What's going on, everybody? Emily Abadi here. You are listening to another installment

of five minute Friday from hurdle. Now, on last week's episode, I talked about the concept

of energy attracting like energy. Quick summary for those of you that may have missed it.

Basically, if you are approaching your day with optimism and positivity, then it's likely that

that is what you are going to find during your day, whereas if you approach your day with negativity,

you're more likely to be easily capable of pointing out the not-so-stellar things around you.

I'm going to link that episode in the show notes so that you can check it out. Well, I want to

expand on that conversation today and do a little exercise with all of you by addressing the two

different types of energy. We all have two different types of energy, period. We have

catabolic energy, which is essentially a destructive tearing down force, often associated with stress.

With this type of energy, when people can work well under stress and experience short-term success,

the long-term impact can be super draining and then impact levels of satisfaction.

The other type of energy, anabolic energy. Think of it like a constructive building up force,

so the opposite of catabolic energy. This is associated with less stress, and it happens

because when the brain isn't under stress, it tells the body to release what we call

anabolic hormones that are designed to optimize systems. When that happens, as a result,

it becomes easier to focus on solutions and to happen to creativity and experience a more

complete and conscious view of situations. So that's the baseline. Now, I'm going to do an

exercise with you that was really helpful for me in understanding what all of this really means.

So right now, if you think about something that you really enjoy and you were going to tell me about

it, think about that thing. For instance, for me, I love my morning routine. I really love waking up

in the morning and going to my Nespresso machine and pressing the button after putting in the pod,

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