What You’ll Get from The Sam Effect
This site is about creative living. What I mean by that is consciously creating your body, your emotions, your finances, your sense of spirituality, your relationships, and your lifestyle. As you already know, in life you are either growing or dieing, there is no in-between. In other words, you are either progressing and evolving as a person or you are digressing and devolving. This website will show you specific ways to progress and evolve as a person from the inside out.
Ultimately, developing yourself and your life (aka personal development) is about learning ‘techniques’ and ‘best practices’ for living. In it’s most abstract, personal development is about expanding your reality so it’s bigger thus enabling you to make better decisions that produce better results. If you want to experience more abundance and success and ultimately turn life into a hobby to see how much fun, joy, love, and overall happiness you can experience you’ve come to the right place!
The Sam Effect’s Mission: Influence you to create a higher quality of life by articulating and disseminating the ideas that will allow YOU to live creatively.
The 6 elements of personal development
Personal development, and even life is pretty simple when you break it down. The way I see it, there’s really only 6 main ‘categories’ that make up your entire existence. If being a human were a video game, these would be the ‘rules’ behind the game. Mishandle any of these areas of life, you get pain. It’s that simple. These categories are listed below. Check out their brief explanations and you’ll have a good premise behind this entire website.
Emotional
The emotional content of your life IS your life and how you feel consistently is a habit. You can literally program yourself and your emotions through directed effort. “Happiness and success are habits. So are failure and misery.” Happiness is ultimately everyone’s goal, yet few people actually study what it takes to create it.
financial
Our world runs on money. If you don’t have enough of it, you will suffer greatly. This is about optimizing your earning potential by creating the knowledge and skill-sets that will make you valuable to the market. Once you have created abundance for yourself, it’s time to ‘pay it forward’
physical
It’s time to get ridiculously ripped, feel healthy, and take charge of your body. No more BS, no more lies, no more external or self manipulation. Specifically, this is about taking the actions necessary for your body to be as healthy, athletic and of course aesthetic (aka look great naked) as possible.
spiritual
The word spiritual has gotten a bad connotation but the true meaning of the word is literally the element of your life that will create fulfillment. This is about optimizing your ability to be a giver and put yourself into a state of thankfulness where you understand your relationship with this universe.
social/relationships
This is about optimizing your ability to make friends and attract people into your life that create synergy for all involved. Synergy is when 1 + 1 doesn’t just equal 2 it equals more than that. Becoming successful, but doing it alone, is worthless. It’s time to up your social game and become a person YOU would want to relate with.
lifestyle
This is about freeing up time, creating your schedule and living a fulfilling and interesting life. It’s about figuring out how you want to live and then making it happen! Ultimately this is about allowing yourself to follow your hobbies and create your own schedule.
So who am I?
First of all, my name is Sam Lloyd and I’ve spent uncountable hours designing and creating this website. Beyond that, I’m mostly just a dude trying to make the most of life. I find myself interested in finding truth, and looking at things from a different angle than most. I’m not ‘special’ or a big deal in anyway really. I just love life, being creative, and helping people. I had an ‘awakening’ moment a few years back that kicked me into overdrive. This awakening was simply this: I’m going to die, this life is finite. We’ve all heard the quote “you never truly live until you’ve faced death.” In my experience, this is truest statement anyone has ever articulated. Because of this epiphany, I’ve been a maniac about making the most of life by doing whatever it takes to be who I’m meant to be.
So with that said, here’s a few quick and meaningless bullet points about myself:
-I’m a Certified Personal Trainer through NASM and have helped many people achieve their physical goals.
-I’ve helped tons of people lose fat, starting with myself. In fact, at one point my body fat percentage was around 20%. Currently, it is around 8%.
-I’m an avid reader. I am constantly in the middle of various personal development materials and I also love reading academic studies on nutrition and various subjects. In general, I LOVE to learn.
-I have a Bachelors degree in Business Management.
-I attended law school, and dropped out cause I hated it. 
-I love Jiu Jitsu and spend a considerable amount of time at it.
-I work in marketing for a growing technology company along with the services I provide on this site.
-SEO Expert and WordPress Master (I build websites using WordPress and get them ranking for specific keywords at the top of search engines)
More importantly than those bullet points is this; I’ve been successful in reinventing myself many times and I can help you save time, energy, and mistakes for your own personal reinventions. Quickly stated, I’ve figured out through lots of study and massive amounts of self-examination, what it takes to transform. From my body, to my emotions, to my spiritual outlook, to my ability to socialize and connect with others; I’ve changed them all, for the better. And I’m not done yet. I will continue to evolve, expand, and learn and quite honestly this site is one of the tools for me to ensure that this happens.
Finally, a quote from one of my favorite authors I find highly relevant for what I’m about. Connect the dots, I share his dream it’s just the 21st century now:
“I looked around upon the world and saw that it was shadowed by sorrow and scorched by the fierce fires of suffering. And I looked for the cause. I looked around, but I could not find it. I looked in books, but I could not find it. I looked within, and found there both the cause and the self-made nature of that cause. I looked again, and deeper, and found the remedy. I found one Law, the Law of Love; one Life, the life of adjustment to that Law; one Truth, the Truth of a conquered mind and a quiet and obedient heart.
And I dreamed of writing books which would help men and women, whether rich or poor, learned or unlearned, worldly or unworldly to find within themselves the source of all success, all happiness, accomplishment, all truth. And the dream remained with me, and at last became substantial; and now I send forth these books into the world on a mission of healing and blessedness, knowing that they cannot fail to reach the homes and hearts of those who are waiting and ready to receive them.” -James Allen
Make sure you come back regularly as I’m committed to updating this site with new, fresh content on a regular basis. Thanks for being part of this. I love you for that.
Sincerely,
Sam Lloyd
