Hey, everyone. What's going on? Happy five-minute Friday. I am so related that we are on the

cusp of a long weekend. The season, the season, the show is going on a season break next week. I

figure a lot of people are going to be out of their normal routines. So this was a calculated move

on my part. I am looking forward to just taking a little bit of a little bit of a break myself,

a little rest, and also have a little fun. I'm heading to London next week. I'm really excited.

For about four days, not a super long trip, but long enough to have a little adventure. Find

myself some tea and have a good time. For today's episode of Five Minute Friday, I want to talk about

the power of positive self-talk. I know it's a theme that I touch on often here on the show,

but I had an experience last weekend on a bike ride that I felt super compelled to bring here to

the show. So I went out on a bike ride last weekend. I was invited by a couple of friends. I met

some of their friends. There was a squad of about maybe six or seven of us. We rode over the George

Washington Bridge from Brooklyn and went across to New Jersey and then back into New York and

ultimately up to Nyak to a donut shop that a lot of cyclists go to in that area. The ride itself

was about 70 plus miles round trip, definitely my longest ride since easily 2020. And I had a really

hard time. I had a really hard time because I was the slowest one out of the entire group. So what

that meant was after every climb, by the time I got to the top of the climb, there was the group

hanging out. And no one made me feel as though I was really holding them up too much. I think every,

you know, a few minutes that went by, it was a nice break for them. But in my head time and time again,

we took a pretty hilly route. I would say there were about like four or five times when this occurred.

And so the first time I was like, okay, you know, I'm just getting warmed up. But the second time,

after climbing this hill by myself, because everyone I was with was faster than I, I got to the top

and I noticed that I was 100% shit talking myself and feeling really anxious. I was thinking

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