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Season 4 - Episode 163 - Lessons from the shifting schedule. · 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 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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  Today is a day where. I actually don't have to drive
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  anywhere. In the morning and that may.
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  Sound strange? To you, but on a Saturday for 2
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  1/2 years every morning, Saturday morning I have had to.
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  Drive my son early. To a job that he had and I would
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  have to get up. Get the chickens.
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  Get. The dogs get everybody taken
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  care of and then move on. And drive my son to.
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  This job that he had and I never minded.
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  It was such a great thing. It's not far away.
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  It was a. Perfect thing in training for
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  him and this morning is the 1st morning that I don't have to do
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  it and he doesn't have to wake up on a Saturday.
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  So he is currently doing an apprenticeship and this
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  apprenticeship is going to lead him right into his career.
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  He is, we're shifting his school schedule in order to accommodate
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  this. He's going to be doing three
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  days a week on site with this company and being trained to be
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  a plumber and he is loving it. And then he'll do two days a
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  week of online school. He'll get credit for doing all
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  the plumbing work and it gives him the weekends off.
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  But wow can I just say I never even realized how driving him.
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  Like was. Such a pattern that I worked
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  everything around it. So this morning, here I am, I'm
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  saying, all right. And I was in the same mode I'm
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  I've always been in, even though I knew I didn't have to drive.
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  And I was like, OK, I'm going to get up.
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  And then I realized, oh, wait, I don't have to drive.
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  Then I was like, Oh my goodness, I can, after I shoot the
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  podcast, I can actually go and take the camera and film before
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  the sun comes up completely and it gets too hot because it's
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  really hot here right now. And I started to get all excited
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  and I was like, wow, isn't it amazing how 1 little thing.
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  Now this drive from beginning to end, the total drive took me 1/2
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  an hour, 15 minutes out, 15 minutes back.
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  Not a big deal, but how that one little thing it, it, it really
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  like changed the portion of the morning because by the time I
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  would get back from that drive, I could the sun was already over
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  the trees. It was going to be hot already.
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  And then therefore I couldn't actually go out and film the
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  same way. I mean, I could do it, but it
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  was going to be in the hot sun. So I'm bringing this up because
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  I want you to recognize how these little things like this
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  something that didn't even annoy me that I was happy to take him
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  when it's out and you know, you have some restructuring, boy,
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  how does that change everything? Now in the same, the same story.
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  Part of it, he's got to drive, He's got to get to his
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  apprenticeship. And I drive him down to the
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  apprenticeship. Now, those three days a week, so
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  Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, which I normally don't do.
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  I've I've never driven during the week because I work
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  remotely. So now I'm doing that with him
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  in the morning and we're getting up even earlier.
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  Now here's the other thing. You would think, Oh OK, yes,
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  you're beating all the traffic. But then that eats into the time
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  that I would get up and I would actually use for creative time.
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  And boy, how that has changed something.
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  So all of these little tiny things, little tiny things.
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  And that ride is much longer. That's 1/2 an hour down and 1/2
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  an hour back. So it's an hour out of my
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  morning before I even start coaching.
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  So it makes a. Massive difference to how I'm
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  structuring my day and what I'm doing.
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  But the point of bringing all of.
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  This up is to say. One, I enjoy the ride with him
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  in the morning because we get to talk about all.
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  Kinds of. Stuff and I'm learning all the
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  plumbing. Things, my friends.
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  He's telling me everything about plumbing tools and how we need
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  Milwaukee tools and how he, he can fix this for me and he wants
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  to do that and how the plumber who initially built our house
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  didn't, you know, do it the right way And he, you know, he
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  didn't can't even use the proper putty, mom.
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  He's checking all the sinks and it just makes my heart so happy
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  to see him so happy doing this. And.
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  I get to spend that extra time with him and really talk to him
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  in the car, so that part's totally fine.
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  But what do I do about the? Lost hours.
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  That's where my certainty curl comes and she says, well, what
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  do I do about the lost hours? Well, find a way to shift other
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  things around. And that's the whole point of
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  this, looking at your days, looking at what you're doing and
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  saying, how am I going to change this up?
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  How am I going to change the whole thing up?
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  How am I going to shift this so that I can truly make a, a
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  difference in how I'm doing something and in, in whatever it
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  is, the projects, the people, whatever.
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  But how can I shift my time around and look at it and view
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  it differently? So I am working on this now
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  pushing my Monday and Tuesday when I'm not driving, driving to
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  the days where I would normally stretch projects out longer.
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  I'm going to power in those Monday and Tuesdays.
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  And then that's how I'm going to solve my problem.
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  Now that may seem like, oh, what are you going to do?
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  Get up earlier? Yes, yes, I'm going to get up
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  earlier. And if that means I get up at
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  4:00 AM, that means I get up at 4:00 AM because guess what?
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  That's how you get things done. So if I'm on a path of
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  greatness, I'm going to stick to it.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day.
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  I hope this helps and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.