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Season 4 - Episode 47 - Halfway through the first 45 days of the year. · 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 happen 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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  So today we are talking about getting ourselves ready for the
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  second-half of February. So we are halfway through
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  February and quite honestly, this is a very tricky time for
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  people because we're 45 days roughly into the year and this
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  is when people start to fall off whatever their intentions were.
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  So whatever you thought you were going to be doing, whatever your
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  goals were, intentions, all of that, this is a time when we
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  start to see it go sideways, when we start to see things that
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  get to be, you know, in our way and we fall off.
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  We definitely fall off. Just like I told you, I had a
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  headache now yesterday when on the on the podcast, when I
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  talked about the fact that I missed the jump roping.
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  So but but again, it's not just because of the headache.
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  This is just that time of the year when we are grinding into
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  it. We're making sure that we're
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  getting stuff done and then all of a sudden it starts to wane,
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  whether it's my like just jump roping, whatever happened with
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  the headache or it's a project you're working on or whatever.
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  We tend as human beings to hit that 45 day mark and we fall
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  apart. So the first thing is to ask
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  yourself, am I on track? Let's take a measure today.
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  Am I on track for what I intended?
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  Am I on track for what I wanted to do?
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  And truly, if you're not, it's OK because it's very normal.
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  Everybody does it. It's very common.
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  Hear it all the time. What's not common is the course
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  correction. People fall off of it and then
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  they do nothing about it. They just fuck whatever.
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  It didn't work out. I lost it.
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  I lost my momentum and it just fell apart.
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  But that's not what we want to see happen.
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  What we want to see happen is to say, OK, I need desperately to
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  check in on myself. So whatever you're doing, you
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  take the time to check in and say, OK, where am I in the
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  process? First things first.
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  Yes, Rufus. Yes, take a measure and say, OK,
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  where am I? Second thing is, once you have
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  that, there's no beating yourself up.
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  OK? If you feel bad that you fell
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  off, it's OK to feel bad. It's just not OK to stay there.
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  The message that you're getting is I got to do something about
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  this now. It's not just about you doing
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  something, it's about you looking at, am I, am I
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  leveraging? I've had that conversation so
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  much in the past couple of days with people about how you need
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  to leverage what you're supposed to be doing.
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  Instead of trying to do it all by yourself.
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  Give yourself the opportunity to like, can I put this out to
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  somebody else? Can someone help me?
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  Can I, even if you can't hire somebody who can, you get to
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  potentially help you with things?
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  And it's important because there are a lot of little things like
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  I have to go out and organize my whole seed area.
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  We're getting ready to do seeds and that was on my goal list for
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  this, this part of the year. Have to get them in by the end
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  of February to be ready to put them in the ground by April
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  first, maybe end of March, but we'll see how the the weather is
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  going. But in any event, have to get
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  them out and be ready to do that and I need help setting that
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  area up. So I'm getting my recruiting, my
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  son to help me because why not? He's great at this and I can
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  help him. If I had to do it by myself, it
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  would take far longer so I can leverage it out.
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  The third thing is, if you can't leverage, you have to ask
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  yourself what happened in my schedule or in my plan that took
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  me sideways? Was it time?
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  Was it energy? Was it just money?
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  What was it that took you sideways on it?
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  Was it just not making it a high enough priority?
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  We've talked about this before. Is it a high enough priority?
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  And if it's not, then we need to do something about that.
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  And then the next part of this is, OK, what am I going to do to
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  change it and make it different for moving forward?
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  Because if I don't do that, if I don't make it different, I'm
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  just going to be in the same spot in the next 45 days.
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  By the time we hit that 90 day mark, you'll be pissed off at
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  yourself for the not doing what you wanted to do.
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  And I would rather avoid that now and check in.
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  So you can say I'm making progress.
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  I'm doing what I need to do, but it only happens when you measure
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  and consistently measure. So let's do this.
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  Let's put it all on paper and put it in front of you.
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  And if you have to, which I highly recommend, use sticky
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  notes to remind yourself of the things that you want to do.
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  Put the stickies out in front of you so, you know, on your
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  computer, on your mirror, in your bathroom, your
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  refrigerator, whatever it needs. The screen of my computer is a
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  great thing because I know I'm going to open the screen of that
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  computer and I'm going to see it.
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  It's going to be right in my face.
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  So I can create screenshots that have messages to me on it.
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  I can print things out. I use print, I use my
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  whiteboard, I use my computer. I have everything in front of me
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  so that I know it. I can't escape seeing it.
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  Then it gets my priority. It gets my my attention.
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  So that's what I would recommend.
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  And I also would recommend saying to yourself, OK, it
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  doesn't matter where I intended to be.
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  It matters where I am right now and re sculpting it, because if
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  I can do that, then I can course correct and I've learned a
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  lesson. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.