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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: What Do You Need to Let Go of? · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hamhurdlers, Emily a Body here for five Minute Friday from Hurdle.
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  Speaker 1: You know the drill by now. Five Minute Friday is
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  Speaker 1: a segment where I bring to you a story, offer
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  Speaker 1: you a prompt, and then share a few of my
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  Speaker 1: top highlights for the week. Whether that's a podcast episode,
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  Speaker 1: an app, a streaming workout, a quote, you get the idea.
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  Speaker 1: As I have been pleading with you. Please let me
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  Speaker 1: know what you think of this segment and also what
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  Speaker 1: you want to hear about and if you have something
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  Speaker 1: you think is cool, something that's been a highlight of
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  Speaker 1: your week. I am all ears. Send them to me
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  Speaker 1: either over on social at Hurdle podcast and at Emily
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  Speaker 1: a Body or of course over email. You can hit
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  Speaker 1: me at Emily at hurdle dot us. Now if you
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  Speaker 1: follow me on Instagram, then you know this week was
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  Speaker 1: a week for me. Understatement and that is because you
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  Speaker 1: want to be with someone else in quarantine until that's
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  Speaker 1: someone or something else is a mouse yep, unwelcome guest
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  Speaker 1: in my apartment this week a mouse popped out. I
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  Speaker 1: was sitting on my couch the other night, had just
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  Speaker 1: finished dinner, and all of the sudden, a mouse just
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  Speaker 1: saunters out into the middle of my kitchen, and I
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  Speaker 1: was livid. I was so frustrated. It was like as
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  Speaker 1: if the mouse started to cripple me. So the first
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  Speaker 1: time I saw the mouse was Saturday night, and then
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  Speaker 1: he didn't pop back in again until Wednesday to say hello.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, when he decides to do that again,
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  Speaker 1: I am in the middle of a hurdle interview and
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  Speaker 1: I freak out in the audio. Oh man, for your
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  Speaker 1: sampling pleasure, please take a listen. Ah my god, this
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  Speaker 1: is the worst. Oh my god. I just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go that's really funny. Oh my god, I'm so gota
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  Speaker 1: or something over there. I like, I kind of think
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  Speaker 1: I want to something in the Okay, what should I
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  Speaker 1: a book? You have a big book? Yeah, I have
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  Speaker 1: to have a hardcover book and just the next time
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  Speaker 1: it comes out, just chuck it over there, get the
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  Speaker 1: fuck away. So now you get what we're dealing with. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I call my dad after I'm done with this podcast
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  Speaker 1: interview and he is like, you know that you're bigger
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  Speaker 1: than the mouse, right. That doesn't make it easier not
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  Speaker 1: to feel like it is just all up in my space.
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  Speaker 1: The mouse quickly became this thing that I could freak
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  Speaker 1: out over, this thing that I could dedicate my energy to,
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  Speaker 1: this thing that I could be mad at. And I
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  Speaker 1: came to realize, I mean, think about how many things
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  Speaker 1: there are in life, how many times that there are
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  Speaker 1: where we cannot control this thing that we spend so
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  Speaker 1: much time obsessing over. Before I went to bed last night,
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  Speaker 1: I was scared to literally look at the ground of
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  Speaker 1: my apartment because I thought that it would just be
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  Speaker 1: crawling with mice. I knew, let's be real, that wasn't
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen. I woke up this morning, I walked into
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen. I didn't see him, got in there, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought, to myself, it's really annoyed, exhale, I just
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  Speaker 1: let out there. I made some tea, and I sat
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  Speaker 1: on the couch and I closed my eyes and I
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  Speaker 1: took five deep breaths, and I realized in this moment
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  Speaker 1: that I had to let go of this thing that
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't control, Like I couldn't sit here in my
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  Speaker 1: home just being constantly paranoid, constantly angry, that angry feeling,
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  Speaker 1: that stressed out feeling. It wasn't gonna do me any good.
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  Speaker 1: Silver Lining here that I caught the mouse, so that
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  Speaker 1: helps a little bit. But again, I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 1: bring forth here this idea that they are gonna be
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  Speaker 1: things that we have no control over. In particular, I
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  Speaker 1: think the thing that we can all agree on is
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  Speaker 1: what's going on with coronavirus. Sometimes the best thing that
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  Speaker 1: we can do in these situations are just let go.
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  Speaker 1: And so for this week's prompt, I'm asking you, what's
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  Speaker 1: your mouse? What do you need to let go of?
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  Speaker 1: Be honest with yourself. This is a big opportunity. Highlights
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  Speaker 1: of the week. I clicked on over in Have a
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  Speaker 1: Podcasts and I was looking for some new shows to
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  Speaker 1: get into, and I am a sucker for Tom Hanks,
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  Speaker 1: so I clicked on the NPR podcast Wait Wait, Don't
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  Speaker 1: Tell Me, because they had an episode with him. And basically,
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  Speaker 1: this show is a weekly current events quiz, so they
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  Speaker 1: talk about a bunch of different news what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: and they offer up different and opportunities for the audience
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  Speaker 1: to kind of guess what the answers are. And I
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  Speaker 1: actually really really loved it and it was funny. One
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  Speaker 1: of the segments on the Tom Hanks episode was actually
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  Speaker 1: talking about how people in major cities are seeing an
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  Speaker 1: incidence of mice in their apartments. Crazy because the mice
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  Speaker 1: don't have the normal restaurant stock of foods that they'd
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  Speaker 1: be eating on the streets, and so they're coming in
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  Speaker 1: and hunting for it. Anyway, they talked to Tom Hanks
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  Speaker 1: and they asked him to describe what his kitchen looked like,
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  Speaker 1: and it was just hilarious that I highly highly recommend
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  Speaker 1: NVR podcast. Wait wait, don't tell me. Another favorite of
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  Speaker 1: mine Whalebone Magazine. They are releasing a pop up newsletter
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  Speaker 1: I love that phrasing here called Afternoon Delight, And basically
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  Speaker 1: what they say is that it's here for a short while,
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  Speaker 1: at least the next thirty days or however long it
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  Speaker 1: can be doing some good and it's there to help
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  Speaker 1: their followers, help Whalebone readers keep connected through social distancing,
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  Speaker 1: and keep them smiling. In every newsletter which comes out
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  Speaker 1: toward the tail end of the workday, they offer up
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  Speaker 1: something to listen to, something to cook, and something to
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  Speaker 1: smile about. And it's just got me smiling, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: sharing it with you. Also, I cannot stop listening to
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  Speaker 1: the soundtrack from last Saturday's One World together at home.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in particularly obsessed with the cover of What a
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful World with Camillo Cabello and Shawn Mendes. And then,
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  Speaker 1: last but not LEAs, I'm going to recommend a book
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  Speaker 1: to you this week, one that I keep going back to,
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  Speaker 1: and that is the Power of Habit by Charles Duhig.
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  Speaker 1: I'm probably saying that wrong, maybe it's two Hig, but
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  Speaker 1: in the book, he basically says that the key to
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  Speaker 1: any of the habits that we all want to upkeep,
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  Speaker 1: whether that's regular exercise or being more productive or being
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote successful, is understanding how those habits work. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to close this out with what he says at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the book. He says, sometimes change takes
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  Speaker 1: a long time, sometimes it requiresyers, repeated experiments and failures.
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  Speaker 1: But once you understand how a habit operates, once you
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  Speaker 1: diagnose the queue, the routine, and the ward, you gain
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  Speaker 1: power over it. And that's it for this week at
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  Speaker 1: emilay Body at Hurdle Podcast, another Hurdle Conquered. Catch you
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  Speaker 1: guys next time.