Siim Land

For audiobooks I like to listen to less complex books that don't require taking notes. Something that's thought provoking or inspiring. Everything Eckhart Tolle Everything Les Brown Everything Grant Cardone Everything Steven Pressfield Everything Jocko Willink Tao Te Ching

Counterintuitive, but drinking tea, taking hot showers, having a sauna are very cooling afteward. Other than that, cold showers and ice baths will still work.

Losing weight but still having a belly means you're burning muscle not fat. It can also hint towards insulin resistance - your body isn't capable of lowering blood sugar and maintains elevated insulin levels, which causes food being directed straight into the adipose tissue. What to do about it? - Start burning fat instead of sugar or muscle. Heavy resistance training not cardio Eat whole foods with less sugar, more fiber, and protein Get your hormones in check - testosterone, growth hormone and thyroid. Sleep more, reduce stress and stick to circadian rhythms Consider intermittent fasting to switch into ketosis and reverse insulin resistance Caloric restriction will lead to malnourishment. Look at starvation victims from concentration camps and Africa - they have no muscle, but they still have fat bellies pointing out. They get some food, but not enough to maintain their lean body mass. As a result, their body will never convert over to burning fat for fuel because they're fed, a malnourished one, but still. That's why fasting is always a better option for fat loss than a calorically reduced diet. You'll switch into ketosis and preserve your lean mass while burning fat instead. Thanks Stay Empowered Siim

@mudita I sometimes do the cyclical ketogenic diet with my OMAD being high carb and low fat. However, this isn't necessary on the targeted ketogenic diet. The body can resynthesize glycogen without carbs. To be honest, I can eat up to 100 grams of carbs while still remaining ketotic but those extra carbs aren't that effective anyway because my body is mostly using fat for fuel. @pluto Thanks, man. The thing with fruit is that it can only be metabolized by the liver and it cannot promote your muscle recruitment during workout in any way. You're only regulating your blood sugar and maybe preventing hypoglycemia. On keto, this is avoided because you always have energy. Consuming BCAA's is only worth it if you workout fasted. Thanks

I eat an OMAD KETO diet and eat only one meal a day. I extend my daily intermittent fasting window to 18-20 hours and eat only at dinner within 2-4 hours. During the day I consume no calories and only a few cups of coffee or tea. If I'm working out, I have a small protein shake to promote muscle glycogen resynthesis post-workout and to speed up recovery. I don't do omad for weight loss but because it's very convenient for me. Fasting helps cognition and my brain stays sharp throughout the day. At dinner, for my one meal a day, I consume 2 large dishes that focus on micronutrient density. Foods on the ketogenic diet are very nutritious and I get all my micros in with additional supplementation. Check out my full day of eating on the OMAD keto diet! Stay Empowered Siim Land

Discipline begins with the small things because the small things are the big things. Start making your bed in the morning, clean your room, meditate, go for walks, exercise, journal, do something consistently every day, and you're making discipline a part of your self-image.

Take Extreme Ownership and Full Responsibility Over Your Life I remember being at the train station of Edinburgh, purchasing a train ticket to the airport with my last bit of money - there were barely enough nickels. My year as an exchange student had just been finished and I was heading back home. I had just started my blog as well. But I didn’t want to take another job for the summer, like waiting tables or something else students do. I decided to burn my boats. Despite being broke, I put in massive hustle the entire summer . Every day, I would spend 8–10 hours of creating content, writing articles and e-books. By the end of it, I had written 4 books, some of which were on the bestseller list on Amazon, and became financially independent. Instead of waiting for the perfect moment, taking the easy route or quitting my blog, I took extreme ownership over my profession and turned pro. This is the central core message of Jocko Willink’s and Leif Babin’s book Extreme Ownership. It’s about owning everything you are and have. Extreme Ownership helps you to detach yourself from yourself. You come to terms with what you want to accomplish and commit to finishing it. Whenever you hit an emotional barrier, it’s a conflict between your desires and will. Keeping ownership in mind allows you to remember your priorities and act in spite of how you feel because you know it’s the right thing to do. Other than that, being able to concentrate on one particular thing for long periods of time is a matter of neuroplasticity. Focus, procrastination, discipline and willpower are mostly habitual patterns of thinking and behaving. Meaning, the way you do anything determines how you do everything. Luckily, neuroplasticity is a dynamic process and it works both ways. You just have to stay consistent with developing good habits and follow best practices. Hopefully this helps. Stay Empowered Siim

Jordan Peterson - https://jordanbpeterson.com/2016/11/book-list/ Derek Sivers - https://sivers.org/book

I love MACA. It's very good for the hormones and tastes great. At the moment, I use Red Peruvian Maca. However, Maca is an adaptogen, which means consuming it increases your tolerance to it. You should cycle off it from time to time as to not simply waste its empowering effects. I have it usually 3 days in a row and then avoid it for 2. Or, every other day.

Creative people are actually highly disciplined and consistent with their craft. Waiting for inspiration and pushing things off is just another form of procrastination. Most of the time, people simply lie to themselves and give in to fear. Everyone gets resistance. It's actually a good thing because if your work really matters to you, you should get scared. The key is to not succumb to it but to act in spite of it. Most importantly, you have to develop the habit of deliberately practicing your art and honing your skills every day. Deep work for several hours a day. I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o’clock every morning. —William Faulkner

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You can get a lot of cognitive support from mostly natural supplements, like GABA, Ashwaganda, Ultracholine (or eat eggs). Other than that, I take DMEA sometimes but nothing else atm.

Money represents value. Getting money means trading your time/effort/energy for value. Working at a job trades your labour for someone else - you're giving them work force that saves them time, energy, effort or gives them value. Selling something to someone else is an exchange of value. Starting a business is you providing value to a certain audience and getting money from it. Basically, you have to find where your money is. People, an employee, a business, the government, whatever. Combine it with the niche you want to be involved with. Fitness, academics, business, some services, consulting, online, whatever. Then you start providing value to them. Start working for someone, give education, provide free content, give value. Once you build trust with them, you pitch them with an offer. You get a salary, sell them a product, trade value. That's the general blueprint. Find a niche -> Lead with value -> Make an offer -> Get the money.

Subtracting from your life actually adds more to it.

Try acupuncture therapy or buy an acupuncture mattress before bed. It has thorns that stimulate the vagus nerve aka. knock yourself out nerve. Other ways to do it would be to massage the back of your neck with a tennis ball and gurgling water ferociously. Definitely sleep in pitch black darkness and avoid all blue light a few hours before bed. Wear sunglasses if you have to and use a sleeping mask.

One thing for sure, exercise has profound psychological benefits. Not only the neurochemical cocktail, but also the physical changes you experience, which will make you see yourself differently. Resistance training is something you have to do consistently to see results. This will definitely build discipline, commitment and patience. Then there's the improved body composition. You start to look better and will thus, potentially, create a more positive self-image of yourself. This will inevitably change the way you hold your body for the better, thus making you more confident and benefiting your interactions. If you've already working out, then you might pay closer attention to your nutrition as well. This increases your awareness about food and self-control. It's all a positive feedback loop. I've also experienced more mindfulness. Holding handstands, doing burpees, or squatting heavy forces me to focus entirely on the movement. It's as meditative as any other embodied practice. What you're essentially being more conscious during exercise, which will transition over to other areas of your life.

I call it the Law of Unconscious Attraction and Conscious Action - you decide what you want to manifest and then start following the best practices that allow you to get it.

Well, what the book teaches is how to make friends and influence people. You should first come to terms with what type of people you're trying to win over. Of course you can use it on anyone, but if you're doing it just to connect with someone you want to bring into your life it's very much justified.

Dopamine is supposed to motivate us to repeat evolutionarily beneficial behavior. However, it doesn't seem to take into account the minimal effective dosage. We're hoarders of calories, stimulation, possessions, security and pleasure. Given that the development of consciousness is the highest advancement of evolution, we should be hardwired to seek out experiences of awakening and enlightenment. This can explain why people tend to get into these sort of things more intensively after they've had experienced some of these things or when they take psychedelics. In this case, the dopamine rush is even transcending. Maybe I'm wrong about this entirely, but dopamine can have a much more beneficial role to play in the evolution of human consciousness than we give it credit for currently.

Watching the news stimulates the amygdala and can turn on the fight or flight response. What ensues is elevated stress and fear conditioning of the masses. Turning on the TV in the morning is also one of the best ways of becoming reactive for the rest of the day. You enter a feedback loop of getting distracted and sidetracked. The majority of time, there's nothing useful on TV. Even more, you can only control what you watch to a certain degree. Everything is fed to you. With the Internet you can at least choose what type of content you're consuming and can make it self-actualizing.

What are you studying? Is it even relevant to what you want to do or are you simply going to college because of the society or your parents?

If you just take a moment to become fully aware and mindful of being conscious you can become immensely grateful and appreciative of the stillness. Just sitting and observing can be extremely fun and enjoyable.

"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you" - Steve Jobs

@HikiNEET I've done Everyman as well with 3,5 hours of core sleep and two 30 min naps. You get used to it and there's not much difference if you make it quality naps. What I did notice though was not enough time for recovery from resistance training. If I were to be more sedentary I'd do Uberman but as of now I'm doing a regular 7 hours a night. Will try out segmented sleep soon. What's your schedule like?

Epic overview. Omega-3s, vitamin-D3 and magnesium are the trifecta of supplementation. Everyone's basically deficient of them.