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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: You Don't Need to Set Goals To Zero In On What You Want · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Emily Abadi coming to you live from the
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  Speaker 1: Age Studio on this final day of twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: which also happens to be Hurdle's fourth birthday. Is this
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  Speaker 1: what it feels like when you have a kid and
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  Speaker 1: it's their birthday. It's a little It's not silly to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate it. I think it's worthy of this moment, but
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  Speaker 1: it is kind of funny in that I literally bought
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  Speaker 1: a couple of balloons and myself a cupcake, and I
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  Speaker 1: will one hundred percent be acting as though it is
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  Speaker 1: my personal birthday today, especially because I mean New Year's
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  Speaker 1: Eve this year.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about all of you, but my plan.
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  Speaker 1: Is to make pizza at home with a friend of
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  Speaker 1: mine and our other friend's dog who happens.
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  Speaker 3: To be off galivanting and whistlers. So really, all things considered,
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  Speaker 3: a few extra cupcakes around the apartment isn't such a
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  Speaker 3: bad thing. Firstly, thank you to all of you for
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  Speaker 3: empowering me to keep doing this thing, for coming back
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  Speaker 3: to this feed week after week. It kind of blows
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  Speaker 3: my mind that four years into this, this is nothing
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  Speaker 3: really what.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it would be.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know if I really thought about in
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  Speaker 1: depth what this would become, but the community and the
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  Speaker 1: connections and the opportunities that have come my way because
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  Speaker 1: one day I decided that I was going to try
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  Speaker 1: making a podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's it's pretty special.
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of mixing up the order this week because
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  Speaker 1: the listener question is actually exactly what I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about. So for this week on five Minute Friday,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to kickstart with a listener question.
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  Speaker 3: Hey am, it's Lauren from Louisville.
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  Speaker 1: I love this week' hurdle moment with the end of
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  Speaker 1: the year highlights, and I'm definitely stoked for the turning
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  Speaker 1: the page series again.
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  Speaker 2: What's the word that summarizes your year?
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  Speaker 1: I just want to before I get into this question,
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  Speaker 1: give Lauren a little bit of love because we've had
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to meet a few times. The last time
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  Speaker 1: that she was in New York, she and I actually
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  Speaker 1: sat down and had one on one coffee and it
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  Speaker 1: was really special. But I'll never forget. I believe it
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  Speaker 1: was in Chicago. I think when I noticed that in
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  Speaker 1: her Instagram bio, like one of the descriptors. One of
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  Speaker 1: the way that she identifies herself is as a hurdler,
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  Speaker 1: and I was sitting at dinner with a girlfriend of
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  Speaker 1: mine and I saw it and I looked up and
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  Speaker 1: I looked at my friend and I just started like
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  Speaker 1: hysterically crying.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just really special to me.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's so much more that I want to
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  Speaker 1: do and building this community, but to know that I
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  Speaker 1: have had the opportunity to impact someone in the content
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  Speaker 1: that I put out and the things that I do
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  Speaker 1: so much that they identify by this thing that I do,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just it's it's really beautiful and
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  Speaker 1: I'm really grateful for her in this community. And thanks Laura,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for the question, and thank you for being you.
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  Speaker 1: With that said, okay, I'm getting a little rambly now.
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  Speaker 1: Next week, if you've been listening to the show or
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  Speaker 1: following along on social media, I am hosting the second installment,
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  Speaker 1: second year in a row, of the Turning the Page series,
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  Speaker 1: And what that series really is is me catching up
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  Speaker 1: with past guests from the last year on the show
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  Speaker 1: to talk to them about how their year went, what
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  Speaker 1: their word for the year was, what their biggest takeaways
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  Speaker 1: have been, and what they're hoping to get into in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two and beyond, and so I'm really amped
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  Speaker 1: to bring you all of these conversations with amazing people
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  Speaker 1: like Beck's Gentry and Trent Shelton, Mindy Grossman from ww
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  Speaker 1: Alex silver Fagan, and I cannot forget Ali Aradi, the
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  Speaker 1: CEO and founder of Tonal. So much goodness on deck
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  Speaker 1: for Hurdle next week to inspire you in the new
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  Speaker 1: year and beyond. But in this as I mentioned asking
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  Speaker 1: them all to give me a word that's summed up
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  Speaker 1: their previous year, I have been thinking about what my
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  Speaker 1: word is going into twenty twenty two. I also write
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  Speaker 1: about this in this week's Weekly Hurdle newsletter, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to expand on it a little bit more now.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't subscribe to the Weekly Hurdle, make sure
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  Speaker 1: to click the link in the show notes to do
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  Speaker 1: just that. My word for twenty twenty two is bigger.
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  Speaker 1: And I use that word very purposefully because I want
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  Speaker 1: things to be bigger in so many aspects of my life.
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  Speaker 1: I sat down with Jess Simms on Wednesday. Many of
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  Speaker 1: you know her from the show and from loving her
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  Speaker 1: on Peloton, and we were good friends and we were
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  Speaker 1: sitting down kind of having like a vision and goals moment.
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  Speaker 1: We were gonna just grab coffee, and she asked me
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  Speaker 1: if I wanted to vision board, and then we kind
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  Speaker 1: of decided that we needed a moment to hash out
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  Speaker 1: what would go on the vision board or to things
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  Speaker 1: that really wanted before we started like cutting things out
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  Speaker 1: of magazines like we were sixteen years old. Anyway, we
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  Speaker 1: were sitting down and talking about the things that we wanted,
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  Speaker 1: and I was really thinking about this word, because the
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  Speaker 1: things that I want are really big. I want and
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this and I don't really know how
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna sound, but I want to walk into more
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  Speaker 1: rooms and not have to introduce myself.
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  Speaker 2: I want to make such an.
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  Speaker 1: Impact in my community in this industry that I am
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  Speaker 1: a force to be reckoned with. And I want to
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  Speaker 1: do this in a really humble way. It's not that
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  Speaker 1: I want to come into a room and know that
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  Speaker 1: I don't need to introduce myself, and so I don't
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  Speaker 1: know like I will always smile and introduce myself and
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  Speaker 1: I always want to meet new people.
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  Speaker 2: It's not about that.
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  Speaker 1: What I mean is that I am ready to step
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  Speaker 1: into my power in what it is that I'm creating
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  Speaker 1: and what it is that I'm capable of. I want
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  Speaker 1: bigger in my relationships. I want bigger in the partnerships.
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  Speaker 1: I want to dream big. I want to really like
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  Speaker 1: stretch the bounds of what maybe I have been doing
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  Speaker 1: and stop confining myself into a box that might be
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  Speaker 1: what I think to be realistic. At this point, I'm
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  Speaker 1: ready to get bigger than that, and I'm ready to
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  Speaker 1: do more. And I think that the last couple of
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  Speaker 1: years many of us have found this frustration and feeling
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  Speaker 1: as though we kind of have to wait to go
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  Speaker 1: after some of the things that we want because of
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  Speaker 1: the I'm like gesturing with my hands here like.
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  Speaker 2: The state of the world.
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  Speaker 1: But honestly, if that I am done waiting, life is
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  Speaker 1: too damn short to wait and hope that opportunities arise.
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  Speaker 1: I am ready to step into the light and go
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  Speaker 1: after the things that I want without making excuses anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And I say this in the Weekly Hurdle. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: here saying that you need to sit down with a
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  Speaker 1: pen and a paper and you need to spend like
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  Speaker 1: hours and hours writing goals. But if you want to
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  Speaker 1: write some goals, I have an on demand session for that,
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  Speaker 1: and you can find it in the show notes.
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  Speaker 2: What I am saying is that it will not hurt you.
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  Speaker 1: It will only help you if you dream big and
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  Speaker 1: write some of those dreams down. Maybe, and this is
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  Speaker 1: a really special thought, you can be the thing that
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  Speaker 1: inspires yourself to take the action that you have been
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  Speaker 1: dreaming about. Maybe right now it's the time to make
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  Speaker 1: that dream a reality. Maybe right now is that time
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  Speaker 1: to take the action that has been scaring you for
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  Speaker 1: so long?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: What if?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 2: What if?
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  Speaker 1: Now is that time? And so that's kind of what
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  Speaker 1: I've been thinking about. We already tackle the listener questions,
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  Speaker 1: So I guess that just leaves me to say another
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  Speaker 1: hurdle conquered at Emily Body at Hurdle Podcast twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: You have been something else.