What's going on, everyone? I'm Emily Abadi here. You're listening to Five Minute

Friday from hurdle. I write about what's happening in the weekly hurdle newsletter this

week. It came out this morning every single Friday. If you don't get it just yet, the link to

subscribe is in the show notes. But coming back from Los Angeles, waking up in the morning

has been hella difficult for me period. Every day for the last three days, my alarm has gone

off at 7 a.m. and getting up feels absolutely impossible. Now, it makes me have an appreciation

for all of the people that are in my DMs that say that they feel as though it is impossible

for them to be a morning person. Now, if you are one of those people again in the weekly

hurdle, I've got tips on how you may be able to make it a habit. So check that out. But what

I'm here to talk about today is how I have been accommodating the fact that my body is

craving later mornings. I get it. Some of you here 7 a.m. and you're like, that's still

hella early and that's cool. But for me, as someone who typically wakes up without an alarm

between 5.30 and 6, waking up at 7 drastically changes my morning routine. But here's the

thing. I refuse to be stressed in the morning. It's just not how I want to start my day.

And so as much as I love hitting the gym first thing after the coffee and the journaling

and the meditation and whatnot, I am craving this week a slower way to start the day. And

so as a result, I have been hitting the gym in the middle of the day. Today, I did a

strength workout using my future app to learn more about the future app links in the show

notes. You can get a month absolutely free. Think of it as a personal trainer in your

pocket. And seriously, this week, it makes me so grateful that I know exactly what I

want to do when I want to show up. I digress. I've been working out the middle of the week.

After up today, yesterday, I did a pellet on workout the day before I used the future

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