Hey, hey, Emily Abadi here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle. I am thinking this week a lot about this concept that oftentimes people don't change until not changing is the less comfortable option. I'll say that one more time. People don't change

until not changing is the less comfortable option. I've experienced this many a time in my day.

The most prominent example of this for me was when I finally made the conscious choice

that I wanted to lose weight back in college. Of note, this is something I talk about in

detail in episode one of the show. So definitely go check that out. At the time, I weighed over 200 pounds and was not healthy in that body,

in my body at the time. I felt wildly uncomfortable in my own skin. My mental health was all

out of whack. And I knew that I needed to make a change because I didn't want to feel so stuck

anymore. I didn't want to feel othered. I didn't want to feel like I wasn't at home in my own

body. I was constantly tired and uncomfortable and I knew that that was no way to live. And so because staying the

same felt more difficult than making a change, despite that change feeling extremely overwhelming

and requiring a lot of me, I made it. Now, there's usually a

really long period of time of, let's call it, increasing discomfort before not changing

is the worst case scenario. And that discomfort is largely impacted because you, me, we aren't acknowledging what is right in front of us.

We're not being honest with ourselves.

I know you're probably thinking, Emily, why are you thinking about this now?

Why are you telling us?

Well, I have a dear friend whose foot is really bothering her right now. And it's been super tight for, let's say, the better part of two weeks.

She has a goal at the beginning of June to run a half marathon and wants to live this blissfully ignorant life of if I just pretend it's not bothering me and suck it up,

I can still get to my goal. And I asked her when I saw her yesterday, I said,

what's your ultimate goal? She answered, my goal is to run the half marathon. What if I told

you, I asked her, that by not recognizing what you're experiencing in this moment right now,

you may not be able to get to your goal. And she said, well, what do you mean? And I said,

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