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Season 4 - Episode 306 - Martha Stewart advice & emotions! · 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. So you're with me right in front
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  of my computer right now. And the reason for this is
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  because I want to read something to you that I got in an e-mail.
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  I am obsessed with Martha Stewart.
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  I think that's not a, a, a fact that most people don't know
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  about me. If you've hung around here any
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  amount of time, you probably heard me talk about her.
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  But I love Martha Stewart. So I know that the Martha
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  Stewart brand is not the woman. OK, so let's just be clear on
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  that. But I get the emails and every
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  day I look at them. Every day there's an e-mail that
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  comes out and there are tips and things in there, whether it's a
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  recipe or something unique. Well today comes up and I always
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  love the ones that have like numbers like 10 reasons for this
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  or six reasons for that, whatever it might be.
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  So today I get one that says 12 sneaky reasons your home never
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  feels completely clean. Now I am a self-proclaimed
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  cleaning lunatic, OK? I even squeegee my sink.
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  And it's not because I have OCD. It's because I like the feeling
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  of having that cleanliness around me.
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  Now, when I was a kid, I was a slob.
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  My room was always a mess. Things were piled up.
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  It wasn't until I hit about 16 that I started to feel like, OK,
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  this is like has to stop. And I, and I changed my ways and
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  I started to become much more in tune with my space.
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  And I think it was because my anxiety was so high and that I
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  had to figure out ways to work around it.
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  And organically, I somehow figured out that my space was
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  super important to my anxiety. So if my space felt organized
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  and clean and put together, then I could relax.
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  Like to this day, I cannot, cannot get anything done
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  paperwork wise, writing wise, anything until my space is
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  organized. And that's still the, the case.
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  You know, it's a Sunday. I'm recording this early, early
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  Sunday morning and I'm going to go off and do all the chores
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  before I finish doing stuff that I have to do paperwork wise for
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  the end of the month. And that's crazy.
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  One would think, why don't you just do that first?
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  But because in my head, I can't settle until all of that's
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  there. And I know this about myself.
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  So when I see this come up, I'm like, oh, I have to read this
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  now. I'm going to share these with
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  you #1 cleaning haphazardly. I was like, what?
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  What does that even mean? If you mop before dusting or
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  spray surfaces without decluttering first, you're
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  setting yourself up for double work.
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  A lack of a system leads to inefficient results, miss spots,
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  surfaces that never look or feel quite clean.
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  And this is a brand cleaning expert at Zepp, which is a big
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  company Houses recommend. House recommends adopting a top
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  to bottom, wet to dry approach. Now this makes perfect sense to
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  me, but just wow, that was really interesting.
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  Cleaning in low light because if you have poor lighting
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  conditions, you can't see what's dirty.
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  Dirty walls, baseboards, vent covers.
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  I think that that's one of those things that's why I have boxes,
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  Costco sized boxes of Mr. Clean magic erasers to clean dirty
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  walls, baseboards and always cleaning the vent covers.
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  Low quality products that you clean with another big deal.
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  Well, I, I other than a Clorox cleanup, I'm pretty much on Mrs.
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  Myers dust in high places. Yes, that's a very big deal and
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  that's why you have to have those extension things right
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  now. This one gets me Lingering
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  germs. Oh no.
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  Where does it not feel clean? It's where you have to disinfect
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  and go around and touch things and wipe them off.
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  Faucet handles, doorknobs, counters, high touch points,
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  remote controls, things like that.
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  Now this one, Stale odors. Oh God that's a big deal,
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  especially in a space. If your space smells funny then
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  you have to deal with it. Soap scum and water spots?
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  Very big deal, which is why I squeegee the sink.
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  Too much Clutter. Piles of clutter everywhere is
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  not healthy for your mind. That's the first thing right
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  here. Plus it's much easier to clean
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  if you have less clutter, right? Streaks on glass and mirrors?
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  Very big deal. Streaks.
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  Having something streak free is just, it makes you feel brighter
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  and it makes you feel better. Poor air quality, not having
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  those packet vents changed in the the filters in the house
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  change. Now this is the last one, lack
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  of staging. Now this is where it get this is
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  where it stopped me in my tracks.
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  Lack of staging because everybody likes to live
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  differently and lack of staging is just talking about how it
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  looks like. Does it feel like you're proud
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  of it? Now this is where our
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  conversation comes in today because all these other things
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  are really great and true and it and it 100% goes back to emotion
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  and feeding and settling down our high anxiety stuff.
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  But this lack of staging 1 is really one that says to me, wow,
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  that's very subjective. And when someone reads this,
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  they might feel like, oh, unless I have a picture perfect house,
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  it doesn't feel good. But this is where I say, hey,
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  you've got to make sure your space feels right for you.
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  So if you like lots of Knick knacks, then you have lots of
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  knickknacks. If you like to have a lot of
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  plants present company included, you have a lot of plants.
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  Figure out what your space is because this is a direct
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  connection to your well-being and having this statement of it
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  never feels completely clean really is just around how do you
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  settle down? How do you settle down?
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  So look at your space. Really look at it.
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  It's the last day of the month. Look at it maybe before you
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  decorate for Christmas. That's what I did on day after
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  Thanksgiving and I organized, decluttered, got rid of
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  everything, and then took the Christmas stuff out and felt
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  amazing. So hopefully this was helpful,
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  my friends, and I hope you have a fun time going through this
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  and remember, it's your space, so make it comfortable for you.
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  Have a blessed day everybody, and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.