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Season 2 - Episode 343 - You’ll feel better when it’s done · 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, everybody. Good morning from the chicken
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  coop. So let's talk about this
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  challenge that we all have when we put things off.
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  Boy, is that something that is such a human trait.
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  It's crazy putting things off, myself included.
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  There are times when I do not want to be disciplined and I do
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  not want to do what I need to do.
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  And I get just whiny about having to do something and I
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  don't whine externally. It's internal whining.
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  It's the fact that I will have these unending chattery
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  conversations with myself. And I know we already talked
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  about chatter earlier in the week, but I I wanted to make
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  sure that this one particular thing about, you know, getting
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  things done, putting things off is such a big deal.
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  Especially now because this particular time, end of year,
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  people feel the crunch coming down.
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  It's like oh, it's going to end. It's going to end, it's going to
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  end. And there are so many things
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  that we want to get done. We put ourselves under this
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  massive amount of pressure and we and then we don't do it.
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  We actually just put it off and we say, OK, I'll get to it
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  later, I'll do it tomorrow, I'll do it tomorrow.
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  And and we know we feel terrible in the process of saying that.
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  We feel absolutely terrible that we are saying I'll do it
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  tomorrow or I have to do this or oh, I don't feel like doing
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  this. And we know we're going to feel
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  better when it's complete, when it's actually done.
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  But what stops us? Why don't we actually do it?
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  Why do we procrastinate it and sit there and let it eat us up?
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  You know, there are many theories on procrastination, but
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  the ones that I find in my work that are very true for a lot of
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  people that I work with it, it it comes down to simple things.
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  There are some things that we just don't like to do simple
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  truth, we don't like to do it. Therefore we absolutely just
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  stop ourselves from doing it. And when you get people to be
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  really honest and you say, well, what's the reason you don't do
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  it? And they're just like, I just
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  hate doing it. You know, if it if we're talking
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  about working out or going to the gym, there's sometimes I'll,
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  I'll be talking to somebody and I'm like, look, you know, you
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  need to do it, right? Yes.
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  You were told you need to lose weight, get healthier, stop
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  eating sugar, whatever it might be, Yes.
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  OK. So what's the reason you don't
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  do it? And then they just stop and they
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  look at, you know, you look at that, that that moment of
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  yourself and you're just going, it's a this is a truth bomb
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  moment. What is it?
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  I just don't want to. But it's hard to hear yourself
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  say, I just don't want to do it. And then you have to say, OK, I
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  get it, you don't want to do it. Do you want to just allow the
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  circumstances of not doing it to take over?
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  No. OK, Well, what can we do to
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  change that? What's a way that we can change
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  that? Is there some part of it that
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  you can break it down and just start doing small things with
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  it? Or is there is there someone you
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  can leverage some of it to? Now the workout stuff?
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  You can't leverage your workouts.
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  Trust me, I tried. You can't.
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  It doesn't work. Even when you start to get
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  accountability buddies to go with you, it doesn't always
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  work. They don't show up.
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  You don't show up. It's really hard to find
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  consistency in this world, and you have to create it for
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  yourself. You really have to create it for
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  yourself. So it's fundamental to say gotta
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  know these little tiny things. Am I telling myself the truth
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  about it? Because you know you're going to
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  feel better when it's done. And if you answer, yeah, I'm
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  going to feel better when it's done, then say, OK, let's get
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  very clear, how long will it take you to actually do whatever
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  it is that you need to do. Be very honest, Don't say 15
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  minutes. If it's going to take 45, tell
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  the truth so that, you know, say, alright, well, I could sit
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  down and just bang it out. It might take me 30 minutes, but
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  I'm going to give myself 45, OK? And then work towards saying to
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  yourself, if I had myself set up, I had the right snacks.
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  If I had the right drinks, if I got myself into the right place,
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  could I get this done? Could I just sit there and do it
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  now? A Full disclosure right now.
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  I went through all of this working on getting ready to
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  launch the website. It was so much work, so many
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  questions, so many details. I did not do it by myself.
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  I had my team helping me and it was still every, every question
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  comes back to Kim, what about this?
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  Do you want this? Do you want this?
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  And I got to the point where I was sick of making decisions.
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  I got sick of making decisions and I felt all wrapped up in it
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  and I didn't want to do it anymore.
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  And I was just saying to myself, I just want this to be done
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  well. When you get to the point where
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  you just want it to be done and you're agonizing over it and you
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  know you're going to feel better when it's done.
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  I kept getting up, taking a deep breath, going for a quick walk,
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  coming back in, sitting down and saying, OK, I've got 130 minute
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  gap, what can I do right now? Pick one thing, do it, get up,
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  celebrate it right down. That's my win.
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  Walk away. So at the end of the day, when I
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  could have the 15 minutes, the 10 minutes, the 30 minutes, I
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  could tally up all those times that I could get things done and
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  then be able to look at it and say, wow, I did actually get a
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  lot done today. That is the best way around this
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  because you know you're going to feel better when it's done.
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  So just try to break down the process.
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  Little tiny bits. We do not try to eat the entire
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  sandwich in one bite. We try to break it down.
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  We don't want to choke. Hopefully this is helpful.
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  Hopefully you're going to get to work on it and you'll be able to
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  take your projects to the end of the year and finish them strong.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.