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Season 2 - Episode 283 - Fall cleaning · 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 master mindset
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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 everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So today we are talking about fall cleaning.
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  Now if you'd said these words to me as a child, I would have
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  broke it out in hives and cried because my mother had this big
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  old habit tradition of every spring and every fall cleaning
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  the entire house from top to bottom, changing the curtains.
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  God, the changing of the curtains.
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  It just seems so arduous to me. Even just saying it now.
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  It makes me get the heebie jeebies.
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  Because it was let's get them all out.
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  Then we got to wash the ones in the bag because they've been in
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  the bag and we've got to iron them all.
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  And my mother spent more time ironing.
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  Gosh, I when I think about it, I don't even know if I iron at
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  all. And she's always ironing when I
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  was a kid. But I think it was part of her
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  meditation. She'd sit on the phone with her
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  girlfriends and she'd iron and iron and iron and boy.
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  OK, I digress. Anyway, let's get back to the
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  fall cleaning. So.
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  I did like the fact though, that the house felt different when
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  you did it and we would bring out things that would gear us up
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  for the winter, gear us up for colder weather, gear us up for
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  switching our clothes around, taking putting summer clothes
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  away, and bringing out fall clothes on.
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  Just absolutely changing. She even changed the place mats
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  that we used in the house, the napkins, the bedding, it was a
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  big switch. It was kind of reminded me of,
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  like when you go to Disneyland and at night you go to bed and
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  it's like one true thing. And then you wake up in the
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  morning and all of a sudden it's Christmas and it's like super
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  exciting. Like, oh, we woke up and it's
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  Christmas and it it was like that.
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  Over the course of a weekend, she would transform the entire
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  house. Now again, I did not enjoy being
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  part of the process because it was work and I didn't.
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  Like it and all I wanted to do was paint or read or go outside
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  and do something different. But I was not into the whole
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  process of the cleaning and doing it all.
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  But I did love the results. And that's why we're talking
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  about it, because fall cleaning. Is not something that's always
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  fun, but it does make you feel really good.
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  So I started my list the other day and you know, the weather
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  here can be really tough on the House.
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  So I was talking about, all right, we've got to power wash
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  the house before it gets too cold, and we can't be out and
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  get wet. We've got to power wash the
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  house to get down all of the pollen and everything else off
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  of it. And we've got to get the plants
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  arranged inside. Whoever needs to come inside,
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  we've got to make sure we have everything, buddy.
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  Repotted people. Other plants need to go into the
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  ground that need to go in the ground.
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  We need to get everything basically set up.
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  So there are traditions that you need to go into in order to feel
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  really great about things. And the fall cleaning piece of
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  this for me is huge because it's also involving the gardens.
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  I've got to go in and strip out all the stuff in the garden that
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  doesn't belong in there. In fact, the garden is open
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  right now and chickens are over in there.
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  I started opening it up the other day and every morning they
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  love to go over in there and get in and see what they can find.
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  But actually going in and stripping out the garden?
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  Another big part of the process? Fall, cleaning, fall.
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  Clean the farm, it's. It is so imperative to the
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  well-being of feeling like you're setting yourself up for
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  the win of the spring. So ultimately think about it
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  this way. When you do this for yourself in
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  your head space and you're doing it for your surroundings as
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  well, you're making the the the space for new things, but you're
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  also making it a healthy space. So by me not letting things just
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  rot in the ground in the garden and dig them all out.
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  And get them out of the way. I can replenish the soil.
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  I can put all the hay with the chicken poop in there, and I can
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  let that break down. And it's going to make the soil
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  richer and better for what I'm going to do in the spring.
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  And this is the kind of stuff that we have to think about for
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  ourselves and our head, you know, doing the fall cleaning in
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  your surroundings, doing the fall cleaning in your head.
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  What are the things that annoy you?
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  What are the things that get in your way?
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  What are the things that you truly?
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  You know, have issue with when it comes down to, you know,
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  getting out of your own way. Well, let's fix it.
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  Let's change it. What hangs you up?
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  You know, one of my clients told me the other day that she, she
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  hates tax time and she always puts it off till the fall and
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  then she has to do it in the fall in a hurry.
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  And I said, well, why don't we try to set it up so that you can
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  do some every single month And she's like, no, I've tried.
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  It doesn't work. Well, why doesn't it work?
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  Well, it doesn't work because I just don't like to do it.
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  And we started laughing and I'm like, OK, but it still could
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  work. Yes, technically it could work.
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  Work, but I don't like doing it. And that's where it comes down
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  to, well, let's figure out ways that we could like to do things.
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  Let's figure out little rewards that we can give ourselves.
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  Let's say if I get to this point, then I get to do this and
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  then it's like rewarding yourself for stuff.
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  So for me, if I like, I know my reward isn't seeing those
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  vegetables and those flowers grow like crazy, so I will.
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  Bless my butt right now to make sure that in the spring it's
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  going to be better. So think about that piece, think
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  about your fall cleaning, what has to happen, What do you need
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  to do? And get yourself to work on it.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.