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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: What's Your Word For 2026? · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Emily body here.
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  Speaker 2: You are listening to five minute Friday Unhurdle the first
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  Speaker 2: of twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: Happy New Year. Hi Hello.
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  Speaker 2: I hope everyone had a good holiday, a good New
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  Speaker 2: Year's Eve, a safe New Year's Eve, and you are
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  Speaker 2: feeling prepared. I say prepared, because, oh my goodness, I
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  Speaker 2: swear that for the last what felt like the better
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  Speaker 2: part of the last two weeks, I was the only
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  Speaker 2: person online. And what I think should be going on
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  Speaker 2: because everyone is taking off, is up there taking the
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  Speaker 2: time to really soak in family and think forward. I
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  Speaker 2: know this isn't actually what's happening, but get to a
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  Speaker 2: place where they can show up back at their desks
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  Speaker 2: next week and we can really dive on in. I
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  Speaker 2: love a fresh start. If you have been around here
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  Speaker 2: for a while, you know this about me. I firmly
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  Speaker 2: believe that any single second is the opportunity to start fresh.
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  Speaker 2: That you don't need to wait for the turn of
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  Speaker 2: a new year to get in this fresh start mindset.
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  Speaker 1: But it does help a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: And so when I say I hope that you're prepared,
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  Speaker 2: we've got stuff to do.
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  Speaker 1: At least I know that I have stuff to do.
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  Speaker 2: And goals to go after, and that is a big
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  Speaker 2: part of the reason why I decided to jump start
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  Speaker 2: with the Hurdle thirty one. For those that may not
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  Speaker 2: be following on social, what that is is a thirty
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  Speaker 2: one day challenge where we're going to be doing some
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  Speaker 2: guided journaling, some manifestation, and coming up with four goals
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  Speaker 2: for the year in four key areas. Those our health, relationship, finances,
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  Speaker 2: and work. Those are our four areas that we will
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  Speaker 2: be focusing on. So if you want to join in,
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  Speaker 2: it's not too late, especially if you're listening to this
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  Speaker 2: in real time, you can head on over.
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  Speaker 1: To the link in the show notes.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm also going to be hosting a live goal
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  Speaker 2: setting workshop next week on the evening of January seventh,
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  Speaker 2: at seven pm Eastern. Information on that is also in
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  Speaker 2: the show notes if you want to join that a
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  Speaker 2: la carte. As a highlight, if you do join the
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  Speaker 2: Hurdle thirty one program, you get complimentary access into that
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  Speaker 2: goal setting program as long as you are SVP. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to be sharing all these details on social and
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  Speaker 2: in the weekly Hurdle email this Friday as well, but
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  Speaker 2: just so you have them, just so you're in the loop.
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  Speaker 2: I got you readering here anyway, five minute Friday. Over
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  Speaker 2: the last month, I hosted a separate journaling Childe in
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  Speaker 2: the Daily Hurdle Chat over on Instagram at Hurdle Podcast,
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  Speaker 2: and there were a lot of really interesting moments of
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  Speaker 2: reflection that I had throughout the month. I will say
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  Speaker 2: the prompt that stumped me the most was what do
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  Speaker 2: you want your word to be? For twenty twenty six?
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  Speaker 2: The last few years, when I've asked myself this question,
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  Speaker 2: it's really come to me quite clearly.
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  Speaker 1: Two years ago, my word was great.
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  Speaker 2: For so long, my family motto is do good, and
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  Speaker 2: for so long I was okay with good. And I
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  Speaker 2: got into this place where I came to terms with
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  Speaker 2: this idea that I didn't just want good anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I really wanted great.
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  Speaker 2: And so everything that I was doing, I was asking myself,
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  Speaker 2: is this going to help me get to great? And
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  Speaker 2: that was the word for twenty twenty four. When I
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  Speaker 2: went into twenty twenty five, the word that I was
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  Speaker 2: really leaning into was flexibility. I am someone that likes
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  Speaker 2: things to be a certain way. I'm definitely a bit
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  Speaker 2: type A, and I knew that if I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: achieve some of my goals, not only would I have
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  Speaker 2: to be flexible in my methods, but I would also
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  Speaker 2: have to be flexible in the timing or the goalposts,
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  Speaker 2: if you will. Although yes, there are firm things that
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  Speaker 2: I am after, the accomplishments and the milestones that I
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  Speaker 2: hit this year, many of them weren't things that I
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  Speaker 2: wrote down at the top of twenty twenty five. And
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  Speaker 2: that's because I was willing to be flexible with my pursuit,
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  Speaker 2: with what I was going after, and candidly, some of
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  Speaker 2: the things that happened, they were better than I even anticipated,
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  Speaker 2: than I even imagined.
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  Speaker 1: So we had great. We had flexible.
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  Speaker 2: And as I sat on my couch on Wednesday morning
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  Speaker 2: thinking about what I wanted my word to be for
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, I felt little bit blank. And then
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  Speaker 2: I started writing a list, and there are a lot
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  Speaker 2: of words on this list, and I wrote down literally
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  Speaker 2: in the journal I'm going to come back to this
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  Speaker 2: later today. And as I was walking to the gym
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  Speaker 2: to do my last little session of the year, it
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  Speaker 2: really dawned on me that what I want my twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six word to be is strong, and not just
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  Speaker 2: in the physical sense, although of course that's always aspirational
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  Speaker 2: and I certainly have strength goals of my own. But
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  Speaker 2: what I mean is, in my conviction, I want to
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  Speaker 2: be a hell yes person in twenty twenty six. I
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  Speaker 2: want to do things that I feel very strongly about.
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  Speaker 2: I want to feel strongly period. I want to be
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  Speaker 2: all in on the things that excite me. When I
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  Speaker 2: do something, I want to give it all that I have.
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  Speaker 2: I want to do it with every ounce of strength
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  Speaker 2: that I can muster. Now, don't get me wrong. There
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  Speaker 2: are days that I'm going to need to be solved.
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  Speaker 2: There are days that I'm going to have to have
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  Speaker 2: grace with myself. I'm gonna have to have grace with
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  Speaker 2: the world.
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  Speaker 1: I get that.
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  Speaker 2: But I am ready to show up as my strongest self.
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  Speaker 2: I am ready to stand firm in who it is
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  Speaker 2: that I am and what it is that I have
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  Speaker 2: to offer and where I want to go. And a
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  Speaker 2: big part of that strength comes from getting very clear
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  Speaker 2: not only on who I am, which has been something
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  Speaker 2: that I have been working so diligently on for the
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  Speaker 2: past let's say four or five years now, but also
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  Speaker 2: in what I have to offer and knowing those things
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  Speaker 2: and being able to articulate my values and what's important
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  Speaker 2: to me and what makes me great, that makes me stronger.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm saying this and you're thinking to yourself, I
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  Speaker 2: want to be able to do those things. This isn't
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  Speaker 2: a plug, but it's a plug. The Hurdle thirty one
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  Speaker 2: is going to help a lot with that. So if
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  Speaker 2: you want to get better at articulating your values, if
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  Speaker 2: you want to get more clear on who it is
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  Speaker 2: that you are and what it is that you bring
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  Speaker 2: to the table, I would be honored understatement to help
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  Speaker 2: you do that. So my Word of the Year twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six is strong, at least one of them, and
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  Speaker 2: I want to help you feel like your strongest self
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  Speaker 2: next year as well. It's been a really special three
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  Speaker 2: sixty five, and I'd be amiss if I didn't say that.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be here without all of you. You empower
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  Speaker 2: me to keep showing up. You are the reason why
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  Speaker 2: I keep creating and I get to have these conversations
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  Speaker 2: that inspire me to be my best and strongest self.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Also a belated happy Birthday to Hurdle. Hurdle was submitted
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  Speaker 2: to what was then called the iTunes store. It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: then Apple Podcasts. It was submitted to the iTunes store
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  Speaker 2: on December thirty first, twenty seventeen, and we are officially
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  Speaker 2: eight years old. So new Hurdlers, Old Hurdler's og Hurdlers.
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  Speaker 1: I love you.
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  Speaker 2: All, and help me celebrate the birthday by sharing this
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  Speaker 2: episode or any of the episodes that you love on
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  Speaker 2: your socials, with friends, with families, with coworkers, whoever. Your support.
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  Speaker 2: It always means the world. Now, before I let you go,
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  Speaker 2: you know how it works. A listener question. Hey, Emily,
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  Speaker 2: noticed that you did a pretty big closet purge earlier
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  Speaker 2: this week, and I'm feeling really motivated to do the
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  Speaker 2: same at the start of a new year. Curious how
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  Speaker 2: you decide what to keep and what to let go
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  Speaker 2: of and if there's any advice you can give on
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  Speaker 2: how to organize to make things a little bit easier
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  Speaker 2: to manage. Thanks so much and love the show, Kara.
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  Speaker 2: Hey Kara, Okay, I'm going to start with the back half.
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  Speaker 2: When you say easier to manage and how to organize,
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  Speaker 2: that's really going to depend on your space. I live
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  Speaker 2: in a Brooklyn apartment and although there is a fair
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  Speaker 2: amount of space. I don't have a ton of storage,
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  Speaker 2: and so my closets are filled to the brim, which
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  Speaker 2: is a big part of the reason why I feel
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  Speaker 2: like every other month I am taking everything out of
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  Speaker 2: them and then putting everything back into them and trying
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  Speaker 2: to get rid of the things. Anyway, my rule of
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  Speaker 2: thumb when it comes to organization and purging, if you will,
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  Speaker 2: is that if I pick up an item of clothing
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  Speaker 2: and I haven't worn it in a year, then more
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  Speaker 2: often than not, I'm donating that item of clothing now.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes there's going to be something that you pick up
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  Speaker 2: and it brings some sort of an emotional connection. Fair
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  Speaker 2: I want you to think about that item next to
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  Speaker 2: an item that you wore last week.
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  Speaker 1: Would you choose.
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  Speaker 2: The item that you have this little bit of an
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  Speaker 2: emotional connection to even though you haven't worn it in sometime,
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  Speaker 2: or would you choose the item you wore last week.
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  Speaker 2: If the answer is the item you were last week,
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  Speaker 2: then the item's gotta go.
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  Speaker 1: Period.
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  Speaker 2: Every time I do some sort of a purge, I
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  Speaker 2: also put a pile to the side of items that
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  Speaker 2: I think that some of my friends would really love.
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  Speaker 2: Knowing that I have this opportunity to get a lot
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  Speaker 2: of new workout gear and sneakers and whatnot, and so
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  Speaker 2: I try to spread the wealth. But that's my biggest
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  Speaker 2: rule for when it comes to cleaning out my closet.
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  Speaker 2: I very rarely have an instance where I keep something
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  Speaker 2: and I think to myself, I'm gonna have the perfect
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to wear this, and then I actually find the
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  Speaker 2: perfect opportunity to wear this. That's a big reason why
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  Speaker 2: over the last few years I've been really really into
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  Speaker 2: services like Newly and Rent the Runway.
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  Speaker 1: I will include my Newly link in the show notes.
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  Speaker 2: I believe if you get into that, you can get
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  Speaker 2: thirty dollars off through that link, but you get something
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  Speaker 2: like six items a month, I think, and it's under
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  Speaker 2: one hundred dollars, and it really just helps when I'm
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  Speaker 2: planning my month and thinking about what I want to
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  Speaker 2: wear and saves me money in the long haul. With
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  Speaker 2: that said, make sure you're following along over on social
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  Speaker 2: It's Hurdle podcast. I'm over at Emily Abadi. I hope
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  Speaker 2: to see you join us for a Hurdle thirty one
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  Speaker 2: or our goal setting workshop next week. And again, Happy
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  Speaker 2: New Year, grateful for all of you another hurdle conquered.
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  Speaker 1: Catch you guys next time.