Ibrahim Sawyer

The way you treat your body is the standard you set for your life. If someone is overweight it immediately tells me they lack self-respect. They have weak self-control and can’t think about long-term consequences. Having high standards in how you eat, train, and live bleed into everything else. People can see it before you even say a word.

I keep a log on my phone. Every time I change my diet, I note the effect 1-2 hours later. "Added X food - brain fog at 3pm." "Removed Y - energy stayed high all day." Most people eat randomly and wonder why they feel like shit. I treat my body like a science experiment. This way of thinking means you continuously improve and over a long enough time horizon you simply can’t lose.

Your current body is the result of decisions you made 6-12 months ago. Not yesterday. Not last week. The fat you're carrying? That's from summer 2024. The decisions you make and the habits you form won’t have an immediate result tomorrow. That’s why you wont get abs from one day in the gym. The body you want? Start building it now and you'll see it next spring. Winners think in years, not days.

You want the physique but refuse the standards. You want the energy but won't give up processed food. You want elite health but make amateur decisions. This is why you'll never get there.

I don't eat carbs at breakfast or lunch. High protein, high fat until dinner. Then I load up. My energy stays consistent for 10+ hours. No crashes. No brain fog. Found this through 6 months of self-experimentation.

I was bedbound and couldn’t walk without searing pain for 3 years. I had to plan grocery trips around benches where I could rest along the way. Every 50 meters, I'd need to sit. Let my spine recover. That level of limitation teaches you something: Freedom is everything. And most people waste it eating trash and abusing their bodies.

Protein bars are engineered to keep you addicted. The food industry studied your brain's reward pathways and weaponized them. You think you're making a "healthy choice." You're actually a lab rat pressing a lever for processed garbage.

I eat until 80% full and then stop. Most people eat until the plate's empty or they're stuffed. Your body doesn't need as much as you think. Your brain is just chasing the dopamine hit from more calories. This one shift allowed me to drop 4% body fat without changing anything else.

The average person eats to feel good for 10 minutes. Then spends the next 3 hours in a brain fog wondering why they can't focus. You're literally poisoning yourself for a dopamine hit. And you wonder why elite performers seem superhuman.

12 months ago I couldn't walk. Failed spinal surgery. Doctors said I'd never recover. Today I'm stronger than I was before the injury. But getting here wasn’t straightforward. Along the way I ignored all the ‘experts’ and rebuilt myself from scratch. Lesson learned: the challenges you face are tests of your character.

You're still counting macros like it's 2015. I stay sub-10% body fat year-round and haven't tracked macros in years. The pros don't obsess over numbers. They understand their bodies. They eat intuitively based on what their body tells them And what they need to fuel their goals. Dieting is only a chore when you don’t understand your body.

@moucka_adam Great week ahead Adam

Good morning everyone, wishing you all a beautiful start to the week. Working on some widgets. What’s everyone working on today? Show me 👇 might do some feedback if wanted too.

@Timetivity It's far more fulfilling Great work

While 99% of people are watching Netflix or something, I’m enjoying my evening deep work.

@whitelabelwizz Never let your niceness to be taken for granted

“Nice guys finish last” is wrong. WEAK nice guys finish LAST. No self confidence, no motion, physically weak, unaccomplished, unmotivated. The equivalent of a dog turning on its back and hoping for a belly rub in the middle of battle. Nice out of fear. Nice but dead. STRONG nice guys finish FIRST. Confident, motivated, successful, physically strong, accomplished. The equivalent of conquering a village and sparing civilians. “Nice” but from a place of strength, confidence. This is one of the big differences between liberal and conservative archetypes Peterson wrote about this Be Strong and be Nice.

@growthzacks Always go for what you're worth

"You did such a great job on X, we'd love your input on Y" is how you end up doing 3 jobs for the price of 1. You do a good job on an email campaign, then next week: "Hey, since you 'get' our customers, mind looking at our paid social strategy real quick?" Then a month later you're running email, social, paid ads, and sitting in product meetings for some reason. Only you have the same job title and salary...with triple the workload. Now you can't even update your LinkedIn (or take any real credit) because technically you're still just a "retention specialist" even though you're doing the job of an entire marketing department. Unfortunately, the employers who pull this stuff know exactly what they're doing: They're getting 3 employees for the price of one and banking on you being too flattered or too nervous to push back. If they want you to do 3 jobs, they need to pay for 3 jobs. Or at least pay you well enough for the expanded role. But most won't. They'll just keep adding "small favors" until you burn out and quit. Then they'll hire 3 people to replace you. Stop letting "opportunity" substitute for compensation.

@HeySukhwinder Discomfort is the price you pay for growth

Comfort kills more dreams than failure ever will. Choose the struggle. Choose growth.

@EcomMame They're doing what's best for them

Shopofy deactivating legacy paypal option so you only can activate it via shopify payments? You heard that right, monopolistic af. Shopify ~ 2006-2025 officially. Fyi, Paypal Wallet inquiries count as chargebacks in your processing history, so you will get fucked real quick even if you have 0 CC Chargebacks.

@oscxracosta Your networth matters more than your grammar

I know of this kid printing 300k profit months & doesn’t know the difference between there, their & they’re Lesson in that 😭😭

@filipridefors Build sustainable systems that scale your business

The quiet advantage: people with systems get predictable compounding results while others chase shiny things.

@JacksonPinkoski Learn to take responsibility for whatever happens in your life

The victim mindset is expensive. If something breaks, assume it’s your fault first. That posture scales faster than any tax hack, shortcut, or “money trick” online.

@TyroneC__ Proper analysis gives proper feedback