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Season 3 - Episode 26 - Outcome and 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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  We are talking about outcome and effort today and this is a big,
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  big pet peeve of mine because so many people want to have the
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  outcome. So many people want to have the
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  outcome, but they don't want to put the effort in.
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  And often times when I'm talking to people who are business
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  owners or working with clients who have to deal with other
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  people, they're like, I don't know why I just can't get people
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  to put the effort in. I just don't get it.
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  And they all say they want the outcome.
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  They all say they want the job. They say they they're willing to
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  work. They all give the right answers,
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  but they are not willing to actually put the amount of
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  effort in that's necessary. And this is such a a a a subject
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  that you must if you want greatness in yourself and you
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  want greatness out of those around you.
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  You have to make decisions about how you measure this and you
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  have to make decisions about how you talk to people about this.
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  So often times I will say, OK, tell me what you want to have
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  happen. Tell me what your outcome is.
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  What are you looking to make happen.
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  And in the process of this you start to think about, OK, well,
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  these are the people will give you their goals.
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  They give you any of the stuff that they're working on and what
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  they have going on. And then there's this part of
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  you that has to, you have to sequentially start to break it
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  down for them to see, well, what are they willing to do to get to
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  that place? What are they willing to do to
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  get to that place? And when you start brainstorming
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  with someone and you start laying it out and you say, OK,
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  well it's going to take this and it's going to take this and it's
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  going to take this, you have to measure for yourself and with
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  that person. If you're doing it with someone
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  else to say, OK, this is going to take like X amount of effort,
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  Are you willing to put that effort in and measure it with
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  them? And you will often be able to
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  see right in their face the level that they're committed to.
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  When you do this for yourself, it is so important to know that
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  you must measure yourself and you must say, am I willing to do
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  this work? So if we use the farm as the
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  metaphor when we started, this farm work is not easy.
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  I think everyone knows that, and I think everyone can understand
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  that. When you talk about farm work,
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  people think it's hard work. Yeah, it's really hard work.
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  There's no question about the fact that farm work is hard
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  work. So people tend to think, well,
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  you know, you're crazy, Why would you want to do farm work?
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  Well, one, it keeps you young. As far as I'm convinced it keeps
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  you very young in the process of doing it and it fills my heart.
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  So I'm willing to pour that effort in and I'm willing to
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  say, OK, I'm committed 100% to doing this and what is 100% look
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  like? So you can't just get the
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  percentage, but you've got to understand within yourself with
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  those you work in, What do you think 100% looks like?
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  And write it on a piece of paper.
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  So you can keep contrasting and comparing to what your actual
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  output is, to what you thought it would be and what it needs to
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  be. It's a constant and never ending
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  dialed in process so that you can figure it out.
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  But if you don't know that and you don't measure that, you will
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  never be able to attain that. It is without question a
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  necessary marker. And so often it's a marker
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  that's missed. You're interviewing somebody,
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  you're bringing them on to be an assistant, working with you.
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  And you say, OK, well, you know, here's what it's going to take.
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  You know, are you willing to give me an idea of what amount
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  of effort you're willing to put in?
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  Nearly everybody's going to say 100% and say, OK, great, well,
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  let me tell you what 100% looks like in my world.
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  So you give them your version of it and you say, OK, does that
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  match what you're thinking? And you can tell by the look on
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  their face if they're stunned. And even even with yourself
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  sometimes when you go, OK, well, this is what I think.
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  And then you go off and you try to find somebody else who's done
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  what you're thinking of doing, or you're looking for a mentor
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  or you're working with your coach or whatever.
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  And they say, well, I I think it's going to be more like this.
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  Now all of a sudden you've compare and contrast again and
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  say, OK, am I willing to do this?
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  And if you're not willing to do the 100%, what are you willing
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  to do? What?
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  What is that measurement going to be like?
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  If you say, well, I'm willing to pour 75% into this, OK, so this
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  is what 75% of the outcome would look like.
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  And once you start looking at the outcome and you say, well,
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  is it worth me getting 75% of it?
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  And then you have to pause and say, I don't know, do I want a
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  75% outcome? Is it worth it?
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  Now, for some people, it is worth it.
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  I mean, most corporations settle for getting 70 to 80% out of
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  their people. They don't even care that
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  they're not getting 100% because they don't even expect it
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  anymore. How pathetic is that?
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  They don't even expect it anymore.
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  They're that's why they grind everybody so hard, because they
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  know they're not getting 100%. So they're just going to grind
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  you to death to try to get any percentage they can.
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  And it's wrong. It's a wrong strategy to have
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  and if they did this in the beginning, it would save a lot
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  of time. But in any event, contrast what
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  you have in your head to what is in actuality.
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  Keep checking in with yourself and really know am I willing to
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  put the effort in. 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.