.
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  It's open on both ends. So I realized the other day when
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  I started, he started a new role and I've been having to make him
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  lunch when I take him down and drop him off.
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  So I'm walking through the pantry and I realize while I'm
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  getting a ton of steps, which I'm grateful for because of my
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  step obsession, I realized I'm not going through this
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  efficiently. I, I was like, wait a minute,
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  what am I doing? Why am I walking through here so
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  many times? It's like every time I went
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  through the pantry, I got the one thing I needed instead of
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  stopping and pausing and thinking about all the things I
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  needed. So this is indicative of what
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  happens when you are not in the moment.
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  OK, It's like you're, you're not thinking about what you're doing
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  right now. You're on autopilot.
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  So to say I've I've got to make a lunch.
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  So I'm not thinking it all the way through.
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  Like, OK, I've got to make him a lunch.
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  I need a sandwich. All right, let me go in there
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  and get rolls. Let me get the, the snacks to go
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  along with it. Let me get some of his, you
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  know, crunchy stuff. Let me get him a cookie.
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  All of these things. And I could have carried them
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  all at at once, but I didn't. So I kept having to walk back
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  there and walk back there and walk back there.
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  And it just takes more time. Now, it may seem silly because
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  we're not talking about a ton of time.
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  We're talking just about, you know, nanoseconds.
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  But guess what? They all add up.
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  And that's the issue. That's where it comes into play.
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  Now, while this may seem silly because hey, you know what?
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  It's just a, a story about making lunches.
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  This isn't just about the lunch. This is about everything we do.
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  And it shows up repetitively because our brains are being
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  pulled, our thoughts are being pulled, our emotions are being
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  pulled in different directions. So we're constantly working
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  towards something else, maybe internally, maybe externally.
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  How many times have you started doing one thing and before you
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  know it, you're not even doing that thing anymore.
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  You're doing a completely different task.
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  And this happens a lot on electronics.
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  So if you're on your laptop and you're working on something and
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  then all of a sudden you see a tab or something full like
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  catches your eye, you're over there and you're doing something
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  else that you know is on your list of things to do.
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  But you it pulls you away from what you were just doing.
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  And this happens so much to us that before you know it, you're
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  like, wait, I didn't even get that done.
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  And I mean, it happens to me doing the podcast.
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  I will start off to do something and you know what?
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  All of a sudden I'm in a different direction and it it is
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  absolutely so infuriating to me that our brains can't just stay
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  on that one task. Especially for all the creatives
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  out there like myself. It is very hard because you're
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  always thinking and expanding and moving in a specific
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  direction. So it seems like it makes sense
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  and then boom, it does not make sense.
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  So what's the big point of this? The big point of this is we can
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  control it, but we have to work at it and we have to set these
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  little time block of intentions, but not a time block.
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  Like, OK, from here to here I'm going to be doing this because
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  then we know that's not going to work.
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  We know if we just block out time, most of us can't follow
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  time blocks. We say we can, we'll block it
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  off. But we are, if we're really
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  honest with ourselves, and I know because of of how my brain
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  works and how many clients I coach that have this problem,
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  that time block sounds like an excellent idea, but there will
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  be other things that will seep into it.
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  So it's more about the task and saying, OK, I'm going to put
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  this task on a post it note and I'm going to put it right where
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  I am, or I'm going to make my list and I'm going to make sure
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  that I grab something off of that list and put it right where
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  I can see it right. So I love post it notes for this
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  very reason. And I will have a big brain dump
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  list, but then I will write a singular item, especially if
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  it's one that I know is slippery and gets away for me, onto a
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  post it note. And then I will put that where I
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  can see it until it's done. But this is a way to help you be
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  more efficient long term. You won't have to use the post
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  it note so much, but I'm telling you it's a way to be more
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  efficient. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.