With Acusio Bivona of The Resurrection Protocol, Episode #255
What You’ll Learn
- System failure origins: How 5 catastrophic events in 5 months forced a complete life rebuild, according to 10-year fitness industry veteran Acusio Bivona. [01:15]
- The kaizen approach to crisis: Why focusing on continuous micro-improvement beats trying to solve everything at once during a personal breakdown. [06:22]
- Fight one monster: Tenet #4 of the Resurrection philosophy says to choose the easiest challenge first and build momentum from guaranteed wins. [08:05]
- Unbreakable Promises: Micro-commitments so small you laugh at them that rebuild self-trust like $1 deposits into a bank account. [08:52]
- Hot Fusion vs Cold Resonance: Why alignment over effort produces more power, more efficiently, for longer periods with zero waste. [12:03]
- The “do hard muscle”: Research shows the anterior midcingulate cortex literally grows at any age when you choose voluntary discomfort, per neuroscientist Andrew Huberman. [20:21]
- Radical self-accountability: The hardest tenet to practice, but the fastest path to liberation when you stop pointing fingers and start owning your contribution. [23:16]
- Protocol Zero: Now renamed to “The 48-Hour Executive Reset” is a free 48-hour crisis stabilization guide that includes Unbreakable Promises, a digital blackout, and self-triage. [43:34]
- Digital blackout: 7 days off the social media platform most related to your crisis to cut the noise and hear your own voice. [44:47]
Why It Matters
Most high achievers treat burnout like a badge of honor until their relationships, health, and business collapse simultaneously. Acusio Bivona, a performance coach who survived 5 back-to-back life crises in 5 months, designed the Resurrection Protocol to help founders and executives recover from total system failure in 90 days. His 4-pillar approach (fitness, nutrition, mindset, and purpose) replaces the grind-harder mentality with a framework built on alignment, micro-wins, and radical self-accountability.
Who Should Listen
- Founders and executives who feel their professional ambition is outpacing their biological capacity.
- Men going through a personal crisis (breakup, career setback, health scare) who need a structured path forward.
- High achievers running on anxiety and hustle who want to replace grinding with alignment.
Episode Overview
Acusio Bivona, a performance coach with over 10 years in the fitness industry, joins Nick Urban on the High Performance Longevity podcast to break down his Resurrection Protocol. After losing his relationship, watching his mother fight cancer for the third time, being betrayed by close friends, seeing a 7-figure deal collapse, and watching his own business decline, all within 5 months, Bivona rebuilt from scratch and codified the process into a repeatable system.
The conversation covers the 4 pillars of the Resurrection Protocol (fitness, nutrition, mindset, and purpose), the concept of Unbreakable Promises as micro-deposits into a self-trust bank account, and the Hot Fusion vs Cold Resonance framework that explains why alignment outperforms effort. Bivona introduces his 8 tenets, including “fight one monster” (tackling the easiest challenge first) and radical self-accountability.
Listeners will walk away with The 48-Hour Executive Reset, Bivona’s free 48-hour crisis stabilization guide, along with practical tools like the digital blackout, cold shower protocol, and a morning routine designed to stack wins before the day starts. Whether you’re in full system failure or just feeling the first cracks, the frameworks here apply across fitness, relationships, and business.
Key Terms Quick Reference
- [03:05] System failure: The point where multiple life domains (health, relationships, career, purpose) break down simultaneously. Recognizing it early is the first step toward recovery.
- [08:52] Unbreakable Promises: Micro-commitments made so small that failure is nearly impossible. They rebuild self-trust through consistent $1 deposits into your internal confidence account.
- [06:22] Kaizen: A Japanese philosophy of continuous improvement. Bivona applies it as a daily mindset: do your best with what you have, and let action breed clarity.
- [12:03] Hot Fusion: An energy model based on force and friction. In humans, it shows up as inflammation, burnout, snapping at loved ones, and rage at employees.
- [13:51] Cold Resonance: A superconductor model where zero resistance yields maximum output. Bivona’s framework prioritizes alignment over effort for sustainable high performance.
- [20:21] Anterior midcingulate cortex: A brain region that physically grows when you choose voluntary discomfort. Bivona calls it the “do hard muscle.”
How Do Unbreakable Promises Rebuild Self-Trust?
The short answer
Unbreakable Promises are commitments so small you’d laugh at them, designed to create guaranteed wins that compound into genuine self-confidence over time.
What Bivona found
Bivona describes self-trust like a bank account. If you’re at zero or in the negative, the only way to pay off the debt is by making deposits. The trick is to start with $1 deposits: promises so ridiculously small that failure isn’t an option. His go-to example is 10 pushups as soon as you wake up. That’s it. No 2-hour gym sessions, no elaborate meal plans. Just 10 pushups.
The neuroscience backs this up. Your brain doesn’t register the size of the win. It only registers the win itself. The same hormones of victory (dopamine, serotonin) fire whether you completed 10 pushups or ran a marathon. Over time, those micro-deposits compound. You start believing you can follow through, which builds the courage to take on bigger challenges.
One of Bivona’s clients illustrates this perfectly. He had the client send a photo of a full water bottle every morning before work. It wasn’t about hydration alone. It was about proving to himself, day after day, that he could keep a promise. After about 6 weeks, the behavior became automatic. It had integrated into his subconscious, and the daily photo was no longer necessary.
What to do about it
Pick one Unbreakable Promise tomorrow morning. Make it laughably small: 10 pushups, one glass of water, making your bed. Do it every single day without negotiation. Track it if that helps, whether in a journal, a task manager, or by sending a photo to an accountability partner. Once it’s integrated (usually 4 to 6 weeks), add a second promise. The goal isn’t to overhaul your life overnight. It’s to rebuild the evidence that you can trust yourself again.
“Your brain doesn’t register the size of the win. It only registers the win itself.” – Acusio Bivona
Related: Build Personal Resilience (& Effective Training Examples)
What Is Cold Resonance & Why Does It Beat Grinding?
The short answer
Cold Resonance is a performance framework modeled on superconductors, where removing resistance yields more output than adding force.
What Bivona found
Bivona contrasts two energy models. Hot Fusion is what most high achievers default to: atoms smashing together, brute force, raw friction. It works, but it generates massive waste in the form of heat. In humans, that heat shows up as chronic inflammation, lower back pain, snapping at your spouse over small things, and rageful outbursts at employees over minor mistakes.
Cold Resonance flips the model. Like a superconductor cooled to absolute zero, when you remove resistance from the wire, you get more power, more efficiently, for a longer period with zero waste. Bivona points to research suggesting that in an 8-hour workday, the average worker produces about 3 hours of real output. The rest is friction. If you could identify and remove the sources of that friction (toxic employees, avoided conversations, misaligned priorities), you’d accomplish more while burning less energy.
What to do about it
Audit your life for sources of resistance this week. That might be a hard conversation you’ve been avoiding, a team member who costs more energy than they contribute, or a habit that’s misaligned with your goals. Remove one source of friction. You’re not working less. You’re working with less waste. Start with your body (Bivona’s non-negotiable first pillar), because a healthier body creates a healthier mind, which naturally reduces internal resistance.
“You get more power more efficiently for a longer period of time with zero waste… we focus on alignment over effort.” – Acusio Bivona
What Is The 48-Hour Executive Reset (Protocol Zero) & How Do You Stabilize After Crisis?
The short answer
The 48-Hour Executive Reset is a free 48-hour crisis guide that implements immediate self-triage through Unbreakable Promises and a 7-day digital blackout.
What Bivona found
The first 48 hours after system failure can make or break your recovery trajectory. Bivona designed The 48-Hour Executive Reset as a triage protocol that stops the bleeding before deeper work begins. The centerpiece is the digital blackout: removing yourself from the specific social media platform most connected to your crisis for a full 7 days. If it’s a breakup, stay off Instagram. If it’s a professional collapse, stay off LinkedIn. If it’s a family breakdown, stay off Facebook.
The blackout isn’t about discipline for its own sake. It’s about removing the algorithmic noise so you can actually hear yourself think. Bivona emphasizes filling that reclaimed time with offline activities: walks, gym sessions, reading, or simply being present with people who care about you.
What to do about it
Download The 48-Hour Executive Reset from coachcooz.com (it’s free, visitors must scroll to the bottom of the Home Page and click the button that says “Download The Reset” in order to receive the PDF.). Commit to the 7-day digital blackout on one platform. Replace your scroll time with one offline activity, whether that’s a daily walk, a gym session, or calling a friend. The goal is to stabilize first, then build.
“If you just make the commitment to do that for 7 days, it allows you to get within yourself and really just go, okay, the dam broke. What do we do?” – Acusio Bivona
Related: Fantastic Benefits of Cold Showers (& How to Start Painlessly)
The Bivona System Failure Recovery Protocol
Start with the body. Everything else follows.
- Surrender and submit: Acknowledge you can’t do it alone and connect with a higher power or support system.
- Practice radical self-accountability: Own your contribution to the situation, even if it’s only 1%.
- Fight one monster: Choose the easiest problem to solve first and build momentum from guaranteed wins.
- Make one Unbreakable Promise: Pick something so small it’s laughable. Do 10 pushups. Drink one glass of water. Do it every day.
- Implement cold resonance: Identify one source of friction in your life (toxic relationship, avoided conversation, misaligned habit) and remove it.
- Schedule 20 minutes of silence: No phone, no music, no input. Just breathe and observe your thoughts.
- If in acute crisis, activate The 48-Hour Executive Reset: Download the free guide, commit to a 7-day digital blackout, and fill the time with offline connection.
Common system failure recovery mistakes
- Making promises too big too fast: A 2-hour gym session when you haven’t been in months creates withdrawals from the self-trust account, not deposits.
- Trying to fix everything simultaneously: Multiple monsters at once guarantees overwhelm. Bivona’s Tenet #4 says pick one.
- Doom scrolling during crisis: Social media algorithms are designed to keep you engaged, not healed. The digital blackout is non-negotiable.
Source: Bivona’s Resurrection Protocol, The Resurrection Protocol
Frequently Asked Questions
What is system failure?
System failure is when multiple life domains break down at once. Signs include repeating toxic patterns, professional burnout, relationship distance, and feeling like something fundamental isn’t right.
How small should Unbreakable Promises be?
Small enough that you laugh. Bivona suggests 10 pushups in the morning or drinking one glass of water. Your brain registers the win regardless of size.
What is the self-trust bank account?
A metaphor where every kept promise is a deposit and every broken one is a withdrawal. Start with $1 deposits (tiny promises) until your balance is positive.
What is the difference between hot fusion & cold resonance?
Hot fusion uses force and friction to create energy but produces waste (burnout, inflammation, rage). Cold resonance removes resistance for maximum output with zero waste.
What is The 48-Hour Executive Reset?
A free 48-hour crisis stabilization guide available at coachcooze.com. It includes Unbreakable Promises, a 7-day digital blackout, and self-triage strategies.
Does the anterior midcingulate cortex really grow from voluntary discomfort?
Yes. Research popularized by neuroscientist Andrew Huberman shows this brain region physically grows when you do things you don’t want to do, at any age.
How long does the Resurrection Protocol take?
The core program runs 90 days across 4 pillars: fitness, nutrition, mindset, and purpose. Bivona offers a $1,000 listener credit for applicants who include “urban” in their application.
Products, Tools & Resources
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Programs & guides
- The 48-Hour Executive Reset: Free 48-hour crisis stabilization guide. Download from the bottom of the homepage and enter your email for immediate access.
- The Resurrection Protocol: 90-day 1-on-1 coaching program covering fitness, nutrition, mindset, and purpose. High Performance Longevity listeners get a $1,000 credit when they include “URBAN” in their application.
Books & references
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield: Referenced for the concept of “the muse” providing ideas during moments of creative solitude.
- 1 Kings 3:5-14: The Bible passage Bivona read the day after his breakdown that shifted his perspective from crisis to calling.
Tools & apps
- Freedom: App and website blocker that works across all devices. Useful for enforcing the digital blackout during The 48-Hour Executive Reset.
Podcasts
- The Resurrection Podcast: Bivona’s podcast where he shares frameworks like Hot Fusion vs Cold Resonance and other Resurrection Protocol tenets.
About Acusio Bivona
Acusio Bivona is a Human Performance Architect and the founder of The Resurrection Protocol. With over a decade of experience in metabolic analysis and high-performance coaching, he specializes in rebuilding the biological hardware of burned-out executives and founders. Bivona helps high-achieving men diagnose system failure, the precise moment when professional ambition outpaces biological capacity. His methodology fuses spiritual philosophy with medical-grade physiological interventions to reverse burnout, optimize hormones, and restore command-level energy. Follow him on Instagram and YouTube at @Coach_Cooz.
Related Episodes & Articles
- E225: How to Beat Burnout & Stress with Clinical Hypnotherapy
- E226: Healing Trauma & Boosting Longevity Through Nervous System Health
- E227: Somatic Intelligence: How The Nervous System Determines Your Success or Burnout
- Article: Build Personal Resilience (& Effective Training Examples)
- Article: Fantastic Benefits of Cold Showers (& How to Start Painlessly)
- Article: Hormetic Stress: How Poison Can Become Your Elixir
Full Episode Transcript
Nick Urban [00:00:01]:
You’re listening to High Performance Longevity, the show exploring a better path to optimal health for those daring to live as an outlier in a world of averages. I’m your host, Nick Urban, bioharmonizer, performance coach, and lifelong student of both modern science and ancestral wisdom. Each week we decode the tools, tactics, and timeless principles to help you optimize your mind, body, and performance span. Things you won’t find on Google or in your AI tool of choice. From cutting-edge biohacks to grounded lifestyle practices, you’ll walk away with actionable insights to look, feel, and perform at your best across all of life’s domains. Accousio, welcome to the podcast.
Acusio Bivona [00:00:53]:
Thank you, Nick. It’s a pleasure to be here.
Nick Urban [00:00:54]:
Today, we’re going to be talking about your realm of expertise, and that is protocols for high achievers and what you call, you have a lot of protocols, the Resurrection Protocol. Let’s start off with how you arrived where you currently are. What made you interested in all this work?
Acusio Bivona [00:01:15]:
Yeah, so the old origin story. So my background has been in the fitness industry. I had been a personal trainer in the Los Angeles area for 10 years. As well as doing some online coaching and a couple different opportunities towards the latter, like, quarter about of that time. And then, truth be told, I became the Resurrection Coach because I had to go through my own resurrection because every aspect of my life seemed to be falling apart. And the end of 2023 going into 2024 was the most challenging 5-month span of my entire life in which there were 5 strikes, one that literally happened each month. The first strike was I lost the girl. So for anyone that’s gone through heartbreak or is going through heartbreak, I thought she was the one.
Acusio Bivona [00:02:05]:
If anyone’s ever gone through an avoidant discard, which if that makes sense to talk about, I’m happy to talk about. I went through it brutal. The next month, found out my mom got cancer for the third time. The next month, my 2 best friends at the time turned their backs on me. The next month, an online fitness coaching company that I was contracted with, who was negotiating a 7-figure contract to work with a professional esports team exclusively, fumbled the deal and went bankrupt. And then the next month, my business started to go down. And about a year later, I hit full system failure with my own business, of which much of 2025 was just trying to figure out how to get out of it. And although that 5-month stretch was the most stressful, arguably the most traumatic time period to ever happen to me, it was the greatest time period to ever happen for me.
Acusio Bivona [00:03:05]:
Because what I took it as is that it was an opportunity and a divine intervention from God to level up. And it made me reevaluate my faith. It made me reevaluate my business model. It made me reevaluate my target, who I want to serve. And most importantly, it made me reevaluate me and recognize who am I, what do I want to do, who do I want to be. And from that origin story, The Resurrection Coach was born, and the Resurrection philosophy was designed as a result of my own growth journey in various realms over a span of 2 years. And That philosophy or the protocol covers 4 major pillars, which is fitness, nutrition, mindset, and purpose. And what I help high-achieving men, founders, and executives do is discover their system failure or where they feel they may be drifting, integrate those protocols within the greater protocol, and establish a foundation for who they were meant to be, to be better leaders, better fathers, better husbands, better everything in 90 days.
Acusio Bivona [00:04:19]:
And what I’m not saying is I’m going to solve all your problems or going to fix everything, but if you commit to the process and remain consistent, the groundwork is going to be laid to completely open your eyes, per se, to seeing how you can reach your full potential in any aspect, particularly the aspects in which system failure may be present.
Nick Urban [00:04:39]:
When you are going through your own system failure, it’s easy to look back on events with hindsight and to, to see all the gifts in the struggle. How were you able to, while you were actually in the moment, work with yourself so that you didn’t let it spiral out of control and take you down? Because some people have system failure and don’t really recover from it.
Acusio Bivona [00:05:01]:
It’s a great question. And the truth is that wasn’t always the case. And I wanna share that, that being the truth, because I’m human. And while I’ve designed this protocol and have kind of figured out the path or the light and how to give this back, it wasn’t because of my perfection or perfectness as a result of going through the process. But there’s a particular moment and a particular day I actually remember, which was November 12th, 2023. This is probably the most important day and moment in my life. I remember I was right over there in my kitchen doing some meal prep, and I had the Sunday Night Football game on, and the day before I had just started going to therapy again. I was feeling good.
Acusio Bivona [00:05:48]:
I was feeling great. And then I just literally collapsed on my knees and just started wailing and started bawling. And the most important decision that I made was while on the floor having my breakdown moment, I put my hands up towards the sky. I looked up. I said, God, I cannot do this anymore. I need you. And the very next day, I started to see evidence that things were going to turn out better. I didn’t know what that was going to look like or when, because I was reading through the Bible at that time.
Acusio Bivona [00:06:22]:
And the passage I read that next day in particular, 1 Kings 3:5-14. Just made me go, okay, that like, we’re gonna be fine. I have no idea what this road looks like, but as long as I stay focused on the process and not the outcome, then I’m going to be okay. And one of the things that I love is the concept of kaizen, which is just a Japanese word. I believe it roughly translates to continuous improvement. And that was my attitude every single day. And that’s my attitude still.
Acusio Bivona [00:07:11]:
Clarity creates vision. Vision discovers purpose. And once you get to that point, then all you need to do is everything that’s in alignment with that purpose. And you just go forward from there.
Nick Urban [00:07:23]:
In general, it can be very helpful to zoom out, look at the bigger picture of things. It sounds like in a systems failure, in the middle of a crisis, that could be actually the worst thing to do because then you have the overwhelm of feeling like you need to figure it all out and have the 45-year plan and reverse engineer every milestone from there.
Acusio Bivona [00:08:05]:
Yeah, 100%. And I think the hardest part of that was if it had just been the discard, I would’ve been like, okay, like here’s the monster, let’s fight it. But the most challenging part was when more monsters started to appear. And my philosophy is listed into kind of 8 different tenets. One of those tenets, tenet number 4, is fight one monster. Choose one thing that’s going to be the thing you conquer. And the secret sauce is choose the easiest one.
Acusio Bivona [00:08:52]:
And the reason I say choose the easiest one is because you want to just build wins. And one of the things that I teach is a concept of unbreakable promises. And unbreakable promises are promises so small, if you’re not actually laughing at how small they are, they’re not small enough. Your brain doesn’t register the size of the win. It only registers the win itself. And you get the hormones of victory to hit, like dopamine, serotonin, things like that.
Acusio Bivona [00:09:30]:
You do that enough time, you can start building up your self-trust just like it’s a bank account. The best way to start and guarantee a deposit is to start with $1. So an example: do 10 pushups as soon as you wake up. That’s it. And do that every day.
Acusio Bivona [00:10:22]:
Instead of going to the gym 6 days a week for 2 hours, do 10 pushups as soon as you wake up. That’s slowly building the evidence that you can believe in yourself again. Let’s just stack the wins slowly and over a long enough period of time is when you look back and you see just how many wins you had, which only compounds the self-trust even more.
Nick Urban [00:11:34]:
Yeah. And in this realm, for people who are burnt out, founders specifically, the ones who are type A, hard charging, like scaling down and doing less and getting more out of doing less is like a hard concept to grasp and even harder to actually implement.
Acusio Bivona [00:12:03]:
That’s a great question. I also have a podcast called the Resurrection Podcast. Episode 12, I went over a metaphor that I call hot fusion versus cold resonance. When you want to do more, sometimes the best solution is to do less but the best that you can. Hot fusion literally is when atoms smash together to create energy.
Acusio Bivona [00:12:55]:
It’s force, it’s friction. In humans, that heat presents as inflammation in your joints or tedious lower back pain or snapping at your wife over the littlest things. What I teach is a concept of cold resonance where we want to view things more like a superconductor. When you take things down to absolute zero, the wire has zero resistance.
Acusio Bivona [00:13:51]:
So you get more power more efficiently for a longer period of time with zero waste. In cold resonance, we focus on alignment over effort. That doesn’t mean we don’t work hard. But there is always ways to make things more efficient.
Acusio Bivona [00:14:34]:
That could be having the hard conversations you’re avoiding, or toxic employees that are costing more than they’re giving. That is resistance. That is friction amongst the wire. So the Cold Resonance Protocol is removing the friction.
Acusio Bivona [00:15:02]:
The core of my protocol, the Resurrection Protocol, is we start with your body because it’s the number one thing you have the most control over, and the most visceral, tangible results. If you have a healthier body, you will have a healthier mind, and that will allow you to have a healthier spirit, which means that’s limiting resistance and gets you closer to cold resonance.
Nick Urban [00:17:01]:
There’s so many quotes around this concept. If I have 8 hours to cut down a tree, I’ll spend the first 7 of them sharpening the ax. The highest ROI is usually the very beginning of what you’re doing.
Acusio Bivona [00:17:46]:
The biggest win is just opening the door to the gym. If that’s a challenge, then the 10 push-ups can come in, because you did something immediately as soon as you woke up. That sets your alignment for the day.
Acusio Bivona [00:18:20]:
If you doom scroll as soon as you wake up, you’re setting the tone for the day. Your body is the hardware, your mind is the software. The very first thing I do in the morning is I make my bed and then I take a cold shower. I’ve been taking cold showers for over 2 years.
Acusio Bivona [00:19:24]:
I can tell all of you it never gets easier. I hate it. But because I hate it, that’s why I do it, because I know how good that splash of cold water is. The cold water is great for resilience in your nervous system and for the dopamine hit that wakes you up.
Nick Urban [00:20:21]:
There’s a part of the brain called the anterior midcingulate cortex that Andrew Huberman popularized. You strengthen that by doing things that you don’t want to do.
Acusio Bivona [00:20:39]:
This part of your brain literally grows by choosing voluntary discomfort, no matter what age you are. I call it the do hard muscle. That is resilience manifest into a body part.
Acusio Bivona [00:21:31]:
Growth is painful, no matter what kind it is. If you feel stuck, how much am I really challenging myself? The importance of willing to put ourselves through voluntary discomfort is so important for getting out of system failure.
Nick Urban [00:22:01]:
The reason you want to grow that is so that you’re able to enjoy the rest of life. Everything you want in life is on the other side of fear.
Acusio Bivona [00:22:23]:
The obstacle is the way. My second principle or tenet in my philosophy is radical self-accountability. And that’s hard for a lot of people.
Acusio Bivona [00:23:16]:
It’s having the humility to really look at yourself and go, okay, part of this is my fault. 99% of this might have been because of the other person, but there’s something I can learn. Then the very next step is radical self-accountability.
Acusio Bivona [00:23:59]:
Being willing to look within and understand where we’re misaligned is the fastest path to true liberation and true freedom in all capacities.
Nick Urban [00:24:57]:
There’s a very fine line where there are people who absolutely divorce themselves from all responsibility versus those who take on too much blame.
Acusio Bivona [00:25:45]:
Very often two things or multiple things can be true at once. Having the ability to zoom out and see the forest through the trees is the best way to find balance.
Nick Urban [00:28:22]:
Carl Jung called that holding the tension of the opposites. What exactly is system failure? How do people know if they’re experiencing it?
Acusio Bivona [00:28:53]:
Anything where you feel like something is in the way of allowing you to be who you want to be. It could be repeating toxic relationships, professional burnout, distancing from your spouse or kids, or feeling like the weight of the world is on you.
Acusio Bivona [00:29:49]:
The difference in those who succeed is the awareness and bravery to do something about it. My number one mission is to provide enough info so that people can recognize system failure and not have to go through as much pain as I did.
Acusio Bivona [00:31:16]:
Change is hard. That’s why most people will avoid it. But the obstacle is the way. If something is scaring you, good. That means you care about it.
Nick Urban [00:32:27]:
The body is constantly providing feedback. It’s giving symptoms, it’s causing feelings. That’s one of the core skills to learn and to master.
Acusio Bivona [00:32:56]:
Self-awareness in all realms is so important. Your primary care doctor is you. You are ultimately responsible for what you put in your body.
Acusio Bivona [00:34:02]:
A true cheat code is solitude and silence. In the sound of silence, you hear the voice of God. If you just take 20 minutes every day to just be still with no input, you start to recognize how you think and how you are feeling. I do meditation twice a day with breathwork.
Nick Urban [00:35:29]:
If you do a breathwork protocol, you actually notice a difference within 60 seconds to 5 minutes maximum. You can experientially test it yourself.
Acusio Bivona [00:35:48]:
My best ideas tend to come from those times where I commit to that time to myself with zero input and just focusing on my breath.
Nick Urban [00:37:00]:
That’s where the big insights come from. The 10x thinking. The inventors throughout history usually find their best ideas from that downregulated state.
Acusio Bivona [00:37:37]:
I played football for a lot of my life. My best games were the ones where I cared the least. That’s when I would achieve flow state.
Acusio Bivona [00:38:07]:
What changed was focus from outcome to process. You can apply that to every single aspect of your life. My growth journey has been far beyond what I could have ever imagined.
Acusio Bivona [00:39:13]:
The answer is one step at a time, one Unbreakable Promise at a time, one $1 deposit at a time into your self-trust account.
Nick Urban [00:39:35]:
Do you log your Unbreakable Promises? I know there’s the method where you put an X on the calendar each day and don’t want to break the streak.
Acusio Bivona [00:39:56]:
I track every single set that I do for my workouts. That’s like dopamine, dopamine, dopamine. One of my clients, I had him send a picture of a full water bottle every morning before work.
Acusio Bivona [00:40:45]:
After about 6 weeks, it’s integrated. He does it without thinking now. It’s entered his subconscious.
Acusio Bivona [00:41:50]:
What creates withdrawals from the self-trust account is saying you’ll do things and then not doing them. It’s not one giant stabbing, it’s death by a thousand cuts.
Acusio Bivona [00:43:20]:
If you just recognize that and stop the jabs from happening in the first place, you can put your guard up and be on the offensive.
Nick Urban [00:43:34]:
You have something called Protocol Zero. What is that?
Acusio Bivona [00:44:02]:
Protocol Zero is a free guide on my website. It’s how to get through the first 48 hours. The first 48 hours can make or break whether or not you have a very high chance of getting out better or deteriorating.
Acusio Bivona [00:44:47]:
One of the things in there is the digital blackout.
Acusio Bivona [00:45:09]:
The digital blackout is zero social media for 7 days, ideally all of them, but specifically the one most related to your particular situation. If it’s a breakup, don’t go on Instagram. If it’s a professional meltdown, don’t go on LinkedIn.
Acusio Bivona [00:46:24]:
If you just make the commitment to do that for 7 days, it allows you to get within yourself and go, okay, the dam broke. What do we do?
Nick Urban [00:47:07]:
There are certain tools that can block websites and apps across all your devices. I use one called Freedom.
Acusio Bivona [00:48:23]:
That’s tremendously valuable input. During the digital blackout, try different activities. Reading, walks, gym, playing the drums. Surround yourself with people who love you.
Acusio Bivona [00:49:04]:
My friends and family rescued me in the early stages. I went to a Thanksgiving and left my phone in the car for the entire evening. 3 weeks in. It was one of the best decisions I made.
Acusio Bivona [00:50:48]:
It’s finding that middle line of I know I need to work on this, but I can’t work on this 24/7. The most important vessels we have to take care of are us.
Nick Urban [00:52:06]:
If people want to check out Protocol Zero or work with you one-on-one, how do they go about that?
Acusio Bivona [00:52:16]:
Follow me on Instagram at Coach_Cooz. My best content’s on YouTube, also coach_cooz. My website is coachcooze.com.
Acusio Bivona [00:52:38]:
If you put the word urban anywhere in any text field of the application, you’ll get a $1,000 credit towards the 90-day program.
Nick Urban [00:53:23]:
Any final words?
Acusio Bivona [00:53:26]:
Just keep doing your best. Understand that these moments of adversity are here to forge you, not to break you. The fires in your life can be your greatest blessings if you choose them to be.
Nick Urban [00:54:14]:
Well, thanks for joining the podcast today.
Acusio Bivona [00:54:15]:
Thank you, Nick. It was a pleasure.
Nick Urban [00:54:18]:
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