Hey, everyone.

Hey, everyone. Emily Abadi here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle. I heard a really good

analogy yesterday and I want to share it with all of you. The analogy is there is, let's say, a dingy old car that you keep in your parking spot.

And you keep the car there because it's not really doing anything bad to you.

But you just don't feel motivated to move it. It's just, it is how it is.

Meanwhile, as this dingy old car is sitting in the parking spot, your dream car, let's call it a rangerover shall we? Your range rover is circling right around your parking lot.

And it cannot stop. It cannot park because there's nowhere for it to go.

So you know what happens when you take the initiative and you move the dingy

car out from the parking spot that you've just been letting sit there, been letting, you've just

allowed to sit there for so long? Well, suddenly, your dream car now has a place to go. I was told this story in the

context of dating, to be clear, but I know and believe that this metaphor can be so applicable

to so many things in life. And I want to bring it

around to habit formation. Because oftentimes there are practices, things that we are doing in

our life that don't really serve us, but we do them. We execute that way. We just go about things with that habit in place

because we don't want to exercise the energy to implement something new that could be better for

us. I will give you an example. Let's say right now you have a morning routine that you like to sit on the

couch and watch the news for an hour. And this is something that you have done for years. Morning TV is

a comfort zone for you. As much as I can appreciate that, what if you were willing to remove yourself from

this comfortable environment for a week or two and try something different? And then you open

yourself to the positivity that can come with mixing up your routine. Maybe you're now taking a walk and

listening to a morning podcast instead of sitting on the couch and watching television. Man,

I mean, bring this to working out in general. Think about that saying nothing changes if nothing

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