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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: 2 Simple Strategies To Help Combat Overwhelm · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: What's going on? Everyone? Emily body here. Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: You are listening to five minute Friday or good afternoon
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  Speaker 2: or good evening, depending on when you're listening to this.
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  Speaker 2: I feel as though overwhelmed is loading, and I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you why. I have many different trips in the next
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  Speaker 2: seven days. Three to be specific. I'm headed to Boston today.
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  Speaker 2: I am there for the weekend through Monday. I am
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  Speaker 2: back to New York for the night. I have an
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  Speaker 2: event that night that I need to go to. I
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  Speaker 2: fly to San Francisco from Tuesday to Thursday next week.
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  Speaker 1: Then I'm back to New York.
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  Speaker 2: And finally I'm down to DC next Friday night to
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  Speaker 2: do some personal stuff and also host a conversation on
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  Speaker 2: behalf of every Woman's Marathon.
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  Speaker 1: I am in.
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  Speaker 2: So four different cities over the next seven days, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that can lead to overwhelmed. It can also lead to
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  Speaker 2: me being out of my normal routine, and so I
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  Speaker 2: have a few things that become non negotiable for me
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  Speaker 2: when overwhelm starts to seep in. The First thing is that,
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  Speaker 2: regardless of where I am, the morning routine sticks period
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  Speaker 2: hard stop. I wake up, I journal, I do breath work,
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  Speaker 2: I move my body, I take my supplements. It's like
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  Speaker 2: clockwork for me, and it is integral to allow and
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  Speaker 2: empower me to show up as the best possible version
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  Speaker 2: of myself in that day. Does that mean that it's
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  Speaker 2: not going to be perhaps a little inconvenient not to
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  Speaker 2: have all of my normal tools at my disposal to
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  Speaker 2: do these things, of course, but we have to be
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  Speaker 2: flexible knowing what the goal is. The goal is for
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  Speaker 2: me to have some sort of normalcy even when I'm
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  Speaker 2: not in my typical environment, so that I can feel
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  Speaker 2: better in my body. When I feel good in my body,
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  Speaker 2: I have a better attitude. I can show up better
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  Speaker 2: for myself, and I can show up better for the
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  Speaker 2: obligations that I have on deck. So the first thing
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  Speaker 2: that becomes a non negotiable is doing my morning routine
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  Speaker 2: and making that a priority. The second thing that I
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  Speaker 2: really take stock of when I'm feeling overwhelmed is what
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  Speaker 2: are my inputs? Who am I surrounding myself with, who
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  Speaker 2: am I spending my time talking to, What am I reading? Consuming?
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  Speaker 2: Am I doom scrolling? These are all questions to ask yourself,
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  Speaker 2: and it can be helpful to work backwards. So if
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  Speaker 2: you think from your inputs. Your thoughts grow, your actions,
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  Speaker 2: your ideas flow. Okay, so if you want better ideas
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  Speaker 2: and actions, which I think that's something that we can
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  Speaker 2: all relate to, then you need to look at what
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  Speaker 2: you're thinking and to get quote unquote better thinking. Then
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  Speaker 2: you need to really examine where your source is coming from.
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  Speaker 2: What are your inputs. So this looks like two things
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  Speaker 2: for me. One, I want to make sure that I'm
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  Speaker 2: spending as much quality time or time with people that
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  Speaker 2: make me feel full, that feel my cup, that make
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  Speaker 2: me have that cup half full instead of half empty perspective.
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  Speaker 2: I'm being as intentional about that as possible. And the
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  Speaker 2: next thing, I genuinely try to be more positive on
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  Speaker 2: the days where that positivity doesn't feel like it's flowing naturally.
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  Speaker 1: I find that finding small.
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  Speaker 2: Gratitude dudes in your ten minute block can be something
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  Speaker 2: that starts to shift that perspective. So maybe I don't
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  Speaker 2: wake up in the best mood I'm feeling, like I said.
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  Speaker 1: A little overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 2: I will identify one good thing that's happening around me
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  Speaker 2: in that moment. So maybe the way that the light
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  Speaker 2: is streaming into the room is really beautiful right now?
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  Speaker 2: And then what I find is in the next ten minutes.
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  Speaker 2: If I do that again and I think to myself, Wow,
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  Speaker 2: this coffee tastes really fresh and it's really giving me
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  Speaker 2: some extra energy, and that feels really good to my body,
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  Speaker 2: then those highlights, those gratitudes start to transform into an
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  Speaker 2: overall positive perspective. You're following me, right, So I work
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  Speaker 2: consciously to be more positive, to choose the positive, and
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  Speaker 2: to focus on the good. A friend of mine made
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  Speaker 2: a joke the other day about how I am the
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  Speaker 2: person that certainly makes an effort to notice like the
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  Speaker 2: happy couple walking across the street and seat of the
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  Speaker 2: dirty puddle of water on the ground, and she is
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  Speaker 2: the person who more often than not notices at first
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  Speaker 2: the dirty puddle.
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  Speaker 1: And that is a perspective.
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  Speaker 2: That is a mindset that I have truly put in
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  Speaker 2: effort to cultivate, and one that you can cultivate too.
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  Speaker 2: So again, the lesson here is that I'm not telling
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  Speaker 2: you overwhelms not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you to ignore it.
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  Speaker 2: But I am here to reinforce that there are habits
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  Speaker 2: and choices that you can make that will help you
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  Speaker 2: during the times that you are feeling overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 1: I've got this. You've got this.
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  Speaker 2: My listener prompt for you this week, in the last
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  Speaker 2: ten minutes, maybe since you started listening to this show,
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  Speaker 2: maybe after you got out of bed, maybe on your
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  Speaker 2: commute to work, whenever, in the last ten minutes that
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  Speaker 2: you're listening to this, highlight one good thing, one good
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  Speaker 2: thing from your last ten minutes, and make an effort
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  Speaker 2: to continue that as the day goes on. And now
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  Speaker 2: a listener question. Hey, Emily, I'm Krisha, a longtime listener
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  Speaker 2: of the show.
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  Speaker 1: I love your.
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  Speaker 2: Idea for doing one new thing a week in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five and would love to give it a try.
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  Speaker 2: How do you find different things to do? Like attending
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  Speaker 2: a poetry slam? Is so unique and creative? Thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much for your inspiration. This is a good question. Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: at the date of the year, I just made one
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  Speaker 2: long list of all of these things that I have
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  Speaker 2: never had the opportunity to do, and so every Sunday
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  Speaker 2: I pick something from the list and put it in
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  Speaker 2: the schedule for the week ahead. Now, granted, sometimes I
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  Speaker 2: have to plan decently far ahead to make some of
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  Speaker 2: these things happen. So although some weeks it's chosen on
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  Speaker 2: the Sunday of the week that's about to begin, other weeks,
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  Speaker 2: I'll have something solidified weeks ahead of time. For instance,
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  Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks, I'm going to the opera
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  Speaker 2: for the first time, and I've known about that for
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  Speaker 2: three weeks and that was on the list. And I
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  Speaker 2: feel as though as I'm executing this and sharing bits
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  Speaker 2: and pieces of it on the weekly Hurdle substack and
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  Speaker 2: then over on my social people are messaging me with
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  Speaker 2: more ideas and it's becoming a group experiment of sorts.
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  Speaker 2: So on that note, if you do have any exciting
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  Speaker 2: ideas for me, or you rep something that you want
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  Speaker 2: me to check out, or you did this really cool
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  Speaker 2: experience that I must try, I am certainly all ears,
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  Speaker 2: but make a list and don't be hesitant to put
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  Speaker 2: like some crazy stuff on that list, Like it's not
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  Speaker 2: every day of the year that I'm going to take
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  Speaker 2: my first trip to Mexico City, but I want to
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  Speaker 2: do that at some point this year as an example,
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  Speaker 2: And that's how works. Make sure you're following along with
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  Speaker 2: Hurdle over on social it's at Hurdle Podcast. I'm over
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  Speaker 2: at Emily a body, Another hurdle conquered. Cash, You guys,
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  Speaker 2: next time in my