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Season 4 - Episode 15 - Lessons from my washing machine · 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 today we are talking about
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  hanging on to things that you know you need to let go of.
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  And I'm not just talking about emotions, I'm talking about just
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  crap things in your house, things that you just have to let
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  go of and you don't want to. And I'm going to tell you a very
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  funny story about a washing machine.
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  So I have a tendency to, I will, I will hang on to things
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  sometimes too long when I just don't want to deal with the fact
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  that I have to go out and get something new because I like the
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  certainty of what I have. So I have this washing machine
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  and Full disclosure, I can't stand laundry being hanging
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  around. So I do laundry every single
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  day. I know that sounds absurd for
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  some people who just do it once a week, but not me.
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  I do it every single day. Plus I have my favorite things
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  and when I go in there and I want them, I want them.
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  I don't want to say oh they're dirty and I can't wear them.
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  So it has become a habit of mine over the years to do laundry
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  every single day. And it is a good habit because
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  you never have piles of laundry, in my opinion.
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  And honestly, of a lot of the arguments that I work with
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  people on in their family become chores and laundry is one of
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  them. And as I always remind
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  everybody, you know, we don't go down by the river with a little
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  washboard and a brush and soap to clean it.
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  All we do is put it in one machine, then put it in the next
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  machine and then yes, it has to get folded and put away.
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  However, it is still not the grunt work of what it once was.
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  So try to put a smile on when you think about laundry, but I
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  actually don't mind laundry and I do it a lot as I said.
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  So I have this washing machine and it's about 5 years old and
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  I, it's a deep fill. I like it.
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  I don't like fancy washing machines typically because I'm
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  like, oh, there's a lot of electronics.
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  They're going to break a lot, a lot, a lot go on and on with the
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  whole story. So here I am with this washing
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  machine. Now, two years ago, because we
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  live on a farm, this washing machine got clogged up with hay
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  and things that come in on socks, sawdust and the filter
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  couldn't, you know, drain anymore.
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  And so it wasn't draining. So me being me, I do all the
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  research, I figure out what's wrong with it, and then I order
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  the part online. Plus, we're in the middle of
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  COVID at that point and nobody's coming out anyway.
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  So I either have to throw said washing machine away or figure
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  out how to fix it. So I order a part, my husband's
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  laughing at me about this, and we get it in and lo and behold,
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  we figure out how to fix it ourselves because I go online
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  and I order a manual of how to repair the washing machine.
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  So I'm like, now I'm invested in this machine emotionally.
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  Like I am not getting rid of this machine.
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  We fix it and it works and I'm so proud of myself.
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  So I'm emotionally invested in said machine.
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  Now here we start about 2 1/2 weeks ago. 3 weeks ago it starts
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  with the slick. I noticed a little drip on the
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  floor coming out from underneath.
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  And I immediately go get the manual and I look at it and
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  there there are a myriad of things that could be causing
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  this, but I can't figure out where it's coming from.
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  And then the drip starts to get bigger and bigger and other
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  people are noticed. So every night I say to my son,
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  can you just tip this up so I can wipe underneath it and make
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  sure there's no water on the floor and clean it all up?
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  And I do this every single night without even thinking about the
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  fact. So my son says to me a week ago,
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  you know, mom, this really, you need to get this thing taken
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  care of and call somebody. And I'm like, oh, I'm not going
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  to call somebody because the moment I call somebody, it's
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  going to become an issue. And it's really not an issue.
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  It's still working. And he's just laughing at me.
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  And he's like, mom, you would never let your clients do this.
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  You would say to them, take care of the problem.
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  And I started laughing, and I was like, Oh my God, he's right.
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  So I have to start thinking about the fact that I need to
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  let go of this washer. And I had to get myself through
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  the whole thing. And then I do the research and I
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  walk over and I say, what's the life of a washing machine?
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  And ironically, they don't do this in years, my friends.
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  They do this in numbers of washes.
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  And so my son and I are looking at it and he's like, well, by
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  those rules and a number of washes that this one says,
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  you've gone past this, you've surpassed this a long time ago.
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  And then he's like very much a tactical guy.
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  He opens the lid, he looks in, he sees that there's rust on the
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  edges. And he's like, mom, the evidence
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  is right in front of you. There is something else.
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  This thing is rusted. You have got to get rid of this
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  washer. So lo and behold, I have to make
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  the decision. I go and I find a washer and
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  after all these years of telling myself I don't want fancy stuff,
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  I walk in and I fall in love with this washer that is big and
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  deep, way deeper than the one that I had.
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  And it's fancy and it can connect to my phone and all this
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  and all of a sudden I have a new washer.
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  And the point of this is after this morning, very early, 4:00
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  AM, doing another wash, getting ready for my day, I said, you
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  know what's interesting about this?
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  This washer is significantly better than the one that I had.
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  It washes things so quickly. It has taken hours off my day
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  and so sometimes we all have to learn those lessons of letting
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  go of the stuff that's holding us back to take on the new stuff
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  that can actually propel us forward.
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  So that's my lesson for you all today as I'm so happy with my
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  new washer. I hope you guys have a blessed
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  day and I will see you tomorrow and clean clothes.
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  Bye.