Acting out and lashing out can help you discover yourself

Links

  • Explore the community: http://khayrab.com/community

  • The Mental Meanderings of Waseem.Space podcast - Home of the 3rd Cultured: https://waseem.space/podcasts/

  • The Diggin'It Podcast (Arabic): https://waseem.space/the-diggnit-podcast/

Discussion

  • Shoulds and how it gets us to suppress our feelings/needs

  • Examples and our experiences with acting out and lashing out

  • The right way to learn about your values, who you are, and what you should present about yourself (spoiler: there is only a right way)

Exploration

How do you lash out or act out?

What's the pattern you see?

What does it tell you about your values and what's important to you?

Who are you?

Links

  • Explore the Community: http://khayrab.com/community

  • Sarah Alamoudi Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahhealthpsy/

  • The full video conversation: https://www.khayrab.com/blog/i-am-off-social-media-3

Discussion

  • The inherited caveman mindset

  • The chessboard metaphor of "what if"

  • Thoughts are thoughts, not positive or negative

  • The quickest way to find out who we are

Exploration

  • Notice when your mind creates noise. What happens around you? What happens within you?

  • Bonus: Can you let it play in the background?

Getting out of your head and into your Dream Audience's heart

There’s a HUGE difference between ruminating about what people MIGHT be thinking and empathy.

Explore the community at khayrab.com/community

Teaching

  • How last episode’s persona gets you in the right mindset to network and connect without anxiety

  • Why Ramadan is a great time to experiment with your personal brand

  • The art of getting out of your own head (we had an AMAZING discussion about this in the community, where members shared how quick their experience from awkwardness to confidence was. I was bummed that I couldn’t post it)

This Week’s Exploration

  1. If you haven’t already, get and fill in the persona template at khayrab.com/blog/empathy-marketing

  2. Write down your answers to these 3 questions:
    How might you frustrate or be a frustration to them?
    How are you meant to serve them to attain THEIR goals?
    How could you provide more healthy motivation for them to attain THEIR goals?

Preparing to self-promote during Ramadan (or any time with extra socializing opportunities)

There’s no need to avoid networking when you know why you’re doing it and who you’re talking to.

Explore the community at khayrab.com/community

Teaching

  • Use the latest marketing concepts to fully embrace your relationship with your Dream Audience

  • How to create a marketing persona to start empathizing with ease

This Week’s Exploration

  1. Get the persona template at khayrab.com/blog/empathy-marketing

  2. Fill in your persona

  3. Fill in your persona now

  4. Fill in your persona now on paper, not just in your head

Why we've been talking about feelings before self-promotion

Being "helpable" (i.e. vulnerable) is a mindset for connection and collaboration… That’s why your personal branding efforts have felt empty and has fallen flat.

A summary of what was covered and prep for what's coming up.

This Week’s Exploration

  1. List out all the people that you hope to impact or influence through your work

  2. Categorize them if you haven’t already. Examples: Manager, potential employers, clients, potential clients, end users, colleagues, university admissions

  3. Pick ONE that you’d like to fully explore next week

Music by ItsWatR from Pixabay

Why you don't build habits you say you want

There's something that happens between remembering the habit you want to build and returning to the habit plan... It's evil! Don't fall for it!

Teachings

  • Why we've been talking about our minds for the last 3 Saturdays

  • Being a "helpable" person

  • Should: Self-judgement, fixed mindset, closed mindset, survival mindset, defensiveness

  • Could: Re-remembering and re-returning... Harder than it sounds!

This Week's Exploration

Receiving help as a helpful person

Teachings

  • Why it's hard to describe Visibility Ease as a helpful person

  • People-pleasing

  • Ambition-Pleasing

This Week's Assignment

  • Take note of what downside of helpfulness comes up for you this week

  • Consider how being helpful sometimes traps you in secrecy, selfishness, and disconnection with reality

Recommended Resources

Arriving at Visibility Ease

Teachings

  • How are habit of visibility is affected by ALL our past experiences

  • Visibility Habits

  • Myth of Arrival

This Week's Assignment

  • What do you think will happen when you reach total and complete ease with visibility?

  • What material things will you have?

  • Who will like you? Who will respect you?

  • How will you feel?

  • Bonus: What currently gets you to feel that way a little?

Recommended Resources