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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: How Can You Make Movement Work For You? · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: What's going on? Everyone, Emily A body here. You're listening
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  Speaker 1: to five Minute Friday from Hurdle. I write about what's
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  Speaker 1: happening in the Weekly Hurdle newsletter this week.
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  Speaker 2: It came out this morning, every single Friday.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't get it just yet, the link to
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  Speaker 1: subscribe is in the show notes. But coming back from
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, waking up in the morning has been hella
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  Speaker 1: difficult for me.
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  Speaker 2: Period.
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  Speaker 1: Every day for the last three days, my alarm has
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  Speaker 1: gone off at seven am and getting up feels absolutely impossible.
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  Speaker 1: Now it makes me have an appreciation for all of
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  Speaker 1: the people that are in my dms that say that
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  Speaker 1: they feel as though it is impossible for them to
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  Speaker 1: be a morning Now, if you are one of those people,
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  Speaker 1: again in the Weekly Hurdle, I've got tips on how
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  Speaker 1: you may be able to make it a habit, so
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  Speaker 1: check that out. But what I'm here to talk about
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  Speaker 1: today is how I have been accommodating the fact that
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  Speaker 1: my body is craving later mornings.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you here seven am and you're like, that's
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  Speaker 1: still hella early, and that's cool. But for me, as
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  Speaker 1: someone who typically wakes up without an alarm between five
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  Speaker 1: thirty and six. Waking up at seven drastically changes my
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  Speaker 1: morning routine. But here's the thing. I refuse to be
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  Speaker 1: stressed in the morning. It's just not how I want
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  Speaker 1: to start my day. And so as much as I
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  Speaker 1: love hitting the gym first thing after the coffee and
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  Speaker 1: the journaling and the meditation and whatnot, I am craving
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  Speaker 1: this week a slower way to start the day, and
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  Speaker 1: so as a result, I have been hitting the gym
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the day. Today I did a
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  Speaker 1: strength workout using my Future app. To learn more about
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  Speaker 1: the Future app links in the show notes, you can
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  Speaker 1: get a month absolutely free.
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  Speaker 2: Think of it as a personal trainer in your pocket.
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  Speaker 1: And seriously, this week, it makes me so grateful that
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  Speaker 1: I know exactly what I want to do when I
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  Speaker 1: want to show up. I digress. I've been working out
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the week future app today. Yesterday
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  Speaker 1: I did a peloton workout. The day before I use
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  Speaker 1: the Future app again and it has literally been a
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  Speaker 1: meeting that I set with myself. Now I hear we
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  Speaker 1: hear it all the time, right like mark it out
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  Speaker 1: in your calendar. It makes it easier, but more so
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  Speaker 1: than ever when I'm doing this movement in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the day. It truly feels like I only have
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  Speaker 1: this X amount of time calendar block right And it's
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  Speaker 1: been an interesting experiment. It's been something that I look
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  Speaker 1: forward to in the middle of the day. I work
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  Speaker 1: from home, and so for me to go down to
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  Speaker 1: the gym in the same building, come back upstairs, maybe
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  Speaker 1: rintse off really quick. I give myself a calendar block
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  Speaker 1: that's about ten to fifteen minutes longer than the workout itself,
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  Speaker 1: and then I get to it and that's it. And
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  Speaker 1: so it feels super simple to say this, but when
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  Speaker 1: you want something bad enough, when you know what your
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  Speaker 1: why is, then you will make it a priority. And
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  Speaker 1: for me, I know how I feel when I move
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  Speaker 1: my body. I know that it makes me feel like
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  Speaker 1: a better me. And to be real, I'm proud of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that I'm figuring out a way to make
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  Speaker 1: movement work for me instead of feeling like a slave
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  Speaker 1: to the movement, if that makes sense. So I'm curious,
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  Speaker 1: my listener prompt for you this week, what is going
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  Speaker 1: on in your life? What's a habit right now that
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  Speaker 1: you have in your routine that you feel like is
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  Speaker 1: something you should be doing and not something you're doing
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  Speaker 1: because you really enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: And is there a way to switch that up?
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  Speaker 1: What is a habit in your routine right now that
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  Speaker 1: you just do because you feel like you should be
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  Speaker 1: doing it? And is there something more enjoyable that can
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  Speaker 1: bring you more fulfillment, that feels more in line with
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  Speaker 1: your values that you can bring into the mix. And
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  Speaker 1: now a listener question.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Emily, It's Heather from Cincinnati, Ohio. First, I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: that everybody agrees with me that Five Minute Friday are
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  Speaker 3: amazing and hopefully we can help keep them going with
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  Speaker 3: these questions. My staff know on Fridays I will walk
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  Speaker 3: in with my tidbit of advice or thought for us
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  Speaker 3: traveling into the weekend after listening to five Minute Friday. Anyways,
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  Speaker 3: I my question is about the difference between therapist and
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  Speaker 3: life coach. You have talked about using both to help
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  Speaker 3: you and I had a wonderful therapist. She understood my backstory,
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  Speaker 3: we got along great. She moved away, and I'm looking
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  Speaker 3: to kind of restart, but now contemplating a life coach
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  Speaker 3: since I also am looking at some restructuring. Our big
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  Speaker 3: steps in my personal and professional Life Again, Thank you
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  Speaker 3: for your content.
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  Speaker 2: Heather, what's up?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for calling in, and thanks so much
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  Speaker 1: for telling me how much you love Five Minute Friday.
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  Speaker 1: And if for some reason it's been a little wonky lately,
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  Speaker 1: not my fault. If you have an issue leaving a
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  Speaker 1: via email over at Hello at Hurdle dot us. Now
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  Speaker 1: to answer your question the difference between a life coach
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  Speaker 1: and a therapist.
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  Speaker 2: This is a popular question.
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  Speaker 1: So therapy is a long term process in which a
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  Speaker 1: client works with a healthcare professional to diagnose and resolve
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  Speaker 1: problematic behaviors and feelings. Again, they work with you to
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  Speaker 1: diagnose and resolve problematic behaviors and feelings. So, rather than
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  Speaker 1: focusing on external circumstances, therapy looks inward and towards the
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  Speaker 1: path to analyze the root cause of a client's biggest
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  Speaker 1: challenges in the hope of creating a happier, more stable future. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to life coaching, life coaches work with
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  Speaker 1: clients to create a vision for their optimal future and
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  Speaker 1: how to make that vision a reality. So think of
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  Speaker 1: a life coach as someone who's really aimed at getting
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  Speaker 1: you to where you want to be. A life coach
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  Speaker 1: would work together with a client to identify personal and
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  Speaker 1: professional goals, the obstacles standing in their way, and then
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  Speaker 1: create an action plan to achieve their desired outcomes. Now,
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  Speaker 1: where therapy and counseling focus primarily on the past and present,
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  Speaker 1: life coaching again, it focuses almost entirely on the present
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  Speaker 1: and future, and those are the biggest differences between life
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  Speaker 1: coaching and therapy. It sounds like hoether you have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of big changes coming up in your life, and
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  Speaker 1: if you've worked extensively with a therapist, it might be beneficial
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  Speaker 1: for you to try mixing it up and working with
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  Speaker 1: a life coach, but you won't know until you try. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's a therapist or a life coach, you have
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to quote unquote date around. You have no
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  Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely no requirement to stick with someone after a
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  Speaker 1: first consultation, So find the person that feels right for you.
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  Speaker 1: That's the most important thing. Make sure you're following along
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  Speaker 1: with hurdle over on social adhurdle podcast I am over
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  Speaker 1: at Emily a body and a heads up. And next
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  Speaker 1: week we are on a season break, but we will
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  Speaker 1: be coming back in hot a sap. See you on
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  Speaker 1: April third, another hurdle concord. Catch you guys next time.