#HURDLEMOMENT: 5 Ways to Get Motivated When Every Day ~Feels~ The Same
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Wake up. Drink coffee. Procrastinate getting work started. Zoom meeting. Go into the kitchen 12 times. Shower. Houseparty invite. Spend too much time on your phone. Repeat. I’m right there with you: These days feel all sorts of wonky. The good news? Although we may not be as productive as we’d like right now, I’ve found some great strategies to amp up motivation and get through. Today, I’m offering up five strategies to get motivated when you feel blah, and encouraging you to have some kindness with yourself. Plus, talking you through what’s really happening in my apartment — off of social media.
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| 0:00.0 | Just because things might not be easy doesn't mean you can't handle them. |
| 0:18.3 | Hey, hurdlers, Emily Abadi popping into your feed today with another installment of Hurtle moment from Hurtle. |
| 0:25.6 | Now, I am sure most of you know the drill by now, but for anyone new to the podcast, firstly, thanks for coming by. |
| 0:33.2 | And secondly, a little tidbit about how things run here on the hurdle feed. First things first, |
| 0:39.2 | on Mondays, you get classic hurdle. That's me and a guest diving into all the things, getting |
| 0:46.5 | their backstory, talking through the highs and the lows, it's my bread and butter. On Wednesdays, |
| 0:52.1 | today, you get hurdle moment, which is more of those everyday hurdles. |
| 0:56.4 | Whether it's a topic that I'm dealing with personally or professionally, something that a listener |
| 1:00.9 | has reached out to me about, my goal with hurdle moment is to offer you actionable tips that |
| 1:06.2 | you can walk away with and feel enriched. And then lastly, new to the pod, five minute Fridays. Five minute |
| 1:14.0 | Fridays purpose. Share a story, offer up a thought provoking prompt and then leave you with my |
| 1:20.1 | highlights of the week, the things that I think are awesome from a content perspective, |
| 1:24.7 | whether that is a podcast episode. I'm really digging an article, |
| 1:30.2 | something cool that someone's doing, you name it. So a lot happening here on Hurtle, and I want |
| 1:36.1 | to thank those new and old for coming by week after week. Today for Hurtle moment, I am talking |
| 1:43.3 | you through ways to stay motivated when every |
| 1:47.0 | day feels the same. Can I get an amen? Thank you to my good friend, Erin, for the topic |
| 1:55.3 | suggestion because man, we are all feeling it right now. Every day I wake up in my 550 square foot New York City apartment much later than I used to. |
| 2:08.1 | And I walk to the bathroom and I look in the mirror and I just think another day. |
| 2:14.4 | But here's the thing. |
| 2:15.2 | We got a lot of life to live. |
| 2:16.8 | We got a lot of living to do. We got a lot of living to do. |
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