Just interviewed Dwé & Gaby, my two favorite Urban Kizomba dancers! We talked about how they began dancing, can anyone learn to be a good dancer, our dance crushes and more! Also available in video on www.Samotivation.com Thank you Dwé and Gaby, it was a true honor and pleasure to meet the personalities behind all the talent and skill. Keep on doing what you are doing! You have so many fans around the world that you bring joy to and who support you wholeheartedly. If you are interested in taking classes in Rotterdam with these amazing people, go to the Kizomba Lounge FB page or visit www.kizombalounge.nl for more info. Dwé and Gaby Insta Dwé Insta Gaby Insta --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samotivation/message

I have no idea how an episode on favorite life quotes turned into a conversation about David Goggins, approaching girls in bars and the beach, stoicism, life philosophies and more but it was great recording it with Mohamad Balushi once again! Hope you guys enjoy this. What are your favorite life quotes and why? Feel free to get in touch with the links below! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samotivation/message

On today’s episode, we’ll explore the effects that social media has on our mental health, in addition to some key social media usage findings from the Digital 2020 April Global Statshot Report. Enjoy the episode! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samotivation/message

Some benefits of meditation include, increased concentration, less stress, and an overall sense of calm and happiness. A lot of people believe that meditation is something complicated and difficult to do. That’s not true. I'll even show you through a guided meditation session :) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samotivation/message

Today’s episode is about the most important conversation you’ll ever have. A conversation that you have every second of every day. This isn’t a conversation with your family or your significant other. It’s not with your friends. It’s not with your boss. It’s the conversation that you have with yourself and the power of self-belief. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samotivation/message

Today’s episode is about Corona, but it's not what you think. I am not here to tell you about how bad the situation is and how scared you should be, I am here to tell you about the massive opportunity you have here to develop yourself and what you can do during this period that doesn’t involve what the majority of the world is doing, i.e. Netflixxing and browsing social media all day. On today’s episode, we’ll explore 6 things you can do during this period to develop yourself and come out stronger and better once its all over. All hail, the Samotination. If you would like to send a voice message for the next  episode www.anchor.fm/Samotivation and click ‘Message’ to record your message --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samotivation/message

We are constantly comparing ourselves to others, causing feelings of envy, inadequacy, unhappiness and overall dissatisfaction with our own lives. For most of us, comparison stops at those feelings. The good thing is.. we can go beyond those feelings and use comparison as a tool for growth and inspiration as opposed to a source of inadequacy. With the mass use of social media, comparison has been magnified beyond anything our parents (and great great great great^ infinity grand parents) have known. (The ^ means 'to the power of'. Ok. Thanks. Bye.) In the age of social media, instant everything and so-called smart phones, we have not become smarter and more connected, but rather dumber and lonelier than ever before. Now, we no longer compare ourselves to those in our immediate circle, family, friends and the Joneses new door; with social media, we compare ourselves to people thousands of miles away and not just regular people, but celebrities, movie stars, singers, athletes and models and an insta-perfect fake and filtered lifestyle, where everyone is happy, eating at the most lavish restaurants, wearing the most elegant clothing, has a hot physique/partner, traveling to the most exotic places and so on. The Joneses are no longer next door or in our neighborhoods. They are everywhere around us (and beyond). Why do we compare ourselves to others and why should we stop? Can we use comparison as a positive tool for self-change as opposed to only a source of insufficiency?  YES! This is what we look at in today's Samotivation episode. Get in touch with Samotivation!: Facebook and Instagram --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samotivation/message

Happy New Year, Samotivation! I have a feeling that the year ahead is gonna be an amazing one. My Sami sense is tingling (2 points if you got the Spiderman reference). This episode is about how to make this years new resolution's a reality. Samotivation style. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samotivation/message

Today’s episode is on money, moo-lah, ca-ching. We’ll look at how to manage money through the Richest Man in Babylon, one of the most famous and favorite books among the banking and finance elite. Although the book was published in 1926, its lessons hold true almost a century later.  The reason I made this episode is because I feel like there is a lack of information on money. The educational system does a really bad job when it comes to financial literacy. There are all types of classes on Economics, Finance, Accounting, Business Management, Marketing and so on.  Endless money-related classes and not a single class taught us how to actually manage our finances.  What do I do when I get my salary? How much of it should I save? How do I invest it to make more? How do I accumulate wealth? All questions that the educational system refuses to answer. Could be that this is done on purpose so people do not think for themselves and remain poor? It’s possible. Financial literacy skills are indispensable. We live on an economic planet. And we are reminded of that fact every single second of every single day. Every time you go to the supermarket, gas station, shoe store, hospital (God forbid), school, restaurant, you are reminded of that fact. Money matters. In fact, it is super important. But despite all this, as Grant Cardone says, people don’t know how to make it, how to save it or how to multiply it.  To this day, it baffles me how many friends, do not know how to manage their money.  They spend recklessly on stuff they don’t need to impress people who don’t matter.  They get their salary and within a few weeks they are back to being broke and penniless yet again, just like they were the previous month...and the month before that.. and the month before that.  And they have to resort to borrowing money not because they are unemployed and living off savings (or ran out of them. I’ve been there before), but because they are recklessly spending money. They max out their credit cards and borrow money yet again to pay off their debt, creating a vicious cycle, where every cent earned is spent on repaying last month’s debt. What can you learn from the richest man in Babylon? 8,000 years ago, Babylon was one of the richest civilizations on the planet and with this book you’ll learn the basics of saving, managing and multiplying money through a collection of parables, set in ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Babylon through the Orientalist worldview of an American guy.  Orientalism: According to Edward Said, who coined the term in his book of the same name “Orientalism”, it is the idea that Western identity, culture and society is superior to Eastern identity, culture and society. It also highlights the notion that the West (referred to as the Occident) forms its own identity in stark contrast to the East (referred to as the Orient). The Occident is basically everything that the Orient is not, which is not white, Christian or superior. It involves exotifying the Orient and at the same time labeling it as backwards, uncivilized and dangerous. Orientalism provided a convenient rationalization of European colonization conquests based on a self-serving idea in which the East is inferior and therefore in need of Western intervention or rescue. Example sentence: The Richest Man in Babylon is one of the most Orientalist books ever written. But it is a great book to start off your financial liter... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samotivation/message

Keefak habibeh?! It means "How are you, my dear!?" in a Lebanese Arabic accent. Get used to it. You are gonna hear it a lot at the beginning of every single video/podcast. I'll do it tomorrow. I don't feel like it. Maybe another time. Not now etc. Sound familiar? All of us procrastinate, but procrastination is not just putting things off for another time. It's consciously choosing to deprive ourselves of an opportunity to grow stronger and create a better life for ourselves. Procrastination, then is consciously choosing to sabotage your life and it comes in many forms, watching one more episode of Game of Thrones, when you should be studying, going on Instagram when you should be working on a paper, and coming up with a long list of excuses as to why you have not started something. In today's episode, we look at how to approach procrastination when you don't feel like going to the gym (and go to the gym anyway, regardless of how you feel). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/samotivation/message