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Season 3 - Episode 74 - Wasting time · 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.
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  From the makeshift greenhouse of the garage.
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  Now, you might be asking, why am I shooting it from here this
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  morning? Well, because we're talking
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  about a subject that I think is something we all go through, and
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  it's called wasting time. I can't tell you how much this
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  week I've heard from people, Oh, I don't want to waste time.
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  I don't want to do that and waste time.
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  And I'm. I'm befuddled.
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  Some of these subjects that they're talking about are not
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  wasting time, truly not wasting time.
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  It's hobbies. It's taking time to better your
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  brain and how you think it's relaxing.
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  It's it. All those subjects that I am
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  mentioning, I've actually heard people say to me, well, I don't
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  want to waste time and I'm in my space with my plants and I'm out
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  here very early taking care of them and it's pitch dark
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  outside. Chickens are not even up yet and
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  I am not wasting time. I want to be really clear about
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  this when I'm out here and I'm with these little plants and I'm
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  taking care of them and making sure they're all set for the day
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  and I am in entrenched in my quote UN quote hobby if you
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  will. I am not wasting time.
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  What I'm doing is bettering my soul, healing my heart, taking
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  time to make sure that for all the things that go on in this
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  world, I am still entrenched in a space that makes me feel
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  really, really good to stand. Here I am right in front of the
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  tomatoes, right this minute, and I've got tomato plants now that
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  are about, oh, I'm going to say about 6 inches tall, maybe 7
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  inches tall. Some of them, they vary
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  different types different ways and they look absolutely
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  glorious. And I am completely and totally
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  thrilled with how they are turning out.
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  And I can tell you this is not a waste of time.
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  This makes my heart sing because I know, I know that I did this
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  with them. I I made this possible with
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  them. I put them in a position where
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  they can grow. I put them in a position where
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  they can thrive and this makes me feel so good.
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  This makes me feel lit up. Now that is not a waste of time.
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  Now some people may be like, well, all the time you pour into
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  growing your vegetables and working in the garden and doing
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  the, the hard labor work of this and waiting for them to grow and
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  just going through the process. I think that's a waste of time.
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  I think it would be better to just buy them for myself, it
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  would be better if I just bought them myself.
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  And I'm like, that's anyone's choice.
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  You can absolutely decide to do that.
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  You could absolutely just run out and go buy tomatoes and
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  that's the easy thing to do. But for me, there's something to
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  be said for having plants that you can walk over to and and
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  pick up. Know that you grew them from
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  seed and have something in your hand at the end of it.
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  And know that you took that from a nothingness.
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  That looks like a nothingness, but it's really pure potential
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  into something that fuels your body.
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  To me, that's just fascinating. That also feeds my soul.
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  It is not something I take lightly, nor is reading, nor is
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  walking, nor is painting, because it's filling my soul.
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  It's filling my heart. It's making me feel tremendously
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  wonderful. So the point is look at if you
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  think you're wasting time, if you think you have done things
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  and wasted time. Someone said to me, well, I
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  wasted time watching 2 movies this weekend and I'm wasted
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  time. No, you actually took a break.
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  Let's reframe that. And they're like, well, I really
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  shouldn't have. And we start with the I
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  shouldn't have, I shouldn't have, I shouldn't have.
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  That is not healthy, my friends. That does not serve us on a high
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  level. What it does is tear us down.
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  What it does is make us think that we have no business taking
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  a break, which is so not true. We have every business taking a
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  break. That's what we are supposed
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  supposed to do, to refuel ourselves everywhere.
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  It tells us in nature. Nature takes a break.
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  The Bible says to take a break everywhere.
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  It says take a break. It does not say grind it out
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  seven days a week, 24 hours a day, because that makes
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  unhealthy people. That makes unhealthy people and
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  unhealthy minds and unhealthy hearts.
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  So I'm going to tell you if you are struggling with wasting time
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  and you all know the difference, I don't need to explain to you
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  you're all grown-ups. You know the difference between
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  what's really wasting time and what's really healing.
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  Like if you're sitting there and you're watching Bravo for 10
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  hours and avoiding things, that's different.
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  It's still, I even have struggled to say it's wasting
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  time then because it's more about avoidance than wasting
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  time. And watch the language on it
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  because that's very telling. But inside, you know, I'm
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  avoiding this. I don't want to do this.
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  So I'm watching something I shouldn't be watching if if that
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  is the case, that's a very different scenario than sitting
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  down and refueling. And if you have to, you set a
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  clock and say, OK, for this day or this amount of time, I'm
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  going to do absolutely nothing. That's what I do.
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  I'll say I'm doing absolutely nothing.
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  I'm just going to sit down, veg out.
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  I'm going to just go paint. I'm going to go do this,
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  whatever it might be. But I set the time and then I do
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  it, and then I feel great. So no wasted time.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a great day and I will
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.