November 20, 2025 • 21 mins
We map out eight simple habits to lower stress, improve sleep, and calm the home ahead of the holidays, from magnesium soaks and reading to post-meal walks and a family meal plan. The goal is a 40-day reset that favors presence over busy and builds momentum for a bigger year.
• 40-day micro goals that feel doable
• Magnesium foot soaks to relax and sleep
• Reading 20 pages of nonfiction nightly
• Walking daily with 10-minute post-meal walks
• Strengthening feet and ankles to relieve hip pain
• Quiet time for journaling and recovery without phones
• Turning off notifications to protect attention
• Clean-kitchen and pre-dinner tidy routines
• Family meal planning to beat decision fatigue
• Gratitude first mindset and starting before January
As always, go find us on all of the socials @farmersgreatestasset • Send us a message • Let us know what you would like to hear if there's anything • farmersgreatestasset@gmail.com • And remember, it is a good day to have a great day
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SPEAKER_00 (00:14):
The Farmer's Greatest Asset Podcast.
We believe the Farm's GreatestAsset is the Farmer.
Their knowledge, experience,mind, and health.
(00:36):
Well, welcome to the podcast,Podcast World.
I'm Jesse.
SPEAKER_01 (00:41):
And I'm Dr.
Leah.
SPEAKER_00 (00:43):
So here we are again.
A little late.
Sorry.
It's just kind of the way itgoes around here, isn't it?
SPEAKER_01 (00:55):
Yeah, we are definitely.
This is the latest we've put oneout.
It's Thursday afternoon.
Better late than never.
So today is November 20th.
It is 222 right now.
Aha.
(01:15):
And um there are 41 days leftthis year.
When I got up this morning, Ithought to myself, all right,
what can I get done?
Like what can really move theneedle?
You know, I listen to a lot ofpodcasts.
(01:36):
I was listening to severaldifferent podcasts as I'm
washing dishes and getting readyfor lunch.
And, you know, I'm thinking,what can I really do to move the
needle in in 30 or 40 days?
Right.
So I came up with a listshocker.
SPEAKER_00 (01:55):
You love your list.
SPEAKER_01 (01:57):
I do.
I do love lists.
So I came up, I wanted it to besomething that felt doable.
Like I want to really focus onenjoying our time as a family
over the night over the holidayseason.
And I want to start puttingmyself and my health first and
(02:19):
making it a priority because Ialways say I'm going to do that,
but I don't actually ever start.
Oh, I'll start that tomorrow, orI'll start that on Monday, or
I'll start that after thebeginning of the year.
Well, that usually comes andgoes.
So I wanted it to be some thingsthat I can do every day that
(02:40):
won't take up a bunch of time.
So here is my list.
The first thing that I'm goingto commit to doing, because it
sounds relaxing and soothing, isI'm going to do a magnesium foot
soak each night.
SPEAKER_00 (03:02):
Every night.
SPEAKER_01 (03:04):
Or as many nights as I possibly can.
I'm not going to like put allthat pressure on myself, like,
oh, I'm so exhausted.
Wait a minute, I need to soak myfeet for 10 minutes, but I'm
falling asleep.
Like, I think that a lot oftimes I'm magnesium deficient,
and it'll be a good way for meto get some relaxation time in
(03:27):
and also get some magnesiumabsorption and maybe help me
sleep a little bit better.
SPEAKER_00 (03:34):
Magnesium helps you sleep.
SPEAKER_01 (03:36):
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (03:37):
Okay.
There you go.
SPEAKER_01 (03:39):
And it's important for a lot of biochemical
reactions within your body aswell.
SPEAKER_00 (03:44):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (03:45):
Um, and because I'll I'll admit right now, my diet
right now isn't the greatest.
Not that I'm eating a lot ofjunk.
I just am not eating salads andgetting as many greens and and
fruits and vegetables in as Idid this summer.
It seems so much easier in thesummer than in the winter.
SPEAKER_00 (04:06):
Well, we were doing you and Henry more so than me
and the girls, but you weredoing really well in keto, which
is no bread.
Um and we have kind of gone awayfrom that a little bit lately.
SPEAKER_01 (04:21):
Well, the field work really it's hard to find things
that aren't sandwiches to feedyou guys that you can still
steer easily with.
So number one is a magnesiumfoot soak at night before bed.
And I thought I can do that whenI do number two as well.
(04:46):
That came out wrong.
SPEAKER_00 (04:48):
That'd be weird.
SPEAKER_01 (04:50):
No, not like actually number two in the
bathroom, but number two on mylist, I should say.
All right, number two on mylist.
Number two on my list is read 20pages of a nonfictional book.
SPEAKER_00 (05:09):
That is good stuff.
I I should do that as well.
SPEAKER_01 (05:14):
Well, I have so many books that I've wanted to read,
and I've listened to a lot of, Ido a lot of audible.
I'm a big podcast and audiblebook listener, but I think that
there is something to actuallylike holding the book in my
hands, reading it, and justprocessing it.
(05:36):
So if I'm doing that while I'mgetting doing my foot soak, I
think that it's just gonna beamazing.
See, those are two of the eightthings that seem super easy.
SPEAKER_00 (05:48):
Those are simple.
And reading stimulates yourbrain, so it's better than
staring at your phone.
So that's gonna be one of mythings I'm gonna work on doing
as well.
Reading.
SPEAKER_01 (05:58):
Well, it it actually it doesn't stimulate what's
going to, you know, not likeblue light.
Like it's not gonna wake you upmore, right?
So it is going to help youprocess better.
SPEAKER_00 (06:13):
Right, but it's getting your brain working.
SPEAKER_01 (06:15):
Thinking.
Yes.
Number three is I'm going towalk for at least 45 minutes a
day.
And it doesn't have to be all atonce.
One of the things I wouldencourage people to do, and I
have been wanting to do, buthaven't been doing, is doing at
least a 10-minute walk aftermeals.
(06:37):
I usually only eat two meals aday.
So that 10 minutes would onlybe, you know, if I do that twice
a day, it's only 20 minutes.
But really setting aside time togo and walk outside and be
outside.
So that is number three.
Number four is strengthening myfeet and ankles.
(07:04):
So as I, you know, worked inhealthcare and then left
healthcare and have been moresedentary, I feel like my feet
and ankles have gotten a lotweaker.
And when your feet and anklesare not in proper alignment, it
causes a lot of pain anddysfunction all the way up your
(07:27):
body.
SPEAKER_00 (07:27):
All the way up.
SPEAKER_01 (07:29):
So I've been having a lot of hip pain, and I think
that is tied into my weak anklesand weak feet.
So, and I also have swelling.
So I want to try and combatthat.
SPEAKER_00 (07:44):
You have not become sedentary since you left
medicine.
I don't know why you say that.
SPEAKER_01 (07:51):
You're right.
I'm I'm on my feet a lot.
I I I feel like I sit around,but maybe not.
SPEAKER_00 (07:58):
You're looking at me like You are way more active now
than you were when I waspregnant.
On your feet all day and goingfrom room to room or to surgery,
but Yeah, I garden a lot.
SPEAKER_01 (08:10):
I guess yeah, you're right.
I I don't have a sedentary lifeat all.
I'm busy, but I feel like myfeet and ankles are are weak.
SPEAKER_00 (08:21):
You have always said your ankles are weak.
Always.
SPEAKER_01 (08:24):
Well, they have been.
Like I had to, when I playedbasketball in high school, I had
to have my ankles taped, andthey've always been weak.
unknown (08:30):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (08:30):
But I'm stretchy, but right.
So I need to strengthen myankles and my feet.
And I'm hope, and I need to alsostretch my hips, my hip flexors,
especially, because I it'scausing a lot of lower back
discomfort.
Number five.
Now, not everybody's gonna beable to do this, but I'm going
(08:51):
to commit to getting in ourhealing pod.
SPEAKER_00 (08:54):
Our hyperbaric chamber.
SPEAKER_01 (08:56):
Yes.
And while I'm in there, I'mgoing to do journaling and just
have some alone time to ponderand rest and not be on my phone
or watching TV.
unknown (09:14):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (09:15):
That is number five.
SPEAKER_00 (09:18):
That is a big perk that we have, that we have a
hyperbaric chamber and we needto use it, myself included.
SPEAKER_01 (09:24):
So that is not something that most people can
do, but I would encourage you tofind something that would be a
resting activity, like somethingthat will bring calm and peace
into your life, and do that foran extended period of time.
(09:44):
Just like gratitude journalingwould be a great thing that you
could do every day before you goto bed.
And you can do that.
You can read and then dogratitude journaling while
you're doing your magnesium footsoak.
SPEAKER_00 (10:00):
There you go.
SPEAKER_01 (10:00):
It's a great bedtime preparation event.
And you could even think itdepends how long you want to
soak your feet, but you could bethinking about your intentions
for the next day.
And just setting yourself up forsuccess.
The next thing is I want to havea clean kitchen before I go to
(10:26):
bed.
So a major stress point for meand for Lucy, my our oldest
daughter, is waking up in thekitchen being a mess.
Now, a lot of times we are verytired or we're just getting home
and we eat and it's like, oh mygosh, I can't even do it because
nobody's cleaned the kitchen fora for the day or the last two
(10:49):
days, and it takes a long time.
SPEAKER_00 (10:52):
So If our kitchen doesn't get cleaned every night,
because we're here all day,every day, all five of us.
SPEAKER_01 (10:59):
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (11:00):
We create a lot of dishes.
SPEAKER_01 (11:02):
Well, because everything's cooked from scratch
and it it's a process, it's alot of dishes.
So um that is one thing I'mgoing to commit to.
And also it kind of coincideswith the next thing.
I want to get the house pickedup before dinner.
(11:26):
So that I can sit down and relaxfor my foot soak.
SPEAKER_00 (11:32):
It all comes back to this foot soaking.
SPEAKER_01 (11:35):
I know.
I feel like I need it right nowafter I've been doing dishes for
the last, I don't know, fivehours.
That is not an exaggeration,unfortunately.
I've been cleaning out therefrigerator too.
It's it's quite a task rightnow.
A deep cleaning the kitchen.
(11:55):
My last thing on the list ismeal planning.
So in our house, a major stresspoint for myself and our eldest
children are stress point iswhat are we gonna have for lunch
or what are we gonna have fordinner?
(12:16):
I don't know what to make.
And I want us to sit downtogether and commit to a meal
plan that different people areinvolved in making, which isn't
usually a problem.
Henry and Lucy usually don'thave a problem getting the food
made.
They just don't want to be theone the cleanup.
(12:39):
No, the one deciding on what todo.
It's like, oh gosh, what are wegonna do now?
So those are all things thatwe're doing.
I would say that like the timein the pod is probably the one
thing that is taking up moretime than I can commit that I
would commit now.
(13:00):
But it's not a lot of time.
But those are things that Ithink are really going to move
the needle for me in the next 40days to set myself up for
continued self-care and healthpreservation.
Because at this point in mylife, it isn't just about you
(13:22):
know quality, but it's aboutlongevity.
Like I want to live a long time.
unknown (13:27):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (13:28):
So if I don't start now, when am I gonna start?
If not now, when yeah.
So you can take some of myideas, but I would encourage you
to create a list.
And if you don't want it to beeight things, if that feels way
(13:49):
like way too much.
SPEAKER_00 (13:50):
A couple things are good, right?
SPEAKER_01 (13:51):
Yeah.
Even if it's just every nightbefore I go to bed, I'm going to
write three things I'm thankfulfor.
Set yourself up for wins beforethe whole hustle and bustle of
the holiday season, because itis here.
SPEAKER_00 (14:08):
It is here.
SPEAKER_01 (14:09):
Next week is Thanksgiving.
And I think that if we setintentions for making this an
amazing time that we spend withour family and we really care
for ourselves and it not justbe, you know, about getting to
all the stuff and being as busyas you can.
SPEAKER_00 (14:32):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (14:33):
So that's the biggest thing for me.
I'm trying to decrease busy.
I'm really good at busy, so goodat busy, but it is not filling
my cup.
And I don't want to get burnoutagain.
So, what can I do to reallystart moving the needle to take
(14:55):
care of myself?
SPEAKER_00 (14:56):
Those are good things.
Really good things.
SPEAKER_01 (14:59):
Do you have any suggestions, honey?
What what are you gonna do?
SPEAKER_00 (15:03):
So, myself, it'll sound a lot like yours, but I I
guess I will piggyback on yours.
But uh when I got hurt, the podor the hyperbragic chamber was
very good for me.
Not just in healing, but it gaveme a lot of time in there quiet
to myself.
So I'm gonna do that more.
SPEAKER_01 (15:23):
And not take your phone in there, not take the
phone.
SPEAKER_00 (15:26):
That is the biggest thing.
The phone sucks you in.
Sucks us all in.
So I am going to while in there,I'm going to journal and or
read.
So journaling is it's okay.
It's okay for a dude to do itright.
(15:47):
And it was really good for me.
And I'm I know we've talkedabout it on the podcast before,
but I would literally start andend every journal, Andrew, with
thank you, Lord, for theblessings that you have given
me.
And that just kind of sparks theconversation with me and my pen
and my journal.
And that was really good for me.
So I'm gonna pick that back upand some reading would be good.
(16:12):
Stimulate my brain, get my brainthinking.
So those are the big things.
Put the phone down, that's thereally big thing.
SPEAKER_01 (16:23):
Be present.
Being present is a great presentto your family.
SPEAKER_00 (16:31):
We all do it.
I mean, our kids, I mean,everybody in this world, dude.
We always always have our phoneon us and it sucks you in.
It's a dopamine hit, right?
Well, we're just gonna checksomething and all of a sudden
you're doom scrolling.
And all of a sudden you have howmany hours pass by?
You know.
SPEAKER_01 (16:52):
It's a wake-up call when you start looking at your
screen time every day.
And I'll be like, Well, I'm youknow, I'm working on business
stuff, and you know, my checkthe checking account.
How'd I get on Facebook?
SPEAKER_00 (17:04):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (17:05):
All of a sudden you're still Instagram.
Um and on that I would say,everybody, turn your
notifications off.
Like it is the biggestinterrupter.
Like I have all of mynotifications turned off because
all the ding, ding, ding, likethat, those, believe it or not,
(17:28):
those are dopamine hits.
Right.
And it's also distraction.
SPEAKER_00 (17:34):
You're talking like for all the social media stuff,
yes, emails.
SPEAKER_01 (17:39):
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (17:40):
You know, obviously, if you need your phone and your
text notification on, but youcan still turn those off at
night when you go to bed.
SPEAKER_01 (17:48):
Yeah.
So I have my ringer and my text,and my texting is really because
my sister would get up reallyupset with me if she couldn't
get a hold of me years back, butbut all the social media
notifications just they don'tneed to be there.
SPEAKER_00 (18:07):
So, and I don't have mine on either.
SPEAKER_01 (18:10):
So I would challenge you to maybe even turn your
texting off.
Like, how many emergent texts doyou get?
Like, you actually have you geta lot of phone calls.
You don't you probably don'tneed to be interrupted with
texts.
SPEAKER_00 (18:25):
Phone calls and texture all day long.
SPEAKER_01 (18:28):
I don't that's why I'm saying if you could cut off
the texts, it would be lessinterruption.
SPEAKER_00 (18:34):
It would.
But I don't know why I get somany phone calls, but holy cow.
SPEAKER_01 (18:39):
You do, you get a lot.
SPEAKER_00 (18:40):
Even Caleb and Dalton, the guys that Dalton
made a comment one day.
He's like, Man, I feel like you.
My phone's been non-stop.
My phone is non-stop.
I don't know why that is, butit's running a business, right?
It's so during the day I I haveit.
I try to not answer it at night.
SPEAKER_01 (19:01):
All right.
So you are committing to gettingin the pod and journaling or
reading and reading.
SPEAKER_00 (19:07):
And reading.
Yep.
So in that journaling, it kindof just it's about gratitude as
well.
Like I said, I start my journalentries like that.
And it just it it's gratitudeand looking for the blessings
every day.
And it just I need to start offthat way.
(19:29):
Um, because lately I've justbeen so busy and harvest is over
now, and it's just still tryingto catch up on other things, and
so I need to find the joy andthe the gratitude back.
SPEAKER_01 (19:41):
And that'd be great.
Uh maybe I can get you to do afoot soak before bed too.
SPEAKER_00 (19:48):
I probably should.
SPEAKER_01 (19:50):
I might help you sleep.
SPEAKER_00 (19:52):
That would be awesome.
SPEAKER_01 (19:53):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (19:56):
So, like you said, we're headed into the holidays,
so just find a few things anddon't wait till the first year
for your New Year's resolution.
You can have 30-day goals every30 days, right?
SPEAKER_01 (20:10):
Right.
And maybe it's just, I'm gonnadrink, you know, I'm not
drinking any water.
I drink coffee all day.
I'm gonna drink 30 ounces ofwater a day.
That would that is a great goal.
I, you know, it doesn't have tobe something that seems so far
to reach.
Like set yourself.
Yes, set yourself up to thatit's something that you can
(20:30):
accomplish easily.
So you can start those thosepositive good habits and before
the new year starts, becauselike life doesn't start after
the beginning of the year orafter the holidays.
Like it's every day, it's today.
SPEAKER_00 (20:50):
Right.
So look for the gratitude everyday.
It's gonna be a big year comingup.
You've been talking about that.
It's time to get ready for a bigyear.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (21:02):
So yes.
In China, it's like has to dowith the Chinese calendar.
We're going into the year of thehorse.
So it's supposed to be chargingforward.
SPEAKER_00 (21:16):
Big things coming.
SPEAKER_01 (21:17):
Amazing things coming.
SPEAKER_00 (21:21):
So with that, thank you for listening.
Uh, as always, go find us on allof the socials.
SPEAKER_01 (21:28):
At farmersgreatest asset.
SPEAKER_00 (21:31):
Send us a message.
We love hearing from you.
Let us know what you would liketo hear if there's anything.
SPEAKER_01 (21:37):
At farmersgreatestasset at
gmail.com.
SPEAKER_00 (21:41):
And remember, it is a good day.
SPEAKER_01 (21:44):
To have a great day.
Bye.
The Farmer's Greatest Asset Podcast.
We believe the Farm's GreatestAsset is the Farmer.
Their knowledge, experience,mind, and health.
(00:36):
Well, welcome to the podcast,Podcast World.
I'm Jesse.
SPEAKER_01 (00:41):
And I'm Dr.
Leah.
SPEAKER_00 (00:43):
So here we are again.
A little late.
Sorry.
It's just kind of the way itgoes around here, isn't it?
SPEAKER_01 (00:55):
Yeah, we are definitely.
This is the latest we've put oneout.
It's Thursday afternoon.
Better late than never.
So today is November 20th.
It is 222 right now.
Aha.
(01:15):
And um there are 41 days leftthis year.
When I got up this morning, Ithought to myself, all right,
what can I get done?
Like what can really move theneedle?
You know, I listen to a lot ofpodcasts.
(01:36):
I was listening to severaldifferent podcasts as I'm
washing dishes and getting readyfor lunch.
And, you know, I'm thinking,what can I really do to move the
needle in in 30 or 40 days?
Right.
So I came up with a listshocker.
SPEAKER_00 (01:55):
You love your list.
SPEAKER_01 (01:57):
I do.
I do love lists.
So I came up, I wanted it to besomething that felt doable.
Like I want to really focus onenjoying our time as a family
over the night over the holidayseason.
And I want to start puttingmyself and my health first and
(02:19):
making it a priority because Ialways say I'm going to do that,
but I don't actually ever start.
Oh, I'll start that tomorrow, orI'll start that on Monday, or
I'll start that after thebeginning of the year.
Well, that usually comes andgoes.
So I wanted it to be some thingsthat I can do every day that
(02:40):
won't take up a bunch of time.
So here is my list.
The first thing that I'm goingto commit to doing, because it
sounds relaxing and soothing, isI'm going to do a magnesium foot
soak each night.
SPEAKER_00 (03:02):
Every night.
SPEAKER_01 (03:04):
Or as many nights as I possibly can.
I'm not going to like put allthat pressure on myself, like,
oh, I'm so exhausted.
Wait a minute, I need to soak myfeet for 10 minutes, but I'm
falling asleep.
Like, I think that a lot oftimes I'm magnesium deficient,
and it'll be a good way for meto get some relaxation time in
(03:27):
and also get some magnesiumabsorption and maybe help me
sleep a little bit better.
SPEAKER_00 (03:34):
Magnesium helps you sleep.
SPEAKER_01 (03:36):
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (03:37):
Okay.
There you go.
SPEAKER_01 (03:39):
And it's important for a lot of biochemical
reactions within your body aswell.
SPEAKER_00 (03:44):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (03:45):
Um, and because I'll I'll admit right now, my diet
right now isn't the greatest.
Not that I'm eating a lot ofjunk.
I just am not eating salads andgetting as many greens and and
fruits and vegetables in as Idid this summer.
It seems so much easier in thesummer than in the winter.
SPEAKER_00 (04:06):
Well, we were doing you and Henry more so than me
and the girls, but you weredoing really well in keto, which
is no bread.
Um and we have kind of gone awayfrom that a little bit lately.
SPEAKER_01 (04:21):
Well, the field work really it's hard to find things
that aren't sandwiches to feedyou guys that you can still
steer easily with.
So number one is a magnesiumfoot soak at night before bed.
And I thought I can do that whenI do number two as well.
(04:46):
That came out wrong.
SPEAKER_00 (04:48):
That'd be weird.
SPEAKER_01 (04:50):
No, not like actually number two in the
bathroom, but number two on mylist, I should say.
All right, number two on mylist.
Number two on my list is read 20pages of a nonfictional book.
SPEAKER_00 (05:09):
That is good stuff.
I I should do that as well.
SPEAKER_01 (05:14):
Well, I have so many books that I've wanted to read,
and I've listened to a lot of, Ido a lot of audible.
I'm a big podcast and audiblebook listener, but I think that
there is something to actuallylike holding the book in my
hands, reading it, and justprocessing it.
(05:36):
So if I'm doing that while I'mgetting doing my foot soak, I
think that it's just gonna beamazing.
See, those are two of the eightthings that seem super easy.
SPEAKER_00 (05:48):
Those are simple.
And reading stimulates yourbrain, so it's better than
staring at your phone.
So that's gonna be one of mythings I'm gonna work on doing
as well.
Reading.
SPEAKER_01 (05:58):
Well, it it actually it doesn't stimulate what's
going to, you know, not likeblue light.
Like it's not gonna wake you upmore, right?
So it is going to help youprocess better.
SPEAKER_00 (06:13):
Right, but it's getting your brain working.
SPEAKER_01 (06:15):
Thinking.
Yes.
Number three is I'm going towalk for at least 45 minutes a
day.
And it doesn't have to be all atonce.
One of the things I wouldencourage people to do, and I
have been wanting to do, buthaven't been doing, is doing at
least a 10-minute walk aftermeals.
(06:37):
I usually only eat two meals aday.
So that 10 minutes would onlybe, you know, if I do that twice
a day, it's only 20 minutes.
But really setting aside time togo and walk outside and be
outside.
So that is number three.
Number four is strengthening myfeet and ankles.
(07:04):
So as I, you know, worked inhealthcare and then left
healthcare and have been moresedentary, I feel like my feet
and ankles have gotten a lotweaker.
And when your feet and anklesare not in proper alignment, it
causes a lot of pain anddysfunction all the way up your
(07:27):
body.
SPEAKER_00 (07:27):
All the way up.
SPEAKER_01 (07:29):
So I've been having a lot of hip pain, and I think
that is tied into my weak anklesand weak feet.
So, and I also have swelling.
So I want to try and combatthat.
SPEAKER_00 (07:44):
You have not become sedentary since you left
medicine.
I don't know why you say that.
SPEAKER_01 (07:51):
You're right.
I'm I'm on my feet a lot.
I I I feel like I sit around,but maybe not.
SPEAKER_00 (07:58):
You're looking at me like You are way more active now
than you were when I waspregnant.
On your feet all day and goingfrom room to room or to surgery,
but Yeah, I garden a lot.
SPEAKER_01 (08:10):
I guess yeah, you're right.
I I don't have a sedentary lifeat all.
I'm busy, but I feel like myfeet and ankles are are weak.
SPEAKER_00 (08:21):
You have always said your ankles are weak.
Always.
SPEAKER_01 (08:24):
Well, they have been.
Like I had to, when I playedbasketball in high school, I had
to have my ankles taped, andthey've always been weak.
unknown (08:30):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (08:30):
But I'm stretchy, but right.
So I need to strengthen myankles and my feet.
And I'm hope, and I need to alsostretch my hips, my hip flexors,
especially, because I it'scausing a lot of lower back
discomfort.
Number five.
Now, not everybody's gonna beable to do this, but I'm going
(08:51):
to commit to getting in ourhealing pod.
SPEAKER_00 (08:54):
Our hyperbaric chamber.
SPEAKER_01 (08:56):
Yes.
And while I'm in there, I'mgoing to do journaling and just
have some alone time to ponderand rest and not be on my phone
or watching TV.
unknown (09:14):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (09:15):
That is number five.
SPEAKER_00 (09:18):
That is a big perk that we have, that we have a
hyperbaric chamber and we needto use it, myself included.
SPEAKER_01 (09:24):
So that is not something that most people can
do, but I would encourage you tofind something that would be a
resting activity, like somethingthat will bring calm and peace
into your life, and do that foran extended period of time.
(09:44):
Just like gratitude journalingwould be a great thing that you
could do every day before you goto bed.
And you can do that.
You can read and then dogratitude journaling while
you're doing your magnesium footsoak.
SPEAKER_00 (10:00):
There you go.
SPEAKER_01 (10:00):
It's a great bedtime preparation event.
And you could even think itdepends how long you want to
soak your feet, but you could bethinking about your intentions
for the next day.
And just setting yourself up forsuccess.
The next thing is I want to havea clean kitchen before I go to
(10:26):
bed.
So a major stress point for meand for Lucy, my our oldest
daughter, is waking up in thekitchen being a mess.
Now, a lot of times we are verytired or we're just getting home
and we eat and it's like, oh mygosh, I can't even do it because
nobody's cleaned the kitchen fora for the day or the last two
(10:49):
days, and it takes a long time.
SPEAKER_00 (10:52):
So If our kitchen doesn't get cleaned every night,
because we're here all day,every day, all five of us.
SPEAKER_01 (10:59):
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (11:00):
We create a lot of dishes.
SPEAKER_01 (11:02):
Well, because everything's cooked from scratch
and it it's a process, it's alot of dishes.
So um that is one thing I'mgoing to commit to.
And also it kind of coincideswith the next thing.
I want to get the house pickedup before dinner.
(11:26):
So that I can sit down and relaxfor my foot soak.
SPEAKER_00 (11:32):
It all comes back to this foot soaking.
SPEAKER_01 (11:35):
I know.
I feel like I need it right nowafter I've been doing dishes for
the last, I don't know, fivehours.
That is not an exaggeration,unfortunately.
I've been cleaning out therefrigerator too.
It's it's quite a task rightnow.
A deep cleaning the kitchen.
(11:55):
My last thing on the list ismeal planning.
So in our house, a major stresspoint for myself and our eldest
children are stress point iswhat are we gonna have for lunch
or what are we gonna have fordinner?
(12:16):
I don't know what to make.
And I want us to sit downtogether and commit to a meal
plan that different people areinvolved in making, which isn't
usually a problem.
Henry and Lucy usually don'thave a problem getting the food
made.
They just don't want to be theone the cleanup.
(12:39):
No, the one deciding on what todo.
It's like, oh gosh, what are wegonna do now?
So those are all things thatwe're doing.
I would say that like the timein the pod is probably the one
thing that is taking up moretime than I can commit that I
would commit now.
(13:00):
But it's not a lot of time.
But those are things that Ithink are really going to move
the needle for me in the next 40days to set myself up for
continued self-care and healthpreservation.
Because at this point in mylife, it isn't just about you
(13:22):
know quality, but it's aboutlongevity.
Like I want to live a long time.
unknown (13:27):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (13:28):
So if I don't start now, when am I gonna start?
If not now, when yeah.
So you can take some of myideas, but I would encourage you
to create a list.
And if you don't want it to beeight things, if that feels way
(13:49):
like way too much.
SPEAKER_00 (13:50):
A couple things are good, right?
SPEAKER_01 (13:51):
Yeah.
Even if it's just every nightbefore I go to bed, I'm going to
write three things I'm thankfulfor.
Set yourself up for wins beforethe whole hustle and bustle of
the holiday season, because itis here.
SPEAKER_00 (14:08):
It is here.
SPEAKER_01 (14:09):
Next week is Thanksgiving.
And I think that if we setintentions for making this an
amazing time that we spend withour family and we really care
for ourselves and it not justbe, you know, about getting to
all the stuff and being as busyas you can.
SPEAKER_00 (14:32):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (14:33):
So that's the biggest thing for me.
I'm trying to decrease busy.
I'm really good at busy, so goodat busy, but it is not filling
my cup.
And I don't want to get burnoutagain.
So, what can I do to reallystart moving the needle to take
(14:55):
care of myself?
SPEAKER_00 (14:56):
Those are good things.
Really good things.
SPEAKER_01 (14:59):
Do you have any suggestions, honey?
What what are you gonna do?
SPEAKER_00 (15:03):
So, myself, it'll sound a lot like yours, but I I
guess I will piggyback on yours.
But uh when I got hurt, the podor the hyperbragic chamber was
very good for me.
Not just in healing, but it gaveme a lot of time in there quiet
to myself.
So I'm gonna do that more.
SPEAKER_01 (15:23):
And not take your phone in there, not take the
phone.
SPEAKER_00 (15:26):
That is the biggest thing.
The phone sucks you in.
Sucks us all in.
So I am going to while in there,I'm going to journal and or
read.
So journaling is it's okay.
It's okay for a dude to do itright.
(15:47):
And it was really good for me.
And I'm I know we've talkedabout it on the podcast before,
but I would literally start andend every journal, Andrew, with
thank you, Lord, for theblessings that you have given
me.
And that just kind of sparks theconversation with me and my pen
and my journal.
And that was really good for me.
So I'm gonna pick that back upand some reading would be good.
(16:12):
Stimulate my brain, get my brainthinking.
So those are the big things.
Put the phone down, that's thereally big thing.
SPEAKER_01 (16:23):
Be present.
Being present is a great presentto your family.
SPEAKER_00 (16:31):
We all do it.
I mean, our kids, I mean,everybody in this world, dude.
We always always have our phoneon us and it sucks you in.
It's a dopamine hit, right?
Well, we're just gonna checksomething and all of a sudden
you're doom scrolling.
And all of a sudden you have howmany hours pass by?
You know.
SPEAKER_01 (16:52):
It's a wake-up call when you start looking at your
screen time every day.
And I'll be like, Well, I'm youknow, I'm working on business
stuff, and you know, my checkthe checking account.
How'd I get on Facebook?
SPEAKER_00 (17:04):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (17:05):
All of a sudden you're still Instagram.
Um and on that I would say,everybody, turn your
notifications off.
Like it is the biggestinterrupter.
Like I have all of mynotifications turned off because
all the ding, ding, ding, likethat, those, believe it or not,
(17:28):
those are dopamine hits.
Right.
And it's also distraction.
SPEAKER_00 (17:34):
You're talking like for all the social media stuff,
yes, emails.
SPEAKER_01 (17:39):
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (17:40):
You know, obviously, if you need your phone and your
text notification on, but youcan still turn those off at
night when you go to bed.
SPEAKER_01 (17:48):
Yeah.
So I have my ringer and my text,and my texting is really because
my sister would get up reallyupset with me if she couldn't
get a hold of me years back, butbut all the social media
notifications just they don'tneed to be there.
SPEAKER_00 (18:07):
So, and I don't have mine on either.
SPEAKER_01 (18:10):
So I would challenge you to maybe even turn your
texting off.
Like, how many emergent texts doyou get?
Like, you actually have you geta lot of phone calls.
You don't you probably don'tneed to be interrupted with
texts.
SPEAKER_00 (18:25):
Phone calls and texture all day long.
SPEAKER_01 (18:28):
I don't that's why I'm saying if you could cut off
the texts, it would be lessinterruption.
SPEAKER_00 (18:34):
It would.
But I don't know why I get somany phone calls, but holy cow.
SPEAKER_01 (18:39):
You do, you get a lot.
SPEAKER_00 (18:40):
Even Caleb and Dalton, the guys that Dalton
made a comment one day.
He's like, Man, I feel like you.
My phone's been non-stop.
My phone is non-stop.
I don't know why that is, butit's running a business, right?
It's so during the day I I haveit.
I try to not answer it at night.
SPEAKER_01 (19:01):
All right.
So you are committing to gettingin the pod and journaling or
reading and reading.
SPEAKER_00 (19:07):
And reading.
Yep.
So in that journaling, it kindof just it's about gratitude as
well.
Like I said, I start my journalentries like that.
And it just it it's gratitudeand looking for the blessings
every day.
And it just I need to start offthat way.
(19:29):
Um, because lately I've justbeen so busy and harvest is over
now, and it's just still tryingto catch up on other things, and
so I need to find the joy andthe the gratitude back.
SPEAKER_01 (19:41):
And that'd be great.
Uh maybe I can get you to do afoot soak before bed too.
SPEAKER_00 (19:48):
I probably should.
SPEAKER_01 (19:50):
I might help you sleep.
SPEAKER_00 (19:52):
That would be awesome.
SPEAKER_01 (19:53):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (19:56):
So, like you said, we're headed into the holidays,
so just find a few things anddon't wait till the first year
for your New Year's resolution.
You can have 30-day goals every30 days, right?
SPEAKER_01 (20:10):
Right.
And maybe it's just, I'm gonnadrink, you know, I'm not
drinking any water.
I drink coffee all day.
I'm gonna drink 30 ounces ofwater a day.
That would that is a great goal.
I, you know, it doesn't have tobe something that seems so far
to reach.
Like set yourself.
Yes, set yourself up to thatit's something that you can
(20:30):
accomplish easily.
So you can start those thosepositive good habits and before
the new year starts, becauselike life doesn't start after
the beginning of the year orafter the holidays.
Like it's every day, it's today.
SPEAKER_00 (20:50):
Right.
So look for the gratitude everyday.
It's gonna be a big year comingup.
You've been talking about that.
It's time to get ready for a bigyear.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (21:02):
So yes.
In China, it's like has to dowith the Chinese calendar.
We're going into the year of thehorse.
So it's supposed to be chargingforward.
SPEAKER_00 (21:16):
Big things coming.
SPEAKER_01 (21:17):
Amazing things coming.
SPEAKER_00 (21:21):
So with that, thank you for listening.
Uh, as always, go find us on allof the socials.
SPEAKER_01 (21:28):
At farmersgreatest asset.
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Send us a message.
We love hearing from you.
Let us know what you would liketo hear if there's anything.
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SPEAKER_00 (21:41):
And remember, it is a good day.
SPEAKER_01 (21:44):
To have a great day.
Bye.
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