Hey, it's me, Emily. It's five minute Friday. I'm so thankful it's Friday to be real though.

This week was myself imposed. Let's call it a vacation week. Yes, I am at home in Brooklyn.

But for a while, I was hoping to take a vacation, an actual one away from Brooklyn this week.

I dreamed of booking something to Italy, doing coast, literally posting up at some hotel for six days

and drinking spritzes and who knows why. And I got to this point not all that long ago where

when it came time to pull the trigger on booking it, I just decided that I wanted to save the money

and spend some time being in one place. And so this week, I allowed myself to some extent to

take vacation, like just do the things that I wanted to do during the day while also yes,

tending to my inbox a little bit and of course, launching the pod and the newsletter and all the

things that I usually do. And to be real, it was really delightful. That's what I'm here to

talk to you about today. What I'm here to talk to you about today is getting out of your head and

kind of realizing the magnitude of the things that we allow to weigh us down. So let me,

let me exemplify this. So I was sitting here at my desk earlier, trying to figure out the right

way to respond to an email. And I noticed that I was getting really frustrated in that. I was feeling

just like this pit in my stomach. I didn't know the right thing to say. I was writing and rewriting it.

And I was just feeling that feeling. And a few minutes into sitting here and looking at my MacBook.

I got a text from a friend who told me about some mist flight drama and connecting in an

inconvenient place. But that didn't matter because he was able to get home and be with his mother.

For chemo. And I just sat here and I was like, why are you letting something like this get you

all sorts of riled up, right? Like, why are you getting worked up by something that's insignificant.

And I say this to a real it in, right? Maybe this story helps you reel it in. But be

also to caveat that it is okay if you have a struggle and it's not the worst thing on the planet.

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