What is going on? Happy Friday, everyone. Emily, about to hear, you know, the drill. It's

five minute Friday. And oh, man, what a Friday it is. I am currently on a beach. Okay,

well, depending on when you're listening to this, maybe I'm not on the beach just yet,

but I am so, so happy to just get some sunshine unplugged for the weekend and have some me time.

I want to talk to you today about something I overheard on the street, which actually goes hand

in hand a little bit with these sentiments I'm going to share in my answer to this week's

listener question. So I was walking in Midtown earlier this afternoon and I was in front of two

men. I would say if I had to gas probably about my age, both of them wearing business suits.

And they're talking about going after a new opportunity in the office. One of them is up for

a promotion was asking the other man if he should follow up or how soon he should follow up

after his interview. And the man said, listen, if you are not going after an opportunity or after

the thing that you want, then someone else is going to be doing it first. Someone else is going

to be taking that initiative and going for it. So there's absolutely no reason to wait. And I

remember when I was young in my career, there were, how do I say this? Like just so many

non-written rules about etiquette and how long you should be at a certain job and the

rules surrounding getting a promotion and what that would look like, et cetera, et cetera.

And I'm here to tell you that you make the rules, period. Just like this guy said,

if there's something that you want and the only person stopping you from going after that

thing is you, then there's an issue there. So whether it is within your personal life,

within your professional life, I ask you this week, what is it that you're waiting for? Are you

waiting to go after a certain opportunity, a certain relationship, ask someone on a date because

you feel as though there are a set of protocols or a set of rules that you're following?

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