Tolerations are insidious things that subliminally annoy you and sap your energy so it's really important to zap them. While making a list of the things (big and small) you are tolerating may seem a bit negative, some magic gets to work when you do...

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Vzine 79 - All Change Again!

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Welcome everyone, it's Nicola here. And it's the Clicks and Leads Vzine and today I'm basking in the glow not only of some glorious sunshine, although I woke up this morning to pouring rain.

It's one or the other here. It's nothing in between. None of that drizzle business. It's either pouring biblically or it's sunny. And yeah, it's absolutely amazing so I'm going out later on, which will be nice because I'll be able to sit in the sunshine.

And the other thing that I'm basking in the glow of, is the deflected glow of a job well done.

You know how around the house you get those niggly little jobs and, you know, I had some lights out in the kitchen and there was a light out over on those spotlights over here. And I just tried everything.

I tried borrowing a step ladder. I tried getting my sister to stand on a chair. I tried getting my sister to stand on the work-top but neither of us could reach them and we couldn't work out how to get the lights out so we could go and buy some more.

Finally, my landlord responded to my appeals and he came down with a very big step ladder and he kindly took all the bulbs out that were blown. I bought some more and he came back and put them all in again for me. So I'm feeling, you know, I'm feeling the joy of a toleration busted and it's an even more joyous thing when it's busted by someone else.

So let's get on with the show, shall we?

So I mentioned toleration busting in the intro and it's a very well known coaching tool that you sit down and you write down all the things you're tolerating. And the premise is that every toleration is a bit of an energy suck for you.

So every time you look at that thing, like every time I turned my lights on and thought, "Oh, it's a bit dim in the kitchen", it was sucking a little bit of my energy out of me. And if you look around your house, there's all these things that you're putting up with and the point is that successful, wealthy people wouldn't put up with things, they would point at something and they would go,"Fix that" or "Get that done" or "Can we get that done?", and it would be fixed and they wouldn't have to look at it anymore. So it wouldn't be sucking their energy.

So it's always a good idea to have a little list of things that you're tolerating and what magically happens, it happens every time I do this, every time I make a list of things I'm tolerating, someone comes along and fixes one or two of them for me. Or they just mention something that would fix the toleration or they say that they've seen something on eBay or in a local shop for example.

Another thing I'm tolerating is my wood burning stove. It needs some caulking around the side of the inside bit that fits you where you shut the door. And I've had a guy around who put some caulking on and it promptly fell off again, and I've heard that you had to go to Kalamata to get caulking.

But since then, I've just been occasionally aware that I need to find somewhere to buy caulking and a friend just popped up the other day and said you could get it in Kardamyli Arkwright's. So I'm going to drive over there and take a bit of the existing caulking and hopefully I'll be able to buy some more...