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Season 4 - Episode 14 - When you run out of time · 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 let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. So if I sound different today,
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  it's because I have my headset microphone on because I'm
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  talking to you while I am actually sitting in front of my
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  computer working on a presentation to present next
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  week when I go out to speak twice.
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  So I travel Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next week.
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  Doesn't mean we won't have a podcast, just means that I'm
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  going out to speak during the day.
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  So why am I telling you all of this?
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  Well, I'm telling you all of this because I want you to
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  realize that time is always of an essence for most of human
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  beings. And for me, my, I live on a
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  schedule taking care of clients. Every morning I am up, I am
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  getting ready, taking care of all the animals, doing
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  everything to get ready before I start to coach.
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  And there's, there's always a significant challenge available
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  to me if I choose to look for it with time.
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  So I thought this morning, since I was having one of those
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  moments, it would be the perfect time to teach you how to handle
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  it. So I got up very early this
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  morning. I was up at 4:00 AM.
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  And I'm, I've been working on this presentation for a bit of
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  time because I'm trying to refine it and get it very tight
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  so I can cover a lot for people. And I've got a 45 minute to an
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  hour long presentation I'm going to be doing.
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  And of course it's on the subjects of mindset and, you
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  know, cultivating a strong mindset going into the new year
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  and how that affects everything. Now, this is material that I
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  know like the back of my hand, but it doesn't mean that I don't
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  want to, you know, make it purposeful and really work on it
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  to get it ready. So I'm building out my
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  slideshow. I'm going through all of this.
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  And one of the things that comes up often with humans is that we
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  don't calculate how long something's going to take us
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  correctly. We have this sense of, oh, we
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  can do this really fast or oh, I know the material, it's not
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  going to be that hard. Or you know what?
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  I, I know that program. I should be able to jump in
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  there and do it. And we miscalculate.
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  And I have over the years really worked hard on this with myself.
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  But it does not mean it's gone, OK?
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  Because I am always the one that goes, oh, yeah, yeah, that won't
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  take me long. I can bang that right out.
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  And nine times out of 10, I am accurate with that.
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  I can still go pretty fast, but it's not always as fast as I
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  would like it to be. So that's where we are with this
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  morning. So I got up very early.
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  I knew I'm close to being finished, but when I am close to
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  being finished, I get very particular about certain things,
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  graphics, the way things look, having just the right little
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  video clip in there, and it all starts to eat into my time.
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  And of course, I have sessions in the morning like they start.
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  I start sessions at 7:00 AM typically.
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  So I have to make sure I'm on task and in that time I also
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  have to do the things that I need to for the farm and for my
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  family, making sure my son is up fed all of those things, Dogs
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  fed, chickens fed, cats fed, all of that.
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  So as I'm going through the process, I'm sitting there this
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  morning and I, I had intended this is the key.
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  I had intended to have it finished.
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  I was like, OK, I'm going to be able to nail this and it will be
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  done this morning. Well, once I started, I started
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  moving things around. I started moving slides around,
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  I started refining it and I lose track of time when I'm doing
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  that because again, we have interesting concepts of time as
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  human beings. And then immediately the emotion
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  that comes up is the panic of I'm not going to finish this
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  this morning. I'm not going to finish this
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  this morning. Now, mind you, I'm not making
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  this presentation until next week.
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  I have time. I'm the one that's controlling
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  the slides, but in my head, it had to be done this morning.
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  So I had to not only redefine my emotions and what were
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  happening, what was happening, but I had to go back and say,
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  OK, how much time do I really need for this?
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  And so in my immediate answer was, if you just sit here for
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  another 15 minutes, you can probably have it done.
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  And how many times have you done that?
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  Because I do it a lot. And then I crammed myself up.
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  So rather than torturing myself, I stopped.
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  And I was like, no, that is not how we roll.
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  That is not how we do this. We are not doing it that way.
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  And I got up, got it, went over, poured myself some tea, came
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  back, sat down and said, OK, how much time do I really need to
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  make sure that this is going to feel good?
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  And I paused and I had an instantaneous reaction again to
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  say if we just took 15 minutes, yes, I understand anxiety.
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  Thank you for sharing. And we're not doing that.
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  That's exactly what I said in my head.
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  Legitimately, how much time do you need?
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  Force that comes into my head says about an hour.
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  OK, an hour. If we took an hour, we could
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  potentially have this thing wrapped up.
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  Yes. When do we have an hour?
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  Not where can I cram it in. When do we have an hour?
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  This evening. OK, so when we finish this
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  evening, we're going to make sure that we sit down at this
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  time and do it. Excellent.
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  And all of a sudden the anxiety melts away.
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  So I wanted to share that with you because we do it to
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  ourselves constantly, but having that little hang up and hanging
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  on to it and letting it stick with us kills us.
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  So change the frame, ask better questions, get peaceful about it
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  and know that you can do it and you can do some time bending
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  just by being real about it. And yes, I do walk around
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  constantly telling myself, oh, I have more than enough time
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  because that does help a lot. I have to say that one little
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  phrase helps a lot. OK my friends, I hope you have a
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  blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.