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Dr. Barrett discusses his life rhythms, why he strives to follow them, and how they create a foundation for his life.
Creators and Guests
Host
Dr. Barrett Deubert
The founder of The Real Health Co. and the host of The Real Health Co. Podcast, Dr. Barrett is passionate about helping people find true and complete health in any stage of life!
Editor
Grant Crenshaw
Content Producer at the Real Health Co.
What is Manna Monday?
The Team at the Real Health Co. shares a weekly message to help you center yourself and start your week off strong!
This week, my goal is to help you develop more rhythm and predictability in your life. I have this growth plan that I do every year, and with each growth area, let's say spirituality is one, I'll have what's called an anchor, or what's also termed a "non negotiable." So for instance, I wanna spend an hour with the Lord every morning. So if that's true, there's an there's a nonnegotiable. And the nonnegotiable is I wake up in the 9:00 hour.
Dr. Barrett:Sorry. I go to sleep in the 9:00 hour, and I wake up, in the 4:00 hour. So 04:59, 09:59, that produces at least that one hour of time. If I sleep late, go to sleep late, or I sleep in, usually that hour gets gets taken away. So there's non negotiables, and what they do, I'm gonna give you five things that they do.
Dr. Barrett:But first is they create rhythm and predictability. Non negotiables act like a personal metronome. They set the pace of your life, and it helps you develop a consistent, healthy rhythm. Waking up every day at the same time is a consistent rhythm. And we need rhythms because it puts us in a state of function that can be very beneficial where we don't even have to think about other things, which really produces number two, it prevents decision fatigue or mental load.
Dr. Barrett:If you have non negotiables in your life, there are certain things you just do and you don't have to think about it. For instance, another example is training. I train my body every day. It's a non negotiable. It's not like I have to convince myself to train.
Dr. Barrett:There are times where I don't want to train, but I train at the same time every day. And so what it does is it creates a rhythm within my physiology that I know, hey, it's 11:00. Time to go train. Number three is it builds discipline and momentum. If you need momentum in this season, we need to establish some non negotiables so that you can build discipline and momentum.
Dr. Barrett:A daily workout, a morning devotional, a weekly Sabbath, what these things always will do is when they're done without fail, they're done consistently, it pays off over time. You get the benefit of consistency. If you train your body every day, you will reap the rewards and develop a momentum and see the fruit of your labor, and there's nothing more momentous than that. There's nothing more exciting than seeing the fruit of your labor. It's like, hey, man, I'm leaner, I'm stronger, I'm fitter.
Dr. Barrett:It helps build that momentum even more. Another thing is they number four is they anchor your values. So what do you value? If you value time with the Lord, are you waking up early enough? Do you have a non negotiable there?
Dr. Barrett:Are you reading a scripture passage a day, a chapter a day? What you valuing in your relationships, in your family? Do you have a family dinner? Do you have a weekly Sabbath? What non negotiable are you willing to put within these core values that help you stay true to these values?
Dr. Barrett:They anchor your values. If you say faith and family matter, your non negotiable should reflect that. Your life should be a life of prayer. Your life should also resemble what a healthy family looks like. And if you aren't seeing the fruit of what you are desiring, it means your non negotiables need to be reassessed.
Dr. Barrett:You need to look at what should be done daily to create rhythm and hold these core values down. Anchor these core values down so that you can start seeing the fruit of your labor. The last thing is that I think they protect you from drift. They protect you from steering too far off course. We all get into seasons of just funk, where we don't wanna train, or we don't want to spend time waking up early in the Lord, and journaling, and prayer, and maybe we don't wanna invest in relationships, because we just wanna chill out, and we're stressed out.
Dr. Barrett:But when you do these non negotiables long enough, people always look at my life and they say, how do you do that? I say, well I've been doing it for twenty years. That's why I do it today. It becomes easier. And, there are just things that I prioritize, and value that I'm not willing to mess up.
Dr. Barrett:I wanna have energy for the day. I want to feel good. I want to have an equipped spirit to love people well. I want to be a family man. I want to be a good business leader.
Dr. Barrett:These are non negotiables that- they are non negotiables that help anchor all of these values, and that's why I get up early. That's why I eat the way I do. That's why I train my body the way I do. That's why we have family time at very specific times during the week. That's why we're intentional.
Dr. Barrett:That's why I'm intentional in reading and develop myself as a leader. So if it's health, move your body daily. That's a non negotiable. Maybe it's prioritize seven hours of sleep to eight hours of sleep every night. If it's faith, read a chapter of the bible every day.
Dr. Barrett:Every day. If it's family, no phones at the dinner table or weekly Sabbath. If it's work, shut- what I do is I don't think about work when I leave work. If it's personal, read ten minutes of a developmental book. But let's start developing some non negotiables that we can catapult our life and anchor our core values.