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Wellness Wisdom Weekly - Your Guide to Living Well After 50
Wellness Wisdom Weekly - Your Guide to Living Well After 50
October 2025 Issue 26
October 2025 Issue 26
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If you’ve ever driven through the Midwest in October, you know the sight well: fields buzzing with combines, wagons heaped high with corn and soybeans, tractors rumbling along gravel roads as farmers work from dawn to dusk. This is harvest season—a time to gather the fruits of months of labor.
October Newsletters
October Newsletters
Issue 25 - The Season of Change: Embracing New Chapters October begins with visible change all around us—the turning of leaves, cooler air, shorter days. This first newsletter sets the stage for embracing change as a natural and healthy part of life.
Issue 26 - Harvesting What You Planted Mid-October brings harvest season imagery—farmers reaping what they sowed. This newsletter builds on the idea of change by reminding readers that their daily choices and actions yield results, good or bad.
Issue 27 - Finding Balance as the Days Shorten As fall deepens, days get shorter and nights longer. This newsletter shifts to the theme of balance—between work and rest, productivity and peace.
Issue 28 - Carrying Light Into the Darkness With Halloween approaching, the imagery of darkness and light fits perfectly. This final October newsletter ties everything together: change, harvest, balance, and now purpose—choosing to shine positivity for others.
Welcome to Issue 26 of Wellness Wisdom!
🥗 The Season of Change: Embracing New Chapters
🥗 The Season of Change: Embracing New Chapters
Opening Story: The Fields in October
The Principle of Sowing and Reaping
Planting in Health, Wealth, and Relationships
The Long Game
Practical Ways to Plant Well This Week
A Story of Harvest in Life
Guarding Against Weeds
A Spiritual Perspective
A Challenge for the Week
Closing Prayer
Final Encouragement
Fit After 50 Blueprint
🍂 Opening Story: The Fields in October
🍂 Opening Story: The Fields in October
If you’ve ever driven through the Midwest in October, you know the sight well: fields buzzing with combines, wagons heaped high with corn and soybeans, tractors rumbling along gravel roads as farmers work from dawn to dusk. This is harvest season—a time to gather the fruits of months of labor.
When I was a boy in Winona, Minnesota, I remember watching those fields with fascination. The long summer days had been spent planting, watering, weeding, and waiting. By fall, the patience and hard work paid off. The fields gave back what had been faithfully invested.
That picture of harvest has stuck with me, because it’s not just about farming. It’s about life.
🌱 The Principle of Sowing and Reaping
🌱 The Principle of Sowing and Reaping
Life runs on a timeless principle: you reap what you sow.
• Plant corn, and you’ll harvest corn.
• Sow weeds, and weeds will spread.
• Plant nothing at all, and nothing will grow.
Galatians 6:7–9 puts it this way:
“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
Our daily choices—what we think, speak, and do—are like seeds. They may look small at the moment, but they grow into something much larger.
And eventually, we harvest what we planted, whether for good or for harm.
🌻 Planting in Health, Wealth, and Relationships
🌻 Planting in Health, Wealth, and Relationships
At West Egg Living, we talk often about building a beautiful life. That life isn’t built in a single day—it’s grown, seed by seed, habit by habit, choice by choice.
• Health: If you plant daily movement, nourishing meals, and rest, you will reap strength and vitality. But if you plant fast food, late nights, and neglect, the harvest will eventually be fatigue, illness, or preventable disease.
• Wealth: If you plant savings, wise spending, and long-term planning, you will reap stability and freedom. But if you plant impulsive purchases, debt, and neglect, the harvest will be stress and scarcity.
• Relationships: If you plant kindness, forgiveness, and time together, you will reap connection and trust. But if you plant neglect, criticism, or bitterness, the harvest will be distance and brokenness.
The truth is simple, but it asks us to reflect: What seeds am I planting today?
🌾 The Long Game
🌾 The Long Game
One of the hardest parts of planting is patience. Farmers don’t put seeds in the ground and expect a harvest the next morning. They wait—sometimes months, sometimes seasons.
The same is true in our lives. You may be exercising faithfully and not yet see the strength you want. You may be budgeting carefully but still feel like money is tight. You may be working on your marriage but not yet see the closeness you long for.
Harvest takes time. That’s why Paul reminds us: “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
Patience is faith in action—believing that the seeds you plant will eventually bear fruit.
🌿 Practical Ways to Plant Well This Week
🌿 Practical Ways to Plant Well This Week
Here are three areas to focus your planting this October:
1. In Your Body:
• Go for a 20-minute walk three times this week.
• Drink more water than soda or coffee.
• Aim for a consistent bedtime.
2. In Your Finances:
• Save $20–50 in a separate account this week.
• Review your monthly subscriptions—cancel one you don’t use.
• Cook at home one extra night instead of eating out.
3. In Your Relationships:
• Write a handwritten note or send an intentional text of encouragement.
• Apologize if you’ve let something linger too long.
• Carve out time this week to sit down for a meal with no distractions.
Each one may seem small, but together they form the seeds of a strong harvest later.
🌞 A Story of Harvest in Life
🌞 A Story of Harvest in Life
Years ago, I met a man who told me his biggest regret was not taking his health seriously until it was almost too late. For decades, he had planted convenience—fast food, long work hours, little exercise. When his body finally demanded a harvest, it came in the form of illness and exhaustion.
But even then, he learned it wasn’t too late to start planting differently. With small changes—walking daily, eating better, resting more—he began sowing seeds of health again. Slowly, his harvest changed. He grew stronger, regained energy, and found joy in life again.
It reminded me that no matter what we’ve planted in the past, we can begin planting better seeds today.
🍁 Guarding Against Weeds
🍁 Guarding Against Weeds
Every farmer knows that weeds compete with good crops. Left unchecked, they choke out the harvest.
The same is true in our lives. Negativity, comparison, unhealthy habits, and toxic influences act like weeds. If we don’t pull them out, they spread quickly and steal the nutrients from what we’re trying to grow.
This week, ask yourself: What weeds do I need to pull? Maybe it’s limiting time on social media, letting go of a draining friendship, or setting healthier boundaries at work.
Clearing space allows your good seeds to grow.
🕊 A Spiritual Perspective
🕊 A Spiritual Perspective
Jesus used the language of planting and harvesting often. In Matthew 13, He spoke of seeds falling on different types of soil—some rocky, some thorny, some fertile. The message was clear: the condition of the soil determines the fruitfulness of the harvest.
In the same way, the soil of our hearts matters. Are we open, receptive, and willing to nurture the seeds God plants in us? Or are we distracted, hard-hearted, or too busy to water what matters most?
When we invite God into our planting, He multiplies our harvest. What feels like a small act of obedience—an encouraging word, a gift of generosity, a step of faith—can produce fruit far beyond what we could imagine.
💡 A Challenge for the Week
💡 A Challenge for the Week
This week, I challenge you to:
1. Plant One Seed in Health. Take a walk or prepare a healthy meal.
2. Plant One Seed in Wealth. Save or invest a small amount intentionally.
3. Plant One Seed in Relationships. Speak a word of encouragement or show up for someone you love.
Write them down.
By the end of the week, you’ll see how much small seeds matter.
🙏 Closing Prayer
🙏 Closing Prayer
Father, thank You for the reminder that life is a harvest of the seeds we plant. Teach us to be intentional in our thoughts, words, and actions. Help us plant wisely—in health, in finances, in relationships—so that our lives may reflect Your abundance. Guard our hearts from discouragement, and give us patience as we wait for the harvest You are preparing. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
✨ Final Encouragement
✨ Final Encouragement
October reminds us of the beauty of harvest. But the greatest lesson is this: your future harvest is determined by what you plant today.
Don’t grow weary in doing good. Every choice matters. Every seed counts. And in time, you will reap a harvest of blessings if you do not give up.
So this week, be intentional. Sow wisely. And trust that the harvest is coming.
Fit After 50 Blueprint
Fit After 50 Blueprint
If you’re not exercising yet, now’s a good time to start. Because it’s never too late to build strength, or protect what matters most. If you still have questions about how to get started, check out our Fit After 50 Blueprint.
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I love the video on this one.
I will try dinking water every hourr like I am trying to go 250 steps each hour.. Encouraging idea.
This is great information. I love the new layout. I cannot wait for the next edition!!!
Thanks Riaan.
Great article!