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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Where There's A Why, There's A Way · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Where there's a why, there's a way, where there's a why,
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  Speaker 1: there's a way. I know you've heard the saying before,
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  Speaker 1: where there's a will, there's a way. But earlier this week,
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  Speaker 1: as I was starting to put together the puzzle pieces
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  Speaker 1: to make everything work out in my favor, make things
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  Speaker 1: work out in a way that was best for Emily,
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  Speaker 1: I was reminded of the importance of my Why you're
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  Speaker 1: listening to five minute Friday, you're listening to Hurdle, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the puzzle pieces being the training that
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  Speaker 1: I want to get done in between long days, long hours, trips,
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  Speaker 1: time zones, you name it. If you're listening to this
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  Speaker 1: in real time, I'm likely in the middle of a
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  Speaker 1: seventeen or eighteen mile long run that I decided needed
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  Speaker 1: to happen on the Friday before I took to back
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  Speaker 1: to back trips. Usually I do something like this on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday or Sunday mornings, but being that I am set
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  Speaker 1: to be out of my element and that I had
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  Speaker 1: other work that needed to also get done of an
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  Speaker 1: equal priority, that meant rearranging my schedule and doing something
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  Speaker 1: a little less than desirable in favor of an ultimate
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  Speaker 1: goal and I'm telling you about my choice to do
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  Speaker 1: a run at five point thirty in the morning on
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  Speaker 1: Friday before an eleven am flight, because that's what happens
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  Speaker 1: when you have a strong why. We are now into February,
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  Speaker 1: we're far past that day. I think it's January eleventh
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  Speaker 1: that is Quitter's day. And one of the biggest errors
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  Speaker 1: I hear from people when they talk to me about
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  Speaker 1: the goals that they want to set is that they
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  Speaker 1: are setting a goal based off of seeing something on
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  Speaker 1: social media or because they feel like they should. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, they don't have a strong why for the
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  Speaker 1: goal that they are setting forward. For instance, you see
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  Speaker 1: someone doing the seventy five Hard program on Instagram and
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  Speaker 1: it looks jazzy and exciting and they suddenly have six
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  Speaker 1: pack abs that they thought were never possible. Yeah, like, yes,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps six pack abs are enticing. But if you have
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  Speaker 1: no interest in the journey that is the seventy five Hard,
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  Speaker 1: if that whole process isn't actually something that fits your
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  Speaker 1: interests or your lifestyle, and you don't have a strong
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  Speaker 1: why connected to executing it, then it will be miserable
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  Speaker 1: for you period. Whereas if you have a strong why,
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  Speaker 1: making choices that might otherwise seem difficult are going to
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  Speaker 1: feel a little more doable. This run doesn't exactly excite me,
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  Speaker 1: but I know that it's something that I want to do,
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  Speaker 1: and so I make the time for it. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: okay with the opportunity cost, knowing that it is getting
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  Speaker 1: me closer to my ultimate goal. Where there's a why,
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  Speaker 1: there's a way. So my prompt for you this week,
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  Speaker 1: what are you after and what's your why? What is
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  Speaker 1: one goal, one habit, one thing that you want to
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  Speaker 1: do in your day to day or this week, this month,
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  Speaker 1: this year, and what is your why for it? And
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  Speaker 1: now a listener question.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Emily, I've noticed how zoned in you are on
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  Speaker 2: your morning routine. I've actually really tried to emulate it
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  Speaker 2: this year specifically, and it has me so to tuned
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  Speaker 2: into how I start the rest of my day. It
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  Speaker 2: had me wondering, do you have a bedtime routine? Is
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  Speaker 2: there anything that you do at night? I'd be so
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  Speaker 2: interested in it. Love your show, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: I am so flattered to hear that my morning routine
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  Speaker 1: is inspiring you to to adapt and adopt one that
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  Speaker 1: works for you. So that's excellent. And when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to my nighttime routine, I would be remiss if I
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  Speaker 1: try to insinuate that it is anywhere near as dialed
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  Speaker 1: in as the one that I execute in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: But roughly, this is how it goes down. If I'm
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  Speaker 1: spending the evening at home, about an hour before I
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  Speaker 1: want to go to bed, I start to wind down,
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  Speaker 1: So for me, that means washing my face and doing
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  Speaker 1: my skincare, and then I usually come back into the
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  Speaker 1: living room where I spend another forty thirty ish minutes
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  Speaker 1: just laying low. Maybe that's reading a book that could
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  Speaker 1: be watching TV. I've yet to adopt a habit where
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  Speaker 1: I completely nix certain types of light from my vicinity
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  Speaker 1: before I crash, and only because I haven't seen that
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  Speaker 1: it drastically impacts the way that I fall asleep at night.
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  Speaker 1: So I am the type of human that can get
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  Speaker 1: right into bed and within about five to seven minutes
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  Speaker 1: I'm asleep. I'm a fast sleeper. If it's not the
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  Speaker 1: same for you, then you may want to think about
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  Speaker 1: what you're exposing yourself to in the time period leading
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  Speaker 1: up to when you get into bed. But I'll watch
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  Speaker 1: something on the couch roit a little bit. I'll likely
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  Speaker 1: eat a small piece of dark chocolate. I'll brush my teeth.
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  Speaker 1: I'll then go put my phone on its own little
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  Speaker 1: bed aka one of those current phone charging pads. I
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  Speaker 1: cannot reach that pad from my bedside, and then I
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  Speaker 1: get into bed, and that's literally it. My nighttime routine
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  Speaker 1: is super simple. It's worth highlighting that I go to
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  Speaker 1: bed quite early most nights, by nine pm, which is
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  Speaker 1: why I'm to get up so early naturally. And of note,
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  Speaker 1: I am always on the hunt for listener questions and
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  Speaker 1: I want to answer yours. So please send us a
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  Speaker 1: voice recording over email at Hello at Hurdle dot us
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  Speaker 1: with your question and hopes to be featured in an
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  Speaker 1: upcoming episode of Five Minute Friday. Also, you can leave
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  Speaker 1: a voice message in the link that's in the show notes.
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  Speaker 1: Catch you guys next time.