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#HURDLEMOMENT: 5 Ways to Get Motivated When Every Day ~Feels~ The Same · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Just because things might not be easy doesn't mean you
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  Speaker 1: can't handle them. Hey hurdlers, Emily a body popping into
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  Speaker 1: lot happening here, un hurdle, and I want to thank
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  Speaker 1: those new and old for coming by week after week.
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  Speaker 1: Today for Hurdle moment, I am talking you through ways
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  Speaker 1: to stay motivated when every day feels the same.
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  Speaker 2: Can I get a n amen? Thank you to my.
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  Speaker 1: Good friend Aaron for the topic suggestion, because man, we
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  Speaker 1: are all feeling it right now.
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  Speaker 2: Every day I wake up in my five hundred and.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty square foot New York City apartment much later than
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  Speaker 1: I used to, and I walk to the bathroom and
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  Speaker 1: I look in the mirror and I just think another day.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the thing. We got a lot of life
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  Speaker 2: to live.
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  Speaker 1: We got a lot of living to do, and so
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  Speaker 1: we owe it to ourselves to try to not only
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  Speaker 1: get by and survive, but also to thrive as best
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  Speaker 1: as possible. And so for today's episode, I am talking
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  Speaker 1: you through the strategies that I'm using to feel more
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  Speaker 1: motivated day in and day out. As a side note,
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  Speaker 1: you are supporting me. I've always loved connecting with you guys,
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  Speaker 1: and with that, let's get to hurdling. I sat down
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  Speaker 1: to record hurdle moment at least three different times within
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  Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours. I was ready to go,
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  Speaker 1: and either something happened, or I got sidetracked, or I
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  Speaker 1: just felt unmotivated. It's a feeling that I think so
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  Speaker 1: many of us can share right now, so many of
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  Speaker 1: us can relate to just this idea of every single
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  Speaker 1: day being the same. You wake up and you haphazardly
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  Speaker 1: walk to the bathroom and you look in the mirror
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  Speaker 1: and you wonder if today is the day you're actually
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  Speaker 1: going to get dressed or simply just change into new sweatpants.
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  Speaker 1: And then you walk into the kitchen and you wonder
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  Speaker 1: if you should mix up your breakfast routine. You ask
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  Speaker 1: yourself if you should work out now or later or both,
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  Speaker 1: or at night, you wonder about what's going to be
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  Speaker 1: for lunch before you've even had your coffee. You try
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  Speaker 1: to tackle a to do list for work and only
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  Speaker 1: get three out of the twenty two items on it done.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, hey, I get it. I'm there too. The
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  Speaker 1: good news is that there are ways to find motivation
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  Speaker 1: in our day today. There are ways to take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of this to the best of our ability, with an
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  Speaker 1: understanding that our ability right now is not what it was.
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  Speaker 2: Before all of this started. So let's get to it.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking through ways to find motivation in the day today.
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  Speaker 1: First up, keep a gratitude journal. By being appreciative of
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  Speaker 1: what it is that you do have, it helps you
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  Speaker 1: find you're happy, and so it's important to find the
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  Speaker 1: joy in every day now. Gratitude journaling has looked different
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  Speaker 1: for me throughout the years. For one full year, I
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  Speaker 1: kept a gratitude journal that had me writing down three
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  Speaker 1: things that made me happy every single morning. When that
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  Speaker 1: got to a place where it felt a little bit daunting,
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  Speaker 1: I switched to a one line a day journal that
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  Speaker 1: lasted for quite some time. And now I've committed myself
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  Speaker 1: to filling out at least one full page in my
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  Speaker 1: journal every single day and finishing off that page at
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  Speaker 1: minimum with a daily smile or something that has brought
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  Speaker 1: me fulfillment and happiness over the past twenty four hours.
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  Speaker 1: I've said it before and I'll say it again. These smiles,
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  Speaker 1: these winds, they don't have to be big things. Yesterday morning,
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  Speaker 1: I was having myself a day and I realized that
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  Speaker 1: I was just enjoying little thing after a little thing.
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  Speaker 1: I went on a bike ride, and I noticed that
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  Speaker 1: the birds were chirping. It was a beautiful day outside,
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  Speaker 1: warmer than I expected. I was riding my new, beautiful bike,
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  Speaker 1: moving my body. I came home and showered and actually
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  Speaker 1: did my hair for the first time, and God knows
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  Speaker 1: how long I sat on my beautiful fire escape the
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  Speaker 1: small luxuries and soaked in the sun and journaled and
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  Speaker 1: drank good coffee, and man, it was just great. None
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  Speaker 1: of those things are winning the lottery or getting to
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  Speaker 1: hug another human. Isn't it funny that that's what's on
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  Speaker 1: my big winds highlight right now, or even.
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  Speaker 2: Landing some big job.
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  Speaker 1: No, all of the things that made me so grateful
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  Speaker 1: yesterday were small moments that contributed to a great feeling.
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  Speaker 1: When you take the time again to appreciate the good
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  Speaker 1: things to write in a gratitude journal, in my experience,
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  Speaker 1: that keeps you motivated. It helps you stay positive to
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  Speaker 1: handle the other things throughout your day. Next strategy, have
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  Speaker 1: things to look forward to throughout the day. So here's
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  Speaker 1: the deal. If you sit down on your couch or
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  Speaker 1: at your desk and you just say, okay, it's time
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  Speaker 1: for the workday to begin, nothing really is probably going
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  Speaker 1: to happen how you want it to go down. And
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  Speaker 1: that's because we're anxious. We're not as productive as we
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  Speaker 1: usually are. Our head is in a thousand places, we're restless,
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  Speaker 1: and so to make the day go smoother, write down
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  Speaker 1: things that you are looking forward to. So one of
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  Speaker 1: the biggest strategies that I have been using to stay
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  Speaker 1: motivated is breaking up the workday into work chunks and
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  Speaker 1: non work chunks. Perhaps I will aim to write two
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  Speaker 1: articles throughout the day. I know that I will not
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  Speaker 1: have the attention span to write them back to back.
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  Speaker 1: So perhaps I'm writing an article at ten, I'm allowing
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  Speaker 1: myself to not look at any technology, eat lunch, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe do some sort of a workout from twelve to two,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'm back for another article at three. That way,
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  Speaker 1: as I'm getting things done at ten am, I have
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  Speaker 1: that break to look forward to at noon, that incentive,
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  Speaker 1: that motivation to keep pushing. Maybe it's a workout, maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's a catch up phone call with a friend. By
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  Speaker 1: having these things on the schedule. It makes me feel
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  Speaker 1: some sort of normalcy, and man, it feels so good.
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  Speaker 1: Next tip, move your body, whether or not you are
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  Speaker 1: running outside. And if you are doing that, I have
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  Speaker 1: a couple of different episodes for you to lean into
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  Speaker 1: and I'll put those in the show notes right now
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  Speaker 1: for best practices, it is important to move your body.
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  Speaker 1: Moving your body helps increase serotonin. It makes you feel good.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things that I have been doing
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  Speaker 1: when I am struggling in my apartment is getting up,
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  Speaker 1: taking a break and doing any sort of movement for
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes. Just the other day, I felt like I
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  Speaker 1: was in the middle of an afternoon slump, and I
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  Speaker 1: did a fifteen minute workout with a friend on FaceTime,
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  Speaker 1: and then I was ready to get back into the
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  Speaker 1: swing things. The good thing about quick hitting workouts is
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  Speaker 1: oftentimes you're not drenched in sweat, which means that you
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  Speaker 1: can get back into the swing of things. And also,
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  Speaker 1: even if you are, now is not the time that
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  Speaker 1: anyone is going to judge you, if anyone's even around. Also,
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  Speaker 1: by doing a quick workout, you're accomplishing something which makes
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you are capable, which you are, but
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  Speaker 1: some days it's easy to feel frustrated with that. My
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  Speaker 1: next tip for staying motivated is talk about it with someone. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: you're listening to me air out my frustrations right now,
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  Speaker 1: but it is so important for you to share the
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  Speaker 1: experiences of what you're going through with a friend, with
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  Speaker 1: a family member, set aside a specific time, something that
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  Speaker 1: you can look forward to to have this conversation. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: writing things down again is super, super valuable, but it
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  Speaker 1: feels so so good to just be open and honest
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  Speaker 1: with someone that you care about, someone that can tell you, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling the same way, it's okay. I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the times we get in our own heads
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  Speaker 1: and we're made to feel like whatever it is that
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  Speaker 1: we're doing, it's not good enough. I said on Instagram
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  Speaker 1: today that when I make my daily schedule, for example,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of just like a goal. In the old
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  Speaker 1: days of Emily being really really productive and sitting in
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  Speaker 1: her rework and feeling like she was superwoman, I would
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  Speaker 1: make a timestamp schedule and actually somehow miraculously get everything
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  Speaker 1: done for the most part on the schedule. Well, that's
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  Speaker 1: not happening these days. These days, I make a timestamp schedule,
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  Speaker 1: and for instance, I wanted to record this about eight
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  Speaker 1: hours ago, and well here I am now, and that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: The reason I'm telling you the story is because someone
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  Speaker 1: DM me and they said, I just thought that there
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  Speaker 1: were super productive people that were able to do absolutely
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  Speaker 1: everything just by everything going on right now.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, do not be fooled. Do not be fooled.
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  Speaker 1: And my last tip to stay motivated right now is
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  Speaker 1: to find things that excite you. Now is the time
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  Speaker 1: that we are broken from what was our normal routine
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  Speaker 1: and we might be realizing the things in our lives
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  Speaker 1: that we have been doing that aren't fulfilling us. So
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  Speaker 1: ask yourself what is it that you want to be
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  Speaker 1: doing more of? Just because life is different right now
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that you can't find a way to get
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  Speaker 1: more out of your day today. If you're not happy
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  Speaker 1: with what you're doing from your nine to five, or
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  Speaker 1: perhaps like so many people I know right now, your
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  Speaker 1: job situation is shifting and you're looking for a new outlet.
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  Speaker 1: Now is a time to ask yourself the hard questions.
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  Speaker 1: What is it that you like to do? What is
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  Speaker 1: it that you want to do with your time? How
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  Speaker 1: can you incorporate the things that bring you happiness and
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  Speaker 1: enjoy regularly into your routine. We have one life, and
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  Speaker 1: I know that things might not be how you wish
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  Speaker 1: that they were right now, but that doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 1: sitting around and sulking about it is going to do
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  Speaker 1: us any good. It's important to recognize how you feel
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  Speaker 1: go through that, but we owe it to ourselves to
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  Speaker 1: pick ourselves back up and to move forward. Find the
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  Speaker 1: things that you enjoy and incorporate those into your every day.
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  Speaker 1: Just because things might not be easy doesn't mean you
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  Speaker 1: can't handle them. Every day is an opportunity to show
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  Speaker 1: up for yourself, so don't be hard if today or
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow doesn't go as you'd hoped. Thanks for encouraging me
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  Speaker 1: to keep showing up. This podcast is a huge outlet
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  Speaker 1: with you as listening habits are changing and things feel
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  Speaker 1: Keep showing up for me, and like I said, I
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  Speaker 1: it's Emily at hurdle dot us. Another hurdle conquered. Catch
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