Hey, everybody. Emily Abadi here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle.

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. I have been thinking a lot about something I saw a couple of weeks ago and I wish that I remember where I saw it. But the concept is, if you are incapable

of articulating what it is that you want, then you don't get to get it. So it makes sense,

right? I wrote down at one point or came up with the concept at one point that I wanted to start a podcast.

I didn't just sit down behind a microphone one day and start podcasting and voila, here we are.

I had to sit down and get very granular about what it was that I wanted to create.

And this is just one example of writing down or

concepting or ideating the thing that you are after. Now, the problem is that oftentimes we, and I'm

not trying to generalize here, but I feel like it's okay. You get it.

We underestimate ourselves or we don't think big enough. And that's what I've really been thinking

about this week and drawing some parallels actually to times in my life where I surprised myself

and realized that I was, God,

underestimating myself. Case in point, when I ran the Chicago Marathon in 2019, I had a certain

goal that felt like a reach for me, but what I ended up doing was surpassing that goal and accomplishing

something that I never even aimed for. I never even sought out. That experience then instilled in me

the benefit of thinking and dreaming big. Then I started to really get clear on writing down,

maybe even what felt like manifesting the things that excited me. And so fast forward,

a handful of years, last year, I was keen on going to Paris and working during the Olympics.

I didn't know what it was going to look like. I had some ideas, but I didn't put myself into a certain box.

I kept it abstract. I had a big goal. I wasn't afraid to set it. And by doing that, I would argue that I was able to obtain it

because I dared to dream it. Now, of course, there is some research that talks about the benefit

of setting what might feel like unattainable goals. I am all about going after the things that are manageable,

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