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You know that saying when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Well, I have a dear friend Sara Sadik and when life gives her challenges she makes books! Her firstborn child arrived with challenging circumstances of her own and as a result, Sara wrote a best-selling book about motherhood, Finding the Magic in Mommyhood. When lockdown hit a couple of years ago she wrote a book for children, The Extraordinary Pause. When life turns left, Sara writes. She is on a journey to find what truly matters in life. She is a remarkable woman and that is because of what she has come through on that journey.

Sara Sadik is a best-selling author and communication strategist based in Dubai. She has worked for the United Nations Human Rights and UNICEF offices. She has also been employed by the UAE Prime Minister's Office leading major projects. Some of her latest work involves mentoring other writers and working on her next book.

Join us as we discuss:

• 04:00 - The beginning of the road - Adriana's diagnosis
• 06:00 - There is no magic - you create your own
• 07:25 - Sweet and sour
• 09:28 - Angry Mothers
• 14:30 - The Love Story
• 20:30 - Beauty in the scars
• 21:45 - Coping mechanism
• 24:00 - Committed acceptance
• 29:00 - Voice it out
• 32:20 - Finding the magic in the mess
• 36:00 - Slowing down
• 38:30 - Meditation
• 40:00 - Is this an intervention?
• 42:25 -  Pivoting
• 43:30 - Storytelling
• 46:00 - Reason for being
• 48:00 - Picnic at the mountain
• 50:00 - Secret to happiness

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Our world has never been more convenient and comfortable. With just a few taps of our fingers, we can order food to our door, access endless entertainment options, and keep our climate at a steady 72 degrees. We don't have to put in much effort, much less face any risk or challenge, in order to sustain our daily lives. 

In some ways, this quantum leap in humanity's comfort level is a great boon. But in other ways, it's absolutely killing our minds, bodies, and spirit.

My guest says it's time to reclaim the currently-hard-to-come-by but truly essential benefits of discomfort. His name is Michael Easter, and he's a writer, editor, and professor, and the author of The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self. Michael first shares how his experience with getting sober helped him discover the life-changing potential of doing hard things, before digging into what fleeing from discomfort is doing to our mental and physical health. We then discuss the Japanese idea of misogis, which involves taking on an epic outdoor challenge, and why Michael decided to do a misogi in which he participated in a month-long caribou hunt in the backcountry of Alaska. Michael shares what he learned from the various challenges he encountered during his misogi — including intense hunger, boredom, solitude, and physical exertion — as well as what research can teach all of us about why we need to incorporate these same kinds of discomforts into our everyday lives.

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  • How I Learned to Be Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
  • Shadow Work and the Rise of Middle-Class Serfdom
  • How the Hero's Journey Can Help You Become a Better Man
  • Be a Time Wizard: How to Speed Up and Slow Down Time
  • Take the One-Month "Do Something New Every Day" Challenge
  • Lessons on Solitude From an Antarctic Explorer
  • Fasting as a Spiritual Discipline
  • Don't Just Lift Heavy, Carry Heavy
  • Cardio for the Man Who Hates Cardio
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  • The Psychology of Boredom
  • Weird and Wonderful Ways to Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
  • What You Can (Really) Learn About Exercise From Your Human Ancestors
  • Building Better Citizens Through Rucking

Connect With Michael Easter

• Michael's Website
• Michael on Instagram
• Michael on Twitter

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Welcome to another episode of the Disruptors Podcast. In today’s episode, Rob discusses if you have that one thing it takes for someone to be successful. In today’s society, everything is instant, automatic and fast. It greatly affects how people and entrepreneurs alike do things, solve things, resolve things and fix things.

Discover why people sometimes sabotage themselves when attempting to do everything fast. They wish for fast results, and if they don’t get it? They Give up. Tune in today to hear why you are so close to success but don’t even realise it.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

1. Be clear on what you want. If you are not clear on what you want, your strategy, your vision, then you will be allured by everything that’s shiny and you will be very impatient and not get the thing that you want. The more clear you are on what you want, the more you attract what you want into your life. The more you’re patient moving towards it, you don’t get distracted by everything else that comes in, so that is really important.
2. You have to be realistic with how long it takes. We should be somewhere between realistic and optimistic. Don’t be pessimistic because you can’t go anywhere. Do not be overly optimistic because you might not live up to the expectation and fail. Persist and break through resistance but don’t push so hard that you push the world away and you frustrate yourself or you beat yourself down and beat yourself up.

BEST MOMENTS

“Too persistent like push push push push… without sometimes waiting and letting things come to you, that can actually push your results away. So you’re sabotage your own success.”

“It takes 10 years to be an overnight success.”

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Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors”

“If you don't risk anything, you risk everything”

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"Why are you afraid of the work?" That's the question the MFCEO poses to people who aren't realizing their potential and pursuing the kind of life they really want. At first glance, Andy Frisella says, people might seem lazy. Sometimes they are.  But often, people aren't lazy. They are afraid. The prospect of working hard terrifies them because they don't understand the benefits. They don't believe that their hard work will ultimately payoff.