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Season 4 - Episode 84 - Why do we hang onto things? · 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 mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  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, hey?
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  Everybody, good morning. Today we are in my laundry room.
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  Believe it or not, we are standing in a laundry room and
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  we are in the laundry room shooting today because we're
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  talking about letting go of stuff.
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  Now, I am a big purger. I've told everybody on here
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  multiple times how great it is to get rid of things, clean out,
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  have your space. But have you ever noticed there
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  are certain times, certain things that we have a hard time
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  letting go of And my laundry room has something in here like
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  this and it's hand towels. So I use an abundance of hand
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  towels in my life for wiping up counters, messes out on the farm
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  that my bulldog, his face. If you see me walking around, I
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  often have a hand towel sticking out in my back pocket because
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  he's drooly and he also has that ability to sniff the ground.
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  So he's always got dirt in his jowls and I don't want him in
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  the house like that. So I will wipe his face.
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  So I have a lot of hand towels, probably upwards of like 75
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  little white square hand towels. Now I admittedly use them a lot
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  so they wear out, but tell me why can't I get rid of them?
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  Why do I keep them even when they have holes in them and I
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  should clearly throw them away? So this past week I was at
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  Costco and I go in and I buy a giant bag of 52 of these towels
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  that are in the automotive section because they're super
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  handy and very absorbent and they seem to take up water
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  really well. A lot better than the fancy ones
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  you buy, believe it or not. So I buy a new bag of them.
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  I come home, I wash them and I'm like so excited because I use
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  these in my kitchen every day. And they're like right at my
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  kitchen counter. So I pull open the drawer and
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  when we're cooking and it's messy, I can take them away and
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  I see them all in there. And my first thought is, Oh
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  well, I shouldn't put all the new ones in here.
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  I should save some of the new ones so they stay nice looking
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  and keep the ones that are already stained for when Mark is
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  cooking something that's messy or got turmeric or something in
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  it that's going to stay in the towel.
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  And then I start laughing and I'm like, OK, we know the
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  majority of these towels are like just worn out, Just get rid
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  of them. Then I put them in the basket
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  and I go over to the laundry room where I am now, and I see,
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  OK, I've got all my dog towels piled up and all my resource
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  towels for messes, cleaning, all of that.
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  And I have this moment where I'm like, OK, well, I should really
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  keep some of these. They're not all bad.
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  And I had an intention when I bought 52 towels that I was
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  going to swap towels out. I was going to get rid of most
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  of the towels, if not all of the towels.
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  Yet here we stand discussing towels.
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  And it made me laugh because it started me thinking about how we
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  have such conflicting things happen in our own lives.
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  We have things that will take place and we'll be like, OK, you
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  know what? I'm going to purge and I'll get
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  rid of all kinds of stuff. And then all of a sudden we had
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  these other times where we're like, OK, you know what?
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  I don't, I don't want to get rid of this.
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  I don't know why I don't want to get rid of it.
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  Why do we hang on to certain things?
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  And it comes back, at least in my mind, to two things.
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  One, that it makes me comfortable.
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  If it's jeans, I'm hanging on to them even if they have holes or
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  whatnot because they're my cozy pants or a favorite shirt.
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  But when it comes to resources around the house, I feel like
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  it. For me, it's like I don't like
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  to waste things. I don't.
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  I don't like the concept of waste because I feel like
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  something can always be repurposed, reused and put into
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  better use rather than just throwing it away.
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  I don't like to throw things away and the these towels sit
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  here and represent this to me and it really put me in a
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  position where I come back to, you know what two things.
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  Can be true at the same time. Sometimes 3 or 4 things can be
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  true at the same time, as we all know and I have to make.
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  Choices based on the hierarchy. What's my real driving force
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  right now? So.
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  As I. Go through and sort this out.
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  My real driving force is to clean up and make things
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  organized and super neat so that it feels nice in the kitchen.
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  It feels nice in areas, not that it's not that way all.
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  The time, but the towels were just a piece.
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  Of it and where? This shows up in our lives.
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  Everywhere where we know we've got these little tiny pieces.
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  We've got. You know our financial paperwork
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  is a mess. We haven't handled all of our
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  mail. Everything else might be great,
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  but we've got these little areas of weakness and we have to
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  decide what's more important, letting that weakness show up
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  and take over, or is it more important to feel good?
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  So today. I'm confessing right now I'm
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  getting rid of all the old towels and I'm putting in all
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  the new towels and I'm taking the old towels that are
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  leftover. The ones that have holes, they
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  are going away and into recycling and the ones that are
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  not so nasty, the ones that we can use are going into the
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  garage for farm stuff. And it's going to be that
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  simple. And I organized it and I can
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  live with that. But yes, I am going to get rid
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  of some of them because they are bad and can't go anywhere.
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  And I'm going to do that right now before I change my mind.
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  And I'm going to say this is a lesson moving forward because it
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  shows up elsewhere for me with seeds and other things.
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  And, you know, I just have to go back to the old school way of
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  organizing it in my head and saying this is more important
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  than that. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.