Episode 135: Alan Refaeli - Biohacking, and how to train your brain for clarity & action

In this episode of the Commit First Podcast, Sagi Shrieber interviews Alan Refaeli, a serial entrepreneur and biohacker. They discuss various topics including the importance of mindset, emotional management, breathing techniques, building effective habits, optimizing sleep, understanding personal health through DNA testing, and the measurement of brain waves. Alan shares his insights on how to train the mind for better emotional responses and the significance of creating habits that lead to personal growth and health optimization.Takeaways​Stress is subjective and can be reframed as excitement.​Training the mind is more effective than tricking it.​Creating habits is essential for personal growth.​Breathing techniques can significantly impact emotional states.​Health should be prioritized over wealth for a fulfilling life.​Using DNA testing can personalize health strategies.​Effective habits should be easy, fun, and obvious.​Imitating successful behaviors can lead to integration and innovation.​Mindfulness and breathing can enhance creativity and focus.​Understanding personal health through testing can lead to better life choices.

This episode is with Ben Hyneck, a coach for founders and entrepreneurs. We discuss the journey of entrepreneurship, the importance of spirituality and cultural perspectives, and the transition from being an employee to an entrepreneur. Ben shares insights on the role of coaching in the lives of founders, the challenges of balancing work and life, and the significance of setting intentional goals. The conversation also touches on the importance of celebrating wins and practicing gratitude, as well as future aspirations for scaling businesses.

Episode 133: Best Selling Author & Mosaic Founder, Erwin McManus on Spirituality, Entrepreneurship & RelationshipsToday on the show, we have Erwin McManus. He is an amazing spiritual thought leader and creative who's creating businesses, but also wrote books with over a million copies sold. I have seen 'em talk at the Summit of Greatness, which is an amazing conference, which only a handful of amazing, inspiring people get to talk to every year, and Erwin was one of the speakers.He blew me away, I reached out, and I got him to come on the podcast and talk to you all about the things that actually, are connected to our being, which are communication, spirituality, desires, how to overcome challenges, how to find your passion and work on what you love, how to live a happier life, how to make sense of life.This guy is just an amazing, inspiring, wise human being, a philosopher, but also a spiritual teacher, and also a coach for billion-dollar earning entrepreneurs. So everything brings together this amazing human being called Erwin McManus. Guys, enjoy the show, and don't forget to share it if you like what you heard. Let’s Begin!Brought to you by...Our very own app! Affirmations & Co - Crush Limiting Beliefs and Manifest Your Goals with Affirmations!Follow others, get inspired by their affirmations and make them your own, add reminders of your OWN affirmations on your phone, and add widgets to help you manifest quickly!Get it on the app store or Google Play:iOS (Apple App Store) →Android (Google Play) →-------------------(Timestamps & Gold Gems)[09:51 - 10:34] Erwin McManus ⭐Gold GemWhat really struck me was the one thing that humans can do that no other species can do is humans can materialize the invisible human beings can actually have an idea and translate that idea into reality. And one of the things we talked about at the Summit of Greatness was that humans create futures in the same way that silkworms create silk. And beavers naturally intrinsically create dams and ants create colonies, and bees create beehives and honey, humans create futures. But it's so intrinsic to who we are that we do not realize that's our unique contribution to all the species on the planet.[13:05 - 13:46] Erwin McManus ⭐Gold Gem  I'm absolutely convinced that if you want to find proof of God, look at human nature. Human beings were created to dream, and to imagine, and to create. It's one of the things I love telling people is, look, you were born in the imagination of God. God imagined you before you existed. In that sense, God dreamed about you before you ever had your first dream. And but you were, imagined to imagine, and you were created to create. And that every human being is both a work of art and an artist at work. And I just love the fact that the best reflection of the image of God is when a human being creates good in the world.Topic: The 7 Frequencies of Communication[23:07 - 24:01] Erwin McManus ⭐Gold Gem  I'm just gonna lay 'em out real quick. There's a frequency called MOTIVATOR, which inspires and encourages. There's a frequency called CHALLENGER that calls people out and calls people up. There's a frequency called COMMANDER that tells people what to do and takes authority and control. There's a frequency called HEALER that sees everyone as broken and they want to bring healing and care. There's a frequency called the PROFESSOR. They think all that matters is the information and the facts, and all they want to do is create a transference of knowledge. There's a frequency called SEER, and they're vision casters. They're visionaries and they elevate the room by helping people see a different picture of the future, a bigger picture of their life and of the world. And then there's a frequency called the MAVEN, and a maven is a psychological mental disruptor. They change paradigms, they change the way you see reality. Those are the seven frequencies. [35:11 - 36:00] Erwin McManus ⭐Gold Gem  I think one of the great challenges people have is that they keep trying to find their purpose in their career or in their job, or in what they do. And actually, your purpose should be rooted in who you are, who you're becoming, not what you're doing. Because, if your purpose is your job and you lose your job, you've lost your purpose. If your purpose is your career and you've lost your career, you've lost your purpose. If your purpose is your success and then you have a downturn and you lose that success, you've lost your purpose. And that's why so many people go through a crisis of purpose is because their purpose was externalized in something that was outside of their control. When your purpose is outside of your control, you're in danger of losing your purpose. The only thing within your control is the person you choose to become.[38:27 - 39:10] Erwin McManus ⭐Gold Gem So I said, all right, you've lost that billion dollars, but you've gained a billion dollars worth of experience. You're not the same person you were. You're like exponentially more powerful, more knowledgeable, and you are bringing so much more to the table now than you did then. So if you could create a billion dollars from the person you were then, how much can you create with the person you are now?  And I've watched all of them rise back up, because it's not about having a million dollars or a billion dollars, it's about the person that makes you, the person you must become, to create that kinda wealth and that kind of future.[46:30 - 46:57]  Erwin McManus ⭐Gold Gem When you love what you're doing, you have more energy. So what I would say is, instead of saying, get outta bed and stop sleeping and stop being a bum and stop being lazy, I go, Hey, stop doing what you hate and find a way to do what you love and you only have one life. If, even if you spend your life making a hundred million dollars if you spent your whole life working, but you haven't enjoyed a single day, what did you make?[52:10 - 53:05] Erwin McManus ⭐Gold Gem And, so when people say you need to focus, some of it is there are people who have been given this rare gift to have one talent, and that one talent becomes the full expression of their life. I happen to not be that talented,  and so my talents are diversified and my talent is in my diversity. My talent is in the uniqueness of my diversification. And I'm able to express that talent in multiple things. I think where it becomes a problem is when you're doing things that you shouldn't be doing. The things that you don't have the talent to do or things that you don't have the passion to do or things you don't have the skill to do. And the way of knowing if you're doing too many things is are you having to cheat the process? If you're cheating the process, you shouldn't be doing it.[1:03:20 - 1:04:17] Erwin McManus ⭐Gold Gem And what is amazing is, what the study showed was that creativity and genius isn't something you learn, it's something you have to hold onto, and that actually human beings are created intrinsically creative. That every human being has a unique genius to them.But the ones we i...

Episode 132: Understand Your Past Triggers And Heal Your Future Self (w/ Dr. Nima Rahmany)Today on the show, we have Dr. Nima Rahmany. Dr. Nima is a retired chiropractor that went into working with healing, based on cognitive and somatic-based tools. Basically what Dr. Nima does is, he helps people break trauma bonds and heal trauma bonds, which we will talk about on the show.And he's talking about the connection between our fantasies of love, sex, and money and how we can heal those kinds of traumas and cure our past in order to create a better future. It was an amazing conversation, full value, and I would love for you guys to hear this. Before we do, I just want to ask you, if you love the show, please share it with someone that can benefit from this show. So thank you again and enjoy.Brought to you by...Our very own app! Affirmations & Co - Crush Limiting Beliefs and Manifest Your Goals with Affirmations!Follow others, get inspired by their affirmations and make them your own, add reminders of your OWN affirmations on your phone, and add widgets to help you manifest quickly!Get it on the app store or Google Play:iOS (Apple App Store) →Android (Google Play) →-------------------Gold GemsDr. Nima ⭐Gold Gem  Number one, I could make sure I can figure out, how did I get here? Number two, how do I make sure this never happens again? And if I can, and then if I can do number one and number two, can I potentially have a healthy relationship? The answer is yes. And if I can do these three, then number four, which is how do I teach other people how to not go through the exact same pathway that I did? So that's really the backstory of why I'm teaching it.Dr. Nima ⭐Gold Gem  Most of the time relationships are fantasies. They're in a fantasy, and what I discovered, is that's why every relationship I was having, I was divorced back in 2011, every relationship was failed, a failed relationship because I was entering them thinking that the other person is there to heal me from my insecurities and make me happy and all of our unresolved woundings from childhood are going to be saved by the other person. And that fails miserably when we enter that with the covert agreement that that's what's gonna happen, the relationship is doomed to fail. Dr. Nima ⭐Gold GemNow there's an option here, you either project that past wounding onto the other person and say, “Why are you doing this to me”? Which, you both are gonna be doing this to one another.Or you learn the skills of understanding your wounding, your attachment distress responses, fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. This is what happens when you get into conflict. You fight, (poke), you flight (run), “I'm getting the hell outta here”. You freeze, which is you hide or you just shut down or you fawn, which means just fixing. Let's just fix, abandon yourself and fix.Dr. Nima ⭐Gold GemTrauma is stuck, stored energy in our system. If you take on the work of shifting that stored traumatic energy through the system, your partner that used to trigger all of those past stuff, all of a sudden they'll say the thing that won't evoke the same response in you. Option number one, the dynamic shifts and arising tide lift all boats and the relationship transforms.Dr. Nima ⭐Gold GemWhat I do is I work with people and get 'em to a place where they have an open heart and they can move on. What's the most loving thing for both parties to do? And sometimes the most loving thing is to move on. That's the question. The work is to get the person to a place where they can have a deep love for themselves. When you have a deep love for yourself, you won't tolerate being treated less than that. So a lot of people do move on and a lot of people, the relationship dynamic completely changes. And it's a work in progress. Dr. Nima ⭐Gold GemWhy do we step over these red flags when it comes to love? When it comes to sex, and it comes to money? And the answer to that is "FANTASY". We have fantasies from childhood when it comes to love. When it comes to sexuality, we have sexual trauma. There is your first sexual experience. Oftentimes, there's incest with family members. This is gonna be very triggering to a lot of people, but we talk about it very openly. Our sexual identity, our love identity, and our money identity comes from past experiences, our cultureDr. Nima ⭐Gold GemIf you don't experience that level of feeling seen and attuned emotionally by a conscious parent, a fantasy gets implanted with love. I'm gonna have somebody make, totally adore and worship me with money. Oh, I'm gonna be rich and famous. So now you have this fantasy of I wanna be famous,Dr. Nima ⭐Gold GemSo what happens is when you get into a relationship with somebody, two people have these uncovered fantasies that they project onto one another called a shared fantasy. And this is what fuels the trauma bond, it's the shared fantasy. And so part of healing from a trauma bond is dismantling that fantasy and really finding appreciation in reality. Changing your relationship to dopamine and getting the reward of the fame or the likes and the whatever, and to really give, learn how to give that to self.Dr. Nima ⭐Gold GemIt's like you've been born into a fishbowl with dirty water. You're saying, how do you heal from that? You gotta get out of that fishbowl. You gotta be planted into an aquarium that's clean or a garden where the soil has been toxic and deficient. You gotta remove yourself from that and put yourself in healthy soil and learn how to create a boundary around that soil that says, this is who I am. So now when you go in different places and other people have opinions about you that are different than you, you're able to say, no, this is what I feel about me regardless, and that is a spiritual journey.Dr. Nima ⭐Gold GemThe first place to begin starts to learn how to the different parts of the nervous system and learn what they feel like when they get activated and how to operate the machinery.Because without that, business doesn't work. Your relationship with money wouldn't work. Your intimate partnerships, they're always, you're always activating one another. Yep. So this was critical information that I really needed to learn and so I teach what I most need to learn now.RESOURCESWebsites and Social Media links:IG: @drnimaFB: Trigger Proof Regulate Stress & Strengthen Immunity during a CrisisMain website: https://drnima.com/-------------------Commit First is a Personal Development Podcast for Entrepreneurs and can be found on:Our website →Apple Podcasts →Spotify ->Youtube →Or on any other favorite podcast player app.--------------🙌 Be sure to follow Sagi Shrieber on Instagram→ https://www.ins...

Episode 131: How to get Productive & Generate Monetary Success Even When You're a Creative (w/Didi Medina)Today on the show we have Didi Medina. Didi is a product design and leadership consultant. He's been in the game for over 10 years in the tech industry, working with companies in New York, San Francisco, here in Israel, and all over the world. He's very much like me, in the way that we both come from the tech world with over 10 years of experience in product design.  He managed to get to a very high income while also being that creative, that guy that starts many projects, just like a lot of us.Didi is here to talk about that, not specifically the figures, but how do you get productive? How do you manage to start a project? Finish your project. How do you become resilient? How do we not stop in the face of adversity? What is the right mindset to have about these things? Didi has such an amazing, tremendous concept about all these things from his experience and his unique philosophy, which you will see. Guys, enjoy this episode, the Commit First podcast with Didi Medina. Let's begin!Brought to you by...Our very own app! Affirmations & Co - Crush Limiting Beliefs and Manifest Your Goals with Affirmations!Follow others, get inspired by their affirmations and make them your own, add reminders of your OWN affirmations on your phone, and add widgets to help you manifest quickly!Get it on the app store or Google Play:iOS (Apple App Store) →Android (Google Play) →-------------------Timestamps & Gold Gems:[5:57 - 6:22] Didi Medina ⭐Gold Gem  You'll think like most artists would define themselves as successful as an artist if it makes over a certain dollar or not. Which kind of brings us to a very simple point. It's like, you have to have the humility to accept that certain things are better than, “I'm making money than others”. And you cannot make certain things become the vehicle to the billion-dollar baby if it's not optimized for that.[9:40 - 10:52] Didi Medina ⭐Gold Gem  Everything that has a bigger reward tends to take longer and requires relatively more pain and adversity to overcome. You're not gonna get through that, to see the other side of your work unless you can keep yourself lonely-headed, and whatever works for you in that process is a blessing. Some people find the gym to be a way to keep themselves grounded and patient and calm the process. And other people find affirmations to be, in some people, do a hybrid in both, and some people do yoga. I think whatever it is you choose to do, there's a bunch of different tools. I think it's fair to assume that anything you pursue to do that has delayed returns, right? It's like I start work, I break ground today, I'm probably going, gonna see the fruits of my labor in a year plus from now.  In any sort of meaningful way and probably like in a substantial way, like even further down the line.You're gonna have to stomach a lot of like, patience and there are all these tools are very useful in calling yourself fuck down. Yeah. And just taking it, step by step[15:37 - 15:56] Didi Medina ⭐Gold GemThere's a whole like psychological paradox that explains that one with the Dunning-Kruger effect. It explains our confidence towards things, right? Like it's on a, it's an inverse belt curve. It's like when you know very little about something, you're very confident about it. As you learn more about it, you get very petrified about it, and as you become an expert and you're very confident and comfortable[16:43 - 17:58] Didi Medina ⭐Gold Gem  The way I usually like to reference it is like, people have to be both methodical and disciplined, right? It's if you're all disciplined, you can work really hard in the wrong direction. If you're all methodical, with no discipline, you can be a complete philosopher, right?And you need to have enough methodology to put your hard work to good use, which is not given. Working hard does not mean it's being applied in the right way. You can learn really fast and hard in the wrong direction. That is absolutely possible. Yeah. So you need to know how to cycle through that sometimes if you find yourself working really hard, Not getting to the results you want.Having the humility to step back and being like, maybe it's not about me, not trying hard enough. It's about me applying that effort to the wrong place and really trying to reflect. Other times you can find yourself overthinking it, over-planning something to death, and being like trying to convince yourself, out of every possible risk.And that's also a good time to just,  shut up and just do learn. And then when you get to the bottom of that curve, like then make the decisions on what is and what isn't, cuz your brain is gonna both for better and for worse, try to make assumptions way too far into the pipe in advance to try to protect you.[24:31 - 25:26] Didi Medina ⭐Gold Gem The experiential level of your body is going to conflict with what you understand intellectually. And that's where these tools really come in, they police your emotional level, meditating right? A little bit more can help slow down that response of going from, I feel a lot of control to needing to do something about it.Yeah. So that's yeah. All those tools really help slow down that emotional state to try to keep up, with what you already understand to be true on an intellectual level. And I think like over time as you take on more risk and you tolerate more risk and you get more comfortable with just risk being all around you, your tolerance goes up, you'll find needing these tools less and less for those reasons. [26:27 - 26:58] Didi Medina ⭐Gold Gem One thing that I do is, I found it I think from Tim Ferris a long time ago. It's like one of those things that like all the methodologies and ways of doing things. This thing, this one stuck with me was like, Fear-Setting, right? It's the human condition that is programmed to be afraid of loss more than it is programmed to pursue opportunity, right? So if you're trying to understand why you're reacting to something in a certain way, that doesn't make sense to you. [29:39 - 30:07] Didi Medina ⭐Gold Gem Write problems that you're trying to solve. Talk to people who've already solved it. That's the hard rule. It's like, don't ask people to help theorize what they think would work if they were in your shoes or whatever.It's very dangerous. Like you don't need more speculation, right? It's like you wanna solve problem X, find someone who's already solved it, and then go talk to them. You'll get a whole different experience. So that's like number one, right? And then if you can't get mentors, be your own mentor.RESOURCES:Websites and Social Media links:https://www.didimedina.com/https://twitter.com/thatguydidiFear-Setting: The Most Valuable Exercise I Do Every Month By Tim Ferris

How Affirmations WorkToday we're gonna talk about how affirmations work. Before we get into that, we need to discover why affirmations in the first place, why do we need them? I will also talk about some tips in order to make affirmations work. Even if you don't believe it yet, you will see how powerful they are.Brought to you by...Our very own app! Affirmations & Co - Crush Limiting Beliefs and Manifest Your Goals with Affirmations!Follow others, get inspired by their affirmations and make them your own, add reminders of your OWN affirmations on your phone, and add widgets to help you manifest quickly!Get it on the app store or Google Play:iOS (Apple App Store) →Android (Google Play) →-------------------Timestamps & Gold Gems:Belief System and How the Brain Works[1:30 - 2:06]Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem  The belief system is basically comprised of neural networks that are in our brain, in order to create some kind of purpose for anything that comes out of the external world. Let's talk about how the brain works for a second. So whenever we have some kind of external stimulus, for instance, we see something or we hear something, something that comes through our senses or just sparks in our neocortex in like thoughts, memories, you know, in our brain. And so what happens is we automatically process those thoughts or information and give them meaning. Meaning is sometimes, emotions.[5:48 - 6:15]Sagi ShrieberA neural network that was formed when you were five years old starts gaining evidence from that day onward until you're about 35, 38, whatever age you are right now, and all these years of collecting evidence just make you really, really sure of that knowledge, thought, wisdom that you think you have might not be the truth. It's just a neural network, sometimes we're not even aware of those neural networks.[7:40 - 8:07]Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem  We don't control our feelings. We don't control the external stimulus. What do we control in life then? How can we not move about just like robots, you know, determine how we were kind of wired and programmed when we were kids?The only thing that we can control are our thoughts and starting to change neural networks. Actually, it's starting to build new neural networks on top of the existing ones that we want to change.Inner Chatter[9:31 - 9:56]Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem Think about how many conversations you have in every single day and what is the percentage that you have them with other people, and what is the percentage that you have them with yourself? You probably have way more with yourself, right. And who is that person talking to you? Well, turns out the person that's talking to you, probably in most cases, according to studies, is the voice of your caregivers when you were a child.[11:06 - 11:23]Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem One tip for that, besides affirmations by the way, is to talk to yourself in third person. And a lot of professional athletes and people who got to great achievements, claim to be talking to themselves in third person, including I think Muhammad Ali and all the big stars. That's in order to achieve greatness, you kinda have to coach yourself.How Does Affirmations Work?[11:33 - 11:54]Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem Affirmations work, by you, repeating thoughts or something you wanna instill in your subconscious, multiple times. Hopefully you are reading it out loud. The reason you wanna read it out loud is because we as humans, we tend to learn and understand that we understand better by the ears. Like whatever we hear coming through our ears into our brain. [13:09 - 13:29]Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem This is a tip for anyone who tried affirmations and it didn't work for you. Think about it like that. You tried, it didn't work for you.So what are you doing now? Now you have to get over that hurdle, okay? You have to understand that this is what your body, your mind, your thought process is trying to, is basically fighting against this new belief because it doesn't believe it[14:11 - 14:28]Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem You have to get over that hurdle, where you repeat it over and over, and at the beginning, you won't believe it. Slowly but surely, you'll not even need to believe it because now that new neural pathway is just starting out, and now it's starting to collect evidence without you even recognizing it.RESOURCESEpisode 126: 5 Tips To Start Leveling Up Your Fitness Chatter book by Ethan Cross-------------------Commit First is a Personal Development Podcast for Entrepreneurs and can be found on:Our website →Apple Podcasts →Spotify ->Youtube →Or on any other favorite podcast player app.--------------🙌 Be sure to follow Sagi Shrieber on Instagram→ https://www.instagram.com/sagishrieber/

Recharge Your Business Mind and Escape BurnoutLife is full of negativity and pressure and stresses, and you need to step out of that, right, and shield yourself with positivity. The question is how?In this episode, we'll explore the causes of burnout in business and provide tips on how to revitalize yourself in nature. Tune in to learn more about how to find balance, joy, and peace in your life.Brought to you by...Our very own app! Affirmations & Co - Crush Limiting Beliefs and Manifest Your Goals with Affirmations!Follow others, get inspired by their affirmations and make them your own, add reminders of your OWN affirmations on your phone, and add widgets to help you manifest quickly!Get it on the app store or Google Play:iOS (Apple App Store) →Android (Google Play) →-------------------Timestamps & Gold Gems:[0:32 - 0:53]Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem  One of the first things is to get your body in like out of the stress mode and kind of more in equanimity and peace with itself. The way to do that is get out of the city stress, go out on walks and hikes in nature. It's one of the best places to go to get new ideas and to refresh your mind. It's amazing and it's really important for your wellbeing. [1:46 - 2:07]Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem  One of the reasons I take walks in nature and all that stuff is to revitalize myself and my energy and kind of make sure that I have enough vital energy to be productive during the day and to take myself out of stresses and full on stresses and pressure of everyday life as an entrepreneur and business owner, which is extremely, extremely full of adversity and stress.[2:10 - 2:29]Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem  What I think makes you burn out first of all, is if you work on something that you are not in full integrity with, meaning it's not something that you feel you will get to your dream life with, and you work and you wake up every day to work at that, that will get you burned out when you work hard on something which is not aligned with your vision.[3:14 - 3:37]Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem  That second form of burnout can happen if you are working as a business owner towards your goals and dreams and working very hard because it takes real effort and you have to put in the time to get to where you want to get and that's what I'm doing right now, and the stresses of that and the ongoing struggle and adversity is something that I right now am dealing with, and I think a lot of business owners struggle with.[3:57 - 4:16]Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem  Just to touch up on one more thing is like there's all the gurus that are saying like, just get the job done. Need to get the job done. Don't be a p*ssy,  all that stuff. I mean, there's also the different people that are saying, yeah, just need to get to what you need to get done.Don't think you need a morning routine, whatever, like in order to be successful.  F*ck that sh*t. Your energy is more important than anything.-------------------Commit First is a Personal Development Podcast for Entrepreneurs and can be found on:Our website →Apple Podcasts →Spotify ->Youtube →Or on any other favorite podcast player app.--------------🙌 Be sure to follow Sagi Shrieber on Instagram→ https://www.instagram.com/sagishrieber/

2 Ways To Start A Business When You Don’t Have Any FundsIn this episode, one person came to us today and he was like an artist and he wants to develop his business as an artist, but he is like a very talented artist, but at the moment, his art is not selling. So I just wanted to share some of the insights that we gave.Brought to you by...Our very own app! Affirmations & Co - Crush Limiting Beliefs and Manifest Your Goals with Affirmations!Follow others, get inspired by their affirmations and make them your own, add reminders of your OWN affirmations on your phone, and add widgets to help you manifest quickly!Get it on the app store or Google Play:iOS (Apple App Store) →Android (Google Play) →-------------------Timestamps & Gold Gems:[1:37 - 2:00] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold GemIt's a lot of budget to self-fund. This whole like social media thing, right? And I wouldn't be able to grow it in the direction that I want to. And again, it comes to the long-term vision cause when you have that long-term vision, you can actually do it. If you don't have that long-term vision, then you're stuck. You can chase your own tail. So one direction is to self-fund it, bootstrap it, work your way, build a business around your superpowers.[2:49 - 3:02] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold GemIf you don't have the long-term vision and all you want to do now is your gut feeling, which is I’m going to work on my art or on this new direction, which is not going to bring me money, probably around like the upcoming months or even years, then you're not doing the right thing.[3:15 - 3:31] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold GemThe other thing we just told him is there's another route. You can get investment, right? But that means you're putting all your focus right now, on finding an investor on meeting and pitching investors and getting some funds in to fund your operation, right? Like a startup like a lot of companies do, which is ok.[4:06 - 4:21] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold GemI am a bootstrapper by heart. If I bring money in, it would be out of the pure necessity of bringing an investor in because it's a strategic move or I've figured out the product market fit and now you know I can grow. This is why you bring investment in, mostly.-------------------Commit First is a Personal Development Podcast for Entrepreneurs and can be found on:Our website →Apple Podcasts →Spotify ->Youtube →Or on any other favorite podcast player app.--------------🙌 Be sure to follow Sagi Shrieber on Instagram→ https://www.instagram.com/sagishrieber/

The One Hack to REALLY Take Your Business to the Next LevelIn this episode, I will be sharing one hack on how to level up as an entrepreneur. If you’re looking to level up as an entrepreneur and you're looking at all the strategies and tactics and trying to find your way and get that break. Let me tell you, this hack may be simple but it’s  hard. Brought to you by...Our very own app! Affirmations & Co - Crush Limiting Beliefs and Manifest Your Goals with Affirmations!Follow others, get inspired by their affirmations and make them your own, add reminders of your OWN affirmations on your phone, and add widgets to help you manifest quickly!Get it on the app store or Google Play:iOS (Apple App Store) →Android (Google Play) →-------------------Timestamps & Gold Gems:LIMITING BELIEFS[00:50 - 1:28] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold GemThink about your life. We are all born into some kind of world with some kind of caretakers, right? That our society and our caretakers in our environment and the card that we were dealt, forced a belief system into our life and preconceived notions that are very, very hard to change.So how can we change that? How can we breakthrough into what we wanna create in this world because of that limiting belief system, those preconceived notions, that limitation of where we come from sometimes is a glass ceiling that we need to break in order to get to where we wanna get.BUILD ON YOUR CHARACTER[2:14 - 2:48] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold GemThe word character, do you know where it comes from? It comes from the actual tool, chisel, to chisel away at something and to chisel away, meaning that the same thing that sculptures use to create those amazing sculptures that you see in museums. That's exactly it, chisel. So a chiseling process is a very careful, delicate process, but very intentional. And sometimes we gotta use force and sometimes we gotta chisel very delicately. We don't want to chisel it too much, but it's an intentional process and we can do that with ourselves[3:01 - 3:25] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold GemNumber one is work on your integrity. A lot of people say and claim they're great people, then they cut off people on the road and they do all kinds of stuff, which is like in the micro. But here's the thing. Your life is led by your micro decisions. Your micro decision is what really, really matters in the day-to-day. So work on your integrity and work on being the number one human being that you can be. [3:25- 4:05] Sagi ShrieberWork on your emotional state management. Now, this is very important. Listen, it comes up to the kind of mysticism or spiritual side, but it's very, very practical and scientific. So we don't control the feelings once they happen. Once they're there, we don't control them and we don't control anything that is external that just happened to us. We don't control those as well. The only thing that we can control is our neural networks. The things inside our mind, right inside our head, which actually is a scientific thing. So it's not the mind, it's the brain, right? So we can control our thoughts about things and our judgment of things that are happening.[5:41 - 06:06] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold GemWork on faith and faith is a habit as far as I care. I mean, for me, faith was not there so much, and you have to have faith. If you wanna be an entrepreneur, you gotta work on your faith. And yes, that means a bit of spirituality in the mix because you know what? You gotta have faith that everything will turn out for the better. And not having faith, it's meaning basically to be in fear a lot of the times.[6:52 - 07:10] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold GemHal Elrod wrote a book called The Miracle Equation and in that book he says, to really see miracles happen in your life and business, you really just gotta have tremendous amount of faith over a long period of time, combined with hard work and that way you'll see magic happenWORK ON YOUR LIMITING BELIEFS[7:24- 7:37] Sagi ShrieberSo what you need to do is an intentional process of affirmations. But that's the first part of affirmation. Affirmation is step number one, and if you want, you can also download our app Affirmations and Co.[7:57 - 8:15] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold GemWhen you write affirmation, you should think about what do I want to get done in this world? What are my goals? What are my dreams? Write those down. You can write whatever you want regarding any goal you have, and then when you read it, think about what limiting beliefs pop up regarding that affirmation.[9:25 - 9:37] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold GemNumber two, I would say in order to work on your integrity. Integrity is matching your values with your actions but it's also kind of like I'm going to do what I'm saying I'm gonna do. So if you say you're gonna do something, then you do it.RESOURCESBooks mentioned:The Miracle Equation by Hal ElrodCultivating an Unshakable Character by Jim Rohn75 Hard Challenge by Andy FrisellaHow hard is the 75 Hard by Sagi Shrieber (Youtube episode)-------------------Commit First is a Personal Development Podcast for Entrepreneurs and can be found on:Our website →Apple Podcasts →Spotify ->Youtube →Or on any other favorite podcast player app.--------------🙌 Be sure to follow Sagi Shrieber on Instagram→ https://www.instagram.com/sagishrieber/

5 Tips To Start Leveling Up Your FitnessIn this episode, I will answer a question that was sent to me by one of my followers. The questions is:“Hey Sagi, I've been following you for years and it seems that in recent years you made a significant change in the way that you approach life and health and your fitness and I wonder how I can level up my fitness and teach myself to be persistent. Persistent in training and in nutrition, and basically get to new higher grounds. How can I do that? Can you give me some tips? Even if they involve paying someone or something like that? I would love to know.”And I will answer this with the 5 things you need to know in order to level up your mental gain, your fitness, and your nutrition all in one take. Let’s begin.Brought to you by...Our very own app! Affirmations & Co - Crush Limiting Beliefs and Manifest Your Goals with Affirmations!Follow others, get inspired by their affirmations and make them your own, add reminders of your OWN affirmations on your phone, and add widgets to help you manifest quickly!Get it on the app store or Google Play:iOS (Apple App Store) →Android (Google Play) →-------------------Timestamps & Gold Gems:#1 Hire a Coach[1:42 - 1:53] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem Number one, get coaches for whatever you wanna excel at. It's not one quote for everything, and a lot of people are not even investing in themselves in hiring a proper coach[3:20 - 3:45] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem  You know our ignorance sometimes, it's like preventing us from actually knowing what we need in order to have clarity of vision and actually have a vision in the first place. And so when we get a coach, they help us understand first, like what do we need to aim for? What do we wanna aim for? What is the difference between the goals that we can strive for? Then we can get to choose and pick, and they will help us get there[5:48 - 6:20 ] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem  So if you work with the right professionals in every field, then you get to where you need to go. Tip number one, like I said, hire a coach and hire multiple coaches and coach for everything you need. The right professionals that will be there on your team. Imagine yourself as the boxer, the professional athlete, and on your ring side. That's where you need to form the team that will give you the proper guidance. And also help you throughout the camp to get to where you need to go and win the fight#2 Become a Student and Practitioner of Persistence[ 6:43 - 6:59 ] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem  In order to become a student and practitioner of persistence, let's understand what persistence is. So the meaning and the definition of persistence is to continue to do something in a determined way, even when facing challenges and opposition[9:04 - 9:28 ] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem  People with a fixed mindset would get to a point where they try to go to the gym or muscles hurt, or even maybe they got really, really strained or injured like slightly at the gym the first time, whatever, they will quit because they would say, maybe it's not for me.The people with the growth mindset would say, oh, I'm feeling my muscles are aching. Yes, that means I'm making progress. Those are the growth minded peopleTopic: Commit First episodes with Dr. Ryan Gottfredson[ 9:56- 10:17 ] Sagi ShrieberSo episode number 67 is about the four types of mindset and there's also episode number 51 with Dr. Ryan Gottfredson, which is an amazing episode. And there's a new episode, it's episode number 120. Episode number 120 is amazing, also with Dr. Ryan Gottfredson. Each of them is just gold, so enjoy these episodes and let me know how you find them. [10:18 - 10:42 ] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem  You have to understand what procrastination is because a lot of the times we procrastinate on doing something we know we need to do, that we even committed to, but then we don't do it. Why don't we do it? Well, we don't do it because we procrastinate on it, but then we need to understand what procrastination is. Procrastination is basically the avoidance of doing something that you know is difficult, but you need to do. #3 Make Time & #4 Re-align your Values [12:25 - 12:44 ] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem  Our families don't have us if we, don't have us, our family won't have us. So the value of family completely is just gone if we don't take care of yourself, if we don't put ourselves first. And so check yourself, check your values. What are your values? Now, if you value your mental and physical health, make time for it.[13:20 - 13:41] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem  I did what I call the 9-12 club where I slept until like 7:00 AM when needed to wake up and get the kids ready for school and everything instead of waking up early for a morning routine, which is the preferred way of an entrepreneur to kind of like wake up before the whole world wakes up and wants you on their agenda and you need to serve your kids and your family. #5 Just Start[15:16 - 15:36] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem  So just start. I mean, it's so easy not to start, that's procrastination like we talked about before. But the start thing is so important. So when I was designing, I remember someone gave me a tip. He said, Sagi, you know what? The hardest thing about any project is starting the project is actually like opening Photoshop and starting to design things in Photoshop[16:30 - 16:20] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold GemSo what is it for you? Maybe it's like putting even your fitness shoes on. Maybe it's getting out the door. Like do it step by step. Don't procrastinate on small steps. It's very easy to procrastinate on a large thing, but when it comes to the little thing, it's so easy. Drive to the gym. Go to the gym. Okay. We'll do it step by step.[15:59 - 16:48] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold GemHave patience. Maybe that's the sixth thing, I guess. But it's kinda like when you start, don't let people expect immediate results for anything that they do. Persistence is not about just mental and physical fitness, nutrition, getting leaner or gaining mass, like it's a process and it's a process of years.RESOURCESCommit First Podcast and Episodes with Dr. Ryan GottfredsonEpisode 67: The 4 Success MindsetsEpisode 51: Understand th...