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

Happy 4th July, everyone. I don't usually release on holidays, but it's been a second, aka,

this is exactly what I'm going to talk about today.

Last week, I was doing the most.

I get the opportunity to do a lot of different things that I enjoy from writing and editing to

podcasting and hosting.

And I did so many of those things last week.

I was in Paris for Breaking 4, which I was reporting on for Marie Claire as a writer.

And I was also podcasting while I was there and working through emails and edits on other projects that I'm working on

and planning months ahead at the same time and taking meetings and so many things.

And it came to be Wednesday and I got to this point when I realized that something had to give. And I am bad at that. I am bad at

letting something fall by the wayside. When I commit to something like I am all in. And as many of you

know, I have a newsletter that comes out every Friday. It's called the weekly hurdle.

And upon evaluating all the different things that I was doing and all of the obligations that I had,

I made the conscious decision that I had to let the weekly hurdle go last week. It had to

happen. I thought about the repercussions. I thought about the

other things on my to-do list. And I made the decision that this was the thing that I was going to

let slide. And I got home on, I ended up getting home on Monday because they canceled my flight

on Sunday, which is a completely different story. But when I got home on Monday, I had two meetings back to back. I got home to my

apartment around 12.30 in the afternoon. Two meetings back to back. I hit a deadline that I needed

to hit. I finished something for the podcast. Like I was, I was doing a lot of things. And I remember

thinking in that moment, wow, like, you did it. There were so many things that were on your plate

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