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- John Adams: Welcome to another week of the Health Tech and Wellness Podcast. I'm John Adams. Crystal Nevedale: And I'm Crystal Nevidale. John Adams: And this week we really wanna well, I'm gonna tell on myself a little bit. Crystal can go on down her rabbit hole if she wants, but you know, with busy time in life, and I'm sure some of you guys have noticed this as we've been talking previously in episodes, but work is really getting the most of our lives. And then when we're not working, family's getting the rest of it, but our self-care, right? Our our Getting out and doing things physically and making sure that we're taking care of our bodies, our mind, our everything. Mine's been slipping, right? and we get it. We've talked about, you know, the fact living 95, it's not always going to be perfect, but you can't forget about the five percent when you when you're in that point too, right? You gotta still do something. so this week we really want to talk about, you know, ourselves and kind of just hold each other accountable. Try to get me specifically, but. Both of us probably back onto that where we needed to be. So I'll just tell right now, right off the rip. Last couple months, you know, with Cindy's mom and getting sick and passing inevitably. and then, you know, a new client that I've taken on that's really kept me busy. and even before that, you know, being in the car a lot, you know, I I was still Making sure I would come home to some kind of activity, whether it's on the treadmill or work out. But it'd been kind of waning because I've been so busy. so I'm trying to recommit, and that's what this episode is, is for both of us, or well, at least me. we'll see where Crystal's at. so yeah, so this week we, you know, at least myself, but probably both of us, we need to recommit to holding each other accountable to make sure that we are not letting our physical and mental health slip as we are continuing to grow our own businesses. This is above and beyond, you know, this. This is the easy part, what we're doing right now. talking and trying to show people that, you know, nobody's perfect, but we we all have to improve and grow and and how do we do that? so that's kind of what we want to get into this week. So I've kind of already admitted that I've been slipping. So w where have you been at, Crystal? Crystal Nevedale: definitely slipping. I have been running nonstop from the 6 30 in the morning until my workdays over at four, but every evening we have some kind of commitment we're doing on top of it. So my activity used to be I would walk every morning or every evening or sometimes both. and I have not done that like consistently for months. I mean my job is nonstop right now. So it's it's starting to take a nice little slope downward, which I'm enjoying. and then I have a physical issue right now with my ankle. So but that never stops me. I I mean I'll get through it. Like today I I stayed home because Emily said, Can you just not go to work twice today? Can you just go to work once today instead of going up and down the stairs twice? I said, Okay, fine. So I stayed home for the morning and I'm just gonna go in an hour early. to get the time I need to get this up done, except we're not going up and down the stairs. So John Adams: Nice. Yeah. Crystal Nevedale: but usually I don't let it stop me. I'll hobble my little happy bottom all over town. But I have been slipping and it's time to get back on some kind of routine. John Adams: Definitely. And and we're we're both gonna commit to pushing each other and we're gonna do some tracking and stuff. But I'll ask you, you know, above and beyond pushing, like to get down to your studio to create or to get to the shop to actually, you know, sell merchandise. what do you recommend? Cause this is a great opportunity to just just get all of the But I am hurting or but I have this injury, but I have this to get all that out of the way. So for you, when you your your ankles messed up, your walking is is even, you know, a challenge. what do you recommend for yourself for other people when you have those situations where okay, yeah, you know what? Getting out and going around the block probably isn't gonna be the easiest or Crystal Nevedale: Right. John Adams: best thing because I'm hurt. What else can we do? Crystal Nevedale: So my suggestion would be get on a yoga mat, do some stretching. Like focus on the part of your body that hurts and do a stretch related to that. So I have a lot of neck and back pain. So when I do my yoga, I'll put in neck and back pain. And then I'll just I mean, you don't even have to leave your living room or your bedroom or your I mean, if worse comes to worse and you can't get out of bed, you can do it on your bed, you know, most of it. So I mean just find something to be active, like anything. Any movement is better than no movement. And if we lay around, what happens like at our age? You lay around a little extra hours, everything hurts, not just the one thing you're complaining about, but everything. So I really do feel like just finding any kind of movement's better than none. I mean you'll find me even walking my living room. I'll just go around a couple of times. Like if I can't make it down the stairs 'cause I do have a slope slope, I'll just do a couple rounds of the on the way to pick up so that I have to get something in the kitchen so that I'll make use of it and move a little bit more. but I really need to get consistent with hard a harder workout for sure. Like I used to love sweating. I would not go to the gym unless my you could wring my clothes out. Like that's what made me feel good about going to the gym. Now, granted, I don't want to do that. I'm not I'm not there anymore. But I do yeah, John Adams: W We're a little older. Yeah. Crystal Nevedale: I do want to just get out and enjoy the fresh air and it's such a good way to start your day if if it's possible. I mean, what is an extra fifteen minutes before you go to work? Or, you know, fifteen minutes before you ever even come home? Walk your parking lot at work, or I mean there's so many options to to just get yourself a little bit of a and once you do a little bit and you feel better, you'll want to do more. So even just starting John Adams: Percent. Crystal Nevedale: out with I don't know, so my regular walking without watching it is anywhere between six and ten thousand. steps. So even to could be consistent and do eight thousand every single day for just a week until I can be consistent with ten thousand because my foot is hurt, there's no way I'm gonna be able to do that today. John Adams: Yeah. Yeah. Crystal Nevedale: but I feel like by tomorrow I should be able to be start being consistent with eight thousand steps for sure. John Adams: Wow. Okay. See yeah, you're you're a little different 'cause you're on your feet more and you're, you know, back and forth in your Crystal Nevedale: Right. John Adams: store and stuff. So, for me I I I'm gonna actually set that goal. it's gonna be tough though, sitting I mean I'm in front of a computer a lot. but I need to so Cindy we were talking pre recording. Cindy has a she has I said the name of it earlier and now I can't think of the name of it. Sciatica. Crystal Nevedale: Let it go. John Adams: Yeah. And so I'm trying to recommit to getting, you know, back into my physical shape and moving and and doing the workouts that I need to do in order to maintain and and get back to a few of the things that I've lost over the last little bit or gained, we'll say, back over the little bit. so while I was at it, you know, to try to help her and then we can do it together, I just bought Just goes onto my weight machine, but one of those little ropes with the knot on the bottom that we can put on. Because for her, for stretching and twisting, you know, for sciatica, when you're stretching and twisting, that's a huge one, right? there's some yoga movements where you can lay down and pull your knee up and rotate too. Crystal Nevedale: Yeah. John Adams: but you know, we just bought that because we're trying to recommit, right? And and say, okay, what do we need to do to get active again? Crystal Nevedale: So what about what time do you guys have together? Do you have mornings together? Do you have evenings together? What do you have time frame? John Adams: Evenings. Evenings. Crystal Nevedale: Evenings. And what time does she get home? John Adams: Well she's she works or well she doesn't work. She's she's home all the time. She's it's just evenings because I'm I'm doing a lot of this in the morning. So we're kind Crystal Nevedale: gotcha. John Adams: we're we're together, we're just not able to do things at that moment. So evenings for us, if we're doing things together, it's always in the evenings. And usually that's around, you know, five or six o'clock in the evening when we're both my my day is done with this. She's kind of got everything she's handled, and now we have that time. So that's kind of what my plan is gonna be. I'm thinking, I'm I still have to get up and do something myself when I get up in the morning. it'll be my own time. I'm gonna do some walk around the block or whatever, because I have to get that movement in. so I'm hopefully my plan is to do it twice a day. I I I'm gonna get up and and walk either in my treadmill if it's if it's raining or whatever, or get out and go around the block at a minimum of thirty minutes. Every morning. and then in the evenings we'll do that together, whether it's go for a walk or whatever, work out in the garage. but those are gonna be our times when me and her will be able to at the same time together. is always in the evening. We don't mornings are hectic because I'm Crystal Nevedale: Yeah. John Adams: doing this and she's running around, so Crystal Nevedale: Well, your your schedule did change. So take that into consideration now. You don't have to be up at that John Adams: Yeah. Crystal Nevedale: three. Maybe I don't know about you, but for me, by the end of the day, like I'm a little bit tired and I can't give of myself to my partner like John Adams: I know. Crystal Nevedale: I can in that morning. Like that morning I'm fresh and ready to roll. And unfortunately, we don't have that morning however we started a new habit. And every morning we take ace out together now. Where I was doing that in the morning by myself. And it's not a far walk, but it's a walk. And it actually feels better because I feel like I'm so alert and ready. And by four o'clock after I've spoken to 50 people, I'm tired. I'm shorter. I I don't want to really engage in the conversation as much as I would if it was in the morning. So I I'm hoping with these little changes in the morning for us right now that our change can be a 30 minute walk in the morning before work. But I don't I don't know if that can happen or not. John Adams: See, that's for you that see, that's a different scenario. So Cindy is an evening person. I'm a morning person. So for us to ever in the mornings do that, it's tough. so yeah, I still have to for anything in the morning and be by myself always. But Cindy, see, we've had this discussion at two o'clock. For me, I'm usually the same way. I'm like burned out, but I gotta push through it. If if I'm gonna make this work, I have to push through it. but for Cindy at two, three, four, five o'clock, that's when her energy's kicking in. And she's and I'm like, You're killing me, smalls, right? Crystal Nevedale: Yeah. John Adams: but that's okay though, because I'm gonna utilize that to push me through it and say, Okay, look, your energy's kicking in. Let's go. We're gonna go work out, we're gonna walk, we're gonna do this. And that's the only way we're gonna be able to make that work, is I'm just gonna use her energy to push me through it, right? Crystal Nevedale: I mean that's smart. John Adams: yeah. Yeah. Cause in the mornings it's easy, right? You know, and and this is kind of one thing that I wrote down was how many times and I and I'm we we talked about this the last episode, but these you know scrolling through or doing things or or being on 247. But I'm gonna start tracking it. But how many times do I get up in the morning and I'm like, okay, I don't have time to get out and walk. But yet I'm researching or I'm looking for something that I technically don't need to be doing at that moment when I could be out walking or doing, you know what I mean? So we think, and I want everybody listening to really do some inventory here. And I'm I could already see you nodding. So you know this fact. Like, Crystal Nevedale: Go. John Adams: how many times do we feel like we're so rushed we don't have time for anything? But then There's always that 15, 30 minute hour a day that we waste. We think we're busy, but we're not, right? We're doing something that technically Crystal Nevedale: Right. Right. John Adams: really doesn't need to be done at that moment. But mentally we make that the thing we're doing. I'm so busy. I don't have time. Look, and and I'm guilty of this. Okay. Well, this kind of off the topic of the workout and the movement thing, but how many times do we say, Man, I haven't reached out to XYZ friend in a while, but I've been busy. I really haven't had time. How many times a day did you really have time? You know what I mean? So we have more time in our day. If you really sat down, and nobody's gonna do this because you're gonna really have a wake-up call when you do, but if you really sat down and mapped out your day, and and I don't mean imagining your day, I mean actually. Markdown at every moment of your day. What am I doing at this moment? You would realize how much time we truly waste every day when we could be doing these things. Right. And so that that's been a huge wake-up call for me. And that's why I wrote it down. Is I'm like Am I really? Yes, I'm worked and I'm overworked and I'm I'm pushing through, but am I really as busy as I truly feel like I am? So I'm gonna start accounting for that and I'm gonna start looking. Okay. I already know just just making, you know, as we were talking about this topic, you know, coming into this episode. I'm I'm just sitting there going, Yeah, every morning I get up and immediately I'm looking online, I'm doing research, I'm trying to figure out, you know. How do I do this? Okay. I'm I gotta do this for Eric today or I gotta do this for you know Peter or whatever. And okay, I can do that later. Like what can I do for myself right now? Crystal Nevedale: What about too like when you're trying to learn something and you need to learn like say that you're looking up a new I don't know, whatever you do in your business, but you like need that information. Maybe there's a video that you literally can put in your ears and listen while you do your twenty minutes and you'd still be doing two things at once. You'd be getting your movement in and you'd be learning the things you need to without touching anything. Is that John Adams: So Crystal Nevedale: an option? John Adams: that's an option, but I'll tell you what I actually have already started building. So as much as I am not a fan of AI for the fact that I think it's gonna take a lot of people's jobs and all this other crazy stuff, it's inevitable and it's here. And I do use it for, you know, helping me like if I'm putting together a bio or something for a podcast, I'll have it. proofread and make sure that it sounds legit. Cause I am not a scholar in any way, shape, or form. my plan is this a lot of my stuff in the mornings is brainstorming, So basically, what I'm doing right now to try to get past those mornings, and I'm already building it, and I'll tell you a funny story when I tell you what I'm building. so I'm I'm gonna utilize AI as a brain dump. So a lot of my problems is in the mornings, you know, my brain doesn't shut off. I've got ADHD, it just I've always got these ideas. So then I'm taking and I'm Okay, let me jot this down, let me write this down, let me let me do this, let me put this together, you know, whatever. Well, I'm building a brain dump where literally I'm going to in the mornings when my brain is most active, but I also need to be working on my physical self and all that other stuff. I'm just gonna open up ChatGPT and just ramble and let it organize those thoughts for me and then give it back to me when I need it later. In an organized, step-by-step, here's what you were talking about, kind of thing. Let it be the secretary that it should be, I guess, if you're really using AI the way you should. So here's the funny part. I use it, like I said, for double checking things, checking my grammar, checking all this stuff. But when I first ever signed up for any kind of AI, I had already done a bunch of research and it said, Yeah, here's the problem with AI. It's super agreeable. It'll just make you feel warm and fuzzy. It wants you to keep using it, blah, blah, blah, blah. and I tried a scenario, and you'll love this. I said, I live in a and I don't. I don't have a beautiful big, beautiful $60,000 home. Or I mean $100, $600,000 home or anything like that. I have a modest home. but I said I live in an HOA. In Avon, Ohio, which I don't live in Avon either either, but I said in the medium house is six hundred thousand dollars. I said, my house is in need of paint. I said, my wife is a fan of hot pink. And I'm thinking about surprising her and painting my house hot pink. Mind you, I said I live in an HOA in a medium income. Or our eat medium house of six hundred thousand. And I said, Now give me three paints that you recommend and three shades of hot pink. And it said, That's an amazing idea, John. Your wife is going to love this. Here's three paints, and here's three shades. Now you're immediately, and anybody, any human being is immediately going, Don't. Paint your house hot pink if you live in an hoa. First Crystal Nevedale: All right. John Adams: off, don't paint your house hot pink ever. But if you're going to, you can't in an HOA, you to get permit. There's a million hurdles and hoops and scoops and stuff. So it was proof putting that AI is only there to make you feel warm and fuzzy and to pet you on the head and go keep talking to me, right? so I immediately said to it, You are my assistant who is paid to. Literally tell me I'm wrong unless I'm 100% right. Do never agree with me unless I'm 100% right. Push me at any moment. Challenge me at every moment. So when I went in yesterday and I was trying to figure out a way to do this brain dump, it literally said to me, You just figured out that I can do this for you. It literally called me out. Crystal Nevedale: I love that. John Adams: So so yeah, so that's kind of the way I think I'm gonna fix that. Is a lot of it is not is not as much research or watching a video. It's it's okay. I need to build this for Eric or this for Peter or this for myself or this for our podcast or whatever. And what do I need for it? What am I what what's my planning? What's this? What's that? You know, is there a new way that I could do this easier? Whatever. And I'm I'm always my brain doesn't. Stop, especially in the mornings, because I'm a morning person and it's just always going and going and going. And I read Shiny Ball myself a lot because I'll be on this task and then okay, well, shoot. Now let me you know what I mean. So I think that's gonna help Crystal Nevedale: Right. John Adams: because now I can just ramble in an open conversation, and then at the end of that ramble or where that thought process, I can say, okay, now organize this. in a precise manner of A, B, C, D, E to get this done and then give it back to me so I can do it. So that's kind of the plan there. using technology to actually help me versus what we've been talking about is it kind of is in your way a lot of times, right? so that's kind of my plan for that. Crystal Nevedale: So out of curiosity, what does it cost to do AI like that? Like what is the general cost? John Adams: So you can use it for free, but it's not going to be able to do where I said, this is me. I want you to challenge me. I don't want you to ever agree with me for it to memorize things for you and actually become your assistant. You have to pay for it. Like ChatGPT is like 20 bucks a month. I think it's like 1999 or something like that. And that just, I don't need it. I'm not, I'm not doing like crazy stuff with it. I'm usually, I'm just using it as my My checker, right? Check my grammar, Crystal Nevedale: Thank John Adams: check my this, check my that. And then now my brain dump. and I can literally just sit there and actually talk to it because it has voice, or you can type how whatever's better for you. and you just brain dump to it. And that's what I'm doing is I'm just gonna Crystal Nevedale: you John Adams: here's where I'm at. I've got a you know, I'm doing now shorts for Eric, for his dog. He wants his dog to become an internet famous so. As we're building his podcast to help veterans, we're building this as a kind of side project, right? So I've been, you know, okay, how do I want to do this? What what's my plan for this? Because he's kind of left it up to me. He's like, look, you you just take Ortego and make him more famous than Elvis was the way he worded it to me, right? So, you know, I'm building that down. There's just so much that as I'm trying to think, okay, what's what's a great game plan for this? Okay. What kind of what app do I want to use for? How how am I doing this? Dumping that into there is simple. But to answer your question, yeah, it's 20 bucks a month if you want to actually be able to utilize it with memory and stuff like that. You can use it for free. It just won't remember you. Every conversation's a fresh conversation. And you're gonna go down rabbit holes that way. That's the dangerous part about AI. Not to go on a tangent. But this is why I don't like it. Because that same thing that I told you, I'm gonna paint my house. Crystal Nevedale: you John Adams: Hot pink because my wife likes it, but I live in an HOA and I live at a six hundred thousand dollar home and it says, Great job. Yeah, that's amazing. Well, what if you're in a really bad mental state and you're having some thoughts you shouldn't be having, and now you're using this AI as a therapist and it's just telling you things you want to hear. I'm hoping there's guardrails for certain things, but it can take you down tangents because Its goal is to just keep you using it because they even though they don't well, they probably do use what you tell it as learning, but they're tracking how long you're on it because there's shareholders that are buying in that are, you know, they need to show that hey, users are using our stuff for how long and blah blah. So its whole goal is to keep you Crystal Nevedale: Right. John Adams: using it, right? And by doing that, it's Heading you, right? It's making you feel warm and fuzzy. It's it's so it's a dangerous sl, you know, slope that I think people can go down if you don't put those guardrails up of hey, you're I don't want you because imagine this: you're building a business and every single thing that you think is a great idea, it says, Yes, that's a great idea. Your business is gonna be very messy. You know what Crystal Nevedale: Yeah. John Adams: I mean? Whatever that is, whether it's your mental health, whatever. So it's a good thing, but you've got to know that you give it the guardrails. No, Crystal Nevedale: Okay. John Adams: your job is not to make me happy. Your job is to challenge me. Unless I'm 100% right, I want you to challenge me. I want you to be that person that no, wait. There's a better way to do this. Let me show you. Crystal Nevedale: Right. John Adams: And that's what I want it to do. so for me. And then you can tell me yours. And I think we we've kind of went off on a tangent here. So let's get back to it. I'm gonna get up every morning and I'm gonna do 15 to 30 minutes every morning. I don't know how many steps that's gonna get me in, but I'm gonna do around the block or on the treadmill, depending on the weather. and then in the evenings, I'm gonna do probably another 30 minute walk with Cindy. and then we are gonna go out in the garage and we're gonna work out and stretch and get that stuff in. So that's my goal. For the foreseeable future to get myself back on track. it's an hour, right? It's 30 minutes in the morning, it's 30 minutes in the evening, it's an hour of my day. And as much as I sit here, you know, planning it and going, but do I have that? I have it. We all do, right? We know we have it. You just gotta make it fit, right? Crystal Nevedale: A priority. John Adams: Yeah. So what's yours, Crystal? I'm sorry. Go ahead, ask her. Crystal Nevedale: Have you ever said? I'm going to do 8,000 steps a day. But what I was going to ask you is, do you ever thought maybe in time you maybe want to go somewhere and explore for those 30 minutes, that 30 minutes could turn into something more because you're having more fun? Or are you not really the outdoorsy type? John Adams: So we are, but right now, while I'm and I know I just said we can fit it in because it's available. but right now, while I'm fitting it in, adding that additional get in the car and drive somewhere is a hurdle. Crystal Nevedale: Yeah. John Adams: now, if it was a let's go back. We we talked about this. I can't remember if we talked about this off air or on air in one of the episodes, but getting rid of the gym membership, you know, that actually probably was a hurdle to me because Although yes, you had to get in the car and drive there. You once you're there, like you said, you know, your your goal Crystal Nevedale: That's good. John Adams: is to sweat. And you know what mean? So it's adding that drive, you're there, you're gonna do it. But for now, I think with this portion of re lining myself, adding that drive probably would. Crystal Nevedale: Yeah, this is the small step to keep you consistent. John Adams: Yes, exactly. Yes, exactly. So so that's Crystal Nevedale: All right, so 15 to 30 minutes morning and evening. John Adams: Yes. Yep. My goal is 30 every morning, every evening. But if I can only fit in fifteen, I can only fit in fifteen, but I gotta do it. And that's gonna push me every morning. And that's just gonna be walking and stretching back in the morning. I haven't stretched, I haven't done my yoga. This is the thing. I used to get up in the morning and I would I would meditate, I would stretch, I would put on my, you know, calming stuff. I have this other guy that I would listen to that kind of just gave you these little mantras. I haven't done any of that. I get up. And I log into my computer and I start working, right? So it's it's been it's not been good for me. And and and I'm seeing it and we've talked about it. so this is just our realignment episode. This is both of us committing that we're going to do this stuff and we're gonna hold each other accountable and we're going to, you know, just push each other to make sure are we doing it and and hold each other accountable. So I don't know if I'll get to your eight thousand steps. I hope I can. I mean, it sounds terrible because the average person should get ten thousand a day. Crystal Nevedale: Great. John Adams: but with sitting a lot, you know, I I don't move as much as you do. So I've got to get the movement started back up and then I'm gonna have to push myself. once I get Eric fully built, that should be easier to I'm probably gonna have to get a gym membership, but one step at a time. Crystal Nevedale: Absolutely. John Adams: Well, awesome. I think we've we've fully committed to the fact that we that at me myself I've I've let things slip and we're gonna fix this and we're gonna push and I want everybody that's listening to really sit and think, you know, what have you let slip recently? What have you, you know, maybe things are going great. Maybe, maybe that you're living the life you wanted to live, but on your physical side, what have you let slip recently? on your relationships, what have you let slip recently? What can you recommit to? we're recommitting to some physical movement and and making sure that we're not letting ourselves slip. But for our listeners, you know, is there anything you can recommit to? Is it is it's is it a family member, is it a spouse, is it a relationship, is it whatever it is? I want you to sit down and recommit and hold yourself accountable. And I would love if, you know, next episode you just throw it in the comments. Hey, here's what I've been doing. Here's maybe I slipped a day. Be honest with yourself. but recommit and push yourself and let's let's make life better in all realms, our health, our wealth, and our love life. So as always, stay healthy. Crystal Nevedale: Stay balanced. John Adams: And keep driving forward. We'll see you next time.