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Season 4 - Episode 11 - Responsibilities need to be considered · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to 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 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. So today we're talking about
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  responsibilities and how when you add on new goals, new
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  outcomes, new intentions, the responsibility factor goes up.
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  Now you would think this would be logical.
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  I mean, you would say, OK, if I'm going to start a new project
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  or I'm going to start a new endeavor, I'm going to
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  understand that there are going to be unintended consequences
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  maybe that go along with it. So give you a, for instance, you
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  know, you all know I'm doing the jump roping thing and that I
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  have to add that into my schedule.
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  Like that's obvious. If I'm going to do it, I have to
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  add it into my schedule and my schedule is pretty tight.
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  Like I keep a really tight calendar during, especially
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  during the week, I keep a very tight calendar.
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  On the weekends it's very Willy nilly, but during the week I
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  keep a very tight calendar. So if I'm going to slide
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  something in, that means I have to make sure I have the time to
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  do it, which I did. And then you have to realize
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  there are unintended consequences that go along with
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  things. So meaning my responsibilities
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  get moved around, other things happen.
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  I have to make sure I'm adding in enough time or I'm giving
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  myself time on either sides of getting my son ready for school.
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  All these little things all have to be taken into consideration.
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  But where we usually fall short is when we take something on.
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  We don't necessarily think about the responsibilities that will
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  come along with it. The other, the parts of this
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  that will say, oh, like, I want a dog and everyone says, oh,
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  yeah, dogs are a lot of work. Yeah, I know, but I'll be able
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  to do it. But fully understanding the
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  responsibilities of something, no matter what it is, a dog
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  taking a, a you know, a new job, looking to up level yourself,
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  mentor someone, whatever it might be.
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  There are responsibilities that need to be considered.
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  And when you don't consider all of them, you leave yourself open
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  for failure, criticism, feeling like you're depleted.
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  There are a host of things that can show up when this happens.
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  So how do we circumvent this? How do we deal with this?
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  Well, first and foremost, it's imperative to remember to ask
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  the right questions and to say, OK, I really have to look at
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  what responsibilities are going to go along with this so that I
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  know and I can make a list. If you are at the point in your
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  process of the year where you're like struggling all ready to get
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  off the ground with your goals, which is happening for some
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  people. Believe me, I know.
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  I spoke to enough people this week and I hear exactly what's
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  happening. And even though we talked about
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  this, they're like, well, I didn't think about this one.
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  And they, in fact, a few of my clients put in things that we
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  never discussed. So we never fully brainstormed
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  it out. I wasn't able to help them
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  because they didn't bring it up. So it's really important to say,
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  OK, let me think about this all the different ways.
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  What are the other parts that I may have to pay attention to?
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  Like, for instance, one wouldn't think having chickens would be a
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  complicated thing, right? Oh, they're chickens.
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  They're easy, but chickens are much more complicated than
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  people think because you have to make sure you're with the
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  responsibilities. They are highly, highly sought
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  after lunch and snacks for predators.
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  So my responsibility to them is make sure they're safe.
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  I have to check on them often when they're free ranging to
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  make sure nothing's happening. I have to make sure that there
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  are the doors are open in the morning to let them out to free
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  range. I have to make sure their coop
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  is closed, closed up tighter than Fort Knox at night to make
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  sure nothing can get in there. And believe me, we have
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  predators everywhere out here. And I have to make sure that
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  like that I have a plan for how I'm going to keep other things
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  away from them because everything is constantly going
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  after them. So it's why I haven't like over
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  over time, I've come up with things that make it a little bit
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  easier. For instance, I feed the crows
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  and the crows do an excellent job being an alert system.
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  And we feed Bluebirds because the Bluebirds are like little
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  dive bombers that go at Hawks. They don't like them around.
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  Neither do the crows because the Hawks will go after all their
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  nests, so they easily will be happy to take them out.
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  You just have to entice them to stay.
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  And fortunately for me, dried, dried mealworms and peanuts
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  really do the job. So and my responsibility every
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  day caring for the chickens involves feeding birds, believe
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  it or not. Now one would never have thought
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  that that would have gone all the way down that way, but it
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  did because it and then it helps me to take care of them.
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  But it is a responsibility I have to put those snacks out
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  every day if I want them still coming.
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  So the point is, you have to fully think this through.
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  If you are struggling right now, go and think about those
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  responsibilities, see which ones you have to have help with.
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  See if you can leverage any of them, but know them.
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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.