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Speaker 1: What's going on everyone?

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Speaker 2: Emily there, you are listening to five Minute Friday from Hurdle.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness, what

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Speaker 2: a week. I am a sleepy human. I am a

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Speaker 2: sleepy human, and after sharing a little bit of what

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Speaker 2: I'm going through last week on the show, I'm sure

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Speaker 2: you can understand why. For those that are just catching up,

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Speaker 2: I am in the final phases of prepping for an

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Speaker 2: egg retrieval at the top of next week, and I

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Speaker 2: am looking forward to feeling like my normal self again soon.

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Speaker 1: I've had a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: I don't know fun is the right word, but I've

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Speaker 2: really enjoyed chatting with a lot of you about your experiences,

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Speaker 2: whether that be in the DM or over email. And

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you since yapping last week. For those that

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Speaker 2: came in and shared positive experiences with me, it's been

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Speaker 2: it's been really nice to connect with. That said, it's

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Speaker 2: also been really nice for me to connect with myself.

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Speaker 2: I am someone who is very much go, go go,

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Speaker 2: whether that's with work or just my schedule. I am

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Speaker 2: not someone that's good at sitting still necessarily, and this

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Speaker 2: week has involved a lot. That's an understatement of sitting

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Speaker 2: still and being a bit slower. I have been making

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Speaker 2: an effort to walk almost every day, albeit quite slowly,

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Speaker 2: as things are feeling all sorts of weird in my

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Speaker 2: body at the moment. I have been spending time on

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Speaker 2: my couch. I've been reconnecting with friends. I've been doing

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Speaker 2: five thirty pm dinners and crashing by eight thirty at night,

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Speaker 2: and it's been really nice.

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Speaker 1: It's been one of those.

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Speaker 2: Moments that reminds me of the importance of recharging, of

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Speaker 2: the importance of recovery, knowing that it's better not to

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Speaker 2: be always performing at a six or a seven, but

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Speaker 2: rather to go all in when you can, giving it

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Speaker 2: the best you can with what you have, in favor

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Speaker 2: of hitting an eight, nine, ten, and then making that

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Speaker 2: an interval, making life a series of high performing moments,

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Speaker 2: knowing that there is a reprieve when available on the

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Speaker 2: other side. For me right now, what has also been

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Speaker 2: really soul filling is going offline. I over the last

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Speaker 2: week have done a few different art projects. Last weekend,

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Speaker 2: on Sunday, a good friend and I sat down at

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Speaker 2: a bar down the street and I sipped a cappuccino

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Speaker 2: while she sipped a glass of red wine and we

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Speaker 2: colored by numbers and that was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: And then earlier this week I sat down at another

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Speaker 2: cafe and spent some time reading. I. Like I said,

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Speaker 2: I've been going on walks, I've been doing a lot

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Speaker 2: of things offline, and I am remembering how soul filling

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Speaker 2: this is, how great it is to take time to

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Speaker 2: properly disconnect.

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Speaker 1: I know there's a bit of an eye roll.

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Speaker 2: When someone says something along the lines of everything is

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Speaker 2: happening for a reason. And while I may not be

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Speaker 2: going that route this week, what I want to say

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Speaker 2: is that everything is happening for you.

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Speaker 1: I get to choose my perspective.

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Speaker 2: I get to look at this scenario and ask myself,

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Speaker 2: what is the good here, what is the purpose of this,

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Speaker 2: what is it teaching me? And choose to receive the

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Speaker 2: lessons that is all up to me. And so I

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Speaker 2: do believe that this opportunity to disconnect, this opportunity to

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Speaker 2: beautiful silver lining to this week for me, one that

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Speaker 2: I am happy to share with you and hopes that

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Speaker 2: it helps you to evaluate what's going on with your

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Speaker 2: pacing strategy, if you will, with the way that you

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Speaker 2: think about your day to day, the intervals, the time offline,

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Speaker 2: and so on. My listener prompt, my thought prompt for

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Speaker 2: you this week is actually some words of encouragement. What

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Speaker 2: are two things you can program into your weekend that

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Speaker 2: will guarantee to bring you joy. This is something I'm

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Speaker 2: thinking about right now. I have a few things that

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Speaker 2: are up in the air, including the scheduling of a

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Speaker 2: doctor's appointment, But I am looking at the weekend and

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Speaker 2: asking myself, how can I find some guaranteed joy this

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Speaker 2: the things that I cannot do, but rather embracing what

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Speaker 2: I want you to ask yourself. Program in two moments

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Speaker 2: of joy for your weekend. And now a listener question. Hi, Emily,

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Speaker 2: my name is Paige. I love watching snippets from your

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Speaker 2: morning routine and admire how productive you are.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Do you have any apps or tools that you use

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Speaker 2: can't get something to stick. Oh this is good. Thanks Page,

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Speaker 2: and thank you again for your question. If you are

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Speaker 2: listening to this and you want your question answer on

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Speaker 2: an upcoming episode of Five Minute Friday on Hurdle, email

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Speaker 2: me over at Hello at Hurdle dot us. You can

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Speaker 2: also feel free to DM me. I'm always checking those

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Speaker 2: out at Hurdle Podcasts and me over at emily A

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Speaker 2: body tools apps. Apps that I use in my morning routine.

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Speaker 2: I would say there are three of them. I use

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Speaker 2: Open for meditation and breath work. I use Strava if

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Speaker 2: to do strength training, I use the Future app.

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Speaker 1: I will link all of those in the show notes.

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Speaker 2: But with that said, I try to keep my morning routine,

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Speaker 2: especially before I walk out the front door, to be

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Speaker 2: as tech free as possible. My best days, I don't

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Speaker 2: touch my phone until I'm truly getting ready to leave.

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Speaker 1: So what does that mean?

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Speaker 2: It means that I actually have the Open app on

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Speaker 2: my iPad, which I now truly think of my iPad

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Speaker 2: as a calm device. It sounds a little bit silly, sure,

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Speaker 1: Don't need to reach for my cell phone.

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Speaker 2: My iPad doesn't have connectivity to a lot of the

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Speaker 2: there instead of doing what I want to do, which

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Speaker 2: is open this breath work app. And then I'm using

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Speaker 2: those Casper lights that you flip over and set the

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Speaker 2: time using their app the day before. Mine's just set

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting here explaining this and.

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Speaker 2: Making hand gestures which you cannot see, so I know

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Speaker 2: they are not helpful, but I really really appreciate the

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Speaker 2: soft wake that comes with natural light and transparently. At first,

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be waking up with this just the light, no noise.

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Speaker 1: But it's been great. It's been really great. I digress.

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Speaker 2: I find that being as tech free as possible in

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Speaker 2: the morning is the best gift that I can give

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Speaker 2: to myself. I'm sure there are many different apps and

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Speaker 2: tools that you can use to create a more sustainable routine,

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Speaker 2: and I encourage you to find the things that make

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Speaker 2: you feel good. But for me, what feels good is

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Speaker 2: being as tech free as possible, sitting down and writing

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Speaker 2: in my journal, doing the breath work, making my bed,

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Speaker 2: having my coffee, taking some time for me and only me.

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Speaker 2: Before that energy output requires that I navigate a sea

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Speaker 2: of other things.

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Speaker 1: I hope this is helpful.

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Speaker 2: Again. I want your listener questions. Email me over at

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Speaker 2: Hello at Hurdle dot us. One more time for the

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Speaker 2: people in the back. I'm over at Emily Body and

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Speaker 2: at Hurdle Podcast. Another Hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.

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