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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everyone? Emily body here. Good morning.

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Speaker 2: You are listening to five minute Friday or good afternoon

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Speaker 2: or good evening, depending on when you're listening to this.

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Speaker 2: I feel as though overwhelmed is loading, and I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you why. I have many different trips in the next

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Speaker 2: seven days. Three to be specific. I'm headed to Boston today.

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Speaker 2: I am there for the weekend through Monday. I am

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Speaker 2: back to New York for the night. I have an

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Speaker 2: event that night that I need to go to. I

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Speaker 2: fly to San Francisco from Tuesday to Thursday next week.

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Speaker 1: Then I'm back to New York.

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Speaker 2: And finally I'm down to DC next Friday night to

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Speaker 2: do some personal stuff and also host a conversation on

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Speaker 2: behalf of every Woman's Marathon.

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Speaker 1: I am in.

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Speaker 2: So four different cities over the next seven days, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: that can lead to overwhelmed. It can also lead to

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Speaker 2: me being out of my normal routine, and so I

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Speaker 2: have a few things that become non negotiable for me

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Speaker 2: when overwhelm starts to seep in. The First thing is that,

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Speaker 2: regardless of where I am, the morning routine sticks period

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Speaker 2: hard stop. I wake up, I journal, I do breath work,

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Speaker 2: I move my body, I take my supplements. It's like

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Speaker 2: clockwork for me, and it is integral to allow and

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Speaker 2: empower me to show up as the best possible version

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Speaker 2: of myself in that day. Does that mean that it's

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Speaker 2: not going to be perhaps a little inconvenient not to

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Speaker 2: have all of my normal tools at my disposal to

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Speaker 2: do these things, of course, but we have to be

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Speaker 2: flexible knowing what the goal is. The goal is for

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Speaker 2: me to have some sort of normalcy even when I'm

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Speaker 2: not in my typical environment, so that I can feel

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Speaker 2: better in my body. When I feel good in my body,

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Speaker 2: I have a better attitude. I can show up better

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Speaker 2: for myself, and I can show up better for the

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Speaker 2: obligations that I have on deck. So the first thing

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Speaker 2: that becomes a non negotiable is doing my morning routine

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Speaker 2: and making that a priority. The second thing that I

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Speaker 2: really take stock of when I'm feeling overwhelmed is what

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Speaker 2: are my inputs? Who am I surrounding myself with, who

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Speaker 2: am I spending my time talking to, What am I reading? Consuming?

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Speaker 2: Am I doom scrolling? These are all questions to ask yourself,

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Speaker 2: and it can be helpful to work backwards. So if

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Speaker 2: you think from your inputs. Your thoughts grow, your actions,

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Speaker 2: your ideas flow. Okay, so if you want better ideas

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Speaker 2: and actions, which I think that's something that we can

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Speaker 2: all relate to, then you need to look at what

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Speaker 2: you're thinking and to get quote unquote better thinking. Then

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Speaker 2: you need to really examine where your source is coming from.

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Speaker 2: What are your inputs. So this looks like two things

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Speaker 2: for me. One, I want to make sure that I'm

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Speaker 2: spending as much quality time or time with people that

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Speaker 2: make me feel full, that feel my cup, that make

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Speaker 2: me have that cup half full instead of half empty perspective.

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Speaker 2: I'm being as intentional about that as possible. And the

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Speaker 2: next thing, I genuinely try to be more positive on

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Speaker 2: the days where that positivity doesn't feel like it's flowing naturally.

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Speaker 1: I find that finding small.

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Speaker 2: Gratitude dudes in your ten minute block can be something

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Speaker 2: that starts to shift that perspective. So maybe I don't

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Speaker 2: wake up in the best mood I'm feeling, like I said.

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Speaker 1: A little overwhelmed.

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Speaker 2: I will identify one good thing that's happening around me

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Speaker 2: in that moment. So maybe the way that the light

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Speaker 2: is streaming into the room is really beautiful right now?

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Speaker 2: And then what I find is in the next ten minutes.

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Speaker 2: If I do that again and I think to myself, Wow,

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Speaker 2: this coffee tastes really fresh and it's really giving me

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Speaker 2: some extra energy, and that feels really good to my body,

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Speaker 2: then those highlights, those gratitudes start to transform into an

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Speaker 2: overall positive perspective. You're following me, right, So I work

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Speaker 2: consciously to be more positive, to choose the positive, and

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Speaker 2: to focus on the good. A friend of mine made

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Speaker 2: a joke the other day about how I am the

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Speaker 2: person that certainly makes an effort to notice like the

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Speaker 2: happy couple walking across the street and seat of the

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Speaker 2: dirty puddle of water on the ground, and she is

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Speaker 2: the person who more often than not notices at first

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Speaker 1: And that is a perspective.

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Speaker 2: That is a mindset that I have truly put in

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Speaker 2: effort to cultivate, and one that you can cultivate too.

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Speaker 2: So again, the lesson here is that I'm not telling

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Speaker 2: you overwhelms not going to happen.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you to ignore it.

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Speaker 2: But I am here to reinforce that there are habits

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Speaker 2: and choices that you can make that will help you

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Speaker 2: during the times that you are feeling overwhelmed.

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Speaker 1: I've got this. You've got this.

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Speaker 2: My listener prompt for you this week, in the last

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Speaker 2: ten minutes, maybe since you started listening to this show,

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Speaker 2: maybe after you got out of bed, maybe on your

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Speaker 2: commute to work, whenever, in the last ten minutes that

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Speaker 2: you're listening to this, highlight one good thing, one good

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Speaker 2: thing from your last ten minutes, and make an effort

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Speaker 2: to continue that as the day goes on. And now

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Speaker 2: a listener question. Hey, Emily, I'm Krisha, a longtime listener

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Speaker 2: of the show.

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Speaker 1: I love your.

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Speaker 2: Idea for doing one new thing a week in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five and would love to give it a try.

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Speaker 2: How do you find different things to do? Like attending

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Speaker 2: a poetry slam? Is so unique and creative? Thank you

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Speaker 2: so much for your inspiration. This is a good question. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: at the date of the year, I just made one

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Speaker 2: long list of all of these things that I have

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Speaker 2: never had the opportunity to do, and so every Sunday

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Speaker 2: I pick something from the list and put it in

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Speaker 2: the schedule for the week ahead. Now, granted, sometimes I

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Speaker 2: have to plan decently far ahead to make some of

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Speaker 2: these things happen. So although some weeks it's chosen on

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Speaker 2: the Sunday of the week that's about to begin, other weeks,

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Speaker 2: I'll have something solidified weeks ahead of time. For instance,

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Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks, I'm going to the opera

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Speaker 2: for the first time, and I've known about that for

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Speaker 2: three weeks and that was on the list. And I

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Speaker 2: feel as though as I'm executing this and sharing bits

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Speaker 2: and pieces of it on the weekly Hurdle substack and

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Speaker 2: then over on my social people are messaging me with

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Speaker 2: more ideas and it's becoming a group experiment of sorts.

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Speaker 2: So on that note, if you do have any exciting

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Speaker 2: ideas for me, or you rep something that you want

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Speaker 2: me to check out, or you did this really cool

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Speaker 2: experience that I must try, I am certainly all ears,

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Speaker 2: but make a list and don't be hesitant to put

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Speaker 2: like some crazy stuff on that list, Like it's not

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Speaker 2: every day of the year that I'm going to take

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Speaker 2: my first trip to Mexico City, but I want to

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Speaker 2: do that at some point this year as an example,

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Speaker 2: And that's how works. Make sure you're following along with

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Speaker 2: at Emily a body, Another hurdle conquered. Cash, You guys,

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