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Season 3 - Episode 278 - What’s the return on investment? · 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 mastermindset
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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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  Today we're going to talk about something unique.
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  It's about investment, but not about money.
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  It's about, well, it could be about money, but really this is
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  not about money. It is about what you get your
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  value out of. So when you put effort into
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  something, you get something out of it.
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  So we're looking for things that 10 times your investment.
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  Meaning if I work in the garden, I go out and I'm planting,
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  planning, doing all the stuff that I do in the garden from the
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  beginning of the year to the end of the year and right on through
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  as I get ready to RIP it all out and get ready for what's next.
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  That 10 times my investment. Really for me it's 100 times my
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  investment because when I invest that time, what it does for me
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  physically, what it does for me emotionally, what it does for
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  me, you know, it's spiritually and honestly.
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  And then in return for what I get out of it and vegetables,
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  it's 100 times my investment of what I pour into it.
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  So I like to take a scale and say, OK, this is either going to
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  be a negative investment or it's going to go all the way up to
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  100, can go beyond. Some people will say well,
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  that's a 10 times my investment. Sometimes people will say, well,
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  that's not worth anything, doesn't give me anything back.
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  And when you start looking at things like that, often times
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  people will get uncomfortable and they'll say, well, you're
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  not supposed to look at things that way.
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  Well, usually that's when that shows up, when that feeling and
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  that emotion comes up like, well, you can't look at it about
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  am I getting anything out of it? Because that feels selfish.
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  But to me, you have to look at those things in order to know if
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  they are time is precious. And you've got to know if you're
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  like, if it's, is it worth your time?
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  Is it worth you putting your time into that most, most of
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  when you do this, most of the measurements will give you
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  accuracy about it's worth your time.
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  But you really do need to know because time is precious.
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  My friends, it goes by. Can't believe it's October,
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  can't believe we're at the end of the year.
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  Can't believe all the things that are happening, you know, so
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  rapidly in life now. And I, I remember when I was a
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  kid, it seemed like it took forever for a year to go by.
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  And now it seems like a year goes by in a month.
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  It just goes so quickly. And it's strange how time does
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  the bending and time changes things for us, but the truth is
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  it does. And when you start looking at
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  the, the reality of, OK, I really need to make sure this is
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  worth my investment. This is, it's not about just
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  being selfish. It's about recognizing that your
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  time is precious and it should go in the right direction and it
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  should yield you in all the categories.
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  Things should yield you, even if it's not, you know, across the
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  board it, it should those categories of physical,
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  emotional, spiritual, all of those categories that you have
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  for your life, you should measure it against it and say,
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  you know, while this may be good for two or three of these
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  categories, it's not good for one of them.
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  So am I willing to keep doing this?
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  Am I willing to keep putting it out there?
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  And the answer should be yes. The answer should be, you know,
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  a strong yes. If you've got 2-3, four of them
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  that are working, sure, why not? You should keep doing it.
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  If you don't, then you've got to really look at it and say, OK,
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  well, if it's just one, is it the one that means the most to
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  me? I guarantee you, you rarely have
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  one because if, if there, if there's a one that's high.
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  If something just does something for you spiritually, it's also
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  doing something for you mentally, emotionally, it does.
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  It's just it's a personal tracker of how you start to
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  think of things. And everybody measures things
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  differently. So you have to really dig in
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  with yourself or with your coach, if you're using a coach
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  and figure out those categories and measure them in those
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  categories and really get clarity on it.
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  Because I promise you if you do that, you will be much happier
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  with your efforts and you'll know this is for greater good.
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  So I'll give you an example. For me, sitting down and writing
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  a book is a very spiritual experience for me because I feel
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  like I don't write them by myself.
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  I feel like I, there's just a spiritual sense of other energy
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  in me that comes through when I'm doing it.
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  Like I'll be like, wow, I can't even believe I just thought of
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  that. It's I can't explain it.
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  I just can't. But what that does for me
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  physically, yeah, it, it, it's not a, it's not an easy thing
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  for me physically since I don't like to sit still.
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  And I do dictate a lot of it because it's an easier way for
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  me to satisfy the physical of walking, which is what I do when
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  I coach people. But what it does for me
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  spiritually is off the chart. What it does for me mentally is
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  off the chart. But the physical is low.
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  So I have to adapt. I have to say, is it worth it?
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  Are those other two categories high enough?
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  And plus I've got creativity in there.
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  It all for me, it's all worth it, even though there's one
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  that's very low, but I've measured it to no to check in.
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  So that's what I'm suggesting. So go out there, really figure
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  out what are your 10 to 100 times returns on the things you
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  invest your time in and know it, own it.
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  And if you have to fix it, you fix it.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.