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Season 3 - Episode 94 - What do you need to do to level up at work · 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
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  coop. So today we're talking about
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  work and we're talking about what you do to create the income
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  in your life that supports you and your version of family,
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  whatever that may be out there, whether it's yourself, your
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  animals, your kids, your partners, whatever it might be.
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  But we're talking about work and we're asking what do you need to
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  level up at work? Like, what do you need to do in
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  order to level up at work? And it's not.
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  I'm not talking about what you think they owe you or what they
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  can give you. I'm talking about your
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  perspective of yourself. There seems to be a big trend
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  going on right now, and a lot of pointing at employers who aren't
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  giving up enough, who aren't giving enough breaks, who aren't
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  recognizing enough. And I always come back to one
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  thing with my clients. You got to look at yourself,
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  honestly, and you got to think of, OK, if I really am doing all
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  these things, if I really am doing everything that I think
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  I'm doing, and I'm playing the best game that I can play and
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  they're still not recognizing me, what is my contribution in
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  that and what do I need to do to get recognized?
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  What do I need to do to level up in their eyes and you can go and
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  ask the question. If they can't answer you and
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  they can't say to you, hey Kim, this is what I think you need to
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  do in order to reach this next level, to be at this place that
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  you want, then this is probably not the place you want to stay,
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  because that means they are confused about the rules of the
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  game. You can't play in a game where
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  you don't understand the rules. Now nine times out of 10, when
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  you go, they're going to give you something and then you have
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  to decide if you want to do it. And this is always the tricky
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  part. It's OK to say, you know what, I
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  don't want to do that. I don't want to do that.
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  I did that at one point in my life for a company that I worked
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  with travelling all over the world, and it was 185 days a
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  year on the road and I just got to the point where I did not
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  want to travel 185 days on the road with small kids.
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  I just didn't want to do it anymore and it was too much.
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  And I was making choices that were cool for a period of time.
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  And then they became not cool. And I was stressed about it.
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  And I had to make a decision about what I wanted to do with
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  that information. So I said, you know, what can I
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  do here? Can I, is there anything else
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  that I can do? And they were like, well, no,
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  this is this is the, this is the role.
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  If you want to stay in this role, this is what the role is.
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  And it wasn't going to change and it wasn't going to morph.
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  So I had to make those changes, but I wouldn't have done that if
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  I hadn't gone and asked the question and gotten the
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  information. And the best part of it is,
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  asking the right question is powerful.
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  When you know what you need to do, when you know who you want
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  to be and you go and you ask those questions and you get the
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  answers, then you can make a decision.
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  Essential decisions about OK, now what?
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  What's next? What do I need to do now?
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  Otherwise you are stuck in a loop in a place that's making
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  you unhappy every day and basically sucking away little
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  pieces of your soul. So you have to stop and pause
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  and say, wait, I can get the heck out of here if I want to.
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  I just have to make decisions And I know some people will say
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  to me, there's no way I can leave.
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  There's no place else I can go. But part of that has to come
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  from the place of you're in a state of despair, and you're
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  trying to make something happen from a state of despair.
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  And I promise you, when you get out of that state of despair,
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  you can make anything happen by asking the right questions and
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  by looking at what your resources are and by making
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  great choices. So I'm going to ask you guys,
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  please ask the right questions. Please look at what do I need to
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  do to level up with what I do, where I work, whatever that
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  question is. And really be honest with
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  yourself, because in that moment there's gold and you've got a
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  mind for it. So be smart with your questions,
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  be really honest with yourself. Never lie to yourself about it
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  and if you're not in the right spot, move on.
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  I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you all
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  tomorrow. Bye.