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Season 4 - Episode 291 - How many lists do you have? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermind, set coach,
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  creative strategist, and also happened to be a farmer.
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  This is my chicken coop and I come out here.
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  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 coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. So I am actually in my studio
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  and you are with me and we are looking at a bunch of notebooks
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  and crayons, markers, papers, all kinds of stuff and there's
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  nothing written on them yet. I'm get, I'm all ready for my
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  creative flow coming in. I've got these new markers that
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  have a nice outline. So when you color like with a
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  pink, it's got like a purple outline there.
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  They seem to be very cool. We'll see how they work during
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  my creative process. But today I want to share with
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  you a trick that I shared with one of my clients yesterday,
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  because I am very clear about the fact that I love office
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  supplies. I love taking notes, I love
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  details. I like writing things down,
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  reading like all the nerddom stuff I love so much.
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  And nothing gets me more excited than having new office supplies
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  and going and doing new things with them.
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  So it it, it's very easy when you're like that to get yourself
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  overwhelmed with too many notebooks, too many lists, way
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  too many lists, too many stickies, and your brain
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  remembers that you have all of those.
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  My friends, let me be very clear, When you have multiple
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  lists and you keep them in multiple places and you have
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  multiple notebooks, it does something to you.
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  It feels frenetic. Unless of course, you've got a
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  system and you've organized them where you're legitimately
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  saying, OK, this is my notebook for this only.
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  Great if you want to do that. I have one notebook that's I
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  consider a parking lot and this parking lot is for me to put
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  things in that I don't want to forget, but I'm not ready to do.
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  It means, oh, that was a good idea.
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  I'm going to put it over here, but I'm not ready to drive it.
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  That's why it's called a parking lot.
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  I'm not driving it yet. It's not coming into my bus
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  because I'm clearly not ready for it.
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  So this, this part of it is so important because if you feel
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  like you're dumping so much stuff on yourself constantly
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  that you can't accomplish it, you will be overwhelmed.
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  You will feel like crap. And you will start to feel,
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  especially at the end of the year, like you've run out of
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  time and you're just like in such a state of overwhelm that
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  there's absolutely nothing that's going to make it better.
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  And before you know it, it takes over.
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  And now guess what happens? You're attracting more chaos,
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  You're attracting more problems because your energy is in that
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  vein. You're feeling overwhelmed.
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  So you're attracting overwhelm. And then you're like, Oh my
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  gosh, what's happening? I've got a problem that I need
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  to take care of here, and I've got a problem that I need to
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  take care of. Here and I've got this and I've
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  got this and then I've got all these.
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  Lists. And before you know it, you're
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  spinning, spinning, spinning, spinning, spinning.
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  And you can't get yourself out of it.
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  Well, it's exactly what happened with one of my clients.
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  And the first thing I said to her was how many lists do you
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  have? And she's caused quite a few.
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  How many? And then throughout our
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  conversation of that coaching session, over an hour, by the
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  end of it, she was laughing at how many lists she had.
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  And she was still going. She was still finding them.
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  No wonder she felt so overwhelmed.
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  No wonder she felt like she couldn't get out of it.
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  No wonder it was so much and so many of the things on there were
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  not urgent. They not at all were things that
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  needed to be done instantaneously.
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  Sure, they could get done, but they were categorized more in
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  the oh, well, you know, these are things that I want to get
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  done, but I don't absolutely have to hurry and get them done.
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  But it doesn't matter because they're on a list and it adds to
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  the frenetic energy. And then you get more things
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  that go wrong. I can't stress to you enough
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  what a big deal this is. Like this is a huge, huge big
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  deal. And it carries over into other
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  parts of our life. Like, for instance, I have an
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  iPad, but that iPad is only for learning.
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  I don't let my social media on it.
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  I don't get text messages on it. I can't even check my e-mail on
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  it because I want it shut down. It's for learning, so I can take
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  notes with it. I can go to all my apps that are
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  learning a master class, all these other things.
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  But I don't let myself go down that rabbit hole because if I do
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  now I'm overwhelmed with too much information and it's an
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  isolated path for me to learn. So when you start to look at
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  this habit that you potentially have, you look at it like across
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  the board. But today I just want you to go
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  and figure out how many lists do I really have and consolidate
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  them. Put them into one big brain dump
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  list. Then grab your markers and
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  highlight, highlight, highlight like items.
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  Chunk everything so you can actually see.
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  Then take one giant piece of paper and put categories there
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  and put those colors in those categories so you can see it all
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  at once. And then you can circle all the
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  urgent items that you want to. But my friends, not everything
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  is urgent. So be careful with the word
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  urgent. It's like hot pepper.
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  Use it sparingly, OK? Now go get yourself organized
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  for the end of the year and I will see you guys tomorrow.
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  Bye.