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Season 4 - Episode 272 - Small steps lead to big outcomes · 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. You are currently doing morning
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  chores with me in the house. The reason for this is based on
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  we've had a lot of conversation myself with clients talked about
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  it on here, finishing up the year, finishing up your list,
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  making sure you're doing the things that you wanted to have
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  done before we start adding new things onto the list.
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  And one of the interesting things that has been coming up
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  is well, I, I can't even look at that list.
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  I haven't been looking at that list, which was for that was a
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  rare one. But for some people that is
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  true. They look at the things they
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  really wanted to do, which isn't a problem that it's problems
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  itself because they ignored the ones that they had on there that
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  they didn't want to do, which is a big no, no in my world.
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  But that's a a story for another day.
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  So today, how do you how do you handle it like this is what
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  they're saying to people are even messaging in and saying,
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  Hey, how do I handle this? Because I feel crappy.
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  I didn't do some of the stuff on this list.
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  I don't know where I'm going to find the time.
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  I don't know what's going to happen.
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  I'm even going to get a chance to do all of this.
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  And those are great questions, especially when you have been
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  putting things off. And putting things off is never,
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  ever, ever a good strategy to deal with something when you
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  have to deal with it. It's better to grab the bull by
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  the horns and do it. But let's assume for a minute
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  that you didn't do that because we all do that and we all put
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  things off. Even me, I do it with the things
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  that I don't want to do, which is why I'm very specific and
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  careful about not putting things on my list that are things that
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  I can leverage out or don't want to do for some reason myself.
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  And the ones that I'm really have to be the one to do, I find
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  a way to make it fun. I work at it.
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  I reward myself with chocolate. I go to the NTH degree to to
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  kind of figure out how to make me want to do it more.
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  However, right now we're talking about what do you do when you've
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  got this list in front of you? Well, the first thing is you've
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  got to make it digestible. So This is why you're doing
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  chores with me right now. I don't mind doing my morning
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  chores ever because I have conditioned myself to believe
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  that every time I do one thing, I hear this like little clapping
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  in my head, if you will, where I'm like, OK, that's done,
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  that's done, that's done, that's done.
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  And I like hearing myself go through that process of like,
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  OK, that's taken care of. So currently we are making my
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  bed and as soon as I can make the bed, that is the thing I do
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  to make the bed. And but what I mean by that is
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  because I have to wait for my husband to get up and get out.
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  That's one of those things. As soon as he's up and out, the
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  joke is he doesn't. The sheets aren't even cooled
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  off and he's the beds already made.
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  And that's true it it's actually a true statement.
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  I do laundry every day. I chip away at things.
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  I don't let stuff build up. So doing that gives me a clean
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  slate and I don't have to stress about time because the time I'm
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  buying it back by doing things in increments differently.
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  So that list of things that's sitting there that you may have
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  to do, you have to decide, OK, am I, am I conflating these
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  issues of my daily stuff with the stuff that I didn't get
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  done, which was my goal stuff? Because there are daily goals.
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  There are weekly goals, monthly goes, yearly goes.
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  We have so many goals and we just have to realize, are we
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  conflating them? Is there a way for us to break
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  them out? How do we focus on them and make
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  them digestible? Into digestible chunks, my
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  friends, is the key. And if you can do the digestible
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  chunks, you're going to feel a heck of a lot better in the
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  process because you're going to see more wins along the way.
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  It only makes sense. And as you see more wins along
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  the way, you're going to feel more comfortable and you're
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  going to be like, OK, yes. And one, once you get on a roll,
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  it feels better. So the first thing is don't
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  allow yourself to become the person who just beats yourself
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  up and go, well, that didn't even make a dent in it.
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  Don't allow that. Celebrate every little tiny win.
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  Every, and I mean it, every little tiny win.
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  OK, I just made the bed. Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding.
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  Winner, winner, chicken dinner. No pun intended with the chicken
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  part, but you get my point. Everything that you do, I don't
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  care if it's cleaning the cat box.
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  All those little chores add up. All those little chores make a
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  difference. All those little chores make us
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  feel like we've gotten more and more and more accomplished.
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  I mean, I, I like to believe that nobody can get more things
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  done in a day than me. And that's only because I chip
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  away at all those little ones. I don't make it just about these
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  big giant goals that are not going to happen in one day.
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  They're just not all going to happen in one day.
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  So I don't tear myself apart trying to figure that piece out.
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  I just go through and I do 1111111.
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  So if you've got a lot of things on that list and those things on
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  that list are are really bothering you, chunk them down.
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  Figure out what are the small ones that you can do pretty
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  effortlessly. Even if it's not effortlessly,
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  what are the smaller ones? And just start.
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  And once you start doing it, it will flow and make it a lot
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  easier. So I'm going to go finish the
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  chores of the morning. I'm going to go start my son's
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  breakfast, wake him up because he has a work day today and get
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  him off to, to, to work and see how the rest of my day goes.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Remember, chip away small,
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  small, small and I'll see you then.
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  Bye.