9 Systems To Build A Life Of Abundance - Sahil Bloom

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Jun 15, 2023

Sahil Bloom, Founding Partner at SRB Ventures and viral content creator, shares insights on balancing career and family life. He introduces the innovative 'life dinner' concept to enhance relationships and discusses cultivating personal growth while navigating online negativity. Sahil emphasizes redefining wealth beyond money, focusing on health and meaningful connections. He reveals practical life hacks, including the benefits of daily cold plunges for mental wellness, and the importance of embracing discomfort for personal fulfillment.

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ADVICE

Life Dinners

Schedule monthly life dinners with your partner for structured relationship discussions.
Discuss important professional and personal matters, concerns, and goals.

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Friend List

Ali Abdaal uses a list to track friends he wants to stay in touch with.
Consulting the list helped him remember to invite a friend to a dinner, strengthening their bond.

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City Friends List

Create a list of friends in different cities to connect with when traveling.
This helps maintain relationships when not physically near friends.

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Balancing your career, relationships, and health can be a juggling act for a lot of us, no matter what point we’re at in our lives. Today I speak to Sahil Bloom. Sahil is the Founding Partner at $10M fund SRB Ventures, an angel investor in more than 30 companies, and over the past two years has become viral content creator with his Twitter following growing from 0 to nearly 1 million followers. He’s done all this while being a husband and father to his first child. In the conversation, we talk about how to systemise life so that you can shoot for wealth beyond money, tools for health and relationships, his journey as a content creator and life hacks to help you build a life you love.

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(00:00) Intro

(01:38) The life dinner

(15:08) Systems for friendships

(23:00) Dealing with negativity

(33:58) Wealth beyond money

(35:13) ‘Deferred happiness syndrome’

(39:20) The yes damn effect

(46:16) We are blind to our realities

(50:11) What does retirement mean?

(57:15) Financial security vs financial confidence

(01:09:30) Be a guide not a guru

(01:12:04) Mental health & wellbeing

(01:22:30) Reduce friction in your life

(01:33:00) The ideal week

🔗 CONNECT WITH SAHIL

🎥 YouTube Channel - @Sahil_Bloom
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/SahilBloom
📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sahilbloom/
💻 Website - https://www.sahilbloom.com/
👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahilbloom

🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI

🎥 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@aliabdaal
💻 Website - https://aliabdaal.com
📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/aliabdaal
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal
👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-abdaal/

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