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Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Emily ABOUDI here you are listening to another

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Speaker 1: episode of Five Minute Friday from Hurdle. What is going

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Speaker 1: on this week has felt like absolutely non stop for me.

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Speaker 1: I got back into that way that I get back

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Speaker 1: into that way, back into the groove that I get

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Speaker 1: into when I know I have a lot to get

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Speaker 1: done and that I have been scheduling out my days

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Speaker 1: and giving certain time blocks to certain activities, which is

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Speaker 1: a super great way for me to get these things

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Speaker 1: done and to be productive. But back to back days

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Speaker 1: with timestamped schedules has got me feel in some kind

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Speaker 1: of way heading into the weekend aka just really really

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Speaker 1: ready for it. Anyway, today's five Minute Friday, I'm talking

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Speaker 1: to you about a fun little morning I had filled

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Speaker 1: with customer service earlier this week. It kickstarted speaking to

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Speaker 1: my ever lovely friends at Verizon FiOS. I know, I

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Speaker 1: know that these individuals that I speak with, it is

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Speaker 1: not their direct fault that I'm having Internet issues. But

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Speaker 1: when you have to work with not one, not two,

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Speaker 1: but three different representatives to get done what you've got

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Speaker 1: to get done, who there's some patience involved in that.

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Speaker 1: So after my lovely little Verizon experience, that I had

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Speaker 1: on I believe Tuesday morning. I then was scheduled to

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Speaker 1: head on over to the Apple Genius bar and talk

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Speaker 1: to them about my AirPods which were connecting unexpectedly to

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Speaker 1: some of my devices throughout the day. I am sitting

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Speaker 1: there waiting for the genius to come over to me

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Speaker 1: when I look up and see an elderly veteran sitting

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Speaker 1: down with his iPad and another genius. Basically, what it

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Speaker 1: seems to be is that somehow the password got changed

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Speaker 1: on this man's Gmail account and so that is why

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Speaker 1: his emails aren't showing up on the iPad. But he

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Speaker 1: swears he didn't change it. He cannot figure it out.

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Speaker 1: So in the nicest way possible, the Apple Genius is

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Speaker 1: explaining to him, well, you know what we could do

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Speaker 1: to fix this, We might as well just reset the

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Speaker 1: password together. So the genius he starts talking it through

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Speaker 1: with the man on how to reset his Gmail password,

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Speaker 1: and the veteran says, you know, I'm just I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of old if he can't tell like, I'm not very

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Speaker 1: good at this technology stuff. And the Apple Genius, this

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Speaker 1: nice young man, looks at him and says, you know

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Speaker 1: what it's Okay, man, we can do this together. And

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Speaker 1: I was just in awe really of this beautiful moment

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Speaker 1: of kindness and thinking about how many people go into

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Speaker 1: that store and something is wrong right, like their computer

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Speaker 1: is blowing up, feels like everything is going out the window.

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Speaker 1: And these employees so often have the most beautiful patience

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Speaker 1: with these customers because that's their job, right And so

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Speaker 1: in this moment, I just became really appreciative both for

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Speaker 1: excellent customer service, but also for the opportunity just to

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Speaker 1: treat somebody else with kindness. I said this, I think

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Speaker 1: in the android of Monday's episode. But there's just so

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Speaker 1: much going on in the world right now, and the

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Speaker 1: least that we can do in this moment that requires

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Speaker 1: little to know effort is for us to be kind

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Speaker 1: to one another. So my prompt for you this week,

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Speaker 1: what is one random act of kindness that you can

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Speaker 1: do for a friend, family member, or coworker today? Again,

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Speaker 1: what is one random act of kindness that you can

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Speaker 1: do for a friend, family member, or coworker today? And

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Speaker 1: now a listener question.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Emily, my name is Tory, and I have a

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Speaker 2: question about whether you have ever had a marathon training

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Speaker 2: cycle go poorly, and whether you've ever made the decision

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Speaker 2: to not run the race because of that. I'm not

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Speaker 2: really talking about an injury, but maybe just a season

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Speaker 2: of life that was overwhelming and stressful, and maybe that

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Speaker 2: poured over into your training and it was less productive

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Speaker 2: than you had hoped. I recently made the choice to

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Speaker 2: not run a marathon that I've been training for, and

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Speaker 2: I've been struggling with that decision, but it feels right

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Speaker 2: for me now. Just wondering if you've experienced anything similar

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Speaker 2: or if you have any advice.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Wow, Thank you, Thank you for sharing that with

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Speaker 1: me and the community. I can imagine that this hasn't

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Speaker 1: been an easy decision for you, but it seems as

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Speaker 1: though from your own words that it was, without a doubt,

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Speaker 1: the right decision for you. And what you have to

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Speaker 1: go back to is exactly what you said, which was

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Speaker 1: I feel and I know that I made the right decision.

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Speaker 1: That is what matters. Period. I know that a lot

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Speaker 1: of the time we'll put something out there in the

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Speaker 1: world and we feel this obscene amount of pressure, which

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Speaker 1: ultimately we put on ourselves, right, but we feel as

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Speaker 1: though it's coming from other people to live up to

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Speaker 1: some sort of an expectation set sometimes by social media

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Speaker 1: or family or friends. But the right people in your life,

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Speaker 1: they really just want what's best for you, right, they

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Speaker 1: want you to be happy. So if you felt as

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Speaker 1: though that training cycle was no longer serving you, then

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Speaker 1: guess what you did exactly the right thing. You, in fact,

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Speaker 1: are probably farther ahead than someone that is just so

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Speaker 1: worried about that feedback someone else's opinion. By listening to

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Speaker 1: your gut, you're giving your body and your mind, your

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Speaker 1: mental health, your being exactly what it needs. And this

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Speaker 1: holds true for any decision you've got to live your life.

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Speaker 1: For you, feeling good about your decisions. People pleasing can

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Speaker 1: be super detrimental and really exhausting, so remember it starts

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Speaker 1: with you. Thanks y'all for listening, Have an excellent, excellent weekend,

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Speaker 1: and keep hurdling. Another hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.

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Speaker 1: Toy in my hair