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What’s up, everyone? Hope you’ve had an awesome June! Getting into the 24th week of this year! I don’t know about you but when I hear that it snaps me into some clarity. That’s 2 weeks out from being halfway through 2023.

Recently been thinking a lot (& taking action) about lifestyle design. Designing our days, weeks, and our lives the way we want to experience this world, instead of only making time for our to-do lists. Planning and committing to things that fill my cup specifically this summer is a specific area I have been exploring.

It’s been simple to plan some weekends because I have friends getting married. So I go and lock down those wedding dates on the schedule. Then the question is what would I truly love to do with the open weekends? Why? The lesson of “choosing your regrets” from Chris Williamson and a previous Ferate’s 5 newsletter starts to come into play. Check it out here.

That leads us right to the first of the 5 things that I just can’t stop thinking about this week. Let’s get it!

Lifestyle Design. Design your day, design your life.

Lifestyle design demands that you have a bias toward action. Can we design the life that we actually want to live not just live a life we think others & society pressures us into living? Write out your days and weeks of what you have to do, what is essential, and what you want to do. I have done this in the past but for the past two months, I have taken it up a notch. I write in almost EVERYTHING I spend my energy on.

Work, create, write, podcast, workout, and even time for error when a meeting/phone call goes long. The lesson though is the “WHY”

Learned this from Dr. Michael Brown, DMB, while attending DiscoveryXP in Lake Tahoe in May. (Check out his podcast here.)Taking 5-15 minutes to have a Why Wednesday and I added the Why Weekend. Assessing how I designed the past few days, what I wanted to do, and reflecting on if that is really how I spent my energy. Learning from day to day and week to week, improving the batting average for hitting the mark.

• Design your day. How do you specifically want to spend your energy?

• Why Wednesday 5 to 15 minute reflection

• Why Weekend 5 to 15 minute reflection

Myles Snider (Meat Mafia Podcasts)

I loved this interview with Myles Snider and have been binging the Meat Mafia podcast. He has an incredible perspective/content around cooking and getting past our self-limiting beliefs. Meat Mafia’s mission is also incredible and I would highly recommend you check out their work if you are interested in insights into nutrition, regenerative farming, and our food/healthcare systems.

These two dudes are doing some cool things.

One part that truly lit me up in these conversations was the concept of people striving for health perfection or health resilience. Myles, Brett, & Harry discussed how resilient our body truly is and used this example to explain the difference between perfection and resilience.

If you go out to have pizza (with seed oils) with your friends it isn’t going to destroy you. Especially if the majority of what you consume is cooked at home with high-quality options. However, if you freak out because you are striving for perfection, you are creating a stress response which is probably worse for you than simply eating pizza with your buddies.

In the 50 to 53:15 timestamp, they discuss health resilience and the power behind the 80-20 rule. Check out the full conversation here and social media links below of what they are working on!

Social Media Links

• Meat Mafia Instagram https://www.instagram.com/themeatmafiapodcast/?hl=en 

• Brett Ender’s Twitter https://twitter.com/MeatMafiaBrett 

• Harry Gray’s Twitter https://twitter.com/MeatMafiaHarry 

• Myles Snider’s Twitter https://twitter.com/myles_cooks 

Misogi: The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter.

I recently went back to one of my favorite books and most gifted books over the past few years, The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter. There is a lesson in there that I think of often called Misogi.

Long story short, Misogi comes from ancient Japanese documents and stories. There was this idea that people engage in a Misogi, an extremely challenging experience, that would bring on a state of sumikiri, pure clarity of mind and body, and removed all their impurities, weakness, and past limits. (Credit to Michael Easter, The Comfort Crisis Chapter 6 50/50) Michael Easter and the people he spoke with in his book discuss bringing this practice to our present day.

• Don’t die.

• 50% chance you can’t do it.

• Make it kooky & interesting to you.

• Don’t post on social media or advertise. Not about clout it’s about your experience, growth, & clarity.

Examples from the book were carrying an 85 lb rock 5 km underwater, a stand-up paddle boarded 25 miles across the Santa Barbara Channel, or a rim to rim to rim run of the Grand Canyon. Do you have a Misogi planned for 2023? If so, shoot me an email but don’t tell me what it is!

Curiosity & Stu McMillan.

What is the most important to you when it comes to hiring new coaches?

That was a question I read in Stu McMillan’s May 25th newsletter. This question and his entire newsletter on curiosity charged me up because it related so much to my why for 2023, cultivating curiosity in others through exploring and sharing my curiosity.

His article and thinking more about my curiosity made me reflect on “How can I use my curiosity to live the most fulfilling life that I can, full of experiences, growth, and contribution?”

I will link his newsletter here for you all to check out. The main concept was how can we stay curious, especially with so many day-to-day challenges causing our level of curiosity to ebb & flow. Some of the ideas are listed below.

• Why aren’t we all curious people? all the time?

• What stops all of us from fully embracing a curious mindset?

• Four Reasons for Low(er) Curiosity

  • Lack of motivation

  • The environment not being stimulating

  • Life getting in the way

  • Some people are just not that curious.

Lil Dicky’s Best Pick-Up Line.

David Andrew Burd, aka Lil Dicky, is a genuine, authentic, hilarious, and creative human being! It was awesome hearing him be himself in a long-form podcast format. Especially, because most of his work is a rap song or his TV show. One of my favorite parts of listening to Call Her Daddy is the skill and art of interviewing by Alex Cooper.

Honestly just thought this was hilarious and would be solid closer to the 5 things I can’t stop thinking about. Who knows this could be your most memorable and favorite one of the week.

Alex asked him if he had a go-to pickup line when hitting on girls. His response…

Thank you everyone for checking out this week’s Ferate 5. If any of these hit or you are that lucky someone that went 5 for 5 for this newsletter make sure you hit “REPLY” on this email to let me know which one you connected with the most.

Shout out to those who have reached out! Loved reading all of the replies and getting back to everyone on what they enjoyed!

If this is your first time checking out the Ferate 5 you already know what to do! Subscribe and then buckle up for next week’s Ferate 5 dropping Thursday morning! Going to leave you with a few closing questions to think about. Interested in what you think about these, how you would answer them, and what the rest of the readers think!

• How do you design your day and week?

• What makes someone so great at planning?

• What stops all of us from fully embracing a curious mindset?

• Do you have a “Misogi” in 2023?

Appreciate YOU!

Best Day of the Year, Until Tomorrow…

Ferate