The Hey, Hordlers, Emily Abbadi here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday. The gist. I offer a story, I share a thought prompt to take

you into the weekend, then offer up my highlights of the week my content picks things that I am interested in

things that I really feel like you should know about I'll be honest this week felt

entirely super productive and also like very stalled as if everything I wanted to do took double as long, but I still somehow managed to get a lot done.

Anybody else feel that way?

Anyway, this week for five minute Friday,

I am talking about appreciation.

You know, I went to summer camp for 15 years of my life. I feel like such a

nerd when I say that sometimes. I was there from ages 6 to 21, casually.

Of course, from 6 to 15 I was a camper and from 16 to 21 I was on staff as a counselor

and then a division head and then as a programming director.

And so at summer camp when you were on staff you always went a week early for orientation

and to get the camp ready and do all the logistical stuff.

And I remember that part of the orientation on the very first day,

we would always file into the mess hall and go through this helpful like pamphlet so to speak and in the

pamphlet it covered a lot of stuff literally everything from emergency

precautions to navigating tough situations with campers.

There was this list of phrases that were supposed to help counselors and superiors

communicate more clearly and effectively.

And I'll never forget in one of those orientations, it was in the summer of

2008 and we were going through this pamphlet and someone highlighted one of the phrases which was,

I appreciate you. And I remember at the time like we all laughed because this

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