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Taking inventory of your 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 master mindset.
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  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places for chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Today, I would like to talk to you about taking inventory of
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  your time and figuring out what the heck distracts you.
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  Because this is probably one of the toughest things that most
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  people most families. Most clients everybody that I
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  talk to talks about time in some manner, at some point in time.
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  No pun intended there. This is a sensitive subject for
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  everybody because time is something That we all have were
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  all given it and it ends and some of us have a lot less time
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  than others. And some of us have a lot more
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  time than others and it is a daily occurrence where we feel
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  like we don't have enough time. So where do you begin?
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  When you're trying to figure this part of yourself out, like,
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  you know, it's just, we run around telling to ourselves.
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  I don't, I don't have enough time.
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  How do you expect me to have the time to do that?
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  Where am I going to find that time?
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  We all have these Actions to time that are intense that it's
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  not just a little, it's intense. And I know myself included, I
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  used to be that way and I had to really pull back the reins on
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  myself and say. Okay what's the very first thing
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  that I need to know in order to fix this?
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  Well that's taken inventory of your time.
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  Where is your time going? Where are you spending your
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  time? What are you doing?
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  That doesn't add value to your life and has become something
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  that you use as a tool. All to desensitize yourself.
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  Where are you wasting time? Where you could leverage out to
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  someone else? Where are you putting your time?
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  That's most useful though. Don't just do it for the things
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  that are on the negative side of stuff.
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  Look at the positive sides to where are you spending your
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  time? That is actually healthy.
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  What are the things that are our healing?
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  Your soul will every day? What are the things that make
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  you feel good? Doing them and really take a
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  full Own inventory of it. Now sometimes this exercise is
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  really hard because we will say, well, those are things I have to
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  do, I have to do them and those take adjustments to your
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  stories, like, you know, it's sometimes I tend to look at
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  things and I'll go. Well, I have to do that.
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  And then I'll stop. And I'll pause, and I'll go.
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  No, I don't have to do that. I get to do that.
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  Like, I actually, like doing laundry.
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  I know this sounds insane but I like clean.
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  Ting, I like daily chores but I've conditioned myself to not
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  be annoyed by having daily chores partly because I like to
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  do them and partly because I feel like that's my contribution
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  back to my family so they don't bother me but some people,
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  absolutely don't like them. Some people should try to
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  leverage them out. Some people should let their
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  kids do more things because we have this insane belief that we
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  have to do everything for our kids and Don't and we should be
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  giving them chores to do and we should be letting them learn how
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  to care for themselves. And we should be letting them
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  fold their clothes and put them away.
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  Even though it's not right, which we will take up and other
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  podcast. But right now, this is all about
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  just taking the inventory of the time because you can't fix,
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  what? You don't understand to a
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  certain extent. Sometimes we don't have to
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  understand it all to fix it because we can draw the line.
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  But in this case with time we can Really see where we are
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  spending it when we have the inventory list, okay?
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  So the exercise that I want you guys to go through as to really
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  sit down and write out, where am I spending chunks of my time
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  now? You'll be able to do this
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  immediately. Just based on the fact that you
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  have a an understanding of your daytime or your day, right?
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  Your schedule for the day, you'll be able to look at it.
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  But I'm talking about all the little time thieves.
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  That are out there like getting lost on social media and someone
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  will say, well that's just my guilty little pleasure.
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  I love doing that and that's totally fine if you love doing
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  it and it's not bringing you pain and it's not taking you
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  away from other things that you could be doing, or should be
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  doing, or want to be doing, then, it's not a big deal, but
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  for most of us, it's more of a sickness.
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  When we go down that road, and we go too much, so you allow
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  yourself some time, but not got tons of time, you know, one of
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  the great things that my grandparents were great at was
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  always being on point with allowing yourself a certain
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  amount of time to do it. I remember my grandmother
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  sitting there and watching her stories, her soap operas, and
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  she would say, well, no, I only do this in the afternoon and
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  it's only for an hour and then I go and do other things.
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  But I would see her also knitting, I would see her doing
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  baking. I would see her doing other
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  things that she enjoyed as well, so she always gave herself.
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  Of that schedule of time to throw other things in.
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  And I think now most of us don't do that will say well I don't
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  have time for that and that's just sad because we can make
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  time for whatever we want. We just have to schedule
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  ourselves and take back the time that does not add value.
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  And when I say schedule ourselves, I don't mean overbook
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  yourself. I mean, look at your schedule
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  and say, okay, where is all this time?
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  Going, where is it being spent? Where am I putting energy that
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  it doesn't need? To go.
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  So today I would love you to do your exercise in time.
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  Inventory. And maybe it's not just one day.
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  Maybe you need to do this for a period of two or three days
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  because days aren't always the same.
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  Like, a day off is not the same as a day working and a day
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  working, might not be the same as if one day you're in the
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  office and one day or in your home office.
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  So you might have to spend some time actually pouring into this
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  and saying, hey I've got to do this on a couple.
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  Different levels so that I can see where it's all going.
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  And then I can decide what's working, what's not working?
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  And where I can shift. So, hopefully, you get this
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  exercise done and you can start to see where do I want to put my
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  time instead of just having it kind of be random.
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  Alright guys, have a great day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.