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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Setting Intentions For My 35th Birthday · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: What's going on everyone? Emily A Badi Here, you are
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  Speaker 1: listening to five Minute Friday from Hurdle. I'm kind of
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  Speaker 1: giddy today. I feel like it's kind of lame to
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  Speaker 1: say that you like celebrating your birthday. It's my birthday.
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  Speaker 1: I really like celebrating it. I just love an excuse
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  Speaker 1: to gather with the people that I care about, and
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  Speaker 1: that is entirely what I plan on doing today. I'm
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  Speaker 1: probably riding bikes with friends. If you are listening to
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  Speaker 1: this first thing in the morning, I'm going to spend
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  Speaker 1: the day with friends. I'm going to dinner with girlfriends.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow I'm going to see my family and spend more
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  Speaker 1: time with people that I love. And it just feels
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  Speaker 1: it's really special. I wanted to be really candid for
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  Speaker 1: this five Minute Friday this week for the weekly Hurdle newsletter.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not subscribed, the link to do that is
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  Speaker 1: in the show notes. But in the newsletter, I share
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  Speaker 1: thirty five lessons for thirty five years. I know a
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  Speaker 1: little sappy, but I had this idea last week and
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  Speaker 1: I've been journaling on it every morning. Some of my
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  Speaker 1: biggest takeaways, not just from the past year, but from
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  Speaker 1: all thirty five really, and earlier this week, upon talking
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  Speaker 1: to my life coach and chatting about this concept, I
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  Speaker 1: told her that I would be remiss if I didn't
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  Speaker 1: say that it's not apparent to me the things that
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  Speaker 1: I am also without. And she asked me, what if
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  Speaker 1: we are to reframe? What if instead you thought about
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  Speaker 1: and focused on the abundance that you have in your life?
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  Speaker 1: How would that make you feel? And it's such a
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  Speaker 1: simple swap. It is understandable that as I am on
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  Speaker 1: the cusp here of my thirty fifth year, and oh
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  Speaker 1: my goodness, I cannot believe the next big milestone is forty.
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  Speaker 1: That is insane that I have these thoughts. That's understandable.
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  Speaker 1: But how do I choose to move forward? What do
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  Speaker 1: I want to focus on? Where do I want my
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  Speaker 1: energy to go? And so the biggest, biggest, biggest takeaway
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  Speaker 1: from the last three hundred and sixty five days, and
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  Speaker 1: I say it here constantly on the show, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be beating a dead horse. But energy attracts like energy,
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  Speaker 1: and I know for certain what it is that I
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  Speaker 1: am looking for, not only from this year, but as
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  Speaker 1: I move forward in this life, and what I am
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  Speaker 1: looking for is kindness and love and just goodness. I
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  Speaker 1: am worthy of good things, I am worthy of greatness.
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  Speaker 1: The theme of the year going from good to great,
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  Speaker 1: and so I choose consciously to reach frame. I choose
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  Speaker 1: to focus on the things that my life has, the
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  Speaker 1: abundance that is at my fingertips, and what a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: way to start again, not only this new year, but
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  Speaker 1: of course all of the years that come after. And
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  Speaker 1: so my question for you today is what can you reframe?
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  Speaker 1: What's something that you've been struggling with and maybe you
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  Speaker 1: are choosing to see the negatives when there are still
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  Speaker 1: so many positives at your fingertips. And now a listener question.
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  Speaker 2: Happy thirty five Emily Woo. So we know that we
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  Speaker 2: are bodies age over time, and that's just a universal truth,
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  Speaker 2: and so you know, it's harder for us to kind
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  Speaker 2: of like stay active and be up to date with
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  Speaker 2: kind of our bodies and how we feel. You've had
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  Speaker 2: a few injuries set backs this year, and you've been
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  Speaker 2: very honest with us about it. Looking ahead, what advice
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  Speaker 2: do you have for your fellow hurdlers looking to adjust
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  Speaker 2: fitness goals with that feeling like we're aging or we're
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  Speaker 2: really giving up help us find motivation thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Our bodies do age over time, and really year thirty
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  Speaker 1: four that felt more apparent than ever as I have
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  Speaker 1: continually fought back against the snagging planter or fasciitis. And
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  Speaker 1: so my advice for hurdlers that are looking to maybe
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  Speaker 1: adjust their fitness goals is first and foremost to have
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  Speaker 1: grace with yourself. Know that it is normal to go
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  Speaker 1: through these periods of frustration. It is normal to maybe
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  Speaker 1: not be able to do all the things that you
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  Speaker 1: used to do when you were twenty one. With that said,
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  Speaker 1: you can make your new normal. You get to decide
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  Speaker 1: what good feels like in this body and meet yourself
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  Speaker 1: with where you are now. I'm also aware that just
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  Speaker 1: because I'm not hitting the same paces that I was
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  Speaker 1: at this time last year doesn't mean that those paces
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  Speaker 1: are gone forever. So that goes back to the topic
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  Speaker 1: of having grace with yourself and knowing that whatever is
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  Speaker 1: meant to be will be. I firmly believe that it
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  Speaker 1: is great to have goals within training, but the reason,
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  Speaker 1: the prime reason that I move my body is because
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  Speaker 1: I want to give back to myself. I want to
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  Speaker 1: fill up my cup and so filling up my cup
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  Speaker 1: means not comparing myself to my old self. Filling up
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  Speaker 1: my cup means finding the joy in the small things.
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  Speaker 1: It means at this point in my life, a little
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  Speaker 1: bit less intensity sometimes so that I continue to show
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  Speaker 1: up day in and day out and do the thing
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  Speaker 1: that I love, which is movement. In general, we shift
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  Speaker 1: and we adapt and we adopt the mindset that movement
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  Speaker 1: is a gift. I am aiming to keep on moving
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  Speaker 1: throughout goodness the rest of my life. My grandmother still
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  Speaker 1: goes on like run walks around her neighborhood and plays
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  Speaker 1: tennis and does dance cardio, and she is in her nineties.
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  Speaker 1: So there's hope for all of us. There really is.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you're following along with Hurdle over on social
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  Speaker 1: It's at Hurdle Podcast. I am over at Emily Avadi.
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  Speaker 1: Another year conquered. You're thirty five, Let's do this. I'll
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  Speaker 1: catch you guys next time.