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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Creating An 'I Can Do Hard Things' Hour · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: What's going on Hurdler's Emily a body here. You're listening
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  Speaker 1: to five Minute Friday. I am bringing forth to the
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  Speaker 1: feed something that I shared yesterday via my Instagram, and
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  Speaker 1: that is the I am overwhelmed I can do hard
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  Speaker 1: things hour. There's probably a quicker way to sum that up.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go with I can do hard things hour. So
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  Speaker 1: basically what happens for me is every week there is
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  Speaker 1: a list of items that I am aware of that
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  Speaker 1: I am also putting off. I'll put the I'm on
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  Speaker 1: my to do list, and every day, perhaps because the
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  Speaker 1: item itself is overwhelming, I will go through my to
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  Speaker 1: do list and not check off that particular item, and
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  Speaker 1: in doing that, I recognize that the reason I am
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  Speaker 1: not checking it off is because again, it is overwhelming.
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  Speaker 1: So what I've started to do each and every week
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  Speaker 1: is set aside between ninety minutes and two hours to
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  Speaker 1: get this thing done, to check off the things on
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  Speaker 1: my to do list that make me feel questionable, that
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  Speaker 1: make me feel as though I'm not capable, which is
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  Speaker 1: entirely not true. And by setting aside this time to
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  Speaker 1: do the things that feel difficult, I am reminded not
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  Speaker 1: only that I am capable of hard things, but I
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  Speaker 1: am also the person that's in charge. And gosh, what
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  Speaker 1: a great reminder, right, What a reminder that even in
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  Speaker 1: the moments that we feel overwhelmed, we have the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to show up, to do, to complete. And so upon
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  Speaker 1: sharing this on my social media yesterday, I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that I brought it into the feed, this
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  Speaker 1: idea of the hour where you handle all of the
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  Speaker 1: things that make you feel maybe perhaps even lesser than
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  Speaker 1: what happens if you tackle all of those things. What
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  Speaker 1: happens if you are reminded of your capability. What happens
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  Speaker 1: if you just get it done? I'll tell you what happens.
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  Speaker 1: You are reminded that you are capable, you can do
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  Speaker 1: hard things. And when all of those things that are
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  Speaker 1: prevalent in the moment are no longer on your to
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  Speaker 1: do list, you are undeniably in a position to feel
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  Speaker 1: more free, to do more with your time, to be
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  Speaker 1: less stressed.
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  Speaker 2: And what a beautiful gift that is.
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  Speaker 1: And so this week, for a five minute for I
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  Speaker 1: I ask you this question, what is on your overwhelming
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  Speaker 1: list and are you capable of setting aside that hour
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  Speaker 1: to make it feel less? So how can you combat
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  Speaker 1: your eye? Can do hard things? List and show up
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  Speaker 1: not only for yourself, but then in turn for the
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  Speaker 1: people that you care about, because your bandwidth feels again
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  Speaker 1: within your control.
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  Speaker 2: And now a listener question.
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  Speaker 3: Hi Emily, my name is Betty, listening in from my Rubi, Kenya,
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  Speaker 3: and I really love your podcast. My question for you
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  Speaker 3: today is how do you bounce back after being sick?
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  Speaker 3: How do you get back to exercising? How do you
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  Speaker 3: pick up from my left off? I'm struggling to get
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  Speaker 3: back to exercising after a period of being sick, so
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  Speaker 3: please could you share some tips on how you do it?
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  Speaker 3: How do you get back to exercising after a period
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  Speaker 3: of sickness? Thanks again, I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
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  Speaker 3: Bye Yo.
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  Speaker 1: Can I just have a fan moment about Betty? Wow,
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  Speaker 1: It's never lost on me that there are literally hurdlers
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  Speaker 1: all over the world. So thank you so much to
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  Speaker 1: listening in to this thing that I create from my
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  Speaker 1: Brooklyn studio.
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  Speaker 2: All the way over in Kenya. It means the world
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  Speaker 2: to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, exercising after being sick can be really frustrating. I
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  Speaker 1: have certainly been there before, and your feelings are so valid, Betty.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to know that now.
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  Speaker 1: First and foremost, I will tell you to have grace. Right,
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  Speaker 1: your body is so intuitive, and when you feel tired,
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  Speaker 1: when you feel run down, that is because you are
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  Speaker 1: in a state of repair. So listen to your body,
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  Speaker 1: give yourself the rest that you need to come back
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  Speaker 1: stronger than before, and then make sure that as you're
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  Speaker 1: getting back into the swing of things, no matter what
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  Speaker 1: you're chosen exercise modality, maybe that you are giving yourself grace.
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  Speaker 2: Life is lifing right.
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  Speaker 1: Your body is doing the best that it can in
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  Speaker 1: this situation. So yes, you may want to jump back
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  Speaker 1: into the swing of things, but recognize that you're doing
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  Speaker 1: the best you can with what you have. So be gentle,
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  Speaker 1: have grace, and slowly move back into an exercise routine
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  Speaker 1: that you know that you are capable of. If you're
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  Speaker 1: the kind of person that's going out and running for
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  Speaker 1: thirty minutes every day, maybe this means after some sort
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  Speaker 1: of an illness, you're dialing back the pace a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe this means that after a cold or gosh, the
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  Speaker 1: last few years after having COVID, you're listening to your
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  Speaker 1: body and trying something different. If you're a runner and
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  Speaker 1: running feels hard, try cycling. If you're someone that loves
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  Speaker 1: weightlifting but the weights that you were putting up before
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  Speaker 1: feel absolutely impossible, then listen to that. Listen to your body.
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  Speaker 1: It is telling you all of the information that you
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  Speaker 1: need to know and have grace knowing that we have
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  Speaker 1: ideally some time. Your gut isn't lying to you. Do
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  Speaker 1: the best you can with what you have and move
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  Speaker 1: forward with as I said before, a little bit of grace.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you're following along with me over on socialis
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  Speaker 1: at Emily a Body and also at Hurdle Podcast another
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  Speaker 1: Hurdle Conquered. Catch you guys next time.