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Season 4 - Episode 224 - Finding the time to get things done. · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset, coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy. Into the.
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  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 from the chicken coop.
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  People often ask me how I find the time to do all the things
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  that I do here with coaching, my building out courses, writing
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  books, taking care of all the animals.
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  It's it's a often asked question.
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  How do you find the time? And my answer is all pretty
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  consistent. It's not that I find the time,
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  it's that I make the time. It's very different from me.
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  My concepts of time have always been somewhat different than
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  most people around me because I look at it and I say, well, if
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  the idea came into my mind and I really am compelled by it and
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  I'm emotionally hooked to it, then I will find a way to make
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  it happen. Because that's just the way it
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  is. I will find a way to make it
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  happen. So for me, when some, when I
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  have to set something up, it's like I immediately look at my
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  calendar and I'm like, OK, where can I put this in?
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  What's the spot it's going to go into?
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  I slot it in and I make time for it.
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  Other things may go away and I have to, you know, act on those
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  emotions. They're so high.
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  So recently when I was talking about this with someone who is
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  in the process of writing a book and not having enough time in
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  their words to work on the book, I said, well, tell me on a scale
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  of 1 to 10, how committed are you to writing the book?
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  And there was this long pause and it was like, well, I really
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  want the book done. I understand that.
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  But how committed are you to it? Like what is that level of
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  commitment? Are you at a 10?
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  Because I will not go into doing something major like that,
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  whether it's creating this coop and everything out here, the
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  farm, everything that I do here, whatever it is, I'm consistently
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  saying, is it a 10? Because if I'm not at A10, well,
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  I should say it's really A9 or A10.
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  I even, even if it's a nine, I will sit and ask myself what has
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  to happen for this to be a 10? Because I'm going to need it to
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  be that compelling. I'm going to need to be bought
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  into it that much in order to do it.
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  And if I'm at like an 8, seven or eight, let's say, I'm not
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  going to commit to doing it at that point.
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  I'm just not. That's why when I started the
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  whole Chicken Coop podcast, I said I really wanted to do a
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  podcast, but I wasn't sure of the concept.
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  I wasn't sure the commitment was going to take, so I had to test
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  it. So I said I'm going to do this
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  for 30 days. If if you're new and you haven't
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  heard this before, I'm doing it for 30 days and after 30 days,
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  I'm going to see how I feel. I'm going to test it, but I'm
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  going to commit to being consistent for 30 days.
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  At the end of the 30 days, how do I feel?
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  And at the end of the 30 days, I was really excited about it.
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  I loved, first of all, I just love being out here with them.
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  So it's another excuse to be out here.
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  Second, it just felt so good to be able to, you know, see
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  results from it and feel that I was getting to a spot where I
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  could actually give, you know, this content to people and they
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  could take it in their lives. And, and it was just, it was
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  fun. It was just fun.
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  So I made the time for it moving forward.
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  I said this is a now a 10 or an 11.
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  And I'm finding the same thing with the YouTube channel.
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  I mean, it's been killing me because I got into the groove of
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  shooting that I haven't really been able to shoot a lot because
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  I can't stop coughing. So here I can hit pause, but on
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  video it's kind of hard when you're hitting pause.
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  Even here it's, it's, I've been a little wonky the last couple
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  weeks because hitting pause in the middle of it, you lose your
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  train of thought and it just throws you off.
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  So I've had to really, even with the YouTube stuff, I've been
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  like, no, I'm at, I'm at a, I'm an hour at a 12.
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  I really want to make this work. I want to be able to help as
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  many people as I possibly can, and I'm committed to it.
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  So the question is, what is your level of commitment?
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  Where are you with it? How high is it?
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  What are you willing to commit to so that you can make sure you
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  stay consistent And that you say, no, this is like, I am up
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  there. This is about me making time for
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  it, actually making time for it. That's what's so important.
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  So I'm not going to go on and on about this today.
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  I'm going to just say, hey, listen, what do you want to do
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  in your life that you need to make time for that you're not
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  making time for? What is it?
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  Figure it out. Rate it on a scale of 1 to 10
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  and just say I'm putting it in there.
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  Undo it, rate it, get it up to A9 or A10 and put it in there.
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  I promise you it makes all the difference in the world.
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  All right, my friends, I will see you tomorrow and I hope you
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  have a blessed day. Bye.