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Hey, everyone. Emily Abadi here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday on Hurtle. What's up?

I'm enjoying some time on the West Coast. It's a little warmer here than I heard it is in New York.

So sending you some warm thoughts today. With that said,

I'm also sending myself some warm thoughts. I've been having a frustrating week. I got a know that really just threw me into a spiral at the tail end of last week. And I found myself lingering in a place that I don't

like to be. I was talking about this with a friend of mine and she said something to me that I

wanted to bring it to you. And that is, what if you just chose one small thing to celebrate this week that maybe you

wouldn't have taken the time to celebrate otherwise? She challenged me to look around and

observe my surroundings and find the small joy. And that's something that I traditionally do like to do.

It's something that I'm regularly making an effort to participate in, especially in the

morning with my journaling practice. I most always end my stream of consciousness page of

thoughts with a highlight from the past 24 hours. I make a practice

of gratitude. But I needed to hear it from her. I needed to remember that so many myself included

can fall into this negativity bias. And what I mean by that is the inclination to focus on the things that aren't going as

you had hoped, or maybe the things that aren't ideal, the 10%, the email we didn't send,

the workout we cut short, the laundry still sitting in the dryer.

And in doing that, we completely ignore the 90% that actually went right.

I am so often focused on the big items that I can have this inclination to step right over

the small victories without even a nod of appreciation. And it matters. It really

matters because when we only focus and celebrate the big milestones, the PR, the promotion,

the big life change, we're living in a dopamine deficit. And we don't want that. We don't want that at all.

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