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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Can You Free Up Some Space? · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Emily Abadi here you are listening to five
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  Speaker 1: Minute Friday from Hurdle. I heard a really good analogy
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  Speaker 1: yesterday and I want to share it with all of you.
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  Speaker 1: The analogy is there is, let's say, a dingy old
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  Speaker 1: car that you keep in your parking spot, and you
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  Speaker 1: keep the car there because it's not really doing anything
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  Speaker 1: bad to you, but you just don't feel motivated to
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  Speaker 1: move it. It's just it is how it is. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: as this dingy old car is sitting in the parking spot,
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  Speaker 1: your dream car, let's call it a range rover, shall we.
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  Speaker 1: Your range rover is circling right around your parking lot
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  Speaker 1: and it cannot stop. It cannot park because there's nowhere
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  Speaker 1: for it to go. So you know what happens when
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  Speaker 1: you take the initiative and you move the dingy car
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  Speaker 1: out from the parking spot that you've just been letting
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  Speaker 1: sit there, been letting you've just allowed to sit there
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  Speaker 1: for so long. Well, suddenly your dream car now has
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  Speaker 1: a place to go. I was told this story in
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  Speaker 1: the context of dating, to be clear, but I know
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  Speaker 1: and believe that this metaphor can be so applicable to
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  Speaker 1: so many things in life. And I want to bring
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  Speaker 1: it around to habit formation, because oftentimes there are practices
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  Speaker 1: things that we are doing in our life that don't
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  Speaker 1: really serve us, but we do them. We execute that way.
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  Speaker 1: We just go about things with that habit in place,
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  Speaker 1: because we don't want to exercise the energy to implement
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  Speaker 1: something new that could be better for us. I will
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  Speaker 1: give you an example. Let's say right now, you have
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  Speaker 1: a morning routine that you like to sit on the
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  Speaker 1: couch and watch the news for an hour, and this
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  Speaker 1: is something that you have done for years. Morning TV
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  Speaker 1: is a comfort zone for you. As much as I
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  Speaker 1: can appreciate that, what if you were willing to remove
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  Speaker 1: yourself from this comfortable environment for a week or two
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  Speaker 1: and try something different, and then you open yourself to
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  Speaker 1: the positivity that can come with mixing up your routine.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you're now taking a walk and listening to a
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  Speaker 1: morning podcast instead of sitting on the couch and watching television. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I mean bring this to working out in general. Think
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  Speaker 1: about that saying nothing changes, If nothing changes, I know
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  Speaker 1: so many women that are interested in developing muscle or
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  Speaker 1: losing weight, which I feel like even just saying that
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  Speaker 1: someone could be interested in losing weight like gets people
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  Speaker 1: on the defense. But I digress. You're interested in doing
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  Speaker 1: one of these things and you don't understand why it's
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  Speaker 1: not happening, and it's not happening because nothing's changing. You're
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  Speaker 1: not changing your approach to get different results. If you
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  Speaker 1: want different results, you can't do the same thing that
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  Speaker 1: you've always been doing and not getting the results that
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  Speaker 1: you're after. You have that old car parked in the
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  Speaker 1: parking spot when there are other beautiful solutions just waiting
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  Speaker 1: to come into your orbit. You get what I'm saying here.
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  Speaker 1: I think you get what I'm saying here. And although yes,
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  Speaker 1: I will certainly take the range rover when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to dating, I feel as though there are, without a doubt,
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  Speaker 1: aspects of my habits, my routine where I am just
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  Speaker 1: doing things because I'm a little intimidated to open myself
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  Speaker 1: up to something new. I'm allowing something to sit that
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  Speaker 1: isn't serving me. And I know that you can relate,
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  Speaker 1: So ask yourself, what do you keeping in the parking
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  Speaker 1: spot that you need to release that needs to go
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  Speaker 1: to the toepound. I know that you're following me on
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  Speaker 1: this journey, so we're okay here what are you keeping
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  Speaker 1: in the parking spot? And now a listener question. Hi Emily,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a longtime fan and Instagram follower. Thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for all that you do and your constant inspiration.
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  Speaker 1: I am newly getting started out with affiliate links and
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea where to begin. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: a large following, but I feel like if I can
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  Speaker 1: monetize this in some way, it could be super helpful
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  Speaker 1: for me. Any insight would be so greatly appreciated. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for all that you do and acting
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  Speaker 1: like a friend to so many of us cec CC
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  Speaker 1: affiliate links. This is a good topic and it's something
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  Speaker 1: that I don't think that everyone understands how it works.
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  Speaker 1: So an affiliate link is a link that gains commission
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  Speaker 1: for someone who posts it, and you can gain that
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  Speaker 1: commission when you sign up for a website or a
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  Speaker 1: service that helps both create these links and then has
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  Speaker 1: partnerships with brands that encourage creators to then make links
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  Speaker 1: with their platform drive traffic to the brand. The creator
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  Speaker 1: gets paid, the brand gets paid, everyone wins. That's me
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  Speaker 1: putting it in Layman's terms. Now you can work with
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  Speaker 1: a brand one on one to set up an affiliate model,
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  Speaker 1: or you can use third party sites that have deals
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  Speaker 1: with brands. Like I said, to make this all a
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  Speaker 1: lot easier, I use a few different affiliate sites. My
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  Speaker 1: most popular one, I would say, is like to Know It.
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  Speaker 1: That's that abbreviation LTK that you might see on the socials.
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  Speaker 1: I like like to Know It because you have a
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  Speaker 1: landing page. Another site or service that offers a similar
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  Speaker 1: experience is called shop my. And then a very popular
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  Speaker 1: editorial affiliate company is called skim Links. And I just
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  Speaker 1: want to say that anyone can start with affiliate linking
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  Speaker 1: and you can earn up to I mean some programs
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  Speaker 1: pay upward of twenty percent commission for a sale, so
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  Speaker 1: you're basically just acting as a sales agent for a brand.
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  Speaker 1: Now it goes without saying, it's super important and that
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  Speaker 1: you trust the people that you're getting recommendations from. Clearly,
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  Speaker 1: in some arenas that is way more important than others.
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  Speaker 1: It's one thing to get a recommendation for a pair
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  Speaker 1: of genes. It's another thing to get a recommendation for
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  Speaker 1: a piece of gym equipment or a supplement something that
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  Speaker 1: you could be putting in your body. You want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that you are looking to qualified experts for
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  Speaker 1: your recommendations, and they should be disclosing whether or not
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  Speaker 1: they are using affiliate links. Anyway, I hope that this helps.
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  Speaker 1: If you have more affiliate questions or I'm just on
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  Speaker 1: the hunt for your listener questions in general, email me
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  Speaker 1: over at Hello at hurdle dot us. You can also
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  Speaker 1: hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.