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Season 3 - Episode 37 - Cut the time sucks · 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 coop.
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  So let's talk about time sucks. Oh God, this is just such a big
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  subject for people. Such a big subject because
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  everybody has a different opinion on where they lose their
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  time. What sucks up your time?
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  And for most people, the initial word that I hear most of all is
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  well, work sucks up so much of my time.
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  Work just sucks up my time. And it may be very true that you
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  have lots of things you have to do at work.
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  But the question is, are you doing them and being proficient
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  so that you can get your chores and your tasks done as quickly
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  as you possibly can and then gain back some of your sanity
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  and some of your time? And that is where the question
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  lies. It's that these moments, these
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  little things that we do, that we know are taking away from our
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  productivity, grabbing the phone and scrolling on social media.
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  Now I'm the first person to tell you I don't hate social media.
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  I think it's wonderful. I have friends all over the
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  world that I made while I worked for Tony Robbins for so long,
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  and I will tell you, for me, that is such a great way to
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  connect with them. The other night I had such a
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  gift because I got to connect with somebody who commented on a
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  post of another person that we both mutually knew.
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  I saw his name. I immediately thought reach out
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  to him on Messenger and he's all the way on the other side of the
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  planet. And before you know it, three
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  days later we're on Zoom having a call and he's talking to me
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  about the podcast and everything else.
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  And it was just such a gift. And it was a gift made possible
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  by social media. And I love that aspect of it.
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  Now, do you have to control the amount of time you stay on it?
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  Yes. Do you have to put timers on
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  yourself? Yes.
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  Do you have to say I choose not to go down a rabbit hole and
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  never come back out? Yes.
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  Because you can't stay out there all the time because you're a
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  real world. We don't live in a virtual
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  world. We live in a real world.
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  And that's what we want to make the best we can make it be.
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  We want to curate things that are just wonderful for ourselves
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  because none of us are guaranteed a certain amount of
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  time. So we have to make sure that
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  we're doing an excellent job eliminating the time suck of
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  being on social media. Now, at the same time, our
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  phones are our productivity piece for so many of us.
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  For me, certainly it is. It's where I meet all my
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  clients. It's where I record the podcast,
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  it's where I video. I do everything from this phone,
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  so the phone is always in my hand.
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  I have to be very conscientious though, of what apps I'm going
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  into and what's taking me away, where am I giving up my time?
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  So if you've never done the time study, it's an excellent little
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  thing to do. Now obviously the phone will
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  give you that because you can look in your settings and
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  everybody has different phones. So I'm not going to go through
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  how to get there, but you can go through and it will give you
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  where you spent, where you spent your time on your phone.
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  Droids are different than iPhones, different versions of
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  iPhones with different software. You have to make sure you go and
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  look, but it will give you the whole layout of where you've
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  spent most of your time on your phone and how many text messages
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  you mean. You can find out everything
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  about yourself and for those of us who not like to nerd out, it
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  is really, really useful. So highly recommend doing that
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  just as a check, But I also recommend sitting and writing it
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  all down on a pad, because it gives you an idea of exactly
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  what you're doing, and you can set a timer for yourself, and
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  when the timer goes off, you're done.
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  You walk away from it because there are some apps.
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  Game apps are absolutely addictive, and while some puzzle
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  games are excellent for your brain, at a certain point they
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  take away from your connectivity of other people.
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  So it's important to remember I don't need to constantly be on a
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  puzzle app. Maybe I should put a puzzle on
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  my table. Maybe I should do something
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  different than just staying stuck in this flat.
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  You know, as my Auntie Annie falls at the flat phone, you
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  know, she's, she's in her 80s and she's just the flat phone
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  and I love that when she says things like that.
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  So being stuck there, yes, not a good thing all the time.
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  Now again, we go back and say, well a lot of these electronics
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  help us because I have an iPad with an I pencil and I draw into
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  it and I use that pencil for taking notes and other things
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  handy. But again, be aware this
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  conversation is all about taking away the things that suck away
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  your time and don't make you feel better at the end of it.
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  Just like if you've got chores that you know are not the best
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  use of your time and they make you stressed out to do them
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  grocery shopping, One of those big things.
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  A lot of people hate it. I personally don't mind it, but
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  some people hate it. So go online and order your
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  groceries and they'll have them all set for you.
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  You pull up out front and they put them in your car.
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  That time suck is gone. Make it happen.
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  If you are privileged enough to be able to pay, to have somebody
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  come and help you clean your house or work with things, do it
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  because it is a huge help. It is a huge help.
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  So you're not putting your time into something and you're also,
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  you know, making somebody else's life better by helping and
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  hiring them and letting them be exposed to somebody as wonderful
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  as you and helping take care of them.
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  So never mind doing that. I mean, that is just one of
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  those things. I have some people coming to
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  help me put irrigation in at the farm.
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  I love that. Could we do it ourselves?
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  Yes. But we're also helping them and
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  they'll be regular help out here for me, do any time I need to
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  hire somebody. And they're so excited about it.
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  And I'm so excited about it. So find your path to getting rid
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  of the time. Sucks, because I promise you,
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  you will be happier. OK, my friends, I will see you
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  tomorrow. Have a blessed day.
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  Bye.