HOW TO BUILD YOUR REPUTATION AND BRAND - PROVEN STRATEGY
In this first solo episode, I share the keys to building a reputation. I go over the changes I made in my personal journey that not only helped me build confidence, but also reputation.
I discuss how what we REPEAT builds the REPUTATION
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Transcript
Welcome everyone.
Speaker:I am really excited for today, because today
Speaker:I'm going to be recording my first episode solo episode, there's no guest.
Speaker:I'm going to just share what I have learned
Speaker:through my own experiences and working with some of the many world
Speaker:class coaches mentors in my personal pursuit.
Speaker:So welcome.
Speaker:Let's get started.
Speaker:I wanted to talk about change
Speaker:because that's one thing that has left me here to head.
Speaker:So if we take a moment to pause,
Speaker:you know, just maybe take a deep breath.
Speaker:Just relax, officers look around.
Speaker:Look within those.
Speaker:You will realize that
Speaker:there's only one thing that is constant that is absolute truth
Speaker:that I guess nobody can debate upon is that
Speaker:change.
Speaker:The change is constant and it's always changing.
Speaker:Just a minute ago, we took a breath
Speaker:and we realized, you know,
Speaker:the breath was changing, right?
Speaker:The breath you took a moment ago
Speaker:is not the same breath you're taking now, and you may not be conscious about it.
Speaker:You may not be consciously breathing all the time.
Speaker:And that's all right.
Speaker:But it's happening.
Speaker:It's happening behind the scenes and it's changing, constantly changing.
Speaker:And that's the very essence of the life.
Speaker:That life is always changing, right?
Speaker:And then we have things
Speaker:that become routine when things become routines.
Speaker:It's basically that, you know, you're not consciously
Speaker:looking at them, but they are happening.
Speaker:Breaths.
Speaker:Your breath, you read, is a great example of that.
Speaker:Your body, your skin.
Speaker:Your weight is another example, right?
Speaker:These are food samples that we may not be always conscious.
Speaker:Like you don't know from day to day unless you are measuring every day
Speaker:your weight, you are following some routine for program
Speaker:what your weight is, but it's always changing, right?
Speaker:The hair on your skin are changing.
Speaker:The color of your skin is changing.
Speaker:You may not realize that it's not the same as when we were born, right?
Speaker:We look a lot different than when we were born to who we are today.
Speaker:So the first thing I want to really
Speaker:touch upon is that life is changing.
Speaker:It is life changes.
Speaker:The only thing that is constant in life,
Speaker:and it will continue to happen.
Speaker:No. With the change.
Speaker:The question comes after he coins just about to change.
Speaker:Or is it unconsciously happening?
Speaker:In my case, for the last 20 years,
Speaker:it was unconscious, there were things that I was consciously making
Speaker:changes of all, but most of the things were unconscious, right?
Speaker:What I was eating every day or, you know, the time I was waking up
Speaker:to getting up from the bed, the clothes I was wearing,
Speaker:the work, you know, the route I was taking to my work.
Speaker:It was all routine.
Speaker:It was all unconscious changes every day that I was doing.
Speaker:And. I'm so glad for 2020.
Speaker:I'm thankful for it is that it made me conscious.
Speaker:It made me realize that, you know, there are so many things
Speaker:that I'm not even consciously thinking that's just part of my routine.
Speaker:And one of the questions I get asked,
Speaker:you know, by the people is how do you retain what did you do?
Speaker:How you started from,
Speaker:you know, going from your I.T.
Speaker:career into podcasting?
Speaker:You know, were there any steps, did you think about it?
Speaker:And truth be told, I didn't think I was going to do podcasts.
Speaker:In fact, a year ago, I didn't even know, you know what?
Speaker:All was involved. I had no clue.
Speaker:But here we are and recording this solo episode just a year later.
Speaker:That's because I became conscious.
Speaker:So I want to talk about how do you become conscious?
Speaker:And what steps you take to make a change.
Speaker:The very first thing I started to notice,
Speaker:or the very first thing, was
Speaker:I started becoming aware and I became aware
Speaker:that a lot of things actions
Speaker:in my daily routine were unconscious.
Speaker:Just like if you're hearing this first time or if you've heard it
Speaker:now that you heard it, you know it.
Speaker:You can look at what you did yesterday, day before, yesterday
Speaker:and day before yesterday, a week before a month before.
Speaker:And if you sit down and write those steps or those actions, what you do
Speaker:from your day to do, you realize a lot of those actions are unconscious.
Speaker:In a sense, they are habit they you don't have to think about.
Speaker:They just automatically happen.
Speaker:And those are our unconscious actions.
Speaker:And if our, you know,
Speaker:history says that more than 60% of those actions are automatic,
Speaker:they are unconscious, that we are not even thinking about it
Speaker:and just lock me up
Speaker:like if 60% of the times I'm not even thinking is just happening.
Speaker:What are the chances,
Speaker:you know, I'm going to be able to get where I want to go in my pursuit?
Speaker:What are the chances that those decisions, those automatic actions
Speaker:that I might have acquired a year to year
Speaker:five to ten years ago are still
Speaker:on the path of where I want to go.
Speaker:So the whole thing is becoming aware of those actions.
Speaker:The second thing I realized was.
Speaker:That I don't like a lot of those actions, right?
Speaker:All the results of those actions
Speaker:and that made me question those actions.
Speaker:You know, for example,
Speaker:one of the things that I started to notice
Speaker:in 2020 was because I was sitting all the time.
Speaker:I was not moving enough because I was working from home,
Speaker:and that meant I was available most of the times.
Speaker:I was doing calls in the days and the nights I was working,
Speaker:and I didn't have much to do because there was no social interaction.
Speaker:So I was almost I don't want to call it stuck,
Speaker:but I was choosing to be on my laptop
Speaker:and just to work and
Speaker:do whatever I needed to be done.
Speaker:And I only noticed the result of it, but I started to see
Speaker:I was not fitting in my clothes anymore because I was reading.
Speaker:There was no movement.
Speaker:I was just sitting, eating, sitting, sleeping, eating, sitting, sleeping,
Speaker:eating, sitting, sleeping.
Speaker:And that was my routine.
Speaker:And months later,
Speaker:probably six months later, I'm no longer fitting into those clothes.
Speaker:That was a change.
Speaker:It wasn't conscious I didn't want to be nor fitting into my thoughts,
Speaker:but it pulled me and made me realize there's something not right here.
Speaker:So as I started to question my
Speaker:actions, daily actions, what I was doing,
Speaker:I realized there were things that would not a line.
Speaker:And like we always do,
Speaker:we want to change everything
Speaker:in the flick of, you know,
Speaker:the event and just snap.
Speaker:We want to change it like this.
Speaker:But I could not go back
Speaker:to my original size and just snap
Speaker:because it didn't happen and snap it happened over the course of six months.
Speaker:And that's another thing to realize whenever you want to change something,
Speaker:especially something that has been part of your routine habit.
Speaker:You can make a decision in a snap.
Speaker:But the result may not happen in the snap.
Speaker:So what I did was
Speaker:I took some time off from work.
Speaker:Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker:Move it back first.
Speaker:As I realize there are a lot of things that were not aligned,
Speaker:I wrote all those things.
Speaker:I wrote what I didn't like about them.
Speaker:I I didn't want those things in my life like, you know,
Speaker:not having the same with having to change the clothes sizes.
Speaker:I didn't want those and I didn't want to work the same things.
Speaker:I didn't want to be in a place in next five,
Speaker:ten years where I was answering to
Speaker:an employer or somebody who was,
Speaker:you know, controlling my time.
Speaker:I didn't want that.
Speaker:So as I realized those things that I didn't want,
Speaker:I knew I had to change and I had to break away from
Speaker:my routines
Speaker:for me because I was in a position and I had opportunity.
Speaker:It was maybe the part of
Speaker:it was the timing also that I could ask some time off from the work,
Speaker:and I realize that I may not be the case for everyone.
Speaker:But if you can, when you realize when you want to make a change
Speaker:or you want to think about the change,
Speaker:I would highly recommend taking some time
Speaker:off, just breaking away from the routine.
Speaker:So I took some time off on day one.
Speaker:I thought I was going to change everything.
Speaker:I was going to get up early.
Speaker:I was going to meditate, I was going to read books, I was going to move for walk.
Speaker:I was going to.
Speaker:He told me I was going to exercise, you know, a whole bunch of things.
Speaker:I was going to spend more time with children and family, my wife.
Speaker:And just
Speaker:an hour into it, like the first day an hour into it, I went for a walk.
Speaker:I didn't get up early.
Speaker:I didn't do well the breakfast, but I took a walk
Speaker:and just said I wouldn't do it.
Speaker:I just started.
Speaker:I think I said on my laptop, I started watching something
Speaker:and there was my take on.
Speaker:So nothing happened and same thing again next to the next day,
Speaker:and I had realized that
Speaker:maybe I'm overwhelming myself by,
Speaker:you know, trying to do so much.
Speaker:And obviously, my brain didn't even trust me for that.
Speaker:My body didn't trust me because I have not been focused on myself
Speaker:for such a long time.
Speaker:And all of sudden, I could not go back
Speaker:and start everything that I would in a moment.
Speaker:And then I started to, you know, read about
Speaker:and hear from some of the coaches, the mentors and how do I make the change?
Speaker:How do I do?
Speaker:What do I do so that I can make sure
Speaker:I can get ahead, get one step at a time?
Speaker:And that was the key one step at a time.
Speaker:So instead of trying to do too many things in my day,
Speaker:I made a promise to myself that I was going to go for a walk.
Speaker:30 minutes a day, I think it was 20 initially,
Speaker:so I've made a promise that 20 minutes a day I was going to do a walk by the
Speaker:this morning.
Speaker:Whether it's night when it's before dinner, after dinner, it didn't matter.
Speaker:I just made myself the promise that I was going to keep that promise
Speaker:for the next 30 days.
Speaker:And as I started to do that, obviously,
Speaker:firstly, I was excited and
Speaker:the second day I was excited I would be, you know,
Speaker:within weeks, there were days where
Speaker:my body was telling me, it's OK to skip one day, you know,
Speaker:we've had a long day or whatever, but I kept
Speaker:going on my promise
Speaker:and I kept telling myself my body that I am changing like I'm consciously.
Speaker:I have to make that
Speaker:decision and I have to stick to it.
Speaker:So basically,
Speaker:what I started to do is I started to repeat the promises
Speaker:I was making and I was keeping those promises,
Speaker:and that 20 minutes became 30 minutes to 45 minutes
Speaker:and I was walking two to three miles on a day
Speaker:and it gave me so much more confidence,
Speaker:like when I started to keep the promises that I made to myself,
Speaker:I really bought back the trust with myself,
Speaker:and that gave me the confidence to add more.
Speaker:And I added, started getting up early, started meditating,
Speaker:started reading more, started to engage with more coaches.
Speaker:I had mentors, but it all started with one small change.
Speaker:And then this whole process, I realized
Speaker:one key thing that was important.
Speaker:And that was.
Speaker:What is it that I was repeating in my day?
Speaker:You see,
Speaker:I realized what I had a beat.
Speaker:Because the reputation I have it built, the reputation
Speaker:I have with myself at both the reputation I have with people.
Speaker:So if I am repeating
Speaker:lazy actions and the actions that are not aligned with my region where
Speaker:I'm heading, that's the kind of reputation I'm going to have with myself.
Speaker:Yes, I'm going to have this stellar reputation way with others,
Speaker:but more importantly, the reputation with myself,
Speaker:because when I don't build the right reputation with myself,
Speaker:I don't have confidence to go and do the things that I want to do
Speaker:because every time I would want to do those things,
Speaker:my self reputation, myself limitation will come in and say, Hey.
Speaker:He was just talking, you never do that.
Speaker:You know, the brain will not believe the body will not believe,
Speaker:and that will not happen.
Speaker:So if I can give away
Speaker:what I learned in the hall here
Speaker:through my own experiences, that led me to change
Speaker:from a high tech career to coaching robots in public,
Speaker:speaking to making a podcast connected with so many different guests.
Speaker:It is the key is.
Speaker:What am I had a beating?
Speaker:My reputation is close to my reputation.
Speaker:That's all I wanted to share with you,
Speaker:so I hope this was useful for you.
Speaker:I feel like that they make commands like subscribe
Speaker:and let me know what you thought about it.
Speaker:And if you're trying to implement the change,
Speaker:let me know if there is something I can help you with
Speaker:through my journey through the gates I have on the podcast.
Speaker:Let me know I'll be more than happy to share.
Speaker:And, you know, give you a hand because truth is, nobody does it alone.
Speaker:So in summary.
Speaker:Change is constant,
Speaker:repetition builds repetition.
Speaker:Thank you. All right.
Speaker:I hope you enjoy the show as much as I did and got some valuable nuggets out of it.
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