1 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 1: Hamhurdlers, Emily a Body here for five Minute Friday from Hurdle. 2 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: You know the drill by now. Five Minute Friday is 3 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: a segment where I bring to you a story, offer 4 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 1: you a prompt, and then share a few of my 5 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: top highlights for the week. Whether that's a podcast episode, 6 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: an app, a streaming workout, a quote, you get the idea. 7 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: As I have been pleading with you. Please let me 8 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 1: know what you think of this segment and also what 9 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 1: you want to hear about and if you have something 10 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: you think is cool, something that's been a highlight of 11 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: your week. I am all ears. Send them to me 12 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: either over on social at Hurdle podcast and at Emily 13 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: a Body or of course over email. You can hit 14 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: me at Emily at hurdle dot us. Now if you 15 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 1: follow me on Instagram, then you know this week was 16 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: a week for me. Understatement and that is because you 17 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:18,479 Speaker 1: want to be with someone else in quarantine until that's 18 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:23,759 Speaker 1: someone or something else is a mouse yep, unwelcome guest 19 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: in my apartment this week a mouse popped out. I 20 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: was sitting on my couch the other night, had just 21 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: finished dinner, and all of the sudden, a mouse just 22 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: saunters out into the middle of my kitchen, and I 23 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 1: was livid. I was so frustrated. It was like as 24 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: if the mouse started to cripple me. So the first 25 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: time I saw the mouse was Saturday night, and then 26 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: he didn't pop back in again until Wednesday to say hello. 27 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,559 Speaker 1: And of course, when he decides to do that again, 28 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: I am in the middle of a hurdle interview and 29 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: I freak out in the audio. Oh man, for your 30 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: sampling pleasure, please take a listen. Ah my god, this 31 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: is the worst. Oh my god. I just wanted to 32 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: go that's really funny. Oh my god, I'm so gota 33 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: or something over there. I like, I kind of think 34 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: I want to something in the Okay, what should I 35 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 1: a book? You have a big book? Yeah, I have 36 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: to have a hardcover book and just the next time 37 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 1: it comes out, just chuck it over there, get the 38 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: fuck away. So now you get what we're dealing with. Anyway, 39 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: I call my dad after I'm done with this podcast 40 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: interview and he is like, you know that you're bigger 41 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: than the mouse, right. That doesn't make it easier not 42 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: to feel like it is just all up in my space. 43 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: The mouse quickly became this thing that I could freak 44 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: out over, this thing that I could dedicate my energy to, 45 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: this thing that I could be mad at. And I 46 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: came to realize, I mean, think about how many things 47 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: there are in life, how many times that there are 48 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: where we cannot control this thing that we spend so 49 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: much time obsessing over. Before I went to bed last night, 50 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: I was scared to literally look at the ground of 51 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: my apartment because I thought that it would just be 52 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: crawling with mice. I knew, let's be real, that wasn't 53 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: gonna happen. I woke up this morning, I walked into 54 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 1: the kitchen. I didn't see him, got in there, and 55 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 1: I thought, to myself, it's really annoyed, exhale, I just 56 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: let out there. I made some tea, and I sat 57 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: on the couch and I closed my eyes and I 58 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: took five deep breaths, and I realized in this moment 59 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: that I had to let go of this thing that 60 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: I couldn't control, Like I couldn't sit here in my 61 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: home just being constantly paranoid, constantly angry, that angry feeling, 62 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: that stressed out feeling. It wasn't gonna do me any good. 63 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: Silver Lining here that I caught the mouse, so that 64 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: helps a little bit. But again, I'm just trying to 65 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: bring forth here this idea that they are gonna be 66 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: things that we have no control over. In particular, I 67 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: think the thing that we can all agree on is 68 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: what's going on with coronavirus. Sometimes the best thing that 69 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: we can do in these situations are just let go. 70 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: And so for this week's prompt, I'm asking you, what's 71 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: your mouse? What do you need to let go of? 72 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:34,840 Speaker 1: Be honest with yourself. This is a big opportunity. Highlights 73 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 1: of the week. I clicked on over in Have a 74 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: Podcasts and I was looking for some new shows to 75 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 1: get into, and I am a sucker for Tom Hanks, 76 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: so I clicked on the NPR podcast Wait Wait, Don't 77 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: Tell Me, because they had an episode with him. And basically, 78 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: this show is a weekly current events quiz, so they 79 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: talk about a bunch of different news what's going on, 80 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: and they offer up different and opportunities for the audience 81 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: to kind of guess what the answers are. And I 82 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: actually really really loved it and it was funny. One 83 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 1: of the segments on the Tom Hanks episode was actually 84 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: talking about how people in major cities are seeing an 85 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 1: incidence of mice in their apartments. Crazy because the mice 86 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: don't have the normal restaurant stock of foods that they'd 87 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: be eating on the streets, and so they're coming in 88 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: and hunting for it. Anyway, they talked to Tom Hanks 89 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: and they asked him to describe what his kitchen looked like, 90 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: and it was just hilarious that I highly highly recommend 91 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: NVR podcast. Wait wait, don't tell me. Another favorite of 92 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: mine Whalebone Magazine. They are releasing a pop up newsletter 93 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: I love that phrasing here called Afternoon Delight, And basically 94 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: what they say is that it's here for a short while, 95 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: at least the next thirty days or however long it 96 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,719 Speaker 1: can be doing some good and it's there to help 97 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 1: their followers, help Whalebone readers keep connected through social distancing, 98 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,840 Speaker 1: and keep them smiling. In every newsletter which comes out 99 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: toward the tail end of the workday, they offer up 100 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,039 Speaker 1: something to listen to, something to cook, and something to 101 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 1: smile about. And it's just got me smiling, so I'm 102 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:15,040 Speaker 1: sharing it with you. Also, I cannot stop listening to 103 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: the soundtrack from last Saturday's One World together at home. 104 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:22,919 Speaker 1: I'm in particularly obsessed with the cover of What a 105 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 1: Wonderful World with Camillo Cabello and Shawn Mendes. And then, 106 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: last but not LEAs, I'm going to recommend a book 107 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: to you this week, one that I keep going back to, 108 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: and that is the Power of Habit by Charles Duhig. 109 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 1: I'm probably saying that wrong, maybe it's two Hig, but 110 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 1: in the book, he basically says that the key to 111 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 1: any of the habits that we all want to upkeep, 112 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:47,719 Speaker 1: whether that's regular exercise or being more productive or being 113 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 1: quote unquote successful, is understanding how those habits work. I'm 114 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: going to close this out with what he says at 115 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 1: the end of the book. He says, sometimes change takes 116 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: a long time, sometimes it requiresyers, repeated experiments and failures. 117 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 1: But once you understand how a habit operates, once you 118 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: diagnose the queue, the routine, and the ward, you gain 119 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: power over it. And that's it for this week at 120 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: emilay Body at Hurdle Podcast, another Hurdle Conquered. Catch you 121 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: guys next time.