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Season 2 - Episode 302 - Brain dumping your time challenges · 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 mastermind set
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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 coop.
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  So in our Energy Series, here we are talking today about time
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  management because so many people say they suck at time
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  management and they'll say I've tried time blocking, I've tried
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  schedules that are electronic, I've tried written ones, I've
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  tried it all and nothing works well.
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  Usually, typically when that happens and you are that person
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  that's struggling with that. There's a big question of, well,
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  do you really want to do the things that you have on your
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  schedule? And as soon as I say that,
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  people will either start laughing or crying.
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  I mean, it's usually one of those two reactions.
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  And they're like, yeah, probably I don't want to do them.
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  And yeah, probably that's true. So we will avoid the things we
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  don't want to do. And it doesn't matter if they're
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  on the calendar, doesn't matter if they're staring us right in
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  the face. We will put them off to the side
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  because we don't want to do them and it's a problem.
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  Now the question comes back to do you really have to do them
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  and are they something that you can leverage?
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  And if you can leverage, why are you not leveraging them?
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  We have to look at these things because if you're trying to
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  manage time and you're putting so much into your schedule that
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  you can't handle it and you don't want to do the things
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  you're supposed to handle, you're you've created a perfect
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  recipe for disaster. You're you're.
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  As I love to tell people it's a successful strategy for failure.
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  Because you can't. You're not going to get past
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  yourself because you're trying to create enough discomfort that
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  you force yourself. The part of your you that's
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  really like you you let's let's let's think of it this way.
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  Your heart is trying to make you uncomfortable enough so that
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  your head will actually do something different and it will
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  just keep doing it. It will just keep doing it until
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  something changes. So.
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  You can change it or you can keep suffering, but I would hope
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  that you would look at it so you could change it.
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  Now the biggest piece of for me of time management with clients
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  all the time. Once you recognize this part of
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  it and you really got a handle on what that looks like as far
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  as what you don't want to do, what you can leverage, I'm
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  telling you, sit down and make lists.
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  Make a list of everything so you can see it and categorize it.
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  And once you have that list, you have a power list, You can start
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  to decide, OK, this is going to go here.
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  I'm going to leverage this out. I'm going to have somebody else
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  take this on. Even things like grocery
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  shopping that stress people out, you have ways now to get around
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  that. You can go on your phone, order
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  the groceries, have them. They're all packaged up.
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  You pull up to the grocery store and they hand you your stuff and
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  it's all paid for. I actually had a client tell me
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  recently. And that she's like, well, what
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  if they don't pick what I want? I'm like, well, they'll fix it.
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  And she's like, oh, but then I'd have to drive back and I said
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  yes, but you'd already have 95% of all the things that you
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  wanted, right? So isn't that better than that?
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  And she's like, well, I guess I never thought of it that way.
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  And this is what happens. We get so stuck in our sense of
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  control over things and trying to make it be something that is,
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  you know, just. Outside of our reach, we're just
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  like, ah, just you're so used to complaining about it, you don't
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  look at it to fix it. And there are great ways to fix
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  things, my friends, so it doesn't matter.
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  It's it's putting yourself into the position of recognizing the
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  stress. And I genuinely mean this.
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  The stress of dealing with time and the things that you put on
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  the list is far more detrimental than anything you will ever
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  experience if they put the wrong thing in the grocery bag.
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  Like, I know that sounds funny, but it really will.
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  The stress is killing us, all of us, slowly, unless we manage it.
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  So we have to think about this. And stress from time is the
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  number one thing that I hear people complain about all all
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  the time. They mention it nearly every
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  time that we, I will talk to people, they'll say, Oh yeah, I
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  lost track of time, stress of this and blah blah, too much
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  because we put too much on our plates.
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  So first and foremost, The thing is look at.
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  Once you have that list down and you can figure out what you're
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  leveraging and sort it all out, if you can't leverage things,
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  then it's like, OK, well then you have to paste them into the
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  calendar. You don't block them all into
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  one day. Now I admittedly am a like I
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  like to call it, eating the broccoli.
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  So there are days when I will eat the broccoli and I will just
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  stack the entire day with things.
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  And admittedly, I know it's a risk.
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  And admittedly. I usually screw it up and I
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  don't get it complete because it's too much.
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  I did that to myself over the weekend and I stacked myself
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  with recording, recording, recording, and I was stressing
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  myself out and I'm like, why am I doing this?
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  I knew this was a problem when I know I still have another day
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  that I can do it and I just didn't schedule it that way.
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  So I stopped. I restructured, I rescheduled,
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  and I immediately felt the difference in my body.
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  I immediately was able to like just.
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  Change my whole perspective because I had changed my time.
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  I changed I I I was just really focused on where can I put it,
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  where can I go. And I had a full day coming up
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  where I can take care of what I need to take care of.
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  And that's what happened. And as soon as I did that, I was
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  like, OK, I'm good. I'm in a much better place.
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  So stop. Go back and look at those things
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  first and foremost. See.
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  Make the list. Do the brain dump of all the
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  stuff so you can figure out what's correct for you, what can
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  be leveraged, what you can. Then reschedule out and give
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  yourself enough time. OK, my friends, I will see you
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  tomorrow. I hope you have a blessed day.
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  Bye.