5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Do Yourself A Favor & Let It Go
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
A frustrating, silly mistake that could've ruined a special moment: How do you show up when things are beyond your control? Plus: Answering a listener question about the best advice I've received in my 6+ years of podcasting.
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on? Emily Abadi here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle. Can I tell you about what happened this weekend? A lot of things happened last weekend. My birthday to be one of them, I was able to celebrate with so many of my dearest and closest |
| 0:38.8 | friends. And I had such a nice time spending time with my people. And right before I walked into |
| 0:46.2 | the first bit of celebration, I had recently arrived back in New York City from a quick red eye |
| 0:53.9 | and I didn't get much sleep. I came home. |
| 0:57.0 | I napped an hour and a half. And then I woke up and met one of my dearest friends, Ashley, |
| 1:01.2 | for breakfast. And it was as I was walking out the door headed for breakfast that I realized, |
| 1:07.4 | I left my Apple Watch on the plane. Yeah, like sad. What's a sad trombone? |
| 1:15.5 | Insert sad trombone here. To say that I was like the ultimate ugh would be like the |
| 1:22.3 | biggest understatement. I immediately filed the paperwork on the Delta website. And when I went to look on Find |
| 1:31.8 | My, on my iPhone, where my Apple Watch was connected, I saw that my watch had rudely taken a trip all |
| 1:39.3 | the way from JFK within the span of five hours since I landed to Orlando. I wasn't laughing when I realized |
| 1:49.7 | all this. In fact, I was like, you are so silly. What a silly human. I used words that weren't as |
| 1:55.7 | nice as silly. And I arrived at breakfast after going through the motions of handling the fact that I lost my iPhone. |
| 2:03.7 | And I sat down and I was really frustrated. |
| 2:06.6 | And I knew that this wasn't how I wanted to start a weekend that I had been looking forward to for a while now. |
| 2:14.1 | And it was in that moment that I made a choice. |
| 2:17.3 | And I understand there is privilege within this |
| 2:20.2 | choice for me. But my choice in that moment was not to let a bad minute make for a bad day. |
| 2:27.2 | My choice in that moment was let go of the things that you cannot control. Because being angry |
| 2:33.8 | and upset and throwing a tantrum over the fact |
| 2:36.8 | that my Apple Watch was perhaps never to be found. Spoiler alert. It is now in Alabama. It is |
| 2:43.1 | certainly never coming back to me. And I am letting this go in the universe. But I made the |
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