Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.

Yo, yo, yo, can we get Thanksgiving first?

I'm hungry.

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Follow Ellis Ever After and start listening on the free IHeart Radio app today. What's up? What's happening? Emily Abadi here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday on Hurtle. I am so excited because if you're listening to

this in real time, I am very likely either on the beach, near a beach. I'm off to Miami this weekend.

And oh my gosh, I just want to be warm. The cold is kicking in. I've run

outside three days this weekend. I am frigid. I decided to book this trip to take some time for

myself at the end of a long year. And I try to set aside time twice a year to do what I call a personal inventory summit.

And I'm going to tell you what that is.

So I typically do one in June around my birthday and then one at the end of the year.

And although I journal every day and I've been journaling with many of you as a part of this month-long challenge in the daily

hurdle channel over on Instagram. So come join us. But I digress. I journal daily, but this specific

exercise that I do is much more of a holistic audit of what's going on in my life. I take stock of myself, my strengths,

my shortcomings, my goals, and my values, and candidly, my failures, too. And so for this audit,

I've mapped it out into three distinct focus areas. I look at relationships, health, and work. Again,

I look at relationships, health, and work. And so when I'm writing on each of these areas,

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