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Season 3 - Episode 118 - What would you put on your annoying list? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop
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  podcast with Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and
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  master mindset coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives and possibilities, we help
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  you to cultivate a mindset that leads you to create
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  the best version of yourself you could ever
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  imagine. Join Kim every morning from one
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  of her favorite happy places, her Chicken Coop,
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  along with all her chickens. Hey
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  everybody, good morning from the Chicken Coop. So
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  today I want to talk to you about something that in
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  my house we refer to as the annoying list. And
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  this is something that came up years ago as a way for
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  us to all communicate what was frustrating to us in
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  the house, whatever that may be, and let everybody
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  else know so that we could handle it. Rather
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  than just having the frustration and containing
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  it all to yourself and keeping it so that you're
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  not talking to anybody about it and you're just
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  getting more and more irritated with things,
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  instead of doing it that way, it's all about sharing
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  it and letting everybody know. And
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  everybody has their annoying things. It
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  doesn't matter if you're a child or you're an adult.
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  Everyone finds things that are
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  annoying to them. When we started this process, as
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  little as my son was at the time, I think he was
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  probably like three when we started this process. He
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  was the first one to say that he wanted to be able
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  to sort his Legos. And I loved that he told me
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  that. He didn't like the fact that
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  all the colors were thrown together and he wanted to
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  be able to sort them out. And
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  because he said that, I was able to go and get a
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  bin from Ikea that had all the colored little slots in
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  it and he could sort them out however he wanted to.
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  Now as a three -year -old, did
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  he really keep them sorted out? No.
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  But he really felt that he needed to. And
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  I loved that we were able to handle that for him.
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  Now my annoying list, that's
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  one of those funny things I think that anything can
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  show up on them. It could be the front door
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  sticks. I don't have enough socks. I
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  need a new pair of shoes. It
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  could be, literally you could put anything on the
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  list if it's frustrating you. For
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  me, one of the ones that showed up often was that I
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  didn't have a headset when my headset burned out. Now
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  as a coach, I mean I can do 50 sessions a week and
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  my headsets burn out quickly. And
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  I say quickly, but it's really, you know, they're
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  just used a lot and I don't use the ones that
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  have batteries. I just use wired ones. So
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  sometimes they just, they take a beating. And
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  why do I not have a stack of them? So
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  that was something that was on my annoying list. Buy
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  a stack of them, you know, find enough of them and
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  put them in your drawer so you have them. Don't
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  just sit there and suffer with the process of having
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  to go buy one every time one burns out. It's
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  unnecessary and it's annoying. So
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  put, the way we do it in our house is we take a
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  piece of paper, we sit down and we say are there
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  things that are frustrating and annoying you right now
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  that we can handle that can go on this list,
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  whatever it might be. And everybody puts it down. And
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  then we use that list on our refrigerator and we
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  say, okay, who's going to take care of this and by
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  what date are they going to take care of it?
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  Because it's important if you're
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  going to put it on the list that you say, this is
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  the date I put it on the list, as well as this is
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  the date I'll take care of it by. Now
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  my husband and I have a joke that says, I can put
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  anything on the annoying list and I can ask him to
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  do it and he can agree to do it, but I can't tell
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  him by when unless it's absolutely, truly urgent
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  that it be taken care of. And
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  then by the end of the month, usually everything is
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  taken care of. And that always could be we
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  laugh about it because I'll say, well, did it get
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  taken care of yet? And I run over and I look
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  because he crosses them off when he gets it done. And
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  I cross mine off when I get it done because there
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  are things that he'll ask that I do as well. And
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  that's okay. It's not, this is not just a
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  one person to do list. This
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  is meant to be for a family. So
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  keep that in mind, work on that piece and create your
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  annoying list because I promise you it will help
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  you and your family.