<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Letters From Taylan]]></title><description><![CDATA[a weekly personal build-in-public style diary showing you intimate phases of my life, with a podcast coming soon.
]]></description><link>https://taylankayabagri.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!96jP!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Ftaylankayabagri.substack.com%2Fimg%2Fsubstack.png</url><title>Letters From Taylan</title><link>https://taylankayabagri.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:09:58 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Taylan Kaya]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[taylankayabagri@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[taylankayabagri@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Taylan Kaya Bagriyanik]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Taylan Kaya Bagriyanik]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[taylankayabagri@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[taylankayabagri@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Taylan Kaya Bagriyanik]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[The age of technology and building my own purpose-driven education business.]]></title><description><![CDATA[a letter diving into the behind the scenes of my life as i build my own business, teaching men the power of their mind and using it change their identity.]]></description><link>https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/p/the-age-of-technology-and-building</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/p/the-age-of-technology-and-building</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Taylan Kaya Bagriyanik]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:08:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uBkf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F186e3e85-211a-4c36-9f83-b89ab006d20d_3644x2170.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>you&#8217;re either missing out on or sitting on a goldmine and don&#8217;t even know it yet. imagine being able to create educational content that genuinely serves a deep purpose within you and also changes the lives of people &#8212; all the while being paid for it through unlimited scale.</p><p>that&#8217;s the power of producing purpose-driven educational content that actually speaks to your authentic cause, personal story and the changes you want to see in the world.</p><p>i realised this in 2021, and it wasn&#8217;t until 2022 that i posted my first youtube video about productivity.</p><p>i just got into self improvement at the time, but it wasn&#8217;t until 2022 that i came across Hamza and really delved deep into changing my life &#8212; or at least i had the intention to. i found this self improvement thing when i was overseas, in Kahramanmaras, Turkey (my home town) where i spent an entire month during the peak summer heat with my grandparents.</p><p>as soon as i got back to sydney, my hopes to change my life and take youtube faded away. the first day was perfect &#8212; i did my yoga, recorded videos, journaled, etc.</p><p>by the second week, i fell right back into my old identity. the old self that was:</p><ul><li><p>waking up at 5am to smoke weed and play video games for 12 hours</p></li><li><p>eating junk food and destroying his face with acne</p></li><li><p>not washing, shaving or grooming for days</p></li><li><p>not working out or doing any physical activity, even walks</p></li><li><p>didn&#8217;t believe in myself and my potential</p></li><li><p>was always waiting for a hand out or something to click</p></li><li><p>remained lazy and procrastinated with bad habits</p></li></ul><p>how could this identity be worthy of running a youtube channel making $10k/mo?</p><h2>where i am now</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uBkf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F186e3e85-211a-4c36-9f83-b89ab006d20d_3644x2170.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uBkf!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F186e3e85-211a-4c36-9f83-b89ab006d20d_3644x2170.png 424w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>4 months into building my youtube channel we&#8217;re close to achieving 1000 subscribers. uploading everyday has allowed me to fine tune ideas that work and that don&#8217;t, and also really improve my own skills in speaking, coherence, clarity and story telling.</p><p>the goal is to hit 1000 subscribers by the end of this month, while the overall goal is to do my first $1000 month completely from online sales. this requires a new identity&#8212;one that i&#8217;ve been crafting meticulously over the past few months &#8212; 80 days to be precise.</p><p>i experimented with many techniques and ran many experiments and found the process that works for me; allowing me to effortlessly change my subconscious beliefs every night and throughout the day. </p><p>i always speak about the importance of maintaining high frequency &#8212; an elevated state of emotions that allows you to operate from positive energy rather than negative &#8212; or what i like to call survival mode.</p><p>who wants to build a freedom business in survival mode anyway? yet this is exactly what i did for 4 years with my old youtube business venture, and this is exactly what 90% of people do too.</p><p>we saw the hustle and grind culture that once started out as a passionate movement and over time turned into a &#8220;sacrifice sleep, family and health for money&#8221;.</p><p>i&#8217;m not against you being passionately obsessed, or consumed by your craft. i&#8217;m against having an attachment to business outcomes with emotions of desperation, neediness and lack. </p><h3>the gold mine isn&#8217;t going away</h3><p>we are exposed to consumerism and hedonism more than ever before in the history of the world. we know exactly where the over-indulgence in these leads a person &#8212; down to an existential crisis. </p><p>why? no amount of fun or consumerism can fill the emptiness you think you have within you. we&#8217;ve seen this many many times. you&#8217;ve probably worked really hard for a goal only for the feelings of pride to fade away the next day, and then it&#8217;s back to a normal monday. </p><p>people are starting to ask questions, explore new alternatives and are looking for hope. they&#8217;ve seen what&#8217;s possible on instagram and tiktok. people know about online income and living in costa rica and surfing siargao. </p><p>but nobody is taking action &#8212; why?</p><p>the over-indulgence in consumerism and hedonism takes its toll on your nervous system &#8212; your dopamine receptors become flooded and nothing ever feels great anymore. your brain points become depleted and you lose the ability to focus. the nervous system becomes flooded with stimulation and keeps you alert in survival mode.</p><p>again, how could anybody take meaningful and consistent action in this state of being? and this is exactly why the gold mine isn&#8217;t going away, because more and more people are growing up with this philosophy of living which means the market is only growing larger and larger. </p><p>the demand for this life changing, purpose-driven educational content is there, and it&#8217;s only growing more and as more people begin to fall into survival mode and look for solutions to fix their lives.</p><p>this is exactly why &#8220;fix your life in x days&#8221; and &#8220;how to fix your life&#8221; videos do really well. they hit the spot. everybody wants to fix their life &#8212; most people just don&#8217;t know it, yet. they&#8217;re still in the overconsumption haze. but once they come out of the other side, they too will be looking for solutions.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Letters From Taylan is my personal build-in-public diary with real wisdom from real experiences. Don&#8217;t miss our growing movement. Join now.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p>my gold mine is to educate people about survival mode and how it&#8217;s destroying our lives, and how beyond survival mode we can enter the limitless mind. </p><p>your gold mine could be different &#8212; a purpose-driven business that teaches something that is valuable and relatable to you, something you have personal experience with. something that solves a real problem in the human collective consciousness.</p><h3>you&#8217;ve got to get out of survival mode living first</h3><p>by breaking the obsession loop that&#8217;s keeping you focused on your past traumas and future worries, you&#8217;ll be left with the present moment, which is where your attention needs to be to truly create something worthy.</p><p>create more opportunity, more growth, more potential, more knowledge, more wisdom and so on. i must reiterate the importance of breaking that loop first, which on the biological level is just a prolonged stress response. a life of stress that repeats itself on a daily and hourly basis, where the nervous system never relaxes beyond the 6-8 hours of sleep you get.</p><p>i had to stop living this way too. i did this through a multitude of ways, most importantly;</p><ol><li><p>maintaining awareness and noticing when i&#8217;m on autopilot.</p></li><li><p>meditating every single day.</p></li><li><p>living a healthy, regulated, proper human lifestyle.</p></li></ol><p>the third point specifically means that i go for daily walks, i exercise, get direct sunlight, wake up early and sleep on time, eat clean, dopamine detox, read, journal, sauna, socialise, family, love, purpose, growth, etc.</p><p>don&#8217;t copy me, you need to design your life meticulously and authentically. spend one day. one day. a good one hour, completely immersed in the moment.</p><p>once you adopt a high frequency lifestyle and you begin to simply notice the moments in your life when you go on autopilot, and then just bring your awareness back, you are already ahead of 99% of people. this is because 99% of people are focused on their jobs, problems, phone, friends, events, bills, entertainment and purchases, not their breath or awareness &#8212; not the fact that they&#8217;re in survival loops &#8212; <strong>a constant need to fulfil desires which come from feeling empty inside.</strong></p><h3>how you can make purpose-driven money the way that i do</h3><p>i don&#8217;t have courses for you to buy, i&#8217;m not an expert, but i&#8217;ve made my first sale online through this business model and then some more. the crux of what i will preach here highly depends on <strong>what you are passionate about AND how it can serve the world and make it a better place.</strong></p><p><strong>my business model:</strong></p><ol><li><p>create educational content on youtube about a topic i&#8217;m passionate in, and the world becomes better when they learn about it. </p></li><li><p>keep creating better content consistently.</p></li><li><p>write a simple written e-book guide teaching your topic in more detail/easier understanding with extra bonuses.</p></li><li><p>host it somewhere like stan.com or beacons.ai and publish it for a price of your choosing.</p></li><li><p>paste the purchase link into the description of your videos.</p></li><li><p>mention the link throughout your videos and get people to buy your product.</p></li><li><p>do this until your first sale.</p></li><li><p>improve product with reviews.</p></li><li><p>grow your channel to reach more potential customers, and improve your product offer and branding to attract more customers.</p></li></ol><p>this is my business model. now, my product is different, where i have my own academy own skool.com and i teach ambitious men how to break free from survival mode living and achieve their potential.</p><p>if you want to learn more, click below.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.skool.com/priml-academy-5875&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Join Limitless Academy&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.skool.com/priml-academy-5875"><span>Join Limitless Academy</span></a></p><p>(let me know by leaving a comment if you want more tips regarding content creation and this specific business model).</p><h3>my mission and finding yours</h3><p>in order to even think about finding your mission, you need to leave survival mode. then, you need two things; exposure and review. </p><p>you need to exposure yourself to new possibilities, information and experiences by traveling, reading, meeting people, working different jobs, trying different things, constantly learning and expanding your knowledge of all things.</p><p>then, you need to honestly review all your experience and knowledge and figure out what your authentic mission/purpose is. this isn&#8217;t going to be a fully logical process. matter of fact, this is going to be an emotional and intuitive process.</p><p>that&#8217;s what i did.</p><p>i traveled to thailand in 2022, and then once again every year after that. i worked as a carpenter, yoga studio manager, dating coach, customer rep at a bank and family business. i dated girls, went camping, explored my own country, did stupid things and more. i read, had many hobbies, kept an open mind.</p><p>then i journaled intensely for most of my life since 2018, but i focused on the important questions. <strong>what do i actually want to focus on? what&#8217;s my purpose? what is my calling? </strong></p><p>i figured out, during times of complete peace and relaxation, that truly and authentically, my purpose was simple.</p><h5>to help better the world through education.</h5><p>i looked back into my life and learned that i loved to teach. i always had a knack for explaining things, telling stories and getting into deep conversations.</p><p>i had multiple youtube channels dedicated to gaming and self improvement throughout my life.</p><p>i also went through some traumatic shit, grew up with no confidence, anxiety, low-self esteem. i wasted my life and potential from 19-24 years old, playing video games and wasting my time behind the screen. i was living in survival mode.</p><p>that&#8217;s when i noticed, this was my mission.</p><h5>to be free as a youtuber teaching ambitious people to break free from survival mode living and achieve their highest potential in life, through meditation, awareness and identity-work.</h5><p>of course it took me time to get to this point, and it was time well worth spending. the 2500 hours i have on Dota 2 hasn&#8217;t made a single dollar online.</p><p>completely changing my identity and self image, made me so far $350AUD online. and it&#8217;s only the beginning.</p><h3>are you going to take action?</h3><p>i&#8217;m going to leave you here. before i do, i need to ask, are you actually going to grab that journal, grab that pen, sit down and completely audit your life? </p><p>don&#8217;t forget to subscribe to the letters. you don&#8217;t want to miss out on game straight from the field that you can use to find your own highest potential in life.</p><p>for me, it&#8217;s only the beginning, and i can&#8217;t wait to see how for i can get. i wish you the same. peace and blessings upon you. may people be filled with grace upon your presence.</p><p>let&#8217;s go and absolutely get it.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[gratitude is an entrepreneurs greatest tool to hack the fabric of this game we're playing.]]></title><description><![CDATA[when you begin to look at life with conviction and gratitude, you will begin to build an impenetrable shield in which nothing can fuck with your wealth.]]></description><link>https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/p/gratitude-is-an-entrepreneurs-greatest</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/p/gratitude-is-an-entrepreneurs-greatest</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Taylan Kaya Bagriyanik]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 08:01:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yqM3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc8609004-6161-4112-ba94-8e272bf22d59_4032x2268.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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desperation, lack and neediness. </p><p>oh and you could see it too. if you want the link to my old videos from 2022-4, just comment below and i&#8217;ll post the link.</p><p>you could feel my frustration and anger at the world through the screen. you could sense my pain.</p><p>yet with all this pain, i hated everybody.</p><p>everybody that i thought was lesser than me.</p><p>people who don&#8217;t meditate? </p><p>who don&#8217;t exercise?</p><p>who don&#8217;t have businesses?</p><p>who aren&#8217;t awake?</p><p>all of them were beneath me. i hated them, i wanted to be better than them &#8212; i was sure that i was better than them. i would show my family and my brothers who doubted me. i would show my friends and coworkers and rub it in their faces when i became successful.</p><p>do you know the funniest thing? i struggled, so. fucking. hard with sticking to my own words and values. i hadn&#8217;t meditated for months. skipped the gym again for the 15th time now? i couldn&#8217;t even record videos for my youtube channel because i just saw an imposter in the reflection.</p><p>gut wrenching, cognitive dissonance and identity incongruency. i was dying from the inside.</p><p>i made absolutely no fucking progress. i stopped and started my good habits. i fell off for months. questioned my every move.</p><p>and after 4 years of struggling and quitting university and disappointing my family &#8212; i had nothing to show for it. yikes.</p><blockquote><p><em>that sounds serious. have you tried yoga?</em></p></blockquote><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">the kaya method is my perspective and rules for living life like a game. create your character and dive right in.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h4>i refused to operate from low frequency. and my life changed.</h4><p>i&#8217;m not even taking the piss when i say this.</p><p>i used to believe for so long that i wouldn&#8217;t make a good writer. until yesteray, i went to a cafe, sipped on a flat white and journalled. i was sending gratitude for all my blessings.</p><p>i was also grateful for the fact that i&#8217;d been journaling since 2019. i picked up my first journal when i was 17 years old. </p><p>and as i was writing this on my journal, i realised</p><p><em>hold on a second. i&#8217;ve been journaling for 7 years. why do fuck do i believe i am a bad writer? or that i need to be better? or that i need to learn and practise more before i can write newsletters as i like? do i really want to believe that?</em></p><p>and so i refused to operate from low frequency. i decided to fuck off that belief system right then and there.</p><p>and here we are. this is one simple example of choosing your belief systems.</p><p>back to the topic of gratitude &#8212; this is simply the greatest tool to enter into a state of abundance, love, creativity, joy, excitement, passion, mastery and more positive emotions&#8230; within a few minutes (of genuine practise).</p><p>for the past 5 days, i&#8217;ve been practising gratitude simply to operate from the highest frequency possible so that i&#8217;m able to access my intuitive creative energy and produce work that is artistically authentic to me. </p><p>i&#8217;ve been putting out content daily on my youtube channel, and i am starting to  employ my own artistic touch completely unapologetically. </p><p>expressing your truest gifts to the world unapologetically is a necessity. not doing so is massively disrespectful to the one who created you. and your parents.</p><p>gratitude has aligned me to such passion for my work and for life that i genuinely enjoy showing up to produce for the world.</p><p>it was only a few months ago where i couldn&#8217;t imagine ever quitting video games. i thought i&#8217;d always be playing them. well, i was right, and wrong. couple of months ago, i chose to believe that i video games are beneath me.</p><p>i&#8217;m still early on my journey, and there is yet so much to learn and share.</p><p>appreciate you reading. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe 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isPermaLink="false">https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/p/turn-your-mind-into-your-greatest</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Taylan Kaya Bagriyanik]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:37:49 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>what&#8217;s up brother.</p><p>it&#8217;s 9:51pm, i&#8217;m sitting alone in the lounge room of my apartment. i&#8217;ve finished today with 5-6 meditation session totalling to around 1.5 hours of meditation and visualisation. </p><p>i don&#8217;t like satan (both physically and all the ideas he represents).</p><p>i also don&#8217;t like the elites for this reason (the you know who&#8217;s).</p><p>but&#8230; fucking oath i want to build an elite level empire for myself, my family and my tribe of people, &#8212; of course i do&#8230; without selling my soul to satan.</p><p>if that sounds like you, let&#8217;s talk.</p><h3>this is not a religious article, relax.</h3><p>i&#8217;ve just started gratitude journaling today, and prioritised keeping my nervous system and frequency regulated.</p><p>brother, it has been a fucking success. i need you to get on top of this. why?</p><p>because eventually, within a few days of focused meditation and identity work, your own mind will slowly turn allegiance from being your worst enemy to being your best friend.</p><p>that&#8217;s right, your brain, working for you. giving you ideas on the clock. inspiring you in the most random circumstances. synchronising opportunity with you so that you begin to notice them and take them.</p><p>i&#8217;m <strong>only </strong>18 days into my daily meditations. </p><p>can you imagine 30, 60, 90 days&#8230; years of meditation and maintaining frequency?</p><h3>the rise of a young generation that&#8217;s more conscious.</h3><p>this post will find you in a moment in life exactly when you need it. that&#8217;s how frequency with focus brings opportunity into your life. actually, it doesn&#8217;t bring the opportunity in &#8212; the opportunities are already there.</p><h4>you&#8217;re just not in the right frequency to even be aware of these constant opportunities around you.</h4><blockquote><p><em>a note to myself &#8212; to begin giving genuine gratitude to the constant opportunities around me that lead me to my desired reality. all praise belongs to god.</em></p></blockquote><p>you&#8217;re reading this because you know you have potential within in you, and you&#8217;ve had enough delaying that potential. somewhere along the line of your timeline, you made an emotionally intense decision to change your life. </p><p>or, you really want to make that decision and your frequency is looking for &#8220;the one thing&#8221; that&#8217;s going to help you change your life.</p><p>i will not be your crutch, so i am not that one thing, or one &#8220;who&#8221; that will save you.</p><p>only you save you.</p><p>and i help you, save you.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h3>men don&#8217;t need information, they need aligned implementation.</h3><p>for those of you who don&#8217;t know, i have a youtube channel where i discuss becoming the most aligned version of yourself <em>to</em> your dream self. i&#8217;m creating and leading a movement of men taking control over their identity and therefore their life.</p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/@taylankayabagriyanikk?si=lpKtogsXmzwGyx80">you can view our movement by clicking here</a></p><p>every video always mentions the core principle of our movement &#8212; perception is reality, so create your own main character, begin perceiving the world from his lens and start seeing the opportunities to change your life.</p><p>you don&#8217;t struggle with information, you struggle with implementation. but why is it so hard and unnatural for you to take action and stay consistent long enough?</p><p>alignment. the gap between who you are currently, and who you want to be is far too wide apart for you to actually <em>truly </em>believe that you <em>can change your life.</em></p><p>at one point on my own life i gave up watching all business / entrepreneur / youtuber related content because i&#8217;d come to the realisation that it was confusing me and filling my brain up with too much information, to the point i took no action (paralysis by analysis).</p><blockquote><p><em>to run our movement, as well as run this newsletter, i make sure every single day to filter my brain inputs. that means, my core habits have been: reducing screen time, meditation, visualisation and walking. any time i don&#8217;t have meaningful work to do, instead of consuming content, i allow my brain to relax and process everything for me automatically, so that i&#8217;m back tomorrow as a high performer.</em></p></blockquote><p>if you&#8217;re an entrepreneur, in careers or generally wanting to excel in your field of work, a regulated nervous system is going to work like a second brain while you sleep. </p><p>the biggest issue ambitious men who are starting out or scaling face is too much information, and therefore confusion. chaos in the brain. no adequate relaxing time to process those thoughts while you&#8217;re still conscious.</p><p>you need to give your body and mind this time while you&#8217;re still awake, so that your brain can work for you while you sleep.</p><p><em><strong>i work from 12-4pm, 3-4 days a week on growing our movement and tribe.</strong></em></p><p>for the rest of the day, i try my best to stay away from deep, stimulating work and instead just completely focus on relaxing &#8212; and that does not mean i get to watch content or play video games. come on brother, we&#8217;re way past video games, especially if you believe yourself to be ambitious.</p><p>you need to start managing your inputs like defending your kingdom against barbarians who want to rape your wife and hang your children, while murdering your entire kingdom.</p><p>the news, social media, content creators, education, friends, free time, habits, conversations, focus, environment&#8230;</p><p>you must manage your life like a highly conscious king who wants to build the most stable kingdom. </p><p>it is stupid of me or you to assume that we can be &#8220;happy&#8221; and excited all the time. this is just not possible. what i want you to instead of focus on is stability. more specifically, internal stability.</p><p>that peace, calmness and deep conviction inside of you. </p><p>i build this stability through my core habits:</p><ul><li><p>daily meditation in the morning, deciding who i want to be</p></li><li><p>gratitude journaling, sending thanks as if i already have everything i want</p></li><li><p>meditating simply with awareness, for 20-45 mins per day</p></li><li><p>10,000 steps per day in sunlight</p></li><li><p>watching the sunset</p></li><li><p>no short form content</p></li><li><p>no conflicting sources of information or distractions</p></li><li><p>highly focused lifestyle and priorities</p></li><li><p>daily identity-work through visualisations</p></li><li><p>reading</p></li></ul><p>and a few more i can&#8217;t mention. you can go and watch my youtube channel to get a more personal understanding of me</p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/@taylankayabagriyanikk?si=lpKtogsXmzwGyx80">click here for my youtube channel</a></p><p>now i&#8217;d like to take a moment to send you gratitude for reading this article.</p><p>it&#8217;s 10:25pm now, as i&#8217;ve finished writing.</p><p>thank you for your time. if this helps you even a little bit, then that makes me feel great knowing i could be of service and potentially change your life. i&#8217;m grateful that you&#8217;ve given me the opportunity to do that, on this platform.</p><p>now let&#8217;s get fucking rich.</p><p>i&#8217;ll talk to you next time, ciao.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[the lost art of stillness and intuition in business (the age of conscious entrepreneurship)]]></title><description><![CDATA[stillness is in fact, the key to creating from intuition, not from copying.]]></description><link>https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/p/the-lost-art-of-stillness-and-intuition</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/p/the-lost-art-of-stillness-and-intuition</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Taylan Kaya Bagriyanik]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:23:13 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>imagine being able to take a moment, first thing in the morning, and practising an art that allows you to stop running the same reality-creating thought-loops, and reprogram your mind to your liking.</p><p>this is exactly what i&#8217;ve been practising for the last 12 days, as of writing this post for you. my friend, within 4 days i began to feel the difference in my mind and my experience in day to day life.</p><p>9 days had me convinced that i need to practise meditation every single day, for the rest of my life, if i truly want to be in control over the reality i create for myself and therefore experience.</p><p>that&#8217;s exactly what i&#8217;d like to share with you &#8212; exactly how meditation is going to 2-3x your business or career progress, as well as make you more aligned to the ideal version of yourself that you keep fantasising about in your head and in your journal.</p><p>don&#8217;t worry, that&#8217;s me too.</p><p>let&#8217;s dive in.</p><div class="poll-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:447413}" data-component-name="PollToDOM"></div><p></p><h3>i failed as a youtuber for 5 years straight.</h3><p>i had a desperate and ego-charged desire (or, lust) to become self-employed as a youtuber, and my sole reason to achieve this goal was driven out of fear.</p><p>picture a 19 year old taylan, sitting on the dining chair of his unruly bedroom (and no wonder an unruly mind), staring at the screen of his ultra-rigged up gaming pc.</p><p>his fingers float just above the 3 year old keyboard he has, ready to type &#8212; but his mind fails him. nothing, not a single coherent thought is made.</p><p>not only that, his brain is running a million miles per second, like a constant low heat brewing in the centre of his pineal gland, slowly charring itself away.</p><p>total brain fog, and i&#8217;ll tell you why.</p><p>he didn&#8217;t start his morning the way his ideal self would have. </p><p>i, at 23 years old today, meditate every morning, and daily for a minimum of 25 minutes collectively.</p><p>19 year old taylan, immediately reached for his phone, turned to his private browser, and ejected his life force out of him all before he even gained full consciousness.</p><p>next, let&#8217;s follow with a little bit of scrolling, and a little bit more&#8230;</p><p>shit, it&#8217;s already been 1.5 hours and i haven&#8217;t even began the day yet&#8230;</p><p>not until i&#8217;ve hit my bong a few times, &#8220;got into the zone&#8221; as i&#8217;d love to say and got straight to business.</p><p>but i didn&#8217;t know what business exactly, because i had just repeated the same old habits that produced the same old mind and behaviours&#8230; and finally the same shit reality i kept experiencing.</p><p>&#8594; be productive and locked in</p><p>&#8594; burn out or hit roadblock in 4 days</p><p>&#8594; cave in with 1 bad habit</p><p>&#8594; cope and say it&#8217;s ok</p><p>&#8594; fall into a rut before i know what&#8217;s happening</p><p>i did this for 5 years straight, both with my actions, but also with my mindset and belief systems about life.</p><p>i wanted to succeed so badly because i was afraid of working a normal job, being looked down upon, not making my parents proud and feeling worthless.</p><p>i wanted to make money so that i could prove to everyone who doubted me that i was smart for getting into online business and that they missed out.</p><p>i, as an &#8220;entrepreneur&#8221; operated out of fear-rooted frequency. from insecurity.</p><p>and that came across my videos, my decisions and my performance in youtube.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h3>align to the ideal version of yourself through upmost clear visualisation and awareness.</h3><p>i spend every single morning dedicating 5-15 minutes to visualising and aligning my self to the frequency of my ideal self. what that means is, in my head, i know <strong>exactly</strong> the kind of person i can be.</p><p>and i know what emotions, thoughts, beliefs and reality he would experience (his frequency).</p><p>so when i come to relaxation, start meditating and visualising this person, i <strong>feel</strong> and <strong>embrace </strong>his emotions, thoughts, beliefs and reality. </p><p>as i keep focusing on this visual image of myself, and intensifying the emotions associated with my dream self, something incredible happens in your biology.</p><p>your brain fails to discern the difference between what is real and what isn&#8217;t, and since you&#8217;re &#8220;feeling&#8221; those emotions now, in your meditation, your brain thinks it is happening right now and starts to produce chemicals like serotonin to adjust to reality.</p><p>you, by practising this daily, literally &#8220;bio-hack&#8221; and &#8220;lie&#8221; to your brain and mind by telling it you have achieved your dream self potential today. and when you do this, no, you don&#8217;t achieve your goals physically.</p><p>what stops happening, is firstly the familiar self-sabotaging voice in your head that you kept around for years like a toxic girlfriend. that voice stops appearing as much throughout your day.</p><p>what starts to happen is, a natural inner gut feeling, inclination, thought or positive perspective begins to develop, and it starts to guide you towards your desired self.</p><p>the reason you find it hard to come up with ideas for your content or media empire is simply because your identity and frequency isn&#8217;t aligned with the version of yourself that finds it natural to come up with ideas.</p><p>but you can shift to that version of yourself right now, through meditation.</p><p>i&#8217;m only 12 days in brother. </p><p>i cannot imagine how i am going to feel 30, 60, 180, 360 days in, let alone 15 years of daily meditation.</p><p>start small. </p><p>do it multiple times through out the day, when you find time, or when you find you&#8217;re losing that energy or state of feeling from the meditation.</p><h3>do not get sucked into the constant haze of content consumption and overstimulation.</h3><p>the biggest cancer for the modern entrepreneur is the overstimulation of his mind and the draining of his attention currency. my friend please pay close attention to when you do get caught in this cancerous cycle of consumption.</p><p>as you begin to meditate daily, you will develop an incredible superpower.</p><p>the average person, who doesn&#8217;t meditate and spends 50% of their day on phones or consumption generally has a negative thought, feeds into that thought, grows it and grows it, and only becomes aware of what happened seconds, minutes or even days later.</p><p>that&#8217;s the distance between you,</p><p>&#8594;having a negative thought/emotion</p><p>&#8594; realising that you had that thought</p><p>as an entrepreneur, when you constantly consume content or overstimulate your brain without giving it proper rest and de-stressing, you train it to lose awareness and become hypnotised by the thing you&#8217;re selling your attention to.</p><p>that's why you might scroll for hours but it&#8217;ll feel like minutes.</p><p>that&#8217;s why when you&#8217;re really having fun on a game, something like 7 hours will feel like 3.</p><p>you&#8217;ve trained your mind to become easily hypnotised, hooked and invested into these things.</p><p>you&#8217;re doing this by working too much too. if you&#8217;re in &#8220;monk-mode&#8221; or &#8220;lock-in&#8221; or some sort of arc, you need to watch out especially for getting hooked into negative thought loops, information overload, analysis paralysis, fear, anxiety, etc.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>again, you can practise and shorten the time it takes you to realise you are self-sabotaging, simply by meditating.</p><p>meditation brings your attention and awareness to the exact present moment, and trains your mind to observe potential thought loops, rather than become hypnotised by them.</p><p>you need this if you want to achieve the next level of your entrepreneurship journey. it has, and is serving me incredibly well.</p><p>on a channel of 85 subscribers, i just made my first sale 2 days ago for $26USD, on a monthly recurring model. that was after 9 days of daily meditation, self image work, frequency alignment&#8230;</p><p>and of course, the physical actions necessary to put things into place: recording my videos, improving on them every time, delivering value, setting up my links, etc.</p><p>taking action + mentally aligning + increasing energy = conscious entrepreneur</p><p>this is when you begin to receive intuitive ideas, directions and thoughts that all lead you to your desired self.</p><p>you wake up more excited for work.</p><p>you&#8217;re more optimistic and have more confidence in your self.</p><p>ideas flow in much easier, and more consistently.</p><p>shallow problems don&#8217;t affect you as much.</p><p>things don&#8217;t sway your emotional as much.</p><p>you&#8217;re calmer, more focused and also happier on top of all of it.</p><p>like a little bit of childish joy, that zest for life, re-ignited.</p><p>meditation is the only reason i&#8217;ve been able to write my first post on substack after months of delaying it, because i was always the kind of person who &#8220;was trying to learng to become a better writer&#8221;.</p><p>i didn&#8217;t see myself as a writer. now i do.</p><p>and i&#8217;m practising that aspect of my life here, while being as value oriented as possible, to you.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/p/the-lost-art-of-stillness-and-intuition/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://taylankayabagri.substack.com/p/the-lost-art-of-stillness-and-intuition/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><h4></h4>
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