Hey everyone, I'm Leabody here with another installment of Five Minute Friday from Hurdle.

I'm having one of those moments where I am absolutely nowhere where I

expected to be in this moment, but maybe I'm everywhere I'm supposed to be the

last few days I felt so many things, right? Like I thought that I would be

doing many things that I'm not. I thought that I would be booking a day to test in

London and thinking about making sure that I had my travel size crunchy peanut

butter. I thought that I would be thinking about recovery devices I wanted to

bring in my carry on and looking at when I could get a reservation at

Dishoom. And instead of that, although nothing to be, you know,

Guam about necessarily, I am as you listen to this on my way to Florence. I feel a lot.

I feel content. I feel excited. I'm still kind of mourning the things that aren't.

And I know that that's okay, but a really big theme for me over the last week and

something that I wanted to share with you all in this installment of Five Minute Friday is

talking about investing in yourself. And I'm not just talking about your time and

your energy, although those things are really, really important. But I mean like

financially investing in yourself. It's been something that I have had a lot of

trouble doing in my adulthood. But have figured out a way to get better with over

the last couple of years. And it's not easy, right? I certainly identify as a

giver. I don't think twice when it comes to, you know, shelling out for a

friend's birthday or buying gifts for weddings or engagements or babies. Oh my

god, please let me buy your baby, little baby naked. But when it comes to spending

dollars on me, oh my god, that gives me so much anxiety. Or well, let me say it used

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