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Season 3 - Episode 191 - How much time do you spend in the FUTURE? · 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 today I would like to talk to you about future pacing.
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  So you might be saying, well, what is future pacing really?
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  This is something that human beings have become addicted to.
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  We are constantly living out in the future.
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  We are rarely staying in the moment, which is, you know,
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  beautiful and tragic all at the same time because we can go out
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  and we can think about the future.
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  We can go off and we can think about, you know, what I'm going
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  to be doing next, what I'm going to be doing next.
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  Where am I going to be going? What are my goals?
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  You know, it's we are so driven to ask questions that are future
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  paced questions, moving us somewhere where we are currently
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  not The challenge with that though is it robs us of the
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  experience of being in the moment.
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  It robs us of of being where we currently are.
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  And because it does that, it leaves us in a very precarious
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  place because we've become addicted to what we call future
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  pacing. We become addicted to thinking
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  about what's next. And we don't ever enjoy where we
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  are. And unfortunately it's something
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  that, you know, we don't recognize.
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  And when we don't recognize something, we can't fix it.
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  So we just become very accustomed to constantly
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  thinking about that, that part of it, constantly thinking
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  about, you know, the future and not what's happening in the
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  moment because the moment might be boring or the moment might
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  seem that we can't get control of it or we don't like the
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  moment. More often than not, we just
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  don't like the moments we are currently in.
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  Therefore we want to get out of them as quickly as possible.
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  So it's easy to go future pace, imagination moving into another
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  place. It is necessary, I want to be
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  very clear about this. It's necessary to be able to
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  have the ability to future pace and think about what you want.
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  Where it becomes toxic is when it becomes the only place we
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  want to go and we're never enjoying where we are.
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  So I'm going to give you an example.
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  So I coach quite a few business people and when they are working
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  on something and they are focused on whatever their plan
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  is for the year or they're focused on growing their
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  business or their deals, let's say they have a big deal that's
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  coming through and there's a process in most of this.
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  It doesn't all happen instantaneously.
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  It's like it, it's layered. So you have step one, Step 2,
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  whatever the business is, it doesn't matter.
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  There's many steps to the final of it all taking place.
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  And often when they'll have something closed, they'll have a
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  very big thing. I'll say to them, OK, did you
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  celebrate your win? And they will say, well, I mean,
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  not really. It took so long to get here.
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  I kind of was already on to the next thing.
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  I was already thinking about the next deal.
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  So the challenge you have with that is when you don't celebrate
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  each step, when you don't acknowledge each step in the
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  process, you become that future pacer, that one that's always on
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  to something next. And you don't go into a state of
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  gratitude for the steps along the way.
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  It's very hard to manifest more things because you're not even
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  grateful for the one that you just had.
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  All you're doing is focusing on what's next and you're not being
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  grateful for what has already happened.
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  We're so like quick to move through it that we don't pause
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  and we don't put ourselves into a place of being in the moment.
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  You know, one of my favorite mentors, John Kabat Zinn, so his
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  name is spelled Jon and Kabat KABAT and then Zinn Zinn.
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  He teaches mindfulness. And I learned so much from his
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  processes about being in the moment and pausing and saying,
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  OK, let me bring myself back down.
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  This moment, this place, This is why one of the reasons that I
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  record from the chicken coop, because when I'm out here with
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  them, they they're not thinking about what's next.
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  They're just enjoying what is. They're not worried about when
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  she's going to bring us another snack.
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  They're not worried about what's going to happen.
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  They're just having a fine time doing whatever they're doing and
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  they don't stress out about those things.
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  They're just chilling, having a good time.
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  Like what you're hearing right now is lots of chickens in a
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  dust bath having a great time burying themselves in dirt.
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  You know, totally the morning here and they don't think about
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  the other stuff. So I'm going to challenge you to
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  start thinking about how much do I future pace?
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  How much am I constantly somewhere else?
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  I am. Have I fallen into the
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  intoxication of being out in the future so much that I'm
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  sacrificing my present? Because this is a big deal for
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  being able to move yourself forward.
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  So track it and then pause and start coming back to the moment
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  and being like, Oh no, I've got to be in this moment right now
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  and be grateful for I got to stop future pacing as much as I
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  can or have been, and I've got to use it as a tool.
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  OK, I will talk to you all soon.