Is the fear of being judged, annoying, or being vulnerable from being visible to people whose attention you need? Your boss, your prospects, your potential customers, or even your friends and family?
Stop promoting yourself from a place of obligation and use that super power of overthinking in the way it’s meant to be used: Empathizing.
Read MoreThanks to your sharing and interest in my articles, I’ve been able to infuse all I learned from the 32 clients and 430 workshop attendees since khayrab.com launched into Personal Branding 101 happening in 7 DAYS! My clients and attendees have gained insight in speaking about themselves in a calm, aligned, and enjoyable way 🧘
Read MoreHere are three ways to see if your ego is hijacking your chance of true innovation through collaborative relationships.
“I will hurt for you”
You may decline help because you’re the strong one – it’s your identity. Asking someone else to struggle the way you do seems selfish at best. You may decline help because the feeling of someone thanking you is too good to give to someone else. It’s a popular myth that you can only get true recognition by struggling through weakness instead of serving from strengths.
“I can’t”
You may decline help because the effort of being the solution-person is too big a responsibility. The goal is too big and unwieldy for you to even start thinking about, so how in the world could you put into words what you’d need from others? This can also be tied to perfectionism where no one else can get to the standard that you know it should be. Obviously, you can’t trust anyone else with this.
“I told you so”
Once you give it a go and try to ask for help, you are disappointed and nothing got done. This always happens when someone else tries to get involved, it just isn’t right. Resentment, blame, and isolation bubbles up in you, keeping you in your comfort zone of lonely struggle.
Read MoreThings I didn’t mention by numbers in the podcast (I wasn’t ready).
I started giving personal branding consultations in Sep 2018. It left me empty because I was charging 200sr/hr AND there was no way for me implement sustainable habits in my clients.
Now I’ve gone into my own business full time (since January 2020), not for the entrepreneur trend, but because I recognize my highly sensitive nature needs at the beginning & end of the day. I need time to reflect and enter the day, and time to wind down my nerves and reflect at night. I’m at 100% capacity in my practice, my lowest sales month was 2,300sr (after prepping to live in savings for 8 months!) and my highest was 22,500sr.
Read MoreIt’s our perception of of our life that scares us, hurts us, angers us, and frustrates us. There are very big very valid exceptions in relationships and traumatic events, but this article focuses on our perception of the world when no one else is around.
Let’s explore the different your different versions that you’re comparing yourself to and how to make peace with it 💫
Read MoreThe easiest way to find out if this article will apply to you is to go into the moment of your self-edit. When you’re about to post on social media and you decide to backspace and reword, what makes you do that? Go back to the last time you edited yourself before publishing. Connect with that moment of doubt. Now… Which of the following three thoughts were at the front of your mind?
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