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Season 3 - Episode 92 - Putting things off · 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, good morning from the chicken coop everybody.
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  So today I want to talk to you about time and a specific angle
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  on time. Today the Buddha is quoted as
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  having said. The problem is you think you
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  have time. Such a hard phrase to hear,
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  right. The problem is you think you
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  have time. And in the big scheme of things,
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  we all believe we have time to do the things we want to do.
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  We all believe that we are going to have the time to take the
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  vacation by the RV, go on the trip, write the book, you know,
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  have the kids, get the dog, do whatever it is that we might
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  want to do. But really, do we have time.
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  And the question that this is a very big question for you to
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  contemplate today is all really it comes down to what are you
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  putting your focus on? And if something is truly
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  important to you, are you making the time in your life for it?
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  Because none of us are here for a guaranteed amount of time.
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  None of, none of us know when our expiration date is.
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  Even those that have been told they have an expiration date
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  don't necessarily know if that's true.
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  And it doesn't mean that it will be true just because another
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  human says it does not make it true.
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  And we get very hung up on the fact that we we'll put things
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  off and put things off and put things off because we are
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  dealing with minutiae. We are dealing with things that
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  are, you know, everyday stuff like doing laundry and cleaning
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  and, you know, taking care of paying bills and doing all the
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  crazy stuff that humans have to do in our daily lives to quote
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  UN quote, survive. And those things end up eating
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  us up and they take up our mental space.
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  They take up our capacity and put us in a place of just mostly
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  overwhelmed because there's so many of those menial tasks
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  around us all the time that we forget about the stuff that is
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  on maybe the bucket list, maybe it you call it the bucket list,
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  maybe you don't. I don't have a bucket list, but
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  I I have definitely, I have a list of things that will be done
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  in my lifetime and planning them all out.
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  And the challenge we have is we think we have time and we put
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  them off and we say well I'll get to that next year or I will
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  get to that in a five years. And we we put things on a
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  spectrum, assuming we will have all this time.
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  And the reality is we don't. We don't have all this time.
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  Life goes by very quickly. Anybody who has gone from the
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  age of 25 to 50 understands how quickly life goes by.
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  That feels that span of time in in digits seems like a long
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  time. But the truth is it goes by in a
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  heartbeat. It goes by when you see it.
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  You know, you're all of a sudden your kids that you had when you
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  were in your 20s are now in their 20s.
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  And you're going, holy cow, how did this happen?
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  And you're being presented with the fact that they're having
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  children and you're going to be a grandparent.
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  And you're like, how can I be a grandparent?
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  I still feel like I'm a kid. And there's this shock in you
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  that said, Oh my gosh. And even if you're not, think
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  about the time, even if you're young and you're listen to this,
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  think about the time you were in high school to now that you're
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  in your 20s, that is a chunk of time.
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  And it feels like it went by just in a snap of a finger.
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  So this, this concept of time that we have, it screws with us
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  and it makes us think, Oh yeah, I'll get to it, I'll get to it,
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  I'll get to it. But the reason I wanted to have
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  this conversation with you today is the exact reason why I I'm
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  out here in the chicken coop recording.
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  Because I had put this off and put this off and put this off
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  and I ran into this quote in one of my books.
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  I have it written down multiple times throughout my journals, my
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  notebooks, everything. The problem is you think you
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  have time. The problem is you think you
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  have time. And I've always been heavily
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  moved by the quote. Over the years I've done things,
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  I've taken trips, I've, I've jumped into jobs and done stuff
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  that people thought were absolutely insane, going to work
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  for Tony Robbins and giving up advertising and everything else.
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  Everyone thought, what are you doing?
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  It was based around this. The problem is you think you
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  have time because I lost my dad when he was 57 years old.
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  And to me, he was so young. And he said, you know, when he
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  was, he knew he was ill. He said, well, I've had a really
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  great life and I can't imagine, I can't imagine what that must
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  have felt like because I still feel like I have so much to do.
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  And I can't believe that now at that age, I'm sitting there
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  going, holy cow, I can't imagine that what he must have felt
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  like, because I feel like I have so much more that I want to do.
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  So when I come back to this whole thing, the problem is you
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  think you have time Now I recognize I don't.
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  So this was one of these things that I had talked about doing,
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  having chickens, they're a major force in my life to the
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  happiness and having them, having them just be a part of my
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  everyday life again. And I made it happen.
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  And when it came up to doing the the podcast and I had talked
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  about doing it for so long as I've said another podcast, this
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  was my natural. Like it just went off and it was
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  like a natural bells going off and saying, yes, this is it, go
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  do it in the chicken coop. And ever since I made the
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  decision, it's been every single day since then.
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  And I have not regretted it at all.
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  But it put me in a place or I had to think about, well, if
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  you're not going to do it now or when are you going to do it?
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  Because the problem is you think you have time.
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  So you either make the time or you sit there and think about
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  when will it be time. And I think that's the conundrum
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  that you have to ponder today. If you're not going to do it,
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  when will you do it? When will you make the time?
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  Because time goes by quickly. And the problem is we think we
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  have lots of it and we don't. So if there are things that just
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  you've always wanted to do, and there are things that you've
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  always wanted to experience, and there are things that you've
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  always wanted to say you tried. And even if it's sitting down
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  and doing something as solo as writing a book, whatever it
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  might be, you have to make the choice to say now is the time
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  and make those things happen. Because if you wait for the time
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  to show up, I promise you it won't.
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  It's just like there's never a good time to have a kid or buy a
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  house or get a puppy, whatever it might be.
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  It it this is all about what you put your focus on and your
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  intent. So don't go down the road of
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  constantly being under the illusion that you think you have
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  time because it's not promised to anybody.
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  So figure out what's special to you and make sure you understand
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  that I want to do this because it's important to me and I'm
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  going to make the time. I'm not just going to wait for
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  the time. I hope you guys have a blessed
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  day and I will see you tomorrow. Bye.