COMMIT FIRST with Sagi Shrieber

5 Tips To Start Leveling Up Your Fitness

In this episode, I will answer a question that was sent to me by one of my followers. The questions is:

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.

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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 people

Topic: Commit First episodes with Dr. Ryan Gottfredson

[ 9:56- 10:17 ] Sagi Shrieber

So 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 Gem

So 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 Gem

Have 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.

RESOURCES

Commit First Podcast and Episodes with Dr. Ryan Gottfredson

Episode 67: The 4 Success Mindsets

Episode 51: Understand th...

Mastermind: Finding the Right Mentor, Coach and Friends, to Grow your Business with

In this episode, I actually flew out all the way from Israel to attend the MASTERMIND and I wanna kind of talk to you about my takeaways, why I attend Mastermind or some potential pitfalls when attending these kind of events because I think a lot of people are still not investing in themselves as they should.

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Timestamps & Gold Gems:

[0:43 - 1:27] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem  

I think attending Mastermind is one of the most important things that you can do for yourself and your business. The reason I'm saying it is because in business it's a lonely journey. All right. It's also like a spiritual journey where you develop yourself and being lonely on a journey, which is a spiritual journey, sucks.

And there's this feeling like the whole world, like, you know, so many forces are against you and you have so many choices, but each choice can lead to a complete disaster. While some choices can lead to a lot of success, I'm talking about monetary success, but I'm also talking about like, success when it comes to like building what you want to build in the world, because you can work very hard on your business, but basically you get to a point where you're not happy you can do that.

[2:20 - 2:45] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem

Surround yourself with, first of all, a mentor, a coach, mostly like a mentor, someone that you can look up to and that can help you, guide you in the right direction, that mentor needs to be three things. 

One, someone who's achieved success in what you wanna achieve success in.

Two, you need to align with their values 100%. If you don't align with their values, you know, don't go to them. 

Three, he needs to also show up for his people in a way that you wanna show up for your people later on. 

[3:07 - 3:29 ]Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem

You wanna make sure to always surround yourself with great people that will move you forward. Those people are the connections that you're gonna have for years to come. Great friends that you're gonna be working with, collaborating with, and you know, really moving forward with in a long haul. And I think that those people would push you higher. And those are the people that you wanna make sure that you grow with

[3:50 - 4:04 ]Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem

Knowledge is very important. Knowledge is key. We all know that, but when you consume knowledge, make sure you consume it from the right people in the right settings. And mastermind is a great way to consume knowledge and go deep on a topic and into your business. 

[4:04 - 4:28 ]Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem

Knowledge is power because it's not the things that we know that we need to do that will push us towards success. It's actually most of the things that we don't know ,that we don't know. Right. And the things that sometimes we do know, that we need to do that are so simple, but we overthink them or  you know, we're not holding ourselves accountable to them because we procrastinate, because it's not convenient for us to do.

Topic: Possible Pitfalls

[5:10 - 5:28 ]Sagi Shrieber

Some mastermind settings where you have a lot of people breaking out each other's businesses are kind of getting it wrong, some of them. Because either you get yourself into a mastermind with the wrong people, people that are not smarter than you, people that are not in the same game as you even, which is completely wrong.

[6:10 - 6:26 ]Sagi Shrieber 

The answers are within you. They can give you ideas, either by asking you questions or by telling a case study of how they implemented something in their business or saw someone implementing the same thing.

But make sure that they don't tell you what you need to do because that's dangerous,

[7:07 - 7:33]Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem

Lastly, a couple of tips when in the mastermind. One, form authentic relationships. Just every second you got, just go and network with people and I think two, is take action on what you need to do.

Maybe after a session, go aside and kind of map it out, journal about it, or map out the actual action items that you need to do or send some stuff to your team. Write a lot of notes, take them home, review them. Don't leave everything in the Mastermind.

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How to RESET your Energy Between Work and Family-time (Practical Practices)

For this episode, we’ll talk about how we can bring the energy that we have from work to our evening with our families because that energy usually is not the best energy. Either it's an energy which is like that energy of guilt and lack of productivity. 

Good thing is that we have the option to reset this energy so we can spend time and be more present with our family and have a great evening together at home with them. This is all about what I call “The Switch”.

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Timestamps & Gold Gems:

It's 6:00 PM right now and some of us work at our home office. I used to work from home for like five years, but eventually it's the same because we carry energy from one place to another and once we carry that energy, it might be good energy, but it might also be not so good energy and we might feel drained from the work day

[1:27 - 1:40] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem

One tip that helps me and I want to also kind of give you is like, we don't wanna go back home with all that energy carried from our work to our evening with our families because that energy usually is not the best energy

[1:51 - 2:21] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem

I've been so productive I want to get more done at work at my previous kind of endeavor today, but now you're moving on to your next endeavor, and the next endeavor is your kids and your spouse, your partner. 

They need you, right? They need us to serve them. They need us to be present for them and that's why I think that it's very crucial that we do this, what's called like energy reset. This is all about what I call “The Switch”. Now imagine that you have a button, right? We sometimes we feel we need this like reset.

[2:49 - 3:06] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem

I think just imagining a reset button kind of gets you to ask, well, what am I resetting to? Because now I'm kind of saying, okay, I'm resetting to be more intentional. Now I'm present with my family, with my kids and my wife, and have a great evening together at home.

[3:14 - 3:35] Sagi Shrieber ⭐Gold Gem

You can try and one minute kind of just sitting in your car before you go upstairs or at your home office and just sitting before you walk out of that door and saying "I'm letting go. Energy reset mode. Letting go. Let it go. Let it go." Take one breath in one breath out. Just say, let it go.

RESOURCES:

One minute energy reset introduced by Brendan Bouchard

Founder of:  https://www.growthday.com/ 

Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendonBurchardMotivation

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Episode 123: Manifestation and Success (A Sneak Peek into the Evolution Podcast with Sagi Shrieber, Terrance X Johnson and Ethan P. Heisey)

Today we have a very special episode for you. I wanted to have two updates to share with you. One, I have an app out. It's called Affirmations & Co. It's an app for affirmations. If you love personal development and everything is podcasted about, you will love this app.

Second update is, I don't know how many of you know this, but I have another podcast. So one is this Commit First, and the second one is called The Evolution Podcast, where I interview my mentor, Mr. Johnson, every single week, and we have weekly episodes coming out and I just ask him about business and life and things that are more on the verge of like spirituality in business and success. I flew out to the US. I flew out to meet Mr. J, and we sat down along with Ethan, the third host. He's also a mentee of Mr. J. and together we had an amazing session. We recorded two episodes, one, which is coming out this week, and so go out and check the Evolution podcast on Spotify and Apple podcast. Enjoy! 

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Timestamps & Gold Gems:

(4:28 - 5:02) Terrance X Johnson ⭐Gold Gem

Manifestation: Planting the seed

Before Sagi came here to the United States, I remember us conversing about it and we were doing what one would call planting seeds. All right, I have a saying, your mind is the soil, your thoughts are seeds and you water the soil and those seeds with your words. So Sagi says, I want to come see you, Mr. Johnson. Now, this is obviously quite a few months ago, but he puts it out there. He plants the seed if you will. We don't know when. We don't know how. We don't know where. We just know this is what we desire. This is what we would like to have happen, and let's move forward a few months later. Now he's sitting here in front of me.

5:42 - 6:11 Terrance X Johnson

Manifest positive thoughts

Each of us all have the ability to create whatever we see in our imagination or in our mind. This is a great gift, a divine gift. Unfortunately, most people focus on what they don't want. They imagine what they don't want. They imagine themselves being sick or lonely or unhappy or depressed or sad, and all these other variables that play a part in our life.

But if you take that same energy and you imagine something positive, if you will, and you hold that image in your mind, it would harden into your reality.

(9:32 - 9:53) Sagi Shreiber

when you manifest things or when you know, you tend to just say, hey, things come easily to me than they do. And so you work less hard and more things come. And then also when you put more energy in visualizing like in your own mind the proper outcome, then basically a lot of miracles happen along the way. 

11:11 - 11:36  Terrance X Johnson ⭐Gold Gem 

Law of Creation

You must understand where one sees the world totally depends on where they're standing in it. How you perceive the world to be. So if you perceive the world to be filled with this, filled with that, and then if you allow those thoughts and that narrative to creep into your consciousness. Then by definition, the law must make it that way for you.

What law am I referencing? The law of creation. There are certain laws that govern our planet and govern our universe.

(12:57 - 13:28) Terrance X Johnson

Remember, you can manifest whatever you want.

Number one, decide. Make a conscious decision. Number two, write it down what you write. Write your vision down and make it plain. I tell both of my guys, write down what you want. One thing I love about Ethan, he always do, He's always taking notes. He's, this guy is just like a note taker. He's listening and writing it down. And listen, it's not enough just to take notes, but I want you to apply what you're learning. The application, the acquiring of knowledge makes one smart. It is the application of what you've acquired that makes you wise.

(14:56 - 15:20) Terrance X Johnson 

We are all so called human beings. And I'll take that a step further. You are the gods. Now, most people won't tell you that. Most people probably won't believe that, but you tell me, can a pig make a flat screen tv? No? Can a Doberman pincher make an electric vehicle? No, it cannot. But man can, man can take a man's eyes out of a person who's dying and place those eyes in somebody else, and they can see.

(16:07 - 16:41) Terrance X Johnson ⭐Gold Gem

Faith

Most people do not know what it is to have faith. It is a word loosely thrown around and very easily misunderstood. Now, what is it is to have faith. Now I'm gonna give you the biblical definition. You can find this in the great book of Hebrews chapter 11, beginning at verse one. It says this, "Faith is the substance of things, hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." What does that simply mean? I'm gonna break it down for you, faith is a real thing. You have to have faith, not just in yourself, but have faith in your, everything that you're doing, your business, your health, your marriage, your children, everything you do, you're doing it in faith.

21:50 -  22:12 Terrance X Johnson  ⭐Gold Gem 

Hope

Now is the only moment that counts, my friends. Now is all you have. There's no guarantee that you'll wake up tomorrow, cause tomorrow never comes. Tomorrow was always today. Today is always yesterday. So tomorrow never comes. So what do you do? Make a decision now, it doesn't matter where you are financially, education-wise, I don't care what you're dealing with.

If you have breath in your body, you can breathe. There's something called hope.

23:52 - 24:07

Listen, let me leave with these words. From the day that you're born to the right and at hearse, things are never so bad that they couldn't be worse. I once saw a man complaining because he had no shoes until I saw a man with no feet. Life is colorful. Keep everything in its proper perspective.

RESOURCES:

Websites and Links:

affirmations.co

https://txjohnson.com/

https://ethanheisey.com/

You may check the Evolution Podcast episode on: 

https://evolution.transistor.fm/

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-evolution-podcast-business-mindset...

How Mental Fitness Can Save Your Life and Business (w/Marc Champagne)

In this episode, we talk about mental fitness and how to pause and reset your mind. This will help you focus on the things that matter, whether for your personal life or career as an entrepreneur. 

Marc is a mental fitness coach, but he came from building a huge app in the personal development space in mental fitness, an app meant for journaling. And after that, he decided to shut down his app. And go with training teams and individuals and writing a book called “Personal Socrates”.

It's an amazing episode, Marc is just an amazing person. You get so much value and ask many great questions that you guys can all ask yourselves. This one hour, it just opened me up so much emotionally. I really hope you enjoy this episode.

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!
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Timestamps & Gold Gems:

Topic : Asking the Right Questions

[13:19 - 13:34] Marc Champagne ⭐Gold Gem : 

“When minds stop functioning or aren't functioning optimally, I don't care what you're working on or what you're doing in, in your life, you're not doing it at your full capacity and probably most importantly, it doesn't feel good.”

[15:44 - 16:00] Marc Champagne ⭐Gold Gem : 

“I think if you're gonna prioritize something, it should always be mental fitness first because it's your mind that tells you to go and be physically fit or to go and exercise or to be conscious of what you're consuming, whether that's nutrition for your body or nutrition for your mind.”

[17:08-17:30] Marc Champagne ⭐Gold Gem : 

“Make your list of mental fitness activities that you can default to, on a consistent basis for the training, but also when you're in these moments where your mind feels overwhelmed, or there's too much going on, or you feel like you don't have control over the next decision, you go to any one of those activities and it pops you out of that narrative”

[37:21 - 37:50] Marc Champagne : 

“We think of journaling as like pen to paper, blank notebook, just a way you go, right? What's on your mind type thing. But if you really think about the practice itself, the practice behind journaling is reflection. And we all reflect, we all ask questions. We all think about certain things. It's just whether, just like anything, whether you want to do that with more intention and train your mind to ask better questions”

Topic: Gratitude

[48:57-49:12] Sagi Shrieber:
“ One of the most profound experiences she gave me was when she was asking questions, it was like, Sagi, and I was rambling about everything that I have going on and what I don't know what to do. And she's like, what are you doing out of love? And what out of  fear?”

[50:04-51:07] Marc Champagne : 

“If you're, again, something comes up in the day that pisses you off or throws you off your game, close your eyes and you think of who is that one person that you're super grateful towards, but have not thanked lately. You know, like bring them to your, to your mind. And just think about like, why, like what fills your heart about that person?

What have they done? What would you like to say to them? And the next step is a simple one, you can either express that message to them or just send them a text message. Like right now, just say, just thinking about you. Hope you have a good day. And here's the thing that happens. I mean, you just made their day.

They'll probably write back saying, Thanks for making my day. Now they just made your day. And what's not happening at that moment is your mind is not spinning in a survival state of mind. Your mind is now in a, in. Happy, motivated, grateful state, which is the thriving state.”

RESOURCES:

Books Mentioned:

Personal Socrates: Questions That Will Upgrade Your Life

By:  Marc Champagne

Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Socrates-Questions-World-Class-Performers/dp/194362335X

Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/id1590572602

Apple Audiobooks: https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/personal-socrates-questions-that-will-upgrade-your/id1591469642

Manifestation Mastery: How to Shift Your Reality & Co‑Create with the Universe

By: Christina Rice

Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Manifestation-Mastery-Reality-Co-Create-Universe%EF%BB%BF/dp/1957048034

12 Notes: On Life and Creativity

by Quincy Jones

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/12-Notes-Creativity-Quincy-Jones/dp/1419752561

Almanack of Naval Ravikant

by Eric Jogenson

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Almanack-Naval-Ravikant-Wealth-Happiness/dp/1544514220

Websites and Social Media links:

Marc Champagne

https://www.behindthehuman.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/behindthehuman/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-champagne-%F0%9F%97%9D-14767b17/

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Commit First is a Personal Development Podcast for Entrepreneurs and can be found on:
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Apple Podcasts →
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Youtube →

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Be the Best Leader by Following Your Purpose

Today on the show we have Chris O'Connell, Chris's dad to three boys. He's a business and well-being coach for CEOs. He himself has built multiple companies reaching eight figures, and he's also the host of a great podcast called “The Purpose-Led Leadership Podcast”.

Here's the podcast where we talk about finding purpose. We talk about what Chris finds is the most challenging thing with these coaches and the most uplifting thing that happens when people actually carry out, what they need to carry out.

We talk about what's the most important things in life in order to grow a successful business, and a lot more so, welcome to another great episode!

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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!
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Timestamps & Gold Gems:

Topic : How it all started (1:47- 4:53)

[3:00 - 3:21] Chris O'Connell : 

“So why I lost was a combination of probably having too much too soon, not realizing what's important, not realizing what my purpose was, but probably, just taking things for granted a little bit actually, I think, it was a very very dark time for me in many aspects”

[4:25 - 4:53] Chris O'Connell : 
“ I started to look at myself and talk to myself in a way that was a bit more loving because being abandoned by your mother, being abused by your stepmom, kind of like, it kind of makes you feel worthless, right? And I never thought I was worthy of anything, so I just wrote down some of my achievements and just thought to myself how in a second I've got a lot to live for. I'm a good guy and it was just that time where I just decided to be the CEO of my life, not CEO of my business”

[5:56 - 6:22] Chris O'Connell : 

“I think many people in this world live day to day, month to month, week, week. They don't understand why they're doing it. They're going for the motions. So for me, it's about understanding what your purpose is. I've got my own podcast called the Purpose-Led Leadership Podcast, I talk about when you haven't got a purpose, you haven't got an anchor, you haven't got something to go for. And I think, that's the fundamental course of success, in my opinion”

[7:03 - 7:45] Chris O'Connell : 

“External factors, people, partners, business partners, colleagues, friends, family. But ultimately, I believe that even if the most unlucky heest things happens to you, To a degree, there's always an element of accountability for yourself. So I think it was that sort of realization that although I was responsible for lots of success in my life, in more than part, I was responsible for the failures as well.,So I think it was looking at that. Asking myself some tough questions and feeling and leaning into my feelings as well. So I think it's really important to be vulnerable, really important as leaders to be vulnerable. ”

[8:10- 8:30] Chris O'Connell: “There are six facets behind me and my business logo, business, and finance. Business, health and fitness, personal development, purpose, relationships, and finances, and I think that you have to do an audit of your life as to what I did. I did an audit of my friends. I did an audit of my family. If they weren't serving me, I distanced myself. “

[10:07- 10:31] Chris O'Connell: 

“ I believe you can work smart. I believe if you are looking after yourself mentally, physically, and everything else outside of work, you don't have to spend as much time in work so you can execute better in work. It's a strange thing, but if you spend two hours, say a week, dedicated just for your kids, you turn the phone off to the laptop, that's all they ever need, then you feel happier. Then you'll actually, and that state of being is like what you are in your work, and it's just about execution and working smart. “

TOPIC: Routines and Emotional State Management [10:57- 14:14] 

[10:57- 11:20] Chris O'Connell: 

“ I think it also starts with how I start the day. So in my bedroom, I've got a whiteboard. I've got my values there: courage, discipline, empathy, kindness, and eight different values. So when I wake up, I’m absorbing that kind of stuff. There are some affirmations on there as well about self-control, and self-respect. What I'm trying to do is like, why am I brain into positivity? And I think that's really important as well. “

[11:26- 12:05] Sagi Shrieber: 

“ The notion is as if we can control or elevate our emotional state as much as we can. During the day, especially when we start off the day, we're gonna have a better day and be more successful. And it's like most people get wrong, they actually start their day by checking their emails and that's so true. It's freaking Russian roulette. “

TOPIC: Inner Voice

[14:33- 14:47 Sagi Shrieber:  “The voice in our head and how we talk to ourselves is basically pretty, already set when we were like five years old by our guardians. So basically how the grownups were talking to us, that's actually how we talk to ourselves and usually it's not good .”

[15:17 15:29] Chris O'Connell: “ I think everyone gets internal trust that everyone's got mental health about who we are, but sometimes the voices in our head, they're not actually ours. That sounds bizarre. They are indoctrinated or absorbed by your parents, your manager, what you are watching on the TV and all that kind of stuff. And it can be very difficult to deal with that. But I think it's about learning to manage that.

And actually, the only way to do that is to change your content. Block people change things. Talk to people that are gonna inspire you. Talk to people that are better than you in some areas and just have a growth mindset. Be curious. “ 

TOPIC: The Key

[17:01 - 17:41 ] Chris O'Connell: 

“  It's really important that, yes, give yourself credit. Pat yourself on the back. You've gotta be realistic as well. And I think having people around you, also I think, small daily habits can have a big impact. So, you know, I've got this, we've all got big visions, but I think if you can break down some of your goals into business and personal. It might be over the next 12 weeks if I can listen to six podcasts or if I can go on 12 runs.”

“If you do that, do that consistently. It all builds up and I think, I think sometimes, we want these big things yesterday, and it just doesn't work like that. Also, it's about enjoying the passage of time, right? “

[33:14 - 33:29 ] Chris O'Connell: 

“ Emotion, intelligence and vulne...

Get Ready to Elevate Your Vertical Altitude

For this week's episode, we have Ryan Gottfredson. This is his third time coming on the show and Ryan is all about mindset. So he's a professor who wrote a book called “Success Mindsets”. He developed a theory that you have four types of mindsets.

But today we're going to discuss the evolution of his research and his methodology, which is now called vertical development, which is another concept. He explained all about it, but we had such an amazing topic about what it takes for you to step up to your potential, to your best future itself.  Also the three levels of where people are at at the moment. And kinda like you will be able to through this podcast kind of assess where you are.

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Timestamps & Gold Gems:

Topic : What is Vertical Development? 

[10:29 - 14:10 ] Ryan Gottfredson : 

“I came across a concept and the concept was coined from a guy at the center for creative leadership. And the concept is called vertical development. And I read this article. I'm like, oh my goodness, what is vertical development?” 

“The idea behind vertical development is that there, well, what we need to understand is that there's two different types of development. There's horizontal development and there's vertical development.”

So horizontal development is usually “what”, when we say development, we're usually talking horizontal development. So it's adding new knowledge, skills, and competencies to what we have. The focus of this is helping us to do more than what we could do previously. It's kinda like adding an app onto an iPad, right?

But horizontal development is limited in the sense of, if I add an app onto an iPad, that's not gonna improve how effectively that iPad operates as a whole.

“The technical definition is to elevate our ability to make meaning of our world in more cognitively and emotionally sophisticated ways.” 

[15:29 - 16:17] Ryan Gottfredson 

What feels cognitively and emotionally sophisticated. That we see it as an opportunity to learn and grow. We make meaning of it as that opportunity to learn and grow. When we make meaning of it in that way, then we embrace it. We take it in and, and this is not easy to do, right? Because we are getting to this mental place where we are good with being told that we are bad and it's just not easy to get there, but it is really cognitively and emotionally sophisticated.

And so what we're doing with vertical development is we're literally upgrading ourselves. We're leveling up so that when we encounter stressful situations, we make meaning of those in a better way so that we can navigate those more effectively. 

Topic: Cognitive and emotional sophistication in adulthood

[20:22- 20:56] Ryan Gottfredson: So what they've identified is that there's three primary adult development levels.

And what they found across all adults, 64% stay in that first level. They never develop beyond what they entered adulthood with the 35. Yeah. Yeah. Crazy 35% get to level two and only 1% get to level three. Wow. And so, part of the vertical development journey is understanding what are these three different levels and where am I at?

[21:19- 21:37] Ryan Gottfredson And so my next book is all about helping people answer that question. What is my vertical altitude and, and, and being able to assess that effectively, and then where do I go so that I could elevate and become more of the person that I want to become? How do I upgrade my own internal operating system?

Topic: The First Level

[21:59- 23:32] Ryan Gottfredson: “So at that base level, that first level, our internal operating system is programmed to keep us safe, comfortable, and feeling like we belong. Right. Which means that we are very conscious of threats to those needs. So we don't like to feel unsafe, uncomfortable, or like we don't belong. “

“We are generally what we would call dependent thinkers, meaning that we, we like to join and identify with tribes or groups that could be families that could be friends, social groups, religious affiliations, political affiliations, whatever it might be.”

“And when we go into these groups, we kind of say, I don't wanna be the leader here. I don't wanna make decisions, but if you tell me what to do, I will do it. Yeah. Provided that you keep me safe, comfortable, and feeling like I belong.” 

Topic: The Second Level

[24:33- 25:20] Ryan Gottfredson: “And when we move into the second level, our needs are to stand out, advance and get ahead. Mm-hmm  yeah. And in fact, we're willing. To be, we become willing to be unsafe, uncomfortable and not belong in order to advance, stand out and get ahead. Mm-hmm . And when we make this shift, we move from being a dependent thinker to an independent thinker.

So we develop our own ideas. This is usually if somebody is an entrepreneur. They're usually stepping from a mind 1.0, to a mind 2.0, right. Mm-hmm  cause they're being an entrepreneur is inherently unsafe, uncomfortable, and you're not belonging. Right. So, and you're willing and, and we're usually driven in some form or fashion to stand out, advance and get ahead.”

Topic: The Third Level
[27:46- 29:52] Ryan Gottfredson: “To add value and to lift and, and we'll, we'll make a distinction about this here in just a minute, but when we get to mind 3.0, we are willing to be unsafe, uncomfortable, and not belong in order to contribute, add value and lift. We're also willing to not stand out, to kind of put ourselves on the back burner to, um, not get ahead or not advance or not be seen and recognized.

In order to contribute, add value and lift and, and what's what's going on here is, is you can hopefully feel is the differences. We, when we operate below this mind 3.0 level. So on mind, 1.0 or 2.0, our primary focus is inward on ourselves. Either us standing in or us standing out when we're in this mind, 3.0 level, our focus is not on ourselves anymore.

It's something external to ourselves, a bigger purpose, and we're driven again, to contribute, add value and to lift. And when we're here, we're not dependent thinkers, we're not independent thinkers. We are interdependent thinkers. We can see and hold multiple perspectives simultaneously. We kind of don't, we don't rush to one way or the other.

Topic: Realization

[33:54- 34:21 ] Ryan Gottfredson:

“We are gonna ...

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From teaching Tai Chi in China for years - to becoming a Founder and CEO of a Tech Startup.

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Resources:
Zoog's Website
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Do you want to know how a ninja reaches his goal? Let’s hear it from one!
For this week's episode, I am grateful to have Philipp Anufriev with us on the Commit First Podcast. He is the founder of Graphics Federation, host of the 3-2-1 Podcast, mentor of Wellness & Lifestyle, an Israeli Ninja Warrior and father of two. 

In this episode Philipp explains why building a powerful routine will help us become less stressed, fulfilled and more productive.

TOPICS:

[2:44-2:59] Philipp Anufriev:
“I think there are people who need to first understand what they're supposed to do, and then they're supposed to kind of execute it.
I'm kind of working my way around it. I'm reverse engineering it. So basically what I do, I just try first and then I understand what I'm supposed to do. And the second goal will be easier and the third will be easier. So I'm kind of just trying to dare every time.”

Types of Obstacles
[15:41- 16:00] Philipp Anufriev: This is why people who are intelligent enough, they're doing good in, in ninja warrior, because this is so that there's like a variety of obstacles that you have. And some of them are straight. Some of them are jumping. Some of them coordination, some of them just balance. Some of they are super stamina
[16:00- 16:20]  Philipp Anufriev: So once you're trying to pass all that, like let's say qualification, usually like the easiest thing to pass, because you would have some balance and then few obstacles and then one like hard, let's say that usually when I'm doing it, I'm like, why are people falling here?  and that's, that's the scary part
[16:20- 16:28]  Philipp Anufriev:  Because you see people fall, like why are they falling? It's probably hard. And then like, as you pass it, like, no. it was so easy, like, why?

WORKING ON YOUR HABITS AND PROPER MINDSET (21:58-23:56)
[22:05- 22:14]  Sagi :
“I think in terms of health standards, I think people have lesser standards, like for their own health, which goes together with mental health, personal development. You need to work on your habits.  And I know you're big on micro habit, so we can talk about that. And you also need to have the right kind of mindset, right?”

GRATITUDE JOURNALING:
[34:26-34:57,35:32-36:08,36:17-36:44]  Philipp Anufriev:
So I'm usually doing the first part of it is, is like gratitude. Yeah. And I'm just, I'm, I'm grateful for that and that, and that. And trying to scrap from at least three or five things up to sometimes when I feel either super generous or super shitty, I don't know. I can go up to like 20 something and I like, and then it's something that I trying to feel the vibration if I'm okay.
And so you get, so you get an indication and you know, you need to like balance yourself when you're doing the journaling stuff. Cuz you need to like highlight your gratitude right now, cuz you're not in a good place.

So you need to like calibrate your vibrations just a little bit and started from there. Then I'm usually doing like stuff that I.  like, that will happen to me. It can be just like a to-do list. Mm-hmm  it can be a celebration of life. Mm-hmm  like, I don't know. I got a new kite, like, ah, even if it's like not a good win, like maybe I will that or travel somewhere on, find something or something exciting.
And then you're doing like, and then I'm doing an affirmation, something for myself that I'm, I don't know, embracing myself I'm blessed for, or I don't know, blessed with opportunities that I'm taking advantage of. And so on, something like that. That's usually my flow. Then once I'm done, I obviously meditation, um, for me, meditation is just eating, sitting still mm-hmm  or, and just checking.

VISUALIZATION AS A KEY PART OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
[49:13-49:49] Philipp Anufriev:
So when you see, since you see the obstacles, I just, um, run them in my head and what I do, I have a notebook and I just draw myself. Like I'm literally drawing the obstacles like comics. And I draw myself by the end of it, not on the obstacle but by the end of it, succeeding it. Sometimes with my hands up sometimes, just running if those need more, those need to be passed faster. And this is something that I'm working on in my visualization

HOW DO YOU ACCEPT FAILING NINJA WARRIOR?
[54:09-54:41] Philipp Anufriev:
You don’t accept it. Like you don’t accept it, no matter what. It takes time to pass through it, but you don’t, you like, you felt you like accept it. It’s a good thing, coz then, then you, you are motivated to kick ass the next day. When in between, after the third season I took like, uh, a month of recovery and after the fourth season, like I was in the gym next Saturday.

RESOURCES:

Philipp's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/dolph420

Philipp's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dolpha/
 
Who needs a coach - Sagi Shrieber in podcast 3-2-1 episode #011 (translated from Hebrew) 
by PHILIPP ANUFRIEV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HphwMl0XFCw

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How to Manifest your Goals with The Law of Attraction (w/Joni Rae)

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Episode 117: How to Manifest your Goals with The Law of Attraction (w/Joni Rae)

On this week's episode, I am grateful to finally have Joni Rae with us at the Commit First Podcast. 
Joni Rae is the founder of The Mindset Group, a boutique leadership development firm that exists to align people and teams, they offer interactive and experiential seminars, coaching programs, and corporate workshops and consulting. Their team has helped hundreds of clients go from overwhelm and chaos to clarity and sustainability.  She's with us to explain and tell us more about the Law of Attraction and how Living in Alignment works.

Working with the law of attraction to manifest your dreams may sound straightforward, but it actually involves careful intention, action, and a degree of surrender. This principle suggests that empty space cannot truly exist, and always needs to be filled by something. As such, it's important to make space for positive change in your life by clearing out negativity.
It tells us that there will always be things to be unhappy about if you look for them, but rather than dwelling on things that are going wrong, finding ways to make things better - is fundamental to shifting your reality into one that attracts what you desire.

That's not to say you can't acknowledge negativity or feel emotions related to it. Rather, it's about doing what you can at the moment to improve any negative situation and letting the rest go. This follows living in alignment with your goals and taking the necessary steps to bring them to life.

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Topics discussed on the show:
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How to apply The Law of Attraction in your life?
Let's talk about Ego!
How do we let go of our Ego?
How to treat people in a different view?
Identifying feelings
How Meditation Can Help You?
How to be the happy version of yourself?
Joni Rae's Mantras
Joni Rae's Routine

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Links mentioned:
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Abraham Hicks- LAW OF ATTRACTION (https://www.abraham-hicks.com/)

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Where to find Joni
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LIVING IN ALIGNMENT WITH JONI RAE (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-living-in-alignment-with-joni-rae-podcast/id1474698078)

THE LIVING IN ALIGNMENT WITH JONI RAE PODCAST (https://open.spotify.com/show/7wfGQFmLvCD9lETVkzqH73?si=d4a94ee1110c4284)

Her Website(s):
https://www.themindsetgroup.com/
https://www.mindsetwithjoni.com/

YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2-Nwul2YSECs4YdkB8F_uQ/videos)