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

I hope everyone had a good week. I had a lot of interesting moments this week and a really special one with my old boss, Liz Ploisser.

She's now a dear friend of mine. We worked at Self Magazine together. And she is also

the creator behind the popular substack best case scenario. I'll link it in the show notes.

Liz and I did it a live the other day to wrap about morning routines. And I was on the other side of the microphone, so to speak for once,

answering questions about mine. When we are exchanging thoughts, she told me that she has a certain

level of guilt lately because she is in this place where she's getting sucked into her laptop early in the morning.

So what used to be a constant for Liz getting to her workout by a certain time now is

typically put off in favor of homing in on a productivity window. In her words, she found that she

was being the most productive, creative at that time of day, but still was experiencing some guilt

over putting off the other things that she wanted to do. And I asked her, I said to her,

why not both? Is this guilt simply a result of analyzing the routine and seeing that it's different

than it used to be? Is there anything inherently bad about getting productive work done first thing in the morning?

And she didn't have an answer to that.

It truly was Liz shoulding on Liz.

And I shared a story with her that I recently sat down with a self-help guru of sorts.

His name is Sahil Bloom.

He has a book out now called The Five Types of Wealth.

I interviewed him for GQ.

And one of his main productivity work windows is literally between what I believe to be, if I'm recalling it correctly, 4.45 a.m.

after he, of course, takes a cold plunge to

6.45 a.m. He's at his laptop during that time period, and he recognizes that it's his most

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