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Season 2 - Episode 227 - Are you aware of how you spend 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,
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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. Today I would like to talk to
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  you about taking inventory of your time and figuring out what
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  the heck distracts you. Because this is probably one of
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  the toughest things that most people, most families, most
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  clients, everybody that I talked to talks about time in some
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  manner at some point in time. No pun intended there.
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  This is a a sensitive subject for everybody because time is
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  something that we all have. We're all given it and it and it
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  ends. And some of us have a lot less
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  time than others and some of us have a lot more time than others
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  and it it is a daily occurrence where we feel like we don't have
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  enough time. So.
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  Where do you begin when you're trying to figure this part of
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  yourself out? Like, you know, it's just we run
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  around telling to ourselves, 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 reactions 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 that I need to
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  know in order to fix this? Well, that's taken inventory of
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  your time. Where is your time going?
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  Where are you spending your time?
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  What are you doing that doesn't add value to your life and has
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  become something that you use as a tool 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.
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  Now don't just do it for the things that are on the negative
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  side of stuff. Look at the positive sides too.
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  Where are you spending your time that is actually healthy?
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  What are the things that are are healing your soul every day?
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  What are the things that make you feel good doing them and
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  really take a full blown inventory of it now?
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  Sometimes this exercise is really hard because we'll say,
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  well, those are things I have to do.
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  I have to do them. And those take adjustments to
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  your stories. Like, you know, it's sometimes I
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  tend to look at 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, no, I don't
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  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 cleaning.
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  I like daily chores, but I've conditioned myself to not be
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  annoyed by having daily chores, partly because I like to do them
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  and partly because I feel like that's my contribution back to
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  my family, so they don't bother me.
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  But. Some people absolutely don't
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  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
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  belief that we have to do everything for our kids and we
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  don't. And we should be giving them
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  chores to do. And we should be letting them
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  learn how to care for themselves.
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  And we should be letting them fold their clothes and put them
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  away, even though it's not right.
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  Which we will take up in other podcasts, but.
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  Right now this is all about just taking the inventory of the time
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  because it you can't fix 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.
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  Is to really sit and write out where am I spending chunks of my
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  time now? You'll be able to do this
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  immediately just based on the fact that you have a an
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  understanding of your daytime or your day, right, Your schedule
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  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 that are out
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  there, like getting lost on social media and someone will
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  say, well, that's just my guilty little pleasure, I love doing
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  that and that's totally fine. If you love doing it and it's
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  not bringing you pain and it's not taking you away from other
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  things that you could be doing or should be doing or want to be
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  doing, then it's not a big deal. But for most of us, it's more of
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  a sickness when we go down that road and we go too much.
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  So you allow yourself sometime, but not tons of time.
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  You know, one of the great things that my grandparents were
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  great at was always being. On point with allowing yourself
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  a certain amount of time to do it.
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  I remember my grandmother sitting there and watching her
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  stories, her soap operas and she would say, well, no, I only do
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  this in the afternoon and it's only for an hour.
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  And then I 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 things that she enjoyed as
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  well. So she always gave herself that
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  schedule of time to throw other things in.
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  And I think now most of us don't do that, We'll.
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  Say, well, I don't have time for that.
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  And that's just sad because we can make time for whatever we
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  want. We just have to schedule
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  ourselves and take back the time.
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  That does not add value. And when I say schedule
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  ourselves, I don't mean overbook yourself.
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  I mean look at your schedule and say, okay, where is all this
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  time going? Where is it being spent?
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  Where am I putting energy that it doesn't need to go?
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  So today I would love you to do your exercise.
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  In time inventory and maybe it's not just one day, maybe you need
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  to do this for a period of two or three days because days
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  aren't always the same. Like a day off is not the same
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  as a day working and a day working might not be the same as
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  if one day you're in in the office and one day you're in
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  your Home Office. So you might have to spend some
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  time actually pouring into this and saying, hey, I've got to do
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  this on a couple different levels so that I can see where
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  it's all going and then I can decide what's working, what's
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  not working. And where I can shift.
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  So hopefully you get this exercise done and you can start
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  to see where do I want to put my time instead of just having it
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  kind of be random. All right guys, have a great day
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  and I will see you tomorrow. Bye.