Richard Canfield describes how daily practices from Hal Elrod's SAVERS routine—silence, affirmation, visualization, exercise, reading, scribing—helped him recover from trauma and build the confidence to start a business and invest in real estate.
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If you want to build a business, you need to become a certain type of human. And a lot of stuff when you look up entrepreneurship and business owners, you learn about self development. Who do I need to become to run the business? And it's a lot of that space of learning about that. So I heard a book and it was the Life Savers by Hal Elrod. And it talked about the S A V E R s. And it was silence, affirmation, visualization, exercise, reading and scribing. And that's something that I started doing every single day. And that was actually a lot of the key here for me to go through some of the trauma and pain that I was going through was I had never done any of those things before. I had never, you know, I did a little bit of exercise, but I had never done scribing or affirmation or visualization or things like that, or silence and meditation. Those principles are things that allowed me to start focusing on myself and allow who I want to become. So I actually started building the person I wanted to become before I actually found real estate. Investing along the way is where that combination came from was, wow, I'm so confident in myself and what I'd overcome and.