This is a studio interview with entrepreneur Sabri Suby offering practical advice for young people and entrepreneurs: (1) clarify goals by imagining your ideal day and calculating the resources needed, then backcast to actionable steps; (2) also imagine the negative alternative—the person you could become if you never acted—to generate motivation; (3) become the future leader you will need by adopting the attributes (health, discipline, leadership, strong relationships) now; (4) treat entrepreneurship as a long game—prioritize health, relationships, and deferred gratification while planting long-term "seeds" rather than harvesting short-term gains. The segment closes with a YouTube CTA.
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Amanda Sabri Subhi joins me now in the studio. I really look at business as an incredible vehicle to really, like, make good and make change in the world. Like, you know, people talk about getting clear on your why, and it's like, it's something that's kind of loosely thrown out there a lot. And it's a very difficult, esoteric thing to do. It's like, when you're finishing high school and they're like, what do you want to do for the rest of your life? You're like, for the rest of my life? I'm 17 years old. I don't know what I want to do the rest of my life. Like, it's just such a loaded question, right? And it's like, what they should have told you in high school is like, what you choose to do now is not what you're going to be doing for the rest of your life, bro. So you can relax, right? You can go down a few paths and find out if they're not for you and then navigate and go down a few different paths. This is not like some crossroads where you decide the destiny of your life. Like, you're gonna have multiple points in your life where you're gonna change. There's gonna be different seasons, there's gonna be different chapters to the game. So just understand that, right? It's the same thing in business. The thing that I just think about is, like, even if you ask somebody, what does your dream life look like? How do you answer that? It's so esoteric. It's like, it's such a big question that you don't even begin to tackle it. Cause it's so difficult. I like to kind of pull it back a little bit and. And just think about, like, if you had all the resources that you need in the world, what would you choose to do with your time? Like, what would the best day in your life look like? Think about what that would be like. Think about the financial resources that you'd need to live that. Then come up with a plan of, this is the amount that I would need. How do I back into that goal? What would I need to achieve? That's where most people will stop, even if they can do that exercise. But then also think about, let's just say that you don't do any of those things, right? And let's just say that you become the person that wasn't capable of doing any of those things. What would they look like? What attributes would they have? What time would they go to bed? What time would they Wake up. What would they eat and what would they look like? And then imagine that that's who you become, right? And you meet that person in some alternative universe and you basically meet the shell of what you could have become, right? In terms of, like, all the negative stuff, you let that pain sting and you imagine that you're, you know, 65, 75 years of age, and that's the life that you've created for yourself. And it's like at the crossroads of that pain, of you not wanting to become that person, and then where you want to go, and it's where those intersect that should really light you on fire and get you charged up to kind of go out there and get it and just think about, what are all the things that I'm capable of doing if I was going to live up to my full potential, raw potential, what would that person look like and let me go out there and chase that.
What are those things for you right now? Like, what are you envisioning for your future, Sabri? Like what? Like, what are those things that you're trying to challenge yourself with? Now? I know you're expanding globally. Do you have anything that's kind of scaring you on your goals?
Yeah, look, everything. Like, when I look at my goals, I'm like, holy shit. Like, I better get moving. Like, I gotta get going. Like, jump out of bed and get after it immediately, right? It's like, it's something that magnetically pulls me towards it. But the thing is that I think about is who is the leader that I would need to be in order to lead this organization in two years from now, and what attributes would they have? And let me just step into that role right now and just become that person right now to get ready for what I'm going to need to be doing in two years. So that's like, everyone wants to be, like, successful, and they think that success will dawn on them. There will be some moment in time where the perfect business opportunity comes up or the market shifts and it opens up this extremely lucrative opportunity for them to ride this wave. You just need to become somebody that is worthy of being successful, and then the success will come to you. And don't worry about the success part of it. Just what would you need to do to become somebody that would be worthy of being successful and just be that person and pay that. And you will see that success will come to you. You will wake up one day and you were like, I guess I am successful now, right? Because I've achieved this.
So when you're talking about the attributes. And again, because in a lot of people's minds, Sabri, they're looking up to you and going, sabri's got it all. He's got to figure it out. And I think it's interesting that you're looking at the next version of yourself and the attributes that person needs to have. What are some of those attributes? I'd love to know, like, what, what are you trying to forecast in the future version of yourself in two years from now? What are some of the things that you're trying to.
There's a lot of things, right? It's not just like, oh, I just need to be like, you know, more diligent, numbers wise, or I need to dedicate this time. It's like, well, like, I need to be fitter. I need to be, you know, I need to have a lot more energy to push out into the marketplace. I need to be, you know, even on more on the same page with my partner, or I need to be more engaged with my children, or I need to invest more time into the leadership component of my company or into the leaders and the managers within my organization. And I look at it as being, you know, a polymath and having all the different areas in your life balanced so you're able to be that person. You can talk about it on the high level, you can talk about it on the low level. Being more disciplined, cutting out more screen time, going to bed earlier, you know, having your own personal renewal ritual to get you revitalized. Reset energy. Because entrepreneurship is a long game. It's not like, you know, football or basketball or the UFC where people come in and it's like a sprint, right? It's like a short period of time. Most of these people, they're hitting their prime in their late 20s, and then that's kind of it. They're meant to kind of accumulate most of their wealth and their success and be at the peak of their game in their mid to late 20s, maybe if you're lucky, early 30s, if you don't have any injuries. Entrepreneurship is a long game, man. Like, you can roll this thing in for a long time. Like most people in entrepreneurship see most of the. When they're 45, 55 years old and beyond, right? So in order to be able to be in a position where you can play that long game, you can't neglect your health, you can't neglect your relationships, you can't neglect all this other stuff that's outside of the business world is you want to play the long game. So a lot of the stuff that I'm doing right now is planting the seeds for 15 years down the track, right? Like I'm trying to plant some big sequoia trees right now that are going to grow for a long amount of time. I'm not worried about like planting trees and harvesting them and eating the fruit right now because the day that you plant the seed is not the day that you eat the fruit. So, like, a lot of the things that I'm doing right now is willing to give up like that short term gratification and have deferred gratification further down the track. And there's a lot of discipline that needs to go into making that a reality.
Yeah, I agree. And like you said, sometimes entrepreneurship, it's not sexy. It's that laborious, relentless, dry, methodical pursuit. You know, I like that you embrace that. I like that you have that gritty determination. I love you. I love your story and I'm grateful that you're in our marketplace doing this and you're doing a great job of it.
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