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Where is your attention going? · 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 everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So today I'm going to ask you a question that I ask myself
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  non-stop all the time and that is, where is my attention going?
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  Probably one of the most difficult questions I ask myself
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  because I am inherently like a squirrel.
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  I have that ability if I was a child.
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  Now I probably would have been diagnosed with ADHD when I was
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  little because I was constantly being told.
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  Hey, get back in your over here. Focus.
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  Where's your head at? Are you staring out the window
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  all of those things? But you know what?
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  That's just me and or what was me, still is me, but I have
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  control over it. Now, where I can put myself,
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  I've learned to bring my attention back by asking myself
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  this question. And also, I think that that it's
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  a very important thing. If you are like this to
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  recognize, you're not like this all the time if you're engrossed
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  in something and it takes over your mind.
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  And and it takes over your just everything, it consumes you
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  like, if you're reading a really good book or you're watching a
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  really good movie or you are completely like listening to
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  someone speak and you're just like, wow this person is so on
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  point. You will be grasped by the
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  there, their whole demeanor and what they're doing and then
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  you're consumed in your present. Well, this is rare though in our
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  world because we have so many things coming.
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  That's we talked about this before but the power and pull
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  yourself back and to constantly recognize where it's going is a
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  big deal. So I will say, how do I do it?
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  How do I teach my clients to do it?
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  How do I have everybody? Kind of be aware of it?
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  The first part is doing an exercise of awareness and the
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  exercise of awareness is to keep track of it.
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  Grab a pen and paper, put it in the notes app of your phone do
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  something. But start to keep really good
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  track of where your attention is going.
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  And I don't just mean a little bit of track.
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  I mean, a lot of track like you are, every time you catch
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  yourself somewhere else, you have to pull yourself back and
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  say, okay, where's my attention going right now?
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  Is this, what I said I was supposed to be doing, I'll give
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  you a good example. So this morning as I was getting
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  ready to come out to record for all of you.
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  I had my notebook, I had all the things that I wanted to talk
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  about kind of jotted down in the notebook because it's kind of
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  how I do it. I give myself big chunks of what
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  I'm going to talk. Out and then I just stick to it.
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  Well I had it all done and then my dog comes up and he's like
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  reminding me that it's time for him to have his medication
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  because he has allergies beyond belief.
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  So we have to give him some stuff that help him not have his
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  skin on fire all the time and it comes wrapped in little pieces
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  of turkey so he obviously loves to remind me that it's time for
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  this. So as soon as he did that I was
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  like all right. Okay well I've got a now mind
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  you two seconds before he did that.
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  That I was focused completely on writing down what I needed to do
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  when I came out here and get the chickens out of the coop for the
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  morning and open everything up. Well soon, as he did that it put
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  me on a path of saying oh well now that the dogs need
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  attention. Oh that's right, Lucy needs a
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  haircut. All right, I got to give her a
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  bath and I can't send her out for stuff like that because my
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  little dog loose, he's a rescue. And she's just so smart too,
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  smart for her own britches sometimes.
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  And she She kind of does not like to go when I've tried it.
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  Where I dropped her off. I've tried it.
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  Where I've had the truck come and have the people cutter.
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  And she's just afraid, I think she's afraid that somebody is
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  not going to come back and get her.
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  She came from a very abusive situation and we got her the
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  day, she was going to be put to sleep.
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  So somebody just brought her brighter brighter and then
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  dropped her off and so she's very nervous about things like
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  that, but the best little girl. So I taught myself how to give
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  her a haircut because that's the thing to do.
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  First it was Marc's idea and then I just said, all right,
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  I'll do it because she's so uncomfortable with the whole
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  thing. So then I started thinking, okay
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  I got to give her a bath and a haircut today.
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  Then I said started, grabbing a piece of paper and writing down
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  all these other things that had to be done because we're
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  cleaning up after the hurricane still.
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  And then I was thinking about okay, I've got to get this and
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  before you know it 15 minutes had gone by and I wasn't paying
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  attention to the fact that I needed to get out here and get
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  you guys a podcast. Get the girls out for the day.
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  So point is what saves me from those moments.
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  Because those moments consume us when we don't pay attention to
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  them. So I have to keep stop.
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  Where am I going? Where's my attention right now?
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  Where did I intend to be right now?
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  Oh, that's such a good question. Because if you could pull
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  yourself back and you can get to the place where you intended to
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  go and just keep reminding yourself.
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  I can finish this. Go to the next task.
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  All is good but when I don't finish what I said, I was going
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  to finish before I start something else, that's a problem
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  and having an order helps. So I sat there for another two
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  minutes and I created an order for what has happening today
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  this morning and what not, I put it in order and then I came
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  right out here and I started this for you and I wasn't going
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  to shoot this one today which was very funny but I thought,
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  okay, life lessons, here we go. I'm going to talk to them about
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  this because people often ask me.
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  How do you get so much done? Well this is it.
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  I caught. Stanley asked myself, these
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  questions, I constantly ask myself, where is my attention
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  going? What am I giving it to you right
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  now? Where am I supposed to be going?
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  Where was I intending to go those group of questions, help
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  immensely. So try that work on it and a
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  cultivated as a skill because I promise if you work on it you
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  will be able to have it as a skill and most of my family, my
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  clients, my friends never know the chaos that I used to live in
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  in my own head and And they all know I'm creative but they're
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  like, wow! I don't know how you can manage
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  that Dada. Well, it's because I learned to
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  manage the questions. It's not that I really changed
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  my patterns as much as I learned to manage myself and I direct
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  the energy because I don't want to kill that energy because I
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  think it's really creative and I like that.
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  It takes and random things sometimes, but I also have to
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  control it. So I hope you guys have an
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  amazing day and I will see you all tomorrow.