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Season 5 - Episode 24 - How much help do you need? · 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.
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  World. So welcome to the coop, and
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  let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody good. Morning from the chicken coop.
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  There are often times in our lives when we really, really,
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  really need to ask for help and we just don't like to ask for
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  help. We for one reason or another, we
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  just hunker down into doing things by ourselves.
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  And sometimes that becomes a habit and sometimes that be
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  habit becomes something that it's really hard to break.
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  And then it becomes more of a characteristic of ourselves and
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  you know it, it affects us greatly overall.
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  So how do you how do you handle that?
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  And how do you know that that's really become something that is
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  a habit more than something about like who you are as a
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  person? I'm very guilty of this.
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  I like to do things by myself, one, because organically I'm an
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  only child. So it was very easy for me to,
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  you know, hunker into, I got to figure this out on my own.
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  I got to do this on my own. And often when I did ask for
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  help, I asked the wrong people and ended up in a very
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  precarious situation because sometimes when I did ask for
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  help, it would create more of a problem because I would end up
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  getting in arguments about, no, that's not what I asked.
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  I just wanted this. And, and it just turned into
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  something in my adult life as I grew where I figured, you know
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  what? I'm better off doing this by
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  myself. And I know there are a lot of
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  people out there that feel that way as as strongly as I do.
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  You're better off doing it by yourself.
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  And there are times where I still agree with that.
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  You have to go through things and you have to deal with them
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  on your own. I realized that as I was
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  building and, and have, and I am building this YouTube channel, I
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  had started off and I said, oh, I need to have somebody come and
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  shoot it for me because I can't figure out how to do it myself.
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  And I was stubborn about it and I hired people and it didn't
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  work out. And the videos they shot were
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  terrible. And I then had to go and say,
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  OK, I'm to shoot it myself. And I did it.
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  And then I hired people to edit them.
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  And then they were great in the beginning, but then they started
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  to change and slack off. And it was something that was
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  like, OK, well, that didn't work out.
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  So I had to change that. And then I had to learn how to
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  edit it. Now I can sit here and very
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  optimistically say to you that over the course of all of this
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  experience, I have been very blessed with the fact that now I
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  have taught myself how to shoot. I have taught myself how to
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  edit. I am not great at it by any
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  stretch of the means, but I am way better than I, it was six
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  months ago. And, and I had, I've had two
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  videos on YouTube on shorts. I'm working on shorts only, no
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  longs yet, but I've got them out there and they've gotten over
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  20,000 views. One of them is almost 30,000
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  views, which is huge for short and especially if it's 11
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  seconds. So I'm, I'm learning all of it.
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  But the point is I got into that and it reinforced my you have to
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  do it by yourself. Now everything is a double edged
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  sword. Yeah, I mean, I'm learning a lot
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  and I'm enjoying it and I actually like editing now that
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  I'm doing it and I actually enjoy figuring out little things
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  to shoot and what I want to say and planning my content for the
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  longs and everything else. I'm greatly enjoying it, but
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  doing it by myself. Let's go back to that because
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  this is where it comes down to, OK, you can't do everything by
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  yourself. You have to segment parts of
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  your business. You have to segment parts of
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  your life. You have to decide.
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  Like my daughter has recently decided that she just does not
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  have time to go in the grocery store.
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  And when she does go in the grocery store, it causes her so
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  much stress because she ends up buying more than she intended.
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  And they're on a budget. So what does she do?
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  She's like, I have to just have them pack it up and I pull up or
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  I do delivery because that way it keeps me out of there and
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  keeps me buying extra things. And I agree.
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  And that's not doing it all by yourself.
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  And then it's there, you unpack it and you don't lose the two or
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  three hours it takes to go buy things.
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  But sometimes it doesn't work out that way.
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  You know, you want to go buy your stuff, but we have to
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  examine where we're willing to take help and where we're
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  willing to say that's an old pattern.
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  I don't want that pattern anymore.
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  And then when we say no, I actually enjoy that.
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  So as we're at the very beginning of the year, it is
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  extremely advantageous to look and say, where am I doing things
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  by myself that I really like doing by myself?
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  Like you're not like if you knit, you're not going to, you
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  know, all of a sudden say, oh, I'm going to.
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  I still want the blanket, but I'm just going to give this task
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  to someone else. Like that's silly, but there are
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  other things that you can do and, and that's the point of
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  saving time before the year even goes on.
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  Save the time, figure it out. Look for where you can
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  specifically farm things out, no pun intended, but get it off
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  your plate so that you can say, OK, I have more time for the
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  things I want and allow people to help you where you're
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  comfortable with it. And, you know, push yourself
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  sometimes to allow people to help you.
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  It's always a good thing. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.