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Season 3 - Episode 316 - It’s time for what annoys you! · 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 mastermindset
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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 very wet porch.
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  It is raining so we are recording on the porch today and
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  the girls are not even up yet because it is so dark out with
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  the rain coming. But today we are talking about
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  one of my favorite things to talk about.
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  Believe it or not, the annoying list can hear the rooster off in
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  the background there. The annoying list.
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  So any of you who may be regular followers for years have heard
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  me talk about this before. But this time of year is such a
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  sweet time of the year to focus on this subject.
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  So an annoying list are the things literally that annoy you.
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  No surprise there. When you sit down and you start
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  putting the annoying list together, there is a feeling of
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  excitement of getting it out of your body.
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  At least there is for me. I love just putting it down and
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  saying, OK, these are all the little things, the little crappy
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  little tiny things that just annoy me.
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  Like, for instance, pens that don't have ink in them anymore
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  and they're still sitting around in a cup to be used.
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  Why? Why not just get rid of them,
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  Put them in the recycling bin? Little things that are around us
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  constantly. I have a front door that doesn't
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  close easily, so you have to push it really hard.
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  And when people come in and out, often they don't want to push
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  your front door really hard, so they don't.
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  And then before you know it, the door is wide open and the cat
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  has always, every single time she has radar for it, she runs
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  for the door. Now I do not let my cat go
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  outside, one, because I don't think it's safe as a cat to let
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  her out, and two, she is a mass murderer and she will go kill
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  all the birds that she can find. So she leaves chickens alone.
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  But she is definitely an issue for birds.
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  But neither here nor there. The door is on the annoying
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  list. All these tiny, tiny things that
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  seem to be so frustrating to us that we run into consistently
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  and have to deal with them. It takes up our time.
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  This is the reason the annoying list is so important because
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  these things suck up our time. They come in and before you know
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  it, you have to deal with it. Like one of my biggest things
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  that years ago that I had put on the annoying list was that I
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  always seem to run out of things.
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  So this is the reason why if you come to my house, there is
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  always supply of everything. I don't need to think about the
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  fact that I need toothpaste or we're out of toothpaste because
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  there are everyone has their own kind of toothpaste they like.
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  So I have two few tubes of each. When I see that we're down to
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  one, it goes on the list to buy it.
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  So that became something that I worked off of my annoying list.
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  So think of it in terms of once you start seeing this and if
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  it's repetitive, you can work around it.
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  It's a learning process. This is exactly why I am talking
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  to you about it because I want you to work around it.
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  I want you to see the things that you can get healed up and
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  never have to deal with them again.
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  So for me, the doors, that's the thing that is on my annoying
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  list this year. Another thing that's on my
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  annoying list is how I store all the food for the chickens and
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  how I can get them off their big bags.
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  So I have to have shelves that I can move them because I'm not
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  going to pick them come up over my head.
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  It's too much for me. My son can do it, my husband can
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  do it. I can't do that.
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  I just don't want to deal with that.
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  So reorganizing all of that batteries in things, things that
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  have batteries that the, you know, everything's running out.
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  There you go. Replace all those little
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  batteries. I have a lot of candles that I
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  use throughout the house that are on timers that have those
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  little flicker flames and those are always going low.
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  Well, now here we are at holiday season.
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  So guess what I'm going to get make sure I have the batteries
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  situation taken care of. It's just one thing to remember
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  when you're doing this is attempt to walk through the
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  house with the pad. This is the best way.
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  Walk through everything and just write it down.
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  Don't try to fix them in the process of writing them down.
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  Just get it all on the the annoying list and then you can
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  decide, OK, what can I delegate? What do I have to do myself?
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  How long will it take to fix all of these?
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  I have some things like I can't fix the door myself.
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  I have no skill with that. That's going to be my either my
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  husband or my son. And I can put it on the public
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  annoying list and then I can put it on the counter, put it on the
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  refrigerator and say, who's going to take care of this?
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  And let's get it taken down because it is so fulfilling to
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  know by the end of the year, you have a clear annoying list.
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  You are not sitting there suffering with it anymore.
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  And I will say I do this throughout the year.
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  I like have it probably like every quarter now because I've
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  worked things down and then I'll just pull it out and do it.
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  But the year end one really is 1 where I clean up things, get new
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  supplies, make sure we have what we need, paper, printer ink,
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  have it in reserve. No need to be running out at the
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  last minute to get it. So I hope you enjoy writing your
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  annoying list as much as I do and getting things off of it
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  because it makes you feel free my friends.
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  OK, I will see you tomorrow and I hope you have a blessed day.
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  Bye.