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Season 4 - Episode 194 - Changing the sheets on the bed · 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 happened 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.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. I actually have you with me
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  today while I'm doing a chore, which is changing the sheets on
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  the bed. Now I know this may seem really
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  strange as to why is she doing this today.
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  But you know, I often talk about, you know, habits and how
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  they they shape us as well as our mindset in the morning and
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  making the bed. And I am the person every day
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  that I like. If I am alone, if my husband's
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  traveling, I get up, I make the bed instantaneously, if not when
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  he gets up, because I'm always up before everybody else,
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  literally up with the chickens. And he, I will, you know, wait
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  till he's awake to make the bed. And the joke has often been
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  like, jeez, the second I get out of the bed, you make the bed.
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  And it's true. I'm on bed watch.
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  I want the bed made. And I didn't grow up like this.
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  I didn't have to. Nobody was all over me about
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  make your bed the second you get up.
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  None of that didn't happen that way.
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  Over time, I kind of developed this habit on my own, you know,
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  like just AII wanted that room neat and clean, and I wanted to
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  be able to come back to my room as it in high school and have it
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  be organized. I the room itself.
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  When I grew up, I was a creative and my room was always a
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  disaster. And my parents didn't even know
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  what to do about that. And to be quite honest with you,
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  I'm still shocked about how it goes.
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  But I understand it in a, in a different way now because when I
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  am doing a creative project, it, it is a disaster around me.
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  Like if you look at the desktop on my computer, it is a mess.
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  Like there's just files everywhere.
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  It's organized chaos to me though, because I know I've got
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  little piles and those little piles mean something.
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  And each one of them represents what's going on in the project.
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  It's like my creative zone. So over time I learned what that
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  room was all about because it was my space to be creative and
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  do whatever I wanted. I had all my stuff in there and
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  I could be as creative as I wanted to be, but my bed was
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  always made. And clean sheet day, which is
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  what I am actually doing right now.
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  Clean sheet day is a thing. I love clean sheet day and I
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  often wonder to myself, I wonder how often people change their
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  sheets. Like how often do you change
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  your sheets? I don't know.
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  I would love to have clean sheet day every day.
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  I just love clean sheets. I love sleeping on clean sheets.
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  I love the smell of clean sheets.
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  So why don't I do it more often? Well, it seems rather indulgent
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  to change the sheets every single day.
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  So I have a habit of changing them about every five days,
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  maybe 7 at the most, where I'll just, OK, let's change the
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  sheets, let's change the sheets. Over time, I have recognized how
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  excited this stupid thing makes me.
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  And I wonder, I'm like, okay, am I the only person out there that
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  feels this way? Do other people feel this way?
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  Is it just like a habit? And then, you know, obviously
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  you listen to all the military people talk about how it's so
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  important to make your bed every day because it gives you 1
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  accomplishment. And I fully buy into that.
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  Like making your bed every day gives you a full blown
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  accomplishment ASAP. And it feels good to know you
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  got that done. For me, it's not even just so
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  much that it's the end of the day.
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  After a hard day, coming back and saying, OK, I have this
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  glorious little respite, a spot where I can go to truly like a
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  sanctuary that I can go to and curl up and relax.
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  It's like a place where nobody comes to bother me.
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  I don't have electronics. I don't have a television in the
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  room. I do have an iPad in here, but
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  it's only curated stuff that I want to see.
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  I don't even have social media on the iPad.
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  That's the crazy part. I keep it super clean.
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  It's just got some apps on it that I can be creative with.
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  I have YouTube on it, but I don't have like it's not there's
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  no like access to me on it. Even I'm not even subscribed in
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  that. I'm popping it up on on just
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  Google and I'm just looking at stuff because I don't want to be
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  hooked. I don't want to be hooked.
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  And the point of all of this is when you start to create a
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  little space like this and you feel at the end of your day like
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  you have something. Yes, you've got the
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  accomplishment of making the bed.
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  And that's grand and wonderful. And I agree with it
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  wholeheartedly. But for me, the bigger flip side
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  of it is if I created a space that at the end of the day, when
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  I come back to it, I'm going to feel like this is perfect.
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  I can go in there and I can actually just relax.
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  Or if I created a space that when I walk into it, there's
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  clothes all over the bed that haven't been folded because a
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  lot of people use their beds. I don't personally, I've never
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  done this, but they use their beds to dump their laundry on.
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  And I think that's a huge challenge because when you come
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  back at the end of the day where you're supposed to go to sleep
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  is supposed to like make it cozy.
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  It's like, it's like the part where you go to heal.
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  So you shouldn't have things all over your bed.
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  In my opinion. You should clean up that space,
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  make your bedroom a place where you can go and recover from the
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  world, where you can like feel yourself healing overnight,
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  where you know that if you go and tuck yourself in there,
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  you're going to be able to come out in the morning and be a much
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  happier, better person. So just my.
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  Little. Bit of advice on clean sheet day
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  and I hope that you find that tonight when you go to sleep.
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  All right, my friends, have a blessed day and I'll see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.