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The problem is you think you have time. · 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 master mindset.
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  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey, good morning.
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  From the chicken coop, everybody So today I want to talk to you
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  about time and the specific angle on time today.
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  The Buddha is quoted as having said, the problem is, you think
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  you have time? Such a hard phrase to here,
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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.
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  Write the book. Look, you know, have the kids
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  get the dog, do whatever it is that we might want to do, but
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  really do we have time. And the question that this is a
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  very big question for you to contemplate today is all,
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  really, it comes down to, what are you putting your focus on
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  and if something is truly important to you, are you making
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  the time in your life for it? Because, none of us are here for
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  a guaranteed amount of time. Now, them, none of us, know when
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  Expiration date is even those that have been told they have an
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  expiration date. Don't necessarily know if that's
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  true and it doesn't mean that it will be true.
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  Just because another human says, it does not make it true.
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  And we get very hung up on the fact that we will put things off
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  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 and
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  you know, taking care of Paying bills and doing all the crazy
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  stuff that humans have to do in our daily lives to quote,
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  unquote survive, and those things end up eating us up and
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  they take up our mental space. They take up our capacity and
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  put us in a place of just mostly overwhelmed because there's so
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  many of those menial tasks around us all the time that we
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  forget about the stuff that is on, maybe the bucket list, maybe
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  you call it the bucket list, maybe you don't, I don't have a
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  bucket list. I have definitely I have a list
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  of things that will be done in my lifetime and planning them
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  all out. And the challenge we have is we
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  think we have time and we put them off.
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  And we say well, I'll get to that next year or I will get to
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  that in a five years and we put things on a spectrum.
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  Assuming we will have all this time and the reality is we don't
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  we don't have all this time. My life goes by very quickly,
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  anybody who has gone from the age of 25 to 50 understands how
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  quickly life goes by. That feels that span of time in
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  digits. It seems like a long time.
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  But their truth, is it goes by in a heartbeat, it goes by.
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  When you see it, you know, you're all of a sudden your kids
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  that you had when you 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 Are 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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  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 that
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  said oh my gosh and even if you're not think about the time
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  even if you're young and you're listening to this think about
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  the time you were in high school to now that you're in your 20s
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  that is a chunk of time and it feels like it went by just in a
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  snap of a finger. So this this concept of time
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  that we have it screws with us, It makes us think.
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  Oh yeah, I'll get to it. I'll get to it, I'll get to it.
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  But the reason I wanted to have this conversation with you today
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  is the exact reason why I'm out here in the chicken coop
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  recording. Because I had put this off and
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  put this off and put this off. And I ran into this quote, in
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  one of my books. I have it written down multiple
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  times throughout my journals, my notebooks, everything.
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  The problem is, you think you have time?
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  The problem is, you think you have time?
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  And I've always been heavily. Moved by the quote, over the
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  years, I've done things, I've taken trips, I've jumped into
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  jobs and done stuff that people thought were absolutely insane
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  going to work for Tony Robbins and giving up advertising and
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  everything else. Everyone thought, what are you
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  doing? It was based around this.
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  The problem is you think you have time because I lost my dad
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  when he was 57 years old. And to me he was so young and he
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  said, you know, when he was he knew he was ill.
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  He said, well, I've had a really great life and I can't imagine,
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  I can't imagine what that must have felt like, because I still
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  feel like I have so much to do and I can't believe that.
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  Now, at that age I'm sitting there going, holy cow, I can't
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  imagine what he must have felt like because I feel like I have
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  so much more that I want to do. So when I come back to this
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  whole thing, the problem is, you think you have time now?
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  I recognize Don't. So this was one of these things
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  that I had talked about doing having chickens.
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  They Major Force in my life to that happiness, and having a
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  having them just be a part of my everyday life again and I made
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  it happen and when it came up to doing that the podcast and I had
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  talked about doing it for so long, as I've said another
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  podcast, this 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 decision
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  it's been every single day since then and I have not regretted it
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  at all but it put me in a place where I had to think about well
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  if 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 so you either make
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  the time or you sit there and think about when will it be
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  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, when
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  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 have
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  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, even if it's sitting down and
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  doing something as solo is 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, Oh 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 it.
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  This is all about what you put your focus on in your intent.
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  So don't go down the road of constantly being under the
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  illusion that you think you have time because it's not promised
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  to anybody. So figure out what special to
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  you and make sure you understand that I want to do this because
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  it's important to me and I'm going to make the time, I'm not
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  just going to wait for the time. Hope you guys have a blessed day
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  and I will see you tomorrow. Bye.