Join Us In Our New Challenge- 75 Thrive!

I don't like this. On July 2nd, today, we'll hit the exact midpoint of the year. And from that day on, 2050 will be closer than 20 or than 20,000. That's like devastating. Oh, we're closer to 2050. That's a weird feeling. Oh my god. I like it. Yeah, that means we're going to be dead soon. I'm 37. You're 36. I'm halfway dead. Basically gone. I might as well just be gone. Well, okay. We are coming at you guys with another challenge and we are so excited about this because we thrive on challenges and we don't thrive without them. No. And I have some endurance races coming up that I want to be ready for and I need something to motivate me. So, I'm so excited about this. Me, too. Me, too. I just thrive. Doesn't matter what time of year. See, I started one in November. I always start them at like a random time. But this this challenge, what we're going to do is it it's going to be 75 days. And so we'll end around midepptember. I think that's perfect. Like right before the holidays. Right before all the holidays. It is inspired both from our 40-day fast and from 75day heart. It's kind of a mixup of that. Yeah. Yeah. We kind of pulled like, okay, this I like this. I like this. I like this. So, we're just making our own kind of like we did with Yeah. Like the 40-day fast. And it's it's going to challenge you, but also it's doable. Right. So, and we're focusing on physical, spiritual, mental, emotional. Yeah. So, that'll be like what our focus is for this. Definitely physical and that's why it'll include like workouts and we're going to focus on eating too, like meals and that kind of thing. So, let's go through what some of the things are on our checklist. Perfect. So for this 75 days on your checklist, we are seeking to do a minimum of a 30 minute indoor workout. Yes, 30 minutes is doable. Mhm. You know, you can be consistent with that. I owned a gym, so I'd see people come to the gym for hours and I just knew they weren't going to last long cuz you can't Most people can't. Yeah, that that is hard, but 30 minutes is definitely doable. Yeah. And consistency makes a bigger difference than spurts of working out and then just quitting. So 30 minute indoor workout. We will be recording some extra workouts and posting them in our Patreon. Right. And so we already have some in there. There's plenty to do in there if you want to just follow those right now, but we will be adding more. The next thing where we are suggesting, so this is we're kind of taking this from 75 hard. I think that they did 45. There's also an outdoor workout we are going to be doing. I'm probably just going to be doing my outdoor walk because I cannot live without those. I love my outdoor walks every day. So that can be that can count as your 30 minute outdoor workout. And you can go more than that, but at least get 30. So when I did 75 hard before, I would time 23 minutes one way, 23 minutes back. It's about 2 miles. But um So you could do 15 minutes and then Okay, turn time to turn around. Yeah. Yep. So that just makes it really easy. You can do a walk, you can run, you can do whatever. Go on a hike. Yes. So perfect. Do some burpees out there. It's just to get outdoors. Sunlight is so good for you. It's good for you. Oh, it's so good to just be outside. Nature's so healing. Ever since really, it started back in January. I started walking cuz we were getting a challenge to do 10,000 steps a day. And I can't believe how much my mind has healed from that. It was I had a lot going on last year and feel like myself again. And the walks literally I got to Ashley literally I I needed to get out of my house and start walking to get out of my head and those walks are amazing. They are amazing. So start walking if you haven't. We did a prayer rock in the last challenge show. Throw a prayer in there. That that was life-changing, too. If you've ever done those before. Oh, you just imagine you're walking with Jesus and you ask questions. It's crazy. Like the things that come to your mind, you're like, "That's not my own thought." No, seriously. Yeah, like one of my most profound answers that still impacts me to this day came from one of those prayer walks and I literally felt inspiration on how to influence my home. Yes. So, so good. Good times. Okay, the next one is journaling. But there we have a few different options. So, you can either if you just like to journal about your day, that's great. Or you can prayer journal. I'm going to explain what that is here in just a second. Or use this as like your gratitude journal where you're just writing a couple things down. Just jot a few things that you're grateful for every day. The importance is to do this consistently. So, you're going to journal every day. So, prayer journaling is super cool. If you don't know, if you don't do this, oh my goodness, I have received so many I believe answers to my prayers from doing this. So, what I do is I will write out a prayer. So, I'm like literally like, "Heavenly Father," and I ask my question and then I will write my name. So, I'll write Ashley and then I'll start to write like what I have to say about this and then whatever flows just write. And usually what happens is like my pen will just keep going and going and going and I'm writing so fast I'm like it doesn't even look like my handwriting and then when I feel like I'm done I'm just like okay and then I go back and read it and I will tell you 50% of the time it's not the answer that I would have wanted. I'm like this that's not what I like if I was writing this myself this is not what I would write and so in in many ways I'm like that that was definitely inspired. So that is something that I love doing. Try that if you've never tried it before. It's actually she had me do it last night and I was really surprised at the things that were flowing onto paper. It was simple and I was like I wouldn't have thought of that. So I know that's from the Lord who Yeah. It's really cool. Like I didn't I was like why would this correlate with this? And I was like, "Oh, oh, it does." Like that is my answer. It actually does make sense. And it's cool cuz it's written down so you don't if if you're you can do this in your thought, but you'll forget what those like downloads are. So, totally. Writing is great. Okay. What's the next one? So, the next one is read 15 minutes daily. And my suggestion would be use part of that time for scripture, part of it for a self-improvement. So, I'm going to just divide mine. Do like seven and seven or eight, whatever. seven and eight and just read from those scriptures and something self-improvement. Obviously, you can add stuff in if you like to listen to podcasts or whatever, but just get the your mindset in a good place by reading some sort of self-help book. I just found my how to win friends and influence people. That's a book I read probably 12 13 years ago. Mhm. Like I'm going to read that again cuz that book was so impactful and I could use a refresher. So, I'll be reading from that and some other I'll find some other self-improvement ones as well. If you have any suggestions, drop a comment. Oh, yes. Do okay. The next one is follow a meal plan. So, this is again going to be personal for everybody. I love macros. Like that's always what I can stick to. Um, some people might like keto. I love keto. I have polycystic ovarian syndrome. So, I work better with lower carb. I just feel better on it. Mhm. So whatever you decide though you are you stick to this for the 75 days. Okay. The next one would be meditate 5 minutes minimum daily. That could be as simple as listening to a song and focusing your thoughts on a word like peace over and over again. That is meditation. Or we have some guided meditations in our Patreon. I will be adding more to that. Meditation is powerful at changing the pathways in your brain. And we have an amazing video that we're going to share with you about not just the power of meditating, but for part of this is to build new pathways, new ways of thinking, so you see the world in a more healthy light. And we'll talk more about that. Just building new bridges of thinking in your brain. So, what's the next one? Perfect. The next one is 75 ounces of water a day. So, really, it's like basically two of these if you I mean, who doesn't have one of these? I don't know. I actually didn't have one of these until last week because Bobby surprised me with one. The 40 oz, right? Every I swear everybody has some something like this. I mean, obviously you can drink more than that, but just at least because I am the worst water drinker. Like if I drink two of these, I'm very impressed with myself. Yes, very much. So, two of these a day minimum. I feel so much more mentally clear. I digest food better if I'm hydrated. So, that's something I really need to focus on. Yeah, that's good. Okay, so the next one is just once a week progress picture. You're going to be working out, so it's kind of fun to see whether it's the countenance in your face change or you might start losing inches as you focus on exercising and creating a more positive mindset. Just start to notice the little things. What I noticed from my last one is I was like, "Oh, my face doesn't look as poopy." I could tell I was really stressed out and had inflammation and I'm like, "Oh, okay." You see progress pictures and I'm like, "Oh, I have changed." And that makes it kind of fun. So like every Sunday take a picture. Yeah, that's good. Okay, the this is the last one is to fast from complaining. So we have a couple things we want to say about this, but I do want to mention that when I did my 6-month journey, one of the things was to cut out negativity. And I remember going through this. So I I did this checklist for 6 months and I remember that being one of the most impactful things for me. I was just hyper aware of when people were talking negatively and I was like, "Oh, like I just wouldn't engage in conversation like that or if there was the news was on and it was just like I would shut it off." I just was very aware of things that I wasn't before and engaging in conversation that was negative. So, I feel like that changed me maybe more than anything was cutting that out and just being focused on that. So, I'm really glad we included that in this challenge. But I want you to share what you just shared with me. Oh, the video. The neuropathways. We'll I'll have Ashley screen record and put this in here because it was really cool. I love focusing on neuropathways because I teach meditation and yoga and what you repeat becomes your reality. Something I've been noticing, there's a quote by Elanor Roosevelt. It says, "Small minds talk about people, medium minds talk about events, big minds talk about about ideas." And if I'm being totally honest, I have been all three of those. But I like myself more when I'm an ideas person. Yeah. And challenges like this help me get to that place. Well, I've had a lot of temptation to feel negative and speak negative about some circumstances in my life. And I'm like, why do I feel so heavy and dark after when these people aren't even in front of me? I'm like, why do I feel that? So, I'm pondering this question and this cool video pops up and it's about neuropathways and why the Lord calls us not to judge. And it's not what you think. No, it's not. Were you surprised by the video? I was very surprised. Yeah. What surprised you most? You would it? It was just like it's scientific. It's not even like this is this was like he said judge not lest you be judged. But there's scientific backing for this and it's wild. So, we're going to share a clip about that. Yeah. In a nutshell, it's like whenever we make a judgment, you put yourself in fight or flight and you take that judgment upon yourself and you're the one that suffers physically, mentally, and emotionally. Wild. And it just talks about learn to discern, not to judge. And there's the battery died halfway through whatever you were just saying. So, we don't remember what we were saying, but we needed to close this out and explain when this is starting because we didn't even say that. When this is starting and all of those details. So, first we will be starting July 7th. July. So, it's Monday. Monday. Monday. That's a good time to start, right? Yeah. It's It's an easy challenge to July 7th. And we're doing it cuz there's no major holidays. There's nothing. No. Besides summer fun, but you can take your family to exercise with you. You can do this with your family. Also, I was going to say with exercise, we are doing it every day of the week, but I'll put a gentle yoga flow. I like to do that on Sundays and just do a little walk. That's kind of my rest day. So, I do more like deep stretching type of exercise then. Yeah. So, you don't have to be like rigorous exercise. Do what flows with your body type. Make it doable for you. Um, but also whoever actually finishes the 75 days and is genuinely honest about it, progress pictures, all of it, we are going to be giving away shirts. Yeah. not not just like to one person, but if you complete it, you get a shirt. And this is in our Patreon. If you're watching this on my YouTube and you want to participate and you don't want to be in the Patreon, that's fine. But this is like this part of the, you know, if you complete it and you're in our Patreon, then we will send you a shirt. So, you just tell us a size and we will ship that out to you. And we also will have some other fun shirts that are for purchase with cool sayings on them that we just like. So, I love it. Okay. Also in the Patreon, we are going to be uploading weekly we we have a couple ideas, but like inspirational videos will be uploaded, thoughts that we have and just encouragement as you're going through this challenge with us. We'll we'll do some kind of like accountability in there if you guys are interested in that, too, cuz that's kind of part of like when we did the 40-day fast, we were holding each other accountable and it that was like a huge deal for me. I loved having everybody everybody's input. So, a little discussion group that was really fun. Yeah. Yeah. So, we'll do something like that in there as well. Yep. So, all right. Patreon, where is that linked for the It'll be linked in the description, so you can go check that out. And so, we'll be sending out information with a checklist. Um, we'll show you what that checklist looks like. I'm just going to keep something on my phone with I just keep my little dotted checkpoints and then every day I reset it and then just hit check, check, check as I'm going down the list. So, yep. And we'll have a printable for you to check off if you want to print it and post it and check it off. So, yay. I'm so excited. Okay, that is anything else? No, that's everything. We'll see you in there. Okay, bye. [Music]