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#HURDLEMOMENT: 30 Lessons I Learned By (The End Of) Age 30 · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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Speaker 1: New week, New Hurdle Moment. My name is Emily Abadi.
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Speaker 1: You are listening to Hurdle, a podcast that talks to
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Speaker 1: everyone from entrepreneurs to CEOs and athletes about how they
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Speaker 1: got through times hurdles of sorts by leaning into wellness.
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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, which means it is Hurdle Moment time, and
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Speaker 1: this week I am chatting about the thirty lessons I
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Speaker 1: learned before thirty, which feels kind of like I'm twisting
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Speaker 1: the truth a little bit. I uh, my birthdays on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: I'm turning thirty one, and I'd be lying if I
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Speaker 1: didn't admit that I'm feeling some kind of way about that.
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Speaker 1: I feel like when I got to thirty, I felt
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Speaker 1: optimistic and excited and just like the world was my oyster.
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Speaker 1: And it's not that I don't feel like the world
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Speaker 1: is my oyster anymore. I just kind of feel like
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Speaker 1: thirty one is a little bit closer to forty. I
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Speaker 1: will say that despite the uncertainty that comes with adding
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Speaker 1: another year, I can say for sure that I've learned
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Speaker 1: a lot of things along the way, many of which
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Speaker 1: I would have killed to know maybe five ten years ago.
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Speaker 1: And with that, let's get to this week's hurdle moment. Well,
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Speaker 1: I didn't make a thirty under thirty list, which is okay,
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Speaker 1: no big deal. There's still a lot of other things
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Speaker 1: I'm proud of in my thirty years on this earth.
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Speaker 1: But what I will say is that by now I
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Speaker 1: can say with some confidence that I've been around the
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Speaker 1: block a little bit. You know, I've been doing this
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Speaker 1: career woman thing for over ten years now, and I've
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Speaker 1: been on my own being my own boss for almost
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Speaker 1: three and in that time, I've learned a whole lot
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Speaker 1: about myself, about interacting with others, about how to get
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Speaker 1: hopefully what it is that I want in this crazy,
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Speaker 1: crazy world. And so with that I bring you the
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Speaker 1: thirty lessons I learned by the end of age thirty.
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Speaker 1: This is quite the list, so I'm going to hop
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Speaker 1: right to it. Lesson number one, Treat others how you
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Speaker 1: want to be treated. There's this saying that you never
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Speaker 1: forget how someone makes you feel, and I've got to
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Speaker 1: admit I think that's pretty true. If you can be
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Speaker 1: the bigger person whenever possible, be good to people, hope
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Speaker 1: that karma will come back around, I can guarantee you
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Speaker 1: you will never regret that. Lesson number two tackle the
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Speaker 1: monster first. Man. Every day when I make my to
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Speaker 1: do list, I swear there's at least one thing that
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Speaker 1: I want absolutely nothing to do with on there. But
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Speaker 1: that's always going to happen, right There are always going
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Speaker 1: to be things that feel intimidating and scary and that
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Speaker 1: you just don't want to do. The reality is is
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Speaker 1: that sometimes you gotta put the hard stuff first. You
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Speaker 1: gotta tackle the monster before you can get on with
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Speaker 1: the other parts of your day, and trust me, when
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Speaker 1: you do, you won't regret it. Lesson number three sweat daily.
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Speaker 1: If you know anything about me. You know that exercise
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Speaker 1: is a huge part of my morning routine, and trust me,
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Speaker 1: making time to sweat to work out it makes you
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Speaker 1: feel better, it makes you feel more alert, and it
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Speaker 1: makes you feel more productive. For me, I get it
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Speaker 1: done first thing in the morning. It sets the tone
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Speaker 1: for my day. But what's really important is that you're
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Speaker 1: just fitting it into your schedule however it feels right
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Speaker 1: to you. You don't need to do whatever activity somebody
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Speaker 1: else does either. What you need to do is what
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Speaker 1: feels good for you, what feels fun for you. Trust me,
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Speaker 1: when you find something you like to do when it
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Speaker 1: comes to working out, it's something you're going to stick
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Speaker 1: with and that is super critical. Lesson number four give back. Now, Honestly,
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Speaker 1: I'm still figuring out how this fits as a regular
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Speaker 1: piece of my life, but I'm constantly trying to find
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Speaker 1: ways to give back to the community that I live in.
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Speaker 1: For a while there, I was running with this organization.
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Speaker 1: It's called Back on My Feet. They recruit individuals at
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Speaker 1: homeless or addiction and treatment facilities around the country to
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Speaker 1: commit to run three early mornings a week, and I
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Speaker 1: was running about twenty blocks north into Harlem to meet
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Speaker 1: with guys at the Bowery Mission and do some running
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Speaker 1: up there. That got a little bit difficult to stick
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Speaker 1: with when I started traveling more for work. But what
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Speaker 1: I will say is that I try really regularly to
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Speaker 1: give back, not just because it feels good, but again,
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Speaker 1: it's karma. We are lucky to have the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: show up for others, to do things for others, and hey,
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Speaker 1: a little giving back now and then it goes a
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Speaker 1: long way less than number five. Write down your goals.
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Speaker 1: I cannot stress this enough. Writing down your goals helps
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Speaker 1: to remind you of what you are trying to achieve period. Now.
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Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of different strategies about where to
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Speaker 1: write these down. When I talk to Robin Arson for Hurdle,
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Speaker 1: she told me that she keeps sticky notes around her
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Speaker 1: entire apartment of different motivation and goals and things to
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Speaker 1: keep her on the right track. And I totally respect that.
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Speaker 1: For me, I'm writing down different goals on the first
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Speaker 1: of every month, the first workday of the month, when
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Speaker 1: I'm back in the office. It helps to keep me
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Speaker 1: on track. It gives me a moment of pause, is
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Speaker 1: I take a look at what was going on last
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Speaker 1: month and what I hope to accomplish. And then I also,
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Speaker 1: as many people do, write down goals at the beginning
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Speaker 1: of the year, those New Year's resolutions. And what I
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Speaker 1: do is I set a calendar reminder in my phone
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Speaker 1: orderly when I go to pay my estimated taxes, as
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Speaker 1: responsible contractors do, I also make sure to check in
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Speaker 1: on those goals. I talked a lot about smart goals
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Speaker 1: here on the pod, and part of that is making
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Speaker 1: sure that they are time down. So a lot of
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Speaker 1: those goals that I set for a New Year's Day,
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Speaker 1: those resolutions, they have a check in point, which is
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Speaker 1: for me to make sure that, hey, are you making
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Speaker 1: progress and the things you really promised yourself that you
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Speaker 1: would do this year? Lesson number six, trust your gut. Granted,
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Speaker 1: there are going to be times that you don't want to.
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Speaker 1: I feel like that happens to me all the time.
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Speaker 1: But nine times out of ten, well, your gut's right.
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Speaker 1: Whether it's in business or in your relationships or whatever
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Speaker 1: it may be. You've got to lead with your heart.
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Speaker 1: You've got to follow your moral compass. Number seven. The
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Speaker 1: most powerful words you have in your vocabulary are yes
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Speaker 1: and no. And the thing about that is for me.
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Speaker 1: It took a long time to be okay with saying no.
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Speaker 1: I'm a person that likes to make everybody happy. But
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Speaker 1: I read a quote not too long ago it said,
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Speaker 1: be okay with saying no and not having to explain yourself.
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Speaker 1: There is so much power in that, right. There was
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Speaker 1: so much power to listening to your gut like that
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Speaker 1: lesson number six, but also just understanding that it's okay
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Speaker 1: to take a step back. If you need to take
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Speaker 1: a step back. You won't be able to say yes
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Speaker 1: every time. You might want to say no more times
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Speaker 1: than other. That's cool. Own your power. You deserve that
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Speaker 1: less than number eight. Be present in your relationships. About
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Speaker 1: a year ago, I had a really long conversation with
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Speaker 1: a good friend of mine who told me that she
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Speaker 1: wanted me to be more present when I was around her.
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Speaker 1: It really hit home, to be honest with you, I mean,
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Speaker 1: she told me that she always felt like my head
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Speaker 1: was in a thousand places when we were sitting right
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Speaker 1: next to each other, and that's because I would be
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Speaker 1: lying if I said that it wasn't. I felt like
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Speaker 1: I was doing my best, but in actuality I was
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Speaker 1: clearly sporadic and so since that conversation, I've made a
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Speaker 1: really big effort to show up to be where my
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Speaker 1: feet are. It was one of my twenty nineteen resolutions
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Speaker 1: just to be present in business, with my relationships with
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Speaker 1: my friends. All I want to do is show up
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Speaker 1: for the people I care about, and there's so much
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Speaker 1: value in that. Lesson number nine. Invest in yourself. I'm
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Speaker 1: a huge giver of my time, of my energy of things,
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Speaker 1: and it's definitely how I show people that I care
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Speaker 1: about them. But really, if I'm not willing to invest
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Speaker 1: in myself, if I'm not willing to give to me
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Speaker 1: like I'm willing to give to others, then I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to be the best version of Emily that I
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Speaker 1: need to be in this world. You've got to invest
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Speaker 1: in yourself. You've got to spend the time, whether it's
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Speaker 1: monetarily or just taking a step back every now and
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Speaker 1: again and listening to what's going on. That voice inside
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Speaker 1: your head that says, hey, I need a break. You
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Speaker 1: are worth it. Lesson number ten. Finding passion is important. Now,
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Speaker 1: it would mean nice if that passion was at work,
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Speaker 1: but if it's not, that's okay. You owe to yourself
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Speaker 1: to regularly find things in life that truly make you
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Speaker 1: feel ignited, make you feel on fire, and incorporate them
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Speaker 1: into your routine as much as possible. Every day isn't
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Speaker 1: going to be the best day ever, But what if
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Speaker 1: every day involves something that made you smile? For me,
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Speaker 1: a lot of the times, that's running or connecting with
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Speaker 1: my family or chatting up with my friends. For me,
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Speaker 1: it's connecting with all of you that makes me feel fulfilled.
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Speaker 1: That is my passion, and finding that is irreplaceable. Less
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Speaker 1: than number eleven. Everyone isn't gonna like you. That's hard
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Speaker 1: to write, especially for people pleaser. You know, if you're
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Speaker 1: trying to be someone that everybody likes, you'll probably lose
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Speaker 1: part of yourself in the process. And I get it.
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Speaker 1: It's human nature to want to belong and to be light,
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Speaker 1: but it's not worth it at the expense of the
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Speaker 1: things that make you happy. Lesson number twelve. Jealousy is
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Speaker 1: a wasted emotion. It's kind of heavy right, Feeling jealous
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Speaker 1: feels awful. It doesn't serve our purpose if you think
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Speaker 1: about it. Being jealous is like being irrationally angry, and
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Speaker 1: it gets you nowhere. When you're in a jealous fog.
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Speaker 1: You probably aren't thinking clearly, you definitely aren't expressing yourself. Well,
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Speaker 1: oh god, I can only think of the conversations I've
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Speaker 1: had lately, and I mean, when you feel jealous, just
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Speaker 1: try this one little tip. I take twenty, seriously, twenty
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Speaker 1: deep breaths. Those twenty breaths could take like two to
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Speaker 1: three minutes. During that time, all I do is I
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Speaker 1: focus on the inhale and the exhale. It's easy to
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Speaker 1: get in your head about things. It takes a really
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Speaker 1: big person to accept what's happening, to let it go,
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Speaker 1: and to move forward. Lesson number thirteen, Every situation is
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Speaker 1: something worth learning from. I talk about this a lot.
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Speaker 1: Whether it's a total win or a total failure, the
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Speaker 1: things that are going on in our day to day
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Speaker 1: they happen to teach us something. It takes a really
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Speaker 1: strong person to understand that when a failure quote unquote happens,
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Speaker 1: it's not wasted time. It's an opportunity to learn, it's
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to grow. You know, there have been plenty
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Speaker 1: of times in my life where I feel like I've
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Speaker 1: been totally at a dead end, getting laid off twice.
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Speaker 1: That's not easy stuff, but those things in my life,
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Speaker 1: they each taught me that I'm capable of standing on
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Speaker 1: my own two feet. It's kind of how I feel
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Speaker 1: about running. Like when I ran the Boston Marathon. I
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Speaker 1: could have been mad that the weather was awful. I
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Speaker 1: could have been mad about things I couldn't control, But
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Speaker 1: the reality was is that even though that day didn't
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Speaker 1: go as planned, even though I could have viewed it
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Speaker 1: as a total misstep, that day taught me that with
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Speaker 1: the right mindset, I'm literally capable of anything I see
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Speaker 1: at my mind too, And so are you lesson number fourteen,
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Speaker 1: you are what's happening in your head. The Boston example
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Speaker 1: is a great example. I could have gone into that
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Speaker 1: race thinking that I was going to be awful, that
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Speaker 1: the day was going to be awful, that it was
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Speaker 1: going to suck. But instead I kept my chin up
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Speaker 1: and I realized that all I could do was the
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Speaker 1: best I could with what I had in the moment.
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Speaker 1: You get to decide how you're going to view what's
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Speaker 1: happening around you. So if you tell yourself this isn't
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Speaker 1: going to go well, then surprise, it's probably not going
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Speaker 1: to go well. You want change be change. You want
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Speaker 1: to tract light b light. You have the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: set the stage less than number fifteen. Think of your
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Speaker 1: desired outcome. My cousin Mark taught me this a few
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Speaker 1: years ago when we were talking about having rough conversations
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Speaker 1: with people that we care about. He asked me, what
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Speaker 1: is it that you want from this particular talk, and
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Speaker 1: in order to get to this outcome, what do you
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Speaker 1: need to explain or have prepared in order to have
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Speaker 1: a more productive conversation. It does feel a little manipulative,
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Speaker 1: but it's important to keep your own best interest at heart.
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Speaker 1: For example, if you want to get a raise at work,
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Speaker 1: you have to come up with the reasons why you
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Speaker 1: are worthy of that raise, not just walk in there
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Speaker 1: and say, well, this is what I want. With all
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Speaker 1: of your goals, with all the things that you want
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Speaker 1: in life, you have the chance to sit down and
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Speaker 1: frame out how can I go after those things in
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Speaker 1: a way that's beneficial to me. And that's pretty powerful.
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Speaker 1: Lesson sixteen. Let the past be the past. Dwelling sucks again.
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Speaker 1: Everything in our life happens to teach us something. But
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Speaker 1: if you're sitting in the present, thinking over and over
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Speaker 1: and over, again. But the things that happened yesterday, about
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Speaker 1: the things that happened the day before, well, then you're
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Speaker 1: not going to be very present, and that's not really
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Speaker 1: going to help you move forward. Let go of what
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Speaker 1: was and open yourself to what will be. Lesson number seventeen,
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Speaker 1: It's okay to take a moment when things don't go
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Speaker 1: as planned. Man, I can be really hard on myself
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Speaker 1: about this, But what I learned a few years ago
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Speaker 1: I was interviewing don harper Nelson. She is a hurdler,
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Speaker 1: a track athlete, and she talked to me about the
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Speaker 1: Beijing Olympics when she famously tripped over the hurdle, and
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Speaker 1: she told me that it was really hard for her
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Speaker 1: to face the press after this experience. She didn't want
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Speaker 1: to own up to her mistake, that she wanted to
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Speaker 1: avoid the situation. But instead she took her moment. She
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Speaker 1: accepted that things didn't go as planned, she let herself
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Speaker 1: be upset, and then she did what she had to do.
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Speaker 1: And I'll always remember this interview because it taught me
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Speaker 1: this valuable lesson. It's okay to not be okay, but
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Speaker 1: it's not okay to dwell in that you owe it
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Speaker 1: to yourself, to pick your head up, to learn from
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Speaker 1: what's happened and move forward. Lesson number eighteen, handwritten notes
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Speaker 1: are golden. I have a very special friend. His name
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Speaker 1: is Tom, and he sent me last year a note
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Speaker 1: that I keep on my refrigerator that says something along
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Speaker 1: lines of when we were ten, we talked about what
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Speaker 1: life would be like when we were twenty, and when
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Speaker 1: we were in our twenties, we talked about what life
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Speaker 1: would be like when we are thirty. And now you
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Speaker 1: are thirty, and there is so much opportunity for you,
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Speaker 1: and you are doing so much more than you ever imagined.
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Speaker 1: A little handwritten note it probably took him five to
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Speaker 1: ten minutes to pen, but it's something that I keep
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Speaker 1: with me and meant the world. And that's exactly why
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Speaker 1: when I was penning my twenty nineteen resolutions, I made
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Speaker 1: a vow to write two to three of them every month.
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Speaker 1: It's really special to have the opportunity to let the
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Speaker 1: people that you care about know that you care about them.
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Speaker 1: Lesson number nineteen. Start every day by making your bed.
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Speaker 1: I remember when I talked to Adam Callen. He's the
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Speaker 1: co founder of Jane Motorcycles. On hurdle. He told me
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Speaker 1: that this is something he learned early on, because when
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Speaker 1: you make your bed, you start off the day with
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Speaker 1: a win. You start off the day by checking off
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Speaker 1: something super simple from your to do list. That's how
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Speaker 1: I start my day every day, and I suggest that
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Speaker 1: maybe you do the same. Lesson number twenty don't get
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Speaker 1: back into that bed angry with anyone right at work,
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Speaker 1: with your friends, with your partner, with your parents, whatever
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Speaker 1: the situation may be. Hopefully you have the chance to
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Speaker 1: talk it out. But if you don't, I suggest maybe
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Speaker 1: you write it down. I have a gratitude journal I
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Speaker 1: keep every day, and I try to at the end
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Speaker 1: of the day before passing out, which often happens pretty quickly.
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Speaker 1: I write down what's on my mind, and if I'm
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Speaker 1: frustrated or upset or feel like things are out of
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Speaker 1: my control, taking the time to put pen to paper
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Speaker 1: just makes me feel as though if I'm getting something back,
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Speaker 1: if I'm taking back that control. Lesson number twenty one.
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Speaker 1: Always take the meeting. You never know what's going to
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Speaker 1: happen when somebody reaches out to you, even if it's
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Speaker 1: in business and someone's reaching out to you about a
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Speaker 1: job that you might not be interested in. The best
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Speaker 1: thing you can do is still get to know what's up,
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Speaker 1: make some FaceTime connect in real life, there is nothing
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Speaker 1: better than one on one interaction, than having some eye
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Speaker 1: contact with someone. At the beginning of twenty eighteen, I
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Speaker 1: made the resolution that every single week I would make
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Speaker 1: the commitment to meet with one new person. There's something
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Speaker 1: to be learned from every single person that you sit
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Speaker 1: down with less than twenty two. Celebrate the small wins.
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Speaker 1: I have so many lofty goals in my life. Like
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Speaker 1: I said that, I'm constantly articulating. But the thing is
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Speaker 1: is if you're constantly focused on those bigger picture items
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Speaker 1: and the things that take a long time, then it's
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Speaker 1: easy to get frustrated or lose sight of what's in
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Speaker 1: front of you. When you take a step back and
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Speaker 1: you recognize the small winds, it makes every day feel progressive.
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Speaker 1: It makes you feel good about you. For instance, when
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Speaker 1: I was losing weight back in college, every day had
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Speaker 1: a small wind. Some days it was okay, I actually
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Speaker 1: stayed on the treadmill for a full thirty minutes today,
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Speaker 1: and others maybe it was wow, I didn't go up
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Speaker 1: for seconds at the ice cream counter whatever it was.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. There are small victories in
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Speaker 1: every day, and for me, I helped to see those
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Speaker 1: by again writing in that gratitude journal, by finding the
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Speaker 1: good things that make me smile throughout every twenty four hours.
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Speaker 1: It's a simple, easy thing that takes a little to
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Speaker 1: no time that really helps to put things in perspective
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Speaker 1: less than twenty three smile often. I once talked to
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Speaker 1: someone who told me that the first thing she does
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Speaker 1: in the morning is literally walk into her bathroom, splash
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Speaker 1: some water on her face, and smile in the mirror.
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Speaker 1: The thing about smiling is it does make you happy,
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Speaker 1: you know, it does put you in a good mood.
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Speaker 1: Lesson number twenty four, Celebrate other people. Reflecting on another
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Speaker 1: Hurdle episode with Kirsty Gods Nike Master Trainer, we talked
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Speaker 1: about the value of how good it is to have
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Speaker 1: friends that you can show up for and celebrate. She said,
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Speaker 1: I remember that it takes a really interesting person to
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Speaker 1: not be able to show up for the people that
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Speaker 1: they care about. The thing is is that we have
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to get excited for our friends, to celebrate
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Speaker 1: their victories and their wins and that's really awesome. Maybe
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Speaker 1: for just a second, put aside the things that mean
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Speaker 1: something to you to be there for someone else. They
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Speaker 1: will always remember that you showed up, which brings me
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Speaker 1: to lesson number twenty five, show up. There are gonna
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Speaker 1: be days that you're cranky, that you're tired, that you
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Speaker 1: want to skip out on an event or a birthday dinner,
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Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. But again, the people
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Speaker 1: in your life, whether they're an acquaintance or a good friend,
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Speaker 1: or family or what have you, they're always going to
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Speaker 1: remember your presence and that you were there. Lesson number
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Speaker 1: twenty six. Silence is golden. This took a little while
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Speaker 1: for me to realize. If I'm being honest, it's easy
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Speaker 1: to have an opinion, right, It's easy to say what's
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Speaker 1: on your mind. But when you let someone else talk,
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Speaker 1: when you let them weigh in, when you give them
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Speaker 1: time to think, it really opens up a discussion. Maybe
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Speaker 1: you don't know what you're looking for out of a
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Speaker 1: certain conversation, or maybe you just need some time to reflect.
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Speaker 1: When you let the silence linger, someone sooner or later
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Speaker 1: is going to say something, and it's okay at that
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Speaker 1: moment maybe not to have all the answers, but what
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Speaker 1: can happen in that silence? It's golden. I mean especially
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Speaker 1: in podcasts, right, It's like you listen and whenever there's
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Speaker 1: a pause, you know, something profound, something valuable, oftentimes something
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Speaker 1: super emotional. That's what's coming down the pipe. So sometimes
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Speaker 1: just keep your mouth shut, you know, see what happens.
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Speaker 1: Lesson number twenty seven. Be enthusiastic. Lately, I've been revisiting
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Speaker 1: this idea of living in and I'll say this kosher,
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Speaker 1: so it's not censored f yes or f no kind
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Speaker 1: of existence. That they are going to be things in
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Speaker 1: your life that you feel super passionate about and things
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Speaker 1: in your life that you're like, eh. But when you
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Speaker 1: are passionate, when you are ready and you are committed,
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Speaker 1: you owe it to yourself to the cause to really
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Speaker 1: show up and be enthusiastic about the task in front
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Speaker 1: of you. That's a number twenty eight. You determine your priorities. God,
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Speaker 1: I can't relate with this enough. I you know, you
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Speaker 1: make time for the things that you care about period,
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Speaker 1: whether that's fitness or relationships, oh God, or dating. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you're going to show up for the things that matter
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Speaker 1: to you. If you don't make time for another person
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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, you probably don't really care
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Speaker 1: about that other person. Granted, there are going to be
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Speaker 1: situations where you're busy and other things get in the way,
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Speaker 1: and that's okay. But when you have a priority, you
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Speaker 1: make sure that that thing, that that person, that that
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Speaker 1: obligation they get part of you. And that also means
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Speaker 1: that if someone is a priority and there is a conflict,
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Speaker 1: you make sure to find them at another time. You
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Speaker 1: make sure to reschedule them. So, for instance, if a
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Speaker 1: friend of yours wants to go to yoga on Tuesday
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Speaker 1: and you have a work conflict, you don't just say,
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Speaker 1: oh sorry, I can't make it. Maybe instead you say,
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Speaker 1: oh sorry I can't make it, what are you doing
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Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon? Instead, it's a small gesture that goes a
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Speaker 1: really long way, and it shows the other person that
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Speaker 1: you really really care. Again, this is your opportunity to
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Speaker 1: show up. This is your opportunity to make things important
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Speaker 1: in your own life. Less than number twenty nine. It's
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Speaker 1: my family motto, do good. My grandpa used to say
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Speaker 1: this test growing up when it came to anything from
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Speaker 1: an exam to I don't know my driver's test. All
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Speaker 1: you can do is the best you have. With what
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Speaker 1: you've got. You can do good. You can put your
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Speaker 1: heart into it. And if you do that, if you've
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Speaker 1: truly believed that you've given it everything you have, then
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Speaker 1: that's all you can ask, you know, unlesson number thirty
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Speaker 1: it's okay not to have all the answers. I do
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Speaker 1: not have everything figured out going out into thirty one.
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Speaker 1: But what I do know is that I'm open, I'm
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Speaker 1: ready to learn. I'm ready for whatever it is that
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Speaker 1: this crazy city, that this crazy existence is still ready
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Speaker 1: to throw my way. It can be frustrating at times
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Speaker 1: wanting to know the things that are in set and stone,
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Speaker 1: especially as someone who's super type A. But the reality
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Speaker 1: is is that sometimes you just got to go with it.
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Speaker 1: You've got to trust the process. It's gonna happen for
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Speaker 1: a reason, right. I guess maybe it's time for me
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Speaker 1: to take my own advice. Man. I hope these thirty
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Speaker 1: lessons they taught you a little something. My eyes are
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Speaker 1: wide open coming into thirty one, and I'm so excited
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Speaker 1: for the things that are coming my way. Please just
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Speaker 1: of my thirty years. It's all of this, Another hurdle conquered.
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