Ask Faleskini - The Midlife Crisis Clarity Compass

How can synchronizing with the days of the week get you out of burnout and midlife crisis? Interview David Fullmer

Peter Faleskini Season 6 Episode 28

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Are you a high-achiever feeling completely burnt out, stuck in a midlife crisis, or just spinning your wheels despite working harder than ever? True relief doesn’t come from pushing through with more willpower—it comes from learning how to align your natural energy with the rhythm of your life.

In this episode of the Ask Faleskini Podcast, host Peter Faleskini sits down with David Fullmer to explore a groundbreaking perspective on overcoming exhaustion. David’s unique foundation in human development began at a young age, watching his father work closely alongside Stephen Covey (the legendary author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People). This early exposure instilled in him a profound truth: a single individual has the power to change the course of events, no matter their circumstances.

David’s resilience was further forged by an extraordinary childhood—moving 29 times by the age of 19. This constant transition forced him to master the art of building deep connections quickly while learning how to cope with the inevitable loss of leaving them behind. Today, he channels that lifetime of adaptability into helping leaders break free from chronic burnout by synchronizing their lives with the natural flow of the week.

If you are ready to stop fighting the clock and start leveraging the hidden structure of your days to find lasting clarity, this conversation is for you.

🔍 What We Discuss in This Episode:

  • The Weekly Rhythm Framework: How synchronizing your focus with specific daily themes can pull you out of chronic burnout and midlife stagnation:
    • Motivation Monday: Kicking off the week with aligned purpose rather than forced pressure.
    • Tracking Tuesday: Measuring what matters to maintain clarity and momentum.
    • Whisper Wednesday: Tuning out the external noise to listen to your intuition and inner wisdom.
    • Thankful Thursday: Leveraging proactive gratitude to reshape your mental operating system.
    • Forgiveness Friday: Releasing the emotional baggage and hidden resentments that fuel midlife exhaustion.
    • Satisfaction Saturday: Celebrating wins and cultivating true contentment outside of pure achievement.
    • Supplication Sunday: Finding peace, reflection, and spiritual resetting before the new week begins.
  • Breaking the Crisis Cycle: Why traditional time management fails midlifers, and how this structured weekly flow restores natural momentum.

🌐 Connect with David Fullmer

  • Official Website: https://www.davidfullmer.com/ — Discover more about his work, tools, and how to implement the weekly rhythm framework into your own life.

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SPEAKER_01

Welcome to the Ask for the Skinny Podcast with the guest. I'm proud to present David Fulmer. David, welcome to our show. Please tell us more about yourself. What is your story? Aloha Peter.

SPEAKER_00

How you doing, brother?

SPEAKER_01

I'm really excited to talk with you and to get to know you a bit more in the details, and I'm really thrilled that you're on our show today.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, uh, just a quick rundown on me. Um, uh business owner, entrepreneur, built a um various different businesses in different uh marketplaces, completely from a t-shirt brand to mortgage company, real estate developing, did a lot of various different things, but kind of my staple's been uh construction since I was 14 years old. Um and uh went through it as a young kid. I was in youth corrections custody, which means I was locked up various different times throughout my teenage years, um, kind of taken from my family, got into a bunch of trouble, and realizing I didn't want that in life, I I made some course corrections and then uh from there built a successful masonry business and was a multimillionaire by the time I was 28 years old. Ended up losing everything when the economy crashed in uh 2008. And uh just been building since then and a near miss of losing everything again in 2016, but I was able to pull out and and and make a success out of it. It was great. But um basically through my through my life experiences, I've I've I came to realize and was gifted, which I believe from the heavens above, my friend, what I called the uh the superhuman rhythm. And I've always been into personal development, but what I did was is I I realized that there were always four steps to this and five steps to that. And no one really gave a really good pathway to attach everyday life with all these attributes and with all these principles that taught people to truly be superhuman. So what I did is is I figured out that the human experience has a certain vibration on each day of the week. And it's our vibration, which is our flow. And when we're in, we're when we're in a positive vibration and we're moving, and our all of the whole of our body is moving in sync with itself, we get things done faster, we overcome obstacles better, we are able to see into the future brighter, and and so what I did was is I realized that if we attach seven superhuman attributes to each day of the week, and these these these attributes actually coincide with the human experience, things that people are already going through on these each day of these week of the week. And so I attached a super superhuman attribute to each day of the week, so you can't forget it, and it's so ingrained into your body that it it just creates an amazing rhythm, it keeps you uh your intention correct, and it keeps you kind of on the path that you need to be, so you're getting less derailed and out into the woods.

SPEAKER_01

Amazing. Can you tell us a bit more about these uh superhuman attributes so that if uh you you can uh list them and that we would uh understand?

SPEAKER_00

Okay, so I'll I'll yeah, I'll go through them um pretty quick here. Uh so more people have heart attacks on Monday morning than any other day of the week. Why is that, Peter? And the reason is because they don't have their why figured out, they don't know why they're on the planet Earth and what they're doing and where they're going, right? And who they are. So it's the who, what, where, when, why. They don't they don't have their who, what, when, where, why, you know, and and so they they kill over of a heart attack because they're lost. And so that's motivation Monday. It's a day that we figure out our who, what, when, where, why. Okay, it's it's when we figure out who we are, where we're going, why we're doing it, when we're gonna execute, and all those different things. And so that's motivation Monday. Every Monday is that day, and and it it combats the heart attack and it combats the stress in our lives. Tuesday, great day. It's called tracking Tuesday. It's a day of the avatar, meaning we step out of ourselves and we recognize what are our thoughts, how am I acting, and kind of God gave us two eyes and two ears and one mouth. So it's a day that we listen more, we we watch ourselves, we watch the behavior of others and kind of take an take an accounting of how we're showing up in the world. Okay, the average person has 60,000 thoughts a day, 80% of them are negative. So we need to figure out why how how we can combat those negative thoughts, and it's all in my book on on how you get that done. Moving on to Wednesday, great day. Okay, what's today? Today's Whisper Wednesday, Peter. Okay, so today's a day of intuition. If you were to interview first responders, doctors, airline pilots, people that have the responsibility to make sure people are safe and alive, okay? They have a heightened state of intuition. If you were to ask and interview any of them, hey, did you have you uh have you ever uh made a decision where you just had a hunch and it saved lives? I can tell you there will, you know, you just get out the popcorn and sit back because you're gonna have a lot of stories. But what about the everyday person? Do you get into an organic environment? I'm going on a walk here on the beach, see? I'm on this beautiful beach right now, and I'm in an organic environment. It's Whisper Wednesday, and so uh turn social media off, and it's a no social media day, it's a no news day, and you just listen to the quiet. Too many of us live in such a fast-paced electronical world that we don't go back to our blood memories and our ancestors, they spent time in a quiet space, and it's so important that we get into a quiet space where they there's just nothing, it's just quiet. Maybe the breeze through the trees or the birds chirping, just somewhere organic and quiet for hours and meditate and just listen to absolutely nothing but our intuition and our inspiration. Okay? That's Whisper Wednesday. Thursday is thankful Thursday. It's a day of gratitude. Okay? An army of lions led by a sheep will always be defeated by an army of sheep led by a lion. And the answer to that dichotomy is attitude. And an attitude of gratitude is the best thing that you can have to overcome the challenges in your life and to really excel and move forward and get through obstacles. An attitude of gratitude is the best attitude that you can have in all the attributes of having attitudes. Okay. Now you have a little bit of dopamine. What was Friday? Friday's a day they used to get a dollar after elementary school and get an ice cream cone at the end of school, and everyone's excited. What when do we get bad news, Peter? Friday. When do people get fired, Peter? Friday. Okay. Why? Because everyone has a high state of dopamine on Friday. That's when when the worst news in the world always gets dropped on Friday. And everything that because people can deal with it because they're like, you know what, I'm going into the weekend, I don't care, I don't want to hear the bad news, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, this is one of the hardest, hardest superhuman attributes, and it's forgiveness. It's forgiveness Friday. Okay. I live here in Hawaii and a plane to the mainland and a plane back, there's an hour difference, but it's the same plane, same pilot, same fuel, same distance. Why is it an hour difference? It's because the stress on the plane. And so the stress that holding on to things leaves inside of your body slows you down. That's it. And forgiveness is not for the person you're forgiving, it's the gift you give to yourself. Okay. Forgiveness is the gift that you give to yourself. Okay. And moving on to Saturday, because you know the next day, Peter, you already know half of this, right? You know Saturday comes after Friday, right, buddy?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you've got that, you got that 2,000-year blood memory in you. I understand. So Saturday is satisfaction Saturday, okay? And it's making sure we're having fun with the ones that we love. No one on their deathbed wishes they had more money or spend another day at the office, okay? What's the same, same rhyme that they all say? There's so many people. Oh man, there's there's two there's two types of people. They're either surrounded in their hospital room by all the wonderful memories and and and and with all the ones that they love surrounding them, and they're so enthralled and just happy with life and so grateful to be there with their loved ones. And there's others that are empty. They're empty inside because they spent their whole life chasing something they could never have. And so it Satisfaction Saturday is a way to check ourselves and make sure we're not just obtaining the riches of these worlds for ourselves, because nothing, nothing owned is worth having that's not shared. And so it's not F you money, Peter. It's called love you money. And we make money so that we can have moments. So when I'm on that hospital bed and I'm old and old and old and a lot more gray than I am now, I have memories. And that's Satisfaction Saturday. Okay. Moving on. What's the next day, Peter, after Saturday? Sunday, usually. Okay, Sunday. See? You know half this. So Sunday is a is a real cool one. I'm I I'm a brown belt in jujitsu, Brazilian jujitsu. So I've been training for years and years and years, 15 years. And I can tell you right now, if you were to ask me, Dave, what's the number one thing you learned from jujitsu? And I wouldn't tell you it it's that I can armlock you and make you make you dance. It would be that I I learned humility. Peter, I have tapped out to someone else's will thousands and thousands of times where I've either had my I could either make a choice. I I I'm either gonna get my arm broken or I can tap. I'm either gonna go to sleep or I can tap. I'm gonna lose my knee or I can tap. Okay. So in life, sometimes our journey, we try to do it all ourselves, but we can't. And so this is supplication Sunday where we submit, we supplicate to a higher power. And that is supplication Sunday, where we tap out to life's problems. We tap out and recognize that we can't do this without God in our lives. We can't do this without a greater force of nature, someone who waited millions and gazillions of light years to bring us to this earth at this very moment in time to be great. We're not gonna talk to him, the designer of our bodies, the creator of the world. I don't think so. It's time we tap out. I'm gonna tap right now and say, I'm gonna tap out to a higher power and I'm gonna supplicate. So supplication Sunday. And those are your seven days, buddy. You're in rhythm now, Peter. I hope you got your vitamins, buddy. I hope you got your vitamins in you.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, thank you. That that's uh great insight, and I I like it how you put the synchronicity, how important is the synchronicity, and I I like it how you uh put that to uh the days in in a week so that um every day is um is dedicated to something. Um it's quite similar to my 12-month process where every month is dedicated to something similar uh in my system. Uh but I really like the the idea to have it in in effect in one week so that um it it's an hour of repetition. Yep. And uh it's uh uh it's important that we dedicate each day to something, and I I really like uh your concept. So how should people apply that?

SPEAKER_00

Um well I mean the easiest way is to buy the book, read the book, and it really outlines it. Um my Instagram handle is DavidFulmerofficial. David F-U-L-L-M-E-R official is my Instagram handle, or you can go to David Former.com and um I can give you a free digital copy, you know, any of your listeners. If they go on there and just say, um, I was on Peter's show and message the team, uh, they'll send them a free digital copy if they're one of your listeners. And but the the the the biggest thing is to start on Monday morning and whiteboard your life. You know, turn tune out the noise, stop listening to everybody else. You have the answer, it's within you. Greatness is within you. Okay, happiness and joy is a choice and it's within you. And to really whiteboard your life and dream big. You know, the the average person has been told 10,000 times when they were a little kid, don't do that, stop that, don't touch that. No. Now you might have been grabbing candy, Peter, you might have been running in the street, but that's a brain track. And you a child can't can't distinguish between right and wrong, can't distinguish between reality and non-reality. What's the biggest problem with human beings and adults? Okay, is we we have a skewed sense of reality. The reality is life is what you make it. The reality is life is a canvas, you have to paint your life. That's the problem. And so my quote is the only reality is the one that I create, and the greatest reality I can create is one that impacts humanity because joy is found in helping others. Okay, and that's the biggest thing is we have all these adults running around the world, and when they were kids, they dreamed big and their parents told them no. They dream big and they're they they said stop doing that. So now they have these great ideas and these dreams, and they're like they pop up for a second, and then they just smash them with these brain tracks of no, can't, no, no. And so the biggest way someone can start out is really getting the whiteboard out. And if you had the most perfect life, what it would it look like? Right? When you go and say, I want to climb Everest, when Peter wakes up and says, You know what, I'm gonna climb Mount Everest, okay? You don't just end up in Everest the next week. You start walking, you start walking, you start doing marathons, then you start a little hike, then a little bit bigger hike, then a little bit bigger hike, and then as you go, you do you learn through asking other people, and along the way and along the trail, asking other successful hikers, and they give you insight and you start moving. The way is the way. Everyone's like, Well, what way do I go? Well, you just start, and as you go, it manifests itself to you, but you'll never see it. You know, that guys climb Everest and they can look through binoculars how they're gonna traverse across a big giant cavern crevass. But when they get there, they realize, oh my gosh, from so far away, we couldn't see, and we've got to go another way. And so the way manifests itself when we get on the path. And so I always say, you know, even if it's 1% better, Peter, just get started. If you can't go, if you're not totally out of shape or you you don't feel comfortable going in the gym, go to the parking lot and park in the gym and walk around the gym. And then eventually go in the gym and be on the treadmill. And then once you're on the treadmill, maybe hit the weights. And then when you're on the weights, maybe you can hit the treadmill and the weights. And you just start, just get started today.

SPEAKER_01

Thank you, David. Thank you for all these insights. I will include the links uh to your Instagram and your webpage in the description below. And uh thank you for being uh my guest tonight.

SPEAKER_00

No problem, buddy. Have a beautiful Whisper Wednesday and shut that phone off when you're done with me on Whisper Wednesday. Peter, I want you to go for a walk in the woods and listen to the birds. Thank you. I'll do that. Okay, buddy. Aloha.