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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: I Finally Did It. I Left My Laptop On The Plane. · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Emily here, Happy five Minute Friday. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you're having a wonderful week I had. I'm giggling. This
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  Speaker 1: week has been insane, insane in good and questionable ways,
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  Speaker 1: in that I've been in San Antonio and I arrived
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday. I am here to host a conversation on
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  Speaker 1: women in sports media during a trade show called the
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  Speaker 1: Running Event. And on Tuesday, after deplaning and going to
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  Speaker 1: a few events, I sat down to do some work
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  Speaker 1: and went to reach for my laptop and realized that
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  Speaker 1: I left my laptop in the seat pocket on the plane.
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  Speaker 1: I have never done that before. I have left an
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  Speaker 1: Apple Watch on a plane once and I never got
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  Speaker 1: it back. And so immediately my mind was racing. This
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  Speaker 1: is not an ideal scenario. And two things happened. One,
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  Speaker 1: I went into problem solving mode. I called Delta, I
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  Speaker 1: filed a lost report. I called an uber, and I
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  Speaker 1: saw via find my that the laptop was at San
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  Speaker 1: Antonio Airport, so I immediately went there. And also I
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  Speaker 1: didn't get ahead of myself. And this is what I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about, specifically to close the loop on
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  Speaker 1: what happened to the laptop. I get to San Antonio
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  Speaker 1: Airport and I go into the lost baggage office or
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  Speaker 1: the baggage office for Delta. A sweet man named Art
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  Speaker 1: is there, who is now my new bestie. And Art
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  Speaker 1: takes my phone with the find my app open and
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  Speaker 1: literally follows it to where it says my laptop is,
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  Speaker 1: which is at the gate where my plane came in,
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  Speaker 1: and retrieves it. And he's walking out of the airport
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  Speaker 1: toward where one would check in on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of security, and we lock eyes and he lifts my
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  Speaker 1: laptop in the air and I give the biggest a
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  Speaker 1: breakfast club or the fist bump, and I'm like, let's
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  Speaker 1: go so stoked. Okay, So that's what happened with the laptop.
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  Speaker 1: I have it. It is here next to me. But
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  Speaker 1: this whole not getting ahead of myself thing, I used
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  Speaker 1: to not be good at this. I used to be
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  Speaker 1: the kind of person I admittedly like things a certain way.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, no one wants to lose something that's very
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  Speaker 1: important to them, but I would let the things that
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  Speaker 1: were beyond my control really really really ruin my mental game,
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  Speaker 1: my everything. Honestly in the moments that felt so much
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  Speaker 1: bigger than me, and through this practice, and I specifically
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  Speaker 1: call it a practice because it is something that requires diligence.
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  Speaker 1: I have been able to get better at responding instead
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  Speaker 1: of reacting. And so yes, I had some feelings and
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  Speaker 1: felt overwhelmed when I realized the item was missing on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: but I was able to be practical in my response
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  Speaker 1: about figuring out what was within my power to a
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  Speaker 1: look for the laptop and be just deal with all
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  Speaker 1: the emotions surrounding the scenario. And like I said, it's
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  Speaker 1: a practice this I'm going to be able to respond
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  Speaker 1: instead of react. There are going to be scenario and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about lost items. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: in the day to day where things aren't going as
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  Speaker 1: you'd hoped. Someone comes in at a left field and
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  Speaker 1: says something that shocks you or upsets you, and it
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  Speaker 1: is up to you to act in a way that
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  Speaker 1: makes you proud, makes your future self proud especially, And
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  Speaker 1: so I knew in the instance on Tuesday that getting
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  Speaker 1: ahead of myself wasn't going to do any favors and
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  Speaker 1: made the conscious decision to just breathe through it and
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  Speaker 1: do the best I could with what I had. It
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  Speaker 1: is really easy to get wrapped up in the things
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  Speaker 1: that you can't control, and so the question comes in,
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  Speaker 1: how do I get better at this practice? I do
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  Speaker 1: think that it really does begin with allowing yourself the
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  Speaker 1: permission to take time. There is so much happening at
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  Speaker 1: all times, and often it feels as though if you
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  Speaker 1: don't re act immediately, there is time wasted. But what
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  Speaker 1: you will find is that the more often that you
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  Speaker 1: give yourself space to absorb, to manage, to process, that
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  Speaker 1: it's not all that time sensitive, that it's not all
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  Speaker 1: that serious. And when you experience how it feels to
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  Speaker 1: give yourself that time and to see how that plays out,
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  Speaker 1: then that's a rep. And the more reps that you
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  Speaker 1: put in, the better you will become at not overreacting
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  Speaker 1: or just in general reacting versus responding. For this week's
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  Speaker 1: listener prompt, I actually want to guide you to the
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  Speaker 1: guided Journaling challenge I'm doing over on the Hurdle Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: So every day for the month of December, I am
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  Speaker 1: offering up a prompt that helps you reflect on the
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  Speaker 1: past year, and I'm having a lot of fun with it.
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  Speaker 1: We've added almost two hundred people to the Instagram channel
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  Speaker 1: over the last forty eight hours and that makes me
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  Speaker 1: really excited and I'd love for you to join the squad.
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  Speaker 1: So my prompt for you this week is go to
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  Speaker 1: Instagram in the bio for at Hurdle podcast, click on
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  Speaker 1: in there to the Daily Hurdle channel and join our challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Get thinking, get writing, and just like my encouragement for
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  Speaker 1: responding instead of reacting, you will you will be better
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  Speaker 1: for it. And now a listener question. Hey, Emily, since
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  Speaker 1: you've done so much work on women's health, I find
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  Speaker 1: working out in the morning really hard. I want to
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  Speaker 1: ask you about it, not because I'm not a morning person,
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  Speaker 1: but because I often feel scattered and buzzy after, which
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  Speaker 1: is hard on writing days for me when I need
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  Speaker 1: to settle down and get into work quickly. I've tried hydration, food,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. Any other thoughts, and as someone who writes,
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  Speaker 1: have you ever noticed anything with focused deep work after
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  Speaker 1: your morning workouts? Glad you made it to your destination
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  Speaker 1: this week, and thanks so much. I firmly believe that
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  Speaker 1: anyone can be a morning workout person. And just like
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  Speaker 1: the reps that it takes to get better at responding
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  Speaker 1: instead of reacting, it takes reps to get to a
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  Speaker 1: place where morning workouts really do feel good in your body.
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  Speaker 1: With that said, there are a few different things that
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  Speaker 1: could be happening. If you are experiencing maybe dizziness or
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  Speaker 1: brain fog after a morning workout, that would be not
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  Speaker 1: eating beforehand, So low blood sugar from exercising on an
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  Speaker 1: empty stomach can really lead to a sudden drop in
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  Speaker 1: blood pressure. Also, maybe you're not hydrating enough in the
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  Speaker 1: hours before you go to bed. You wake up, you
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  Speaker 1: haven't consumed anything in x amount of time, and so
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  Speaker 1: that can be something that really messes with folks that
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  Speaker 1: are morning workout people. And then a warm up is especially, especially,
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  Speaker 1: especially important in the morning to be someone that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a morning workout person, because again, your body
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  Speaker 1: has been at rest for the hours preceding that effort.
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  Speaker 1: The most important thing about any exercise routine is that
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  Speaker 1: a you're doing something that you enjoy. When you're doing
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  Speaker 1: something that you enjoy, you're more likely to adhere to it,
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  Speaker 1: and then b you are doing it at a time
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  Speaker 1: that feels good for you. So even though you might
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  Speaker 1: want to be a morning workout person, if these are
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  Speaker 1: the things that you experience after the fact, then it
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  Speaker 1: might just not be your thing, and that's okay. The
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  Speaker 1: second part of this question, as someone who writes, have
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  Speaker 1: you ever noticed anything with focused deep work after your
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  Speaker 1: morning workouts? I am a very focused person in the
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  Speaker 1: morning period. Now, there is some science behind this, and
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  Speaker 1: that's because exercise does two things. One it improves blood
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  Speaker 1: flow and the oxygen delivery to your brain, and two,
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  Speaker 1: it releases what we call endorphins and dopamine. Endorphins and
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  Speaker 1: dopamine commonly referred to as feel good chemicals. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: physiological boost neurochemical boost, sharpens mental clarity, enhances memory, and
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  Speaker 1: proves your ability to concentrate. These are all good things.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big case for being a morning person. It's
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  Speaker 1: a huge reason why you'll see that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people that are at the top of some of the
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  Speaker 1: companies that you admire the most are also mourning people.
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  Speaker 1: And it makes a case for anyone to give it
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  Speaker 1: a try. But, like I said, everyone is different, and
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  Speaker 1: so if you relate to this listener question, if you're
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  Speaker 1: like it just doesn't feel right for me to an
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  Speaker 1: honest personal inventory talk one on one with an expert
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  Speaker 1: about what you're experiencing, what you're feeling and also make
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  Speaker 1: sure you're giving your body what it really needs. Hope
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  Speaker 1: this helps make sure you're falling along with Hurdle over
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  Speaker 1: at Hurdle Podcast and over at Emily a Body. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said earlier, join our Daily Hurdle monthly journaling challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Would love to have you there and I'll catch you
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  Speaker 1: guys next time