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.

• Community - 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.

• Start 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.

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.

https://skillcult.com/blog/2022/12/11/i-did-it-i-bred-the-red-fleshed-apple-i-want-to-eat

Coming Jan-12: Join the Thriving the Future ASk Me Anything call with Scott, Perpend, and Grant Payne of HomesteadofPayne on Instagram. Go to thrivingthefuture.com/events for more information and to sign up for this call.

Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/7-tips

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