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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Can You Break It Up Into Little Doables? · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Emily Abadi here, you are listening to five
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  Speaker 1: Minute Friday from hurdle Man. What a hot week here
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  Speaker 1: in New York. I am loving being in one place,
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  Speaker 1: but let me tell you it is a hot place
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  Speaker 1: to be. My focus right now is really getting my
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  Speaker 1: feet under me, getting ahead of some work in September.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have a fair bit of travel, so
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  Speaker 1: I am trying to get my ducks in a row,
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  Speaker 1: organize my life, get things in order so that I
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  Speaker 1: can be a little bit more cool, calm and collected
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  Speaker 1: when I am no longer in one place. This week
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  Speaker 1: also marks the beginning of my Chicago marrit On training.
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  Speaker 1: There I said it, I am gearing up for a
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  Speaker 1: lucky number. Sixteen. Is number sixteen a lucky number? I
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  Speaker 1: am unsure, but it will be lucky for me. I
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  Speaker 1: am setting out to do something that is both exciting
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  Speaker 1: and scary, and that is ideally run my fastest marathon
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  Speaker 1: ever at my oldest age yet. I ran Chicago back
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  Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen and it was such a special experience,
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  Speaker 1: one that I've talked about so many times here on
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  Speaker 1: the show, and so I'm excited to give it another
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  Speaker 1: go with the fitness that I have now, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: really ready to work for it now. With that said,
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of marathon training is always humbling, but the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of training for a marathon is quite challenging when
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  Speaker 1: it is as hot as it is here right now.
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  Speaker 1: So for context, I think the real feel today was
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  Speaker 1: something like one hundred and one degrees. When I got
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  Speaker 1: out for my run this morning, it was maybe seventy
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  Speaker 1: too ish, but that humidity, it comes, it comes to
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  Speaker 1: get you on deck. This morning I had a workout
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  Speaker 1: that felt a bit intimidating. I had a warm up
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  Speaker 1: mile and then one rep at six forty five pace
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  Speaker 1: for three quarters of a mile. I would walk for
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  Speaker 1: two minutes, and then another rep that was a quarter
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  Speaker 1: of a mile at a faster pace, and then I
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  Speaker 1: would walk for a minute and repeat that once before
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  Speaker 1: my cool down mile. And I went into this quite
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  Speaker 1: nervous about the whole thing candidly, but most of all
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  Speaker 1: I was approaching it with do the best you can
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  Speaker 1: with what you have, Like I knew that maybe I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to hit the pace targets considering how
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  Speaker 1: warm it is. And I do want to say that
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  Speaker 1: if you are a runner. You are someone that's getting
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  Speaker 1: out there right now. There is so much importance and
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  Speaker 1: so much to be said about having grace with yourself,
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  Speaker 1: because it would be bizarre if you you could perform
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  Speaker 1: at your best under these conditions. It's not normal. So
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  Speaker 1: there's that. So yes, I had that grace with myself
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  Speaker 1: and I told myself, just do the best you can
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  Speaker 1: with what you have and give your best in any
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  Speaker 1: given moment. And that's how I approached the workout and
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  Speaker 1: I went in and it was hard, and I just
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  Speaker 1: kept saying to myself, focus on the mile you're in,
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  Speaker 1: or focus on the rep that you're in, and it
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  Speaker 1: might feel hard right now, but just get through this
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  Speaker 1: next rep, get through this next one minute and thirty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: three minutes and thirty seconds, whatever the time might be right.
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  Speaker 1: And if that's not a metaphor for life. As I
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  Speaker 1: finished and I felt so proud of myself, then I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what is breaking it into little doables. There
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  Speaker 1: are so many moments in our day today where things
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  Speaker 1: feel bigger than us, things feel unachievable, that are impossible
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  Speaker 1: right just because of the sheer size of the goal
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  Speaker 1: or the task. But when you break it into little
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  Speaker 1: doables when you have grace with yourself along the way,
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  Speaker 1: when you get to this point that you can honestly
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  Speaker 1: say I am giving this everything that I have, then
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  Speaker 1: you have to trust and believe that everything you have
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  Speaker 1: in that moment is good enough. Some days you're going
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  Speaker 1: to show up and you only have fifty percent to give.
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  Speaker 1: But my question to you is are you willing to
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  Speaker 1: give thee hundred percent of the fifty percent? Having grace
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  Speaker 1: with yourself knowing that every day isn't going to be
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  Speaker 1: a fifty percent day, but some days are and that
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  Speaker 1: is just fine. I hope that helps you today. I
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  Speaker 1: hope that you are willing to give one hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: of whatever it is that you feel capable of meeting
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  Speaker 1: the world with and know that breaking it up into
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  Speaker 1: little doables might just be the secret to you finding
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  Speaker 1: the level of success that you are after. My question
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  Speaker 1: for you this week, what's something that you're working on
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  Speaker 1: right now now that you could benefit from breaking it
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  Speaker 1: up into little doables? What is something that you are
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  Speaker 1: working on right now that you could benefit from breaking
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  Speaker 1: it up into little doables? And now a listener question. Hey, Emily,
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask you about your playlists. Do you
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  Speaker 1: have and use self curated playlists on streaming music? How
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  Speaker 1: many do you have and do you create them for
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  Speaker 1: different workouts? I love this question. I have a playlist
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  Speaker 1: for yoga, running, and weightlifting. You sound like me. This
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  Speaker 1: is not to say that I always stick to them
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent, but I like knowing that they are
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  Speaker 1: specific and can get me in my groove. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: all the best and keep going. Mindy d in n Jay,
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey. Hey, Mindy, great question. I too have a
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  Speaker 1: few different playlists. I have a running playlist that I
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  Speaker 1: do not update nearly enough. It's called Happiness and it's
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  Speaker 1: just one that I made for myself and Apple Music.
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  Speaker 1: I also have like a yoga friendly chill playlist. I
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  Speaker 1: do not have a weightlifting playlist, and if I'm being honest,
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  Speaker 1: more often than not, I'm listening to podcasts when I'm
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  Speaker 1: lifting weights in the gym. I totally agree with your
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  Speaker 1: sentiment on having different playlists to get you in different grooves.
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  Speaker 1: I think it really helps. And I also think that
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  Speaker 1: that's beneficial because it takes the decision fatigue out of it.
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  Speaker 1: The more decisions that anyone has to make when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to moving their body. The more barriers that there
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  Speaker 1: might be, the more excuses that can come up. So
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  Speaker 1: if you have a playlist that you use for when
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  Speaker 1: you're lifting weights, a playlist that you use for when
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  Speaker 1: you go on a walk or when you go on
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  Speaker 1: a run, one that you dance to, whatever the case
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  Speaker 1: may be, again, just one less thing that you have
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  Speaker 1: to think about when it comes to getting up, getting
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  Speaker 1: out and getting active. I have been asked to compile
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  Speaker 1: Spotify playlists in the past. I can think about that.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll make it a little side project next week,
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  Speaker 1: and if I do, I will share them, I promise
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  Speaker 1: next time.