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Season 3 - Episode 150 - Is it important enough to give it your time? · 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, good morning from the chicken coop everybody.
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  So today I want to talk to you about time and a specific angle
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  on time. Today the Buddha is quoted as
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  having said, the problem is you think you have time.
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  Such a hard phrase to hear, right?
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  The problem is you think you have time.
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  And in the big scheme of things, we all believe we have time to
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  do the things we want to do. We all believe that we are going
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  to have the time to take the vacation by the RV, go on the
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  trip, write the book, you know, have the kids, get the dog, do
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  whatever it is that we might want to do.
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  But really, do we have time? And the question that this is a
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  very big question for you to contemplate today is all really
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  it comes down to what are you putting your focus on?
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  And if something is truly important to you, are you making
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  the time in your life for it? Because none of us are here for
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  a guaranteed amount of time. None of none of us know when our
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  expiration date is. Even those that have been told
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  they have an expiration date don't necessarily know if that's
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  true. And it doesn't mean that it will
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  be true. Just because another human says
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  it does not make it true. And we get very hung up on the
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  fact that we we'll put things off and put things off and put
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  things off because we are dealing with minutiae.
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  We are dealing with things that are, you know, everyday stuff
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  like doing laundry and cleaning and, you know, taking care of
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  paying bills and doing all the crazy stuff that humans have to
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  do in our daily lives to quote, UN quote, survive.
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  And those things end up eating us up and they take up our
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  mental space. They take up our capacity and
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  put us in a place of just mostly overwhelmed because there's so
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  many of those menial tasks around us all the time that we
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  forget about the stuff that is on maybe the bucket list.
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  Maybe it, you call it the bucket list, maybe you don't.
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  I don't have a bucket list, but I, I have definitely, I have a
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  list of things that will be done in my lifetime and planning them
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  all out. And the challenge we have is we
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  think we have time and we put them off and we say, well, I'll
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  get to that next year or I will get to that in a five years.
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  And we, we put things on a spectrum assuming we will have
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  all this time. And the reality is we don't, we
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  don't have all this time. Life goes by very quickly.
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  Anybody who has gone from the age of 25 to 50 understands how
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  quickly life goes by that feels. That span of time in in digits
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  seems like a long time. But the truth is it goes by in a
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  heartbeat. It goes by when you see it, you
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  know, you're all of a sudden your kids that you had when you
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  were in your 20s are now in their 20s and you're going, holy
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  cow, how did this happen? And you're being presented with
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  the fact that they're having children and you're going to be
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  a grandparent. And you're like, how can I be a
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  grandparent? I still feel like I'm a kid.
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  And there's this shock in you that said, Oh my gosh.
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  And even if you're not, think about the time, even if you're
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  young and you're listen to this, think about the time you were in
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  high school to now that you're in your 20s, that is a chunk of
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  time. And it feels like it went by
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  just in a snap of a finger. So this, this concept of time
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  that we have, it screws with us and it makes us think, Oh yeah,
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  I'll get to it, I'll get to it, I'll get to it.
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  But the reason I wanted to have this conversation with you today
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  is the exact reason why I, I'm out here in the chicken coop
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  recording because I had put this off and put this off and put
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  this off. And I ran into this quote in one
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  of my books. I have it written down multiple
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  times throughout my journals, my notebooks, everything.
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  The problem is you think you have time.
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  The problem is you think you have time.
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  And I've always been heavily moved by the quote.
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  Over the years I've done things, I've taken trips, I've I've
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  jumped into jobs and done stuff that people thought were
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  absolutely insane. Going to work for Tony Robbins
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  and giving up advertising and everything else.
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  Everyone thought what are you doing?
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  It was based around this. The problem is you think you
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  have time because I lost my dad when he was 57 years old.
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  And to me, he was so young and he said, you know, when he was,
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  he knew he was ill. He said, well, I've had a really
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  great life. And I can't imagine, I can't
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  imagine what that must have felt like because I still feel like I
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  have so much to do. And I can't believe that now at
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  that age, I'm sitting there going, holy cow.
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  I can't imagine that what he must have felt like, because I
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  feel like I have so much more that I want to do.
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  So when I come back to this whole thing, the problem is you
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  think you have time. Now I recognize I don't.
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  So this was one of these things that I had talked about doing,
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  having chickens. They're a major force in my life
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  to the happiness and having them, having them just be a part
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  of my everyday life again. And I made it happen.
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  And when it came up to doing the the podcast, and I had talked
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  about doing it for so long as I've said another podcast, this
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  was my natural like it just went off and it was like a natural
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  bells going off and saying, yes, this is it.
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  Go do it in the chicken coop. And ever since I made the
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  decision, it's been every single day since then.
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  And I have not regretted it at all, but it put me in a place or
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  I had to think about, well, if you're not going to do it now or
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  when are you going to do it? Because the problem is you think
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  you have time. So you either make the time or
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  you sit there and think about when will it be time.
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  And I think that's the conundrum that you have to ponder today.
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  If you're not going to do it, when will you do it?
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  When will you make the time? Because time goes by quickly.
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  And the problem is we think we have lots of it and we don't.
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  So if there are things that just you've always wanted to do and
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  there are things that you've always wanted to experience and
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  there are things that you've always wanted to say, you tried.
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  And even if it's sitting down and doing something as solo as
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  writing a book, whatever it might be, you have to make the
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  choice to say now is the time and make those things happen.
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  Because if you wait for the time to show up, I promise you it
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  won't. It's just like there's never a
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  good time to have a kid or buy a house or get a puppy, whatever
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  it might be. It it.
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  This is all about what you put your focus on and your intent.
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  So don't go down the road of constantly being under the
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  illusion that you think you have time because it's not promised
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  to anybody. So figure out what's special to
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  you and make sure you understand that I want to do this because
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  it's important to me. And I'm going to make the time.
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  I'm not just going to wait for the time.
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  I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.