Ep. 62 – 7 Tips to Thrive in the New Year

Design Your Intentional Life

Perpend joins to discuss our 7 Tips for Thriving in the New Year:

Develop side hustles with multiple streams of income. This allows you to be more resilient if you are downsized or lose your job.
Learn new skills. Always be learning and continuing your education.
Community – join an already solid community rather than building from scratch.
Develop individual relationships in real life (IRL) – while the group is important, only a small part of the group will be there for you and have your back in tough times. Build those individual relationships.
Start limiting your options and focusing on more what is important. Limit your time. Limit your intention.
Discipline in your tech life.
- Perpend turns his phone screen in black and white or grayscale mode to minimize the dopamine influence and to help him minimize screen time and get more done in real life.
Seek out Truth.

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In this episode we also discuss Steven Edholm at Skillcult.com method for breeding apples without grafting or growing from seed. He is on a quest to have a good tasting red fleshed apple. He hand pollinates the apple blossoms from two trees, puts a mesh around the blossoms so they can’t be pollinated by pollinators or be affected by bugs. Then he tastes the apples and if they pass then he will grow out into seeds. This eliminates the trial and error and 5 year turnaround time from growing from seed.

Here is his blog post on his progress: SkillCult – I DID IT! I Bred The Red Fleshed Apple I Want To Eat!

“Prepping is baby skills for Thriving. It is kindergarten. It is preschool.”

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Chestnut seeds for planting, chestnut seedlings, elderberry cuttings, comfrey crowns and root cuttings. Adapted to the Midwest.

Seeds and trees have “memory”. They thrived and reproduced in a certain climate.

Often when you buy chestnut trees or seeds online, you have to buy from nurseries in the Northeast or Southeast US, or the Pacific Northwest.

Take it from us, trees grown in those climates do not do well in Kansas.

Buying from our Kansas homestead, with nut trees grown and adapted to the Midwest, will make them much more likely to be successful on your homestead or in your yard.

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