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Reflections on the Amal Totkay
By: Amna Arshad
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Academy, Amal Totkay, Power Of Habit

Yes, You read it right!

Totkays have always been playing absolutely vital roles in a desi person’s everyday life.

But the ones Amal fellowship have shared, are about changing fixed mindsets to the growth or entrepreneurial mindset which you’ll definitely find appealing if you want to be more successful in any area of life, these are the following tips (Amal Totkay):

Self-talk Get out of your comfort zone Create new habits Ask people for help (and last but not the least!) Fake it till you make it

Source: sme10x.com

If we observe these tips closely, we can see that they are following a track in which our reasoning comes first then the action plan then just starting and feedback, finally it follows the last tip that is also related to mindset and reasoning.

Like I do, Do you people also wish to have some assistance in working towards self-improvements? Well, Habits will work for you in this regard!

From Amal totkay, creating good habits is a major takeaway for me, yes, it is true that making new habits require a lot of effort but, it is only for the initial stages once you’ve developed new habit you won’t even realize how positively it affects you because now it’s just a habit and you don’t need to put that effort again and again!

There are some more interesting things about these additional favorite tips of mine i.e. Self-talk and fake it till you make it.

Believe me, our brain is a very hypersensitive guy, who takes things very seriously and ends up hurting his own self!

This a fact, how you talk to yourself is a kind of brain feeding. So, please be sure of what you are feeding your brain!

Another idea worth trying is that of Faking, It really works but, you should be smart enough to know the difference between faking the mindset and faking the behavior..

In the end, I would like to share my experience of adopting some of the above tips previously, I remember from last year that I was losing my appetite for breakfast especially sometimes I pushed myself to eat but ended up vomiting, I then made a habit of drinking lukewarm water daily in the morning, which is a suggestive and proven way of avoiding stomach related issues, and to this day also, just after waking up the first thing I take is a glass of water and without forcing myself I developed a better appetite!

Closing with this wonderful quote of the author of “The Power Of Habit”

“Habits are important. Up to 90 percent of our everyday behavior is based on habit. Nearly all of what we do each day, every day, is simply habit.” — Jack D. Hodge
AMAL Totkay- Developing the Growth Mindset
By: Muhammad Jamal Asghar
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Goals In Life, Amal Academy, Growth Mindset

The Amal totka for a growth mindset has five effective yet simple tips;

Self Talk Get out of your Comfort Zone Create New Habits Ask a Help Fake it till your make it

These five tips seem very simple but have long-lasting effects. These are the best pieces of advice I received for my personality grooming. One should incorporate them all in their life. These activities are all linked to each other in a very systematic manner and improving in one will improve the other. For Example, if you ask someone about your work then the feedback will push you to get out of the comfort zone, have self-talk, and create new habits.

Among these, the best tip I like is creating new habits because it will challenge you to take action. These actions will then get you out of your comfort zone and you will start your journey towards the self-improvement and growth mindset.

So far, I have been working on self-talk and creating new habits and now I am focused on other tips like asking my friends and family members about my progress or my bad attitudes. I will then build a new action plan to learn the new skills necessary for my growth.

#amaltotkay
5 Amal Totkay
By: Muhammad Faisal Shahid
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Amal Totkay, Development

Today I’m going to share my point of view on amal totkay for developing a growth midset.

Th first one is Self talk. Everyone should talk to oneself whenever he or she is in some difficult situation or in a decision making situation so that he or she can better understand what they should do now and should always motivate oneself.

The second one is Get out of your comfort zone. Its a fact that you can only learn new things by getting out of your comfort zone.

The third one is Create new habits. It requires 21 days for a person to develop any habit. So we should emphasize to make such habits that is going to be helpful in future.

Fourth one is to Ask for help. Whoever you are, you sometimes need help so don’t hesitate in doing so.

Fifth one is Fake it till you Make it. So you don’t have to be so open sometimes. Sometimes you only need to keep the people thinking what is going on actually and do the progress in silence.

All the tips are very useful and now are favorite of mine. In fact, I have already implemented the second and third tip by getting out of my comfort zone and creating new habits of reading books and to be kind to others.
Mindset works
By: Hina Fatima
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Academy, Amal Totkay, Mindset Matters

Developing a Growth Mindset #Amal totkay

Growth mindset is that a person believe that basic qualities and abilities can be developed and strengthened through hard work and commitment. Having a growth mindset can change your life. Growth mindset drives motivation and achievement. The people who believe and think like i can get smarter, my goal is learning and my hard work makes me smarter, this type of thinking made them put more work and effort so ultimately make people high achievers.

How to develop a growth mindset?

There are many ways to cultivate growth mindset like positive self talk, get out of your comfort zone, create new habits, ask people help, fake it till you make it.

1-Self talk

positive self talk enhances wellbeing and general performance. thoughts create the reality and if you are thinking in a negative way then you will be more likely to develop pessimist thoughts thus having an impact on your overall outlook about life, goals and achievements.

2-Get out of comfort zone

You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone, change begins at the end of comfort zone. Put yourself in challenging situations and not finding an escape but to find solutions and grow out of things.

3-Create new habits

Build some new good habits that leads you to success like journaling your little daily achievements, reading books to increase your knowledge and daily exercising. in this way you shift your mindset towards growth mindset.

4-Ask people help

interacting with people asking about help, interacting wit them and taking feedback about your work enhances growth mindset. Choose people who care about you and push you and motivate you to work for achieving your higher goals.

5-Fake it till you make it

The super tip is to how you want to see yourself start acting like that and you will become that eventually. How you think and act gradually you become that. mindset development is not an overnight change. it’s a process so start to implement it in small actions until you get used to of living with growth mindset.
Tips to develop Growth Mindset -Amal Totkay
By: Muhammad Anshaal
Tags: Growth Mindset, Fake It Till You Make It, Amaltotkay

Have you ever think that you can groom your skills or develop your talent? If so, Congratulations! You also have a similar mindset as of the people with a Growth Mindset. It is one of the traits of an Entrepreneurial Mindset which lead the person to become life long learner.

But what if the person lies in the category of developing Growth Mindset? What does he/she need to do?

Photo by Sam Dan Truong on Unsplash

Here are some Amal Tips (Totkay) which I learned from the course of “Entrepreneurship” that help ones to develop their growth mindset.

Let’s discuss the takeaways for the tips.

1. Self-talk

Self-talk

Being introspective helps to put us in a direct conversation with our minds. And the one with positive Self-talk has a great chance to increase his self-confidence and remove out negative notions.

2.Get out of Your Comfort Zone

Get out of your Comfort Zone

While we get out of our comfort zones, we can unleash our potentials to think outside of the box and boost our mindsets to make improvements in it.

3. Make new habits

By making new influential habits in our daily routine, we opt our mindsets to put us in the track of life long learning.

4. Ask others for help

Ask others for help

Asking others for help is also helpful to improve our mindsets from the feedback of others.

The last but not the least is “Fake it till You make it”, it is the phrase of deep meaning which urge us to increase our confidence, competence and develop an optimistic mindset.
Reflection on “AMAL TOTKAY”
By: Iraj Athar
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Amal Totkay, Successful Entrepreneurs

Today, I am going to explore Growth mindset. Individuals having growth mindset believes that talents can be established if they are not innate. Those people always want to acquire new knowledge and embrace the challenges by hard work and dedication. Even if they have talent, they practice it a lot to be perfect. On the other side, people having fixed mindset just stick to their innate behavior. To be a successful leader, the person should have the growth mindset.

“Every artist was first an amateur.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here at Amal Fellowship, we got a chance to unwrap the Amal Growth Mindset Toolkit. Following are included in it. Additionally, the examples are given from my personal life.

1. SELF-TALK:

It means Do-it-Yourself. Self-talk can be both negative and positive. For having a growth mindset, it should be positive because you are likely to believe it in your life. To trust yourself that you can do it anyway. It could be motivation for yourself to be a good learner.

“Positive self-talk is to emotional pain as pain pill is to physical pain.” — Edmond Mbiaka

Example: Once when I got fail in a subject, I said to myself that there’s always a room for improvement. I will overcome this situation and will get pass in this subject.

2. CREATE NEW HABITS:

To advance the fixed mindset into growth mindset, you have to create new habits. When you create a habit of curiosity for learning, you will improve because Practice makes a man perfect. Make a habit of journaling your daily basis works and triumphs for a better mindset.

Example: I was really an introvert and nervous person. After getting admission to medical college, I made a habit of learning and increase my confidence. I started joining different organizations.

3. ASK PEOPLE TO HELP:

Taking and accepting feedback from people is imperative for growth mindset. Ask your near ones or your colleagues if you’re doing good what you do. Implement the change according to their advice either it is positive advice or a criticism,

Example: I always take feedback from some of my friends and specially teachers. One of my mentor helped me a lot in refining my personality.

4. GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE:

Comfort zone is the place where you feel innocuous. The real magic begins when you come out of your comfort zone. To think out of the box. Always accept challenges and win the situation without the ease.

Example: Being an unconfident person, it was really problematic for me to speak overtly. I participated in a meeting of an organization first time that was getting out of my comfort zone. It settled a poise in me.

5. FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT:

Try to act it out until you adapt the growth mindset to get rid of the self-doubt. This Totka is my favorite one. When you show someone that you are confident and capable enough, they start to believe you. And you start to develop it in yourself. You were actually practicing unconsciously and you will become habitual. I will try to fake it to progress a growth mindset.
AMAL TOTAKY
By: Ali Haider
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Academy, Amal Totkay

Developing a Growth Mindset

Difference B/W Growth and Fixed Mindset

“The mind is just like a muscle — the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”

Mindset is an approach to determine the ability of a person to solve a problem or to grow up in his field or to check the leadership qualities. There are two types of Mindset. One is Fixed mindset and the other is Growth mindset. These two types are quite different from each other. Let’s have a small view on both types.

Fixed mindset is a type of mindset which accept no change. A person having fixed mindset is a person having no mission in his life. He has been locked his mind on some specific things and he never gonna change his mindset.

On the other hand Growth mindset is a type of mindset which always accept change. A person having growth mindset lives a live full of joy. He always accept challenges and try to find out any solution for each problem he faces. Here are some Amaltotaky which are shared below to develop a growth mindset.

Self Talk

Self Talk

Get out of your Comfort Zone

Get out of your Comfort Zone

Create New Habits

Create New Habits

Ask People for Help

Ask People Help

Fake it Till You Make it

Fake It Till You Make It

Reflection On Amal Totaky:

How did they find the tips?

They find these tips by observing problems and while thinking about the solutions.

2.What are their Takeaways?

A man himself can not learn better. Civilization and the society teach him. So their takeaways are interaction with the people.

3.What were your favorite tips?

Ask people for help is my favorite tip.

4.What have you started implementing already?

I just started to get out of my comfort zone.

5.What can you do to develop a Growth Mindset beginning from today?

The first thing I have to do is to talk to myself on daily basis.
Amal Totkay (Get out of your Comfort Zone)
By: Mohsin Raza
Tags: Fearless, Comfort Zone, Amal Totkay, Growth Mindset

Carol Dweck was the first lady who proposed the theory of two mindsets: fixed mindset and growth mindset. The fixed mindset people want to prove themselves right over and over again instead of learning from their mistakes. While on the other hand the growth mindset people will be passionate about learning. They don’t waste time proving how great they are. They always try to improve and getting better by learning new things everyday.

I believe that the Amal Totkay will help everyone to change their beliefs-fixed to growth mindset. Amal Totkay include (i) Self-Talk, (ii) Get out of your comfort zone, (iii) Create new habits, (iv) Ask people help and (v) Fake it till you make it.

All these Amal Totkay are important to achieve growth mindset. However, my most favorite tip is “Get out of your Comfort Zone”.

Leaving the comfort zone is not easy. Nobody wants to accept challenges and take risks because comfort zone is a steady level of performance, without a sense of risk. However, discomfort is a catalyst for growth and long term success.

People find it difficult to come out of their comfort zones because they have fears. And fear is a necessary step en route to the growth mindset.

Source: PositivePsychology.com ‘Leaving The Comfort Zone’ Toolkit

I consider myself a shy person and I always fear talking with new people. Amal fellowship provided me a chance to interact with people from various parts of Pakistan. I accepted this challenge and tried to come out of my comfort zone. At first I found it difficult because I was not aware of the personalities of other fellows, I had no idea what to say but later on I overcame this issue and now I feel confident while communicating with new people.
Developing a growth mindset
By: Aiman Nasir
Tags: Growth Mindset, Everyday Challenge, Practice, Positivity

The 5 tips also called Amal Totkay to have a growth mindset are, self talk — get out of your comfort zone — create new habits — ask people help — fake it till you make it. These are very reflective practices that one can opt in their routine without great labor. If you start implementing either 1 or 2, in small daily decisions, you will notice the change in your living style. Just deny your usual practice and question yourself, why don’t I do it the other way today?

We use only certain parts of our brain and then they become our muscle memory. There’s a method stated in The Readers’ Digest to become smarter and it urges you to do things opposite. Change your environment, brush your teeth with your non-dominant hand, place that photo album at a different angle, change the furniture setting etc. Similarly, when you get out of your comfort zone, when you will try to create new habits, and most of all, think positively, your brain will rewire and bring positive changes in your life.

What you choose to focus on will grow

The tip I would like to practice most is to get out of my comfort zone. While doing this, I will constantly be practicing positive self-motivation — let me remind you that Pep talks have always been a dear friend to introverts, I will be faking my confidence, as well as I’ll be asking the right people for help.

Amal Academy has already brought me on my active feet. Gradually, the sessions and projects are instilling in us the skills that are helping us to develop and rewire our brain. From thinking out-of-the-box, brainstorming, speaking up, to getting out of our comfort zone, both literally and figuratively, I feel like I’ve already left it far behind.

Still, “we’ve got a long way to go..” but keep practicing and we’ll be standing in the good category — of a growth mindset. So, best of luck!
Amal totkay
By: Tayyab Sial
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Academy, Tayabxial

Refelction Questions.

1 )

These tips are very effective for personal and professional growth makes a man to face reality.

2)

This is inner force that makes a man able to devolpe new mindset. These changes the inner of a man. To accept out change.

3)

Fake it till you make is mine favorite part.

4)

I am learning much since i have joined this amal academy. And also this embraced me with alot of new atitude.

5)

Taking an intuitive is first step heading to success i believe so i am devilling new habits.

Amal totkay,

Love Amal.
REFLECTION ON AMAL TOTKAY
By: Fatima Batool
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Amal Totkay, Growth Mindset

Being a part of Amal Fellowship and working on myself I came across “Amal Totkay”. For me it was a shock to read this word and the first thing that pop up in my mind was “Zubaida Apa k Totkay” (laughter). As a girl, I dreamed beauty products and skin care routine and I exclaimed WoW! Amal Academy is just a love, it is working on my professional growth as well as it is giving me a chance to nourish my skin but it was just a dream because just below this was mentioned that these “totkay” are about developing growth mindset.

Basically, Totka is an Urdu word and mainly used as some typical ways of curing things and it is quite common in Pakistani families as main issues can be solved by the things that are available in our Kitchen.

But here Amal Totkay are all about tips that help us to develope our growth mindset. At Amal we taught about these five totkay:

SELF TALK:

Self talking means revealing one thoughts and ideas to oneself. Mostly they are direct thinking of our mind and help us introduce our inner self. It is not necessary that self talks are only positive they can be negative too. They help us to encourage oneself and change our distress into our motivation.

2.GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE:

Comfort zone can be any place, environment of which we become use too while having our work. Getting out of our comfort zone is the best motivational thing to accept changes and try to give your best in any condition.

3. CREATE NEW HABITS:

Most of us a habitual of our routine and want to do each and everything as per routine but it promotes fix mindset. Coming out of our habits and trying to find new things and re-scheduling our routine help us to think differently and encourages healthy and growth mindset.

4.ASK PEOPLE HELP:

Helping others is quite easy as compare to seeking help from others. It is mostly about our ego. In order to create a bigger picture we should try to share our ideas with other and ask them to help us in fixing them and making them perfect one. Always be open for advices and feedback.

5.FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT:

In order to perform an experiment on oneself one should try to fake things until one can make them. If one can start acting like a leader, it will help him to build confidence as well as chances of making this real increases.

MY TAKEAWAYS:

My takeaways from this activity are that if one can be self-determined, passionate, hard-working and consistent he/she will break the floor one day. One should try to learn at each and every stage and try to add things in his/her life.

TIP I LOVE THE MOST:

“Fake it until make it” is my favorite tip and I implemented it through out my life and believe me it always work.
Amal tips for Growth Mindset
By: Sadiq Amin
Tags: Amaltotkay, Growthmindset

A growth mindset is the understanding that abilities, growth, and understanding can be developed. Those people with a growth mindset believe that they can always be smarter, more intelligent, and more talented through putting in the time and hard work.

I got myself enrolled in AMAL academy which is Stanford University and Pepsico funded three months fellowship for professional grooming of Pakistani youth. Getting into AMAL is one of the best decisions I ever made. If you want to grow your personal and professional skills, you must have a growth mindset.

The AMAL academy shares five golden tips also called AMAL Totkay for successfully developing a growth mindset. These tips are the following.

Self Talk

Talk to yourself positively in every situation. Whatever the situation, don't go toward the negative side as it will cause you frustrations. Always encourage yourself by addressing that yes I can do it, I have got this.

2. Get out of your comfort zone

You can not get something good until you have worked very hard for it. this is what life is all about. For a growth mindset, you need grit and perseverance, and a lot of hardwork.

3. Create new habits

Make change a new habit. Try learning and exploring new things and keep track of them. Trying to adjust to new and unexpected situations will make you leave your comfort zone.

4. Ask people for help

Feedback is a gift and yes it is a precious one. Choose honest and caring people from your circle to give you feedback. Feedback helps you identify your strengths and weakness because sometimes it is the people which discover our potential. We should not defensive when accepting feedback.

5. Fake it till you make it

Switching to new beliefs and habits is not easy. The best way is to act as if you were in those desired habits. It will continuously remind you of these desired habits and will make become one with such habits.

I knew about the second, third, and fourth points but not in this organized way. It is my firm belief that to grow you must have a crystal clear goal, you must be working very hard, continuously reflect on your performance through feedback, and adapting to changes.

My most favorite tips of all are getting out of my comfort zone and making change a second habit and luckily, I have been experiencing these two for a few weeks now in the form of a tough job. We can have a growth mindset if we start these tips, especially tips 2 and 3 from today.
A Growth Mindset — Why is it important?
By: Abdul Aziz
Tags: Growth Mindset, Habits For Success, Comfort Zone And Growth

From this past couple of weeks, there are some words that i hear very frequently. One of them is “Get out of your comfort zone”, and the main reason for this is a place, a community, a virtual environment where we all are connected with each other, not physically but by heart i must say. When things are stressful, many of us resort to staying in our comfort zones — doing, saying, watching, or eating things that we already know. That’s fine, of course. It is natural to want to stick with things to which we’re accustomed. But the more time we spend in this zone, the more difficult it will be to break free from that space. The more time we stay inside of our comfort zones, the scarier new territory will appear to us. But the world is changing rapidly, and those who fear change risk getting left behind. For people who are already pushing their comfort zone, change will not appear as frightening. Instead, they’ll welcome a new project at work or learning a new language as a challenge that can open up possibilities for growth that were not there before.

Great things never came from comfort zones.

Adopting a growth mindset is not just essential in your life, it’s critical. Those people with a growth mindset understand that knowledge can be acquired and intelligence can be developed. With a growth mindset, people focus on improvement instead of worrying about how smart they are. They work hard to learn more and get smarter. A “growth mindset,” thrives on challenge and sees failure not as evidence of unintelligence but as a heartening springboard for growth and for stretching our existing abilities.

Fall seven times, stand up eight times.

Whether your goal is to start and grow a business, publish a bestselling book, buy a house, or anything else, big goals like these don’t happen overnight. The good news is that this is where habits come in handy because habits are activities that have become automatic, consistent, and less difficult for you. With the right habits, you’re more efficient, effective, and strategic about the thoughts and actions that lead you towards your goals.

Faking it till we make it is all fine but we should try that we do not fake ourselves. If you’re going in for that big pitch to your boss or to an investor, you don’t necessarily want to reveal every one of your worries doubts and inadequacies. It’s perfectly fine — sometimes even really smart — to fake your way through a scary situation. But don’t fake yourself into overconfidence. Forgetting what it took to take this scary leap and that you are still a novice with quite a bit still left to learn.
Amal Totkay for Growth Mindset
By: Muhammad Abuzar Qasim
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Amal Totkay, Growth Mindset

It was a document that I read in the Amal Fellowship course on Entrepreneurship. It mentioned some amazing old-fashioned “totkay” that can help one to develop a growth mindset. Those “totkay” or tips were some of the highly refined and experimented methods that can be applied for developing this mindset.

A mindset is basically the way your brain looks at the things, the matters that are related to your life, and how it reacts to the situations- whether in a positive manner or a negative one. A growth mindset is the one with a positive perspective towards every experience in the life: it is to learn from your mistakes instead of crying over them, to convert the negative criticism into positive energy for yourself and to be open and adaptive to the changing realities. A fixed mindset is its complete opposite.

I personally found those tips useful to me. As it is never possible that a particular tip can work for everyone, so is my case. There are some tips that are more useful for me than others, the most useful being the second tip i.e, getting out of your comfort zone, which I have been recently applying in my life.

The takeaways from these tips, for me, are “Fake it, till you make it” and “Creating new habits”. As I wrote earlier, not all tips are for everyone, so we need to exercise these tips according to our own life. That is why I felt a stronger need of applying these “totkays” in my life.

I had my one on one session with our program manager earlier today, and this was one thing that I told her in an answer to the question about how I was feeling about the fellowship and how it was proving to be helpful for me. I told her that I had been a lazy person who had needed someone to take me out of my bed and make me do something, and that Amal had done that job perfectly for me. So this was how I had already applied the tip of getting out of my comfort zone.

Although I have already applied one of those tips in my life, it is not going to be enough. So, if I need to develop a really strong growth mindset, I feel like I should apply the other tips in my life as well. With that in my mind, I would be working on the next most favourite tip of mine, which is “Fake it, Till you make it!”

Good luck to me :)
the recipe for just about everything
By: William Liao
Tags: Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Growth Mindset, Innovation

1 idea, 60 seconds, daily to spur action towards our best work and living meaningfully and mindfully

Most invention starts with “I wonder what will happen if…”, trying it, and having an intriguing enough outcome that the world needed it to be shared.

That’s it. Wonder-try-learn, repeat — it’s the story of how most things worth creating get made.

It’s how your new cheese fondue recipe that everyone loves is going to get made (and all the not-so-tasty prototypes that preceded it).

It’s how we ended up with electric cars (and all the prototypes with battery and range issues that preceded them).

It’s likely* how the next capability that helps humans flourish will come to life (along with every necessary misstep and learning that led to its creation).

Solving for interesting and better starts with cycling through wonder-try-learn at the highest velocity possible. Most things won’t work (which is why you need velocity) but will provide the learnings you need; the thing that does end up creating interesting and better is what the learnings make possible.

*Sometimes great things comes from accident-learn like penicillin, x-rays, and implantable pacemakers. Hence “just about” in the headline.
Reflection on Amal tips(Totkay)
By: Muhammad Shayan
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Academy, Comfort Zone, Amal Fellowship, Amal Totkay

Being a life long learner and to be able to achieve some stage, obviously is not a facile path. This passage continuously demands willingness, sacrifices, over timing, focus, and long term commitment. A person needs to bear arduous challenges to change his mindset from laziness to stride up. There is a famous saying that “No pain, no gain”. Means a person can not achieve if he does not want from his inside.

Some people complain that they are too much lazy. They are well aware with the reality that they need to be active for their goals but still they feel uncomfortable in changing. It is a truth that adopting the change is never easy but when change is crucial then several guidelines can be followed to have some comfort. These are the 5 popular tips named as “Amal tips or Amal Totkay”. These can be explained in detail as presented in following:

Self-Reflection or developing a Growth Mindset: Practicing the self reflection on daily basis is important to develop a growth mindset. A person, if wants to excel, he always is in a desire to grow his capabilities and mindset. A growth mindset enables an individual to become a life long learner.

Skills can be developed!

2. Creating new habits: Accepting new challenges sharps a person for dealing with situations in a better way. One needs to adopt new and positive things that can help him in becoming used to for change.

Let’s just try it !

3. Getting out of your comfort zone: Usually, it is said that only 3 weeks are required to develop a new habit. But if someone is already in his comfort zone then he would need long time to adopt some changes. Coming out of the comfort zone always makes one enable to utilize his full potential which can not be attained while enjoying comfort.

Magic begins when we come out from comfort zone!

4. Ask for help from people: It is also a better idea to seek for small assistance from people around us. If we are feeling some trouble in continuing the new change then an external aid can boost us up on our way.

Can i have you support please !

5. Fake it, till you make it: It is last one but not the only least. Research state that people exhibit more productivity when they show or pretend to have more confidentiality about something. One can just pretend or fake it to have the change till it becomes his habit. it can help in adopting quickly.

Yes, I just did it !

I am excited to follow all above tips. Hope so, i can make it at my earliest.
Reflection on Amal Totkay
By: Irfan Ali
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Academy, Self Reflection, Hard Work, Advice

AMAL is one of Pakistan’s leading academy that works on building or developing interpersonal/soft skills and polishing the soft skills of a person which can later result in professional growth, career development as well as personal growth. Going through the AMAL Totkay recently I realized such a gem these tips are which provide you the right path, the right direction, the right mindset and the right motivation to achieve your dream goals.

The AMAL Totkays are

1. Self-Talk.

2. Getting out of our comfort zone.

3. Creating new habits and keeping track of the progress of those habits.

4. Asking for help from our nearest and dearest.

5. Fake it till we make it.

These tips are some of the important tips to be practiced if a person wants to develop a growth mindset and wants relief from their fixed mindsets. After reading all these tips and thinking about those here are some of my takeaways regarding these tips. I will summarize it so that it becomes easily understandable.

So starting from the first Totkay that is self-talk it’s basically about talking with ourselves positively because positive self-talk will remove the negativity in our mindset and helps us to stay motivated and courageous.

Moving toward the second Totkay it’s all about leaving our comfort zone. As we’ve heard again and again that without leaving our comfort zone we can not succeed and achieve our dreams so it’s important if someone wants to change their mindset they need to leave their comfort zone.

Another, one of the important tip regarding changing our mindset from fixed to growth is creating good habits and keeping the track of those habits daily and removing our bad habits.

The fourth tip is about asking for help from someone whom we can trust or who can help us in our personal development and the last tip is to keep faking because if we keep saying Yes, I am confident even if you are not you will feel confident.

Now If you want to know my favorite tips among these I will definitely say getting out of your comfort zone and making good habits and removing the bad ones. As I’m already out of my comfort zone now and trying to make good habits these tips are really helping me to achieve my goals.

I suggest you all try to develop the growth mindset with these Totkays and continuous self-reflection as these Totkays with self-reflection will help you to change your mindset towards your goals as well as towards your life. The growth mindset will help us in every aspect of our life. Whether it be our job, career or personal life growth mindset is one of the keys to be successful and grow continuously even if you fail sometimes :)
“ Developing A Growth Mindset”:
By: Waleed Ali
Tags: Growth Mindset, Helpful Tips, Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Openmined

‘AMAL TOTKAY’

Today I am Going to discuss what Growth Mind set is? & also how to be set and improve Mind!

I will be share 5 tips with you how can we grow our mindset.

Always Learning New things

How did We find the 5 tips?

Let me tell you about How did find these 5 Tips;

So I have found these tips are helpful. I can explain…,I’m glad to know that how can we improve ourselves in the least time? Besides, how can we improve our lives by learning things? Amal Is providing me these opportunities and knowledge.

2. What are their takeaways?

See around yourself and do observe every day Think about it what you are? Can you make any changes!, Sometimes it’s good to hurt yourself

It gives humans an idea of ​​their limitations.

See everywhere

3. What were their favorite tips?

MY fav tips

All tips was good but when comes to choose favorite, I am choosing “Self Talk”. because when you begin to know yourself , So you can do anything on your own ,you can go to any extent, because your consciousness and unconsciousness is with you

4. What have they started implementing already?

I have started Self Talking I talk to myself before I go to bed, How was my day, what did I do wrong, how could I do better, I learned something new or not? what should I do in the coming days?

Do again and again

5. What can they do to develop a Growth Mindset beginning from today?

For Growth Mindset what we do is that There will always be situations in life that seem like trials and disappointments, eventually you can learn to reframe them into positive experiences that can help you to grow. This will take time, be patient with yourself.

GM vs FM

That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

Some books to help you develop your mindset.

Mindset the Psychology of Success The Compound Effect

3. The Slight Edge

4. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Amal Totkay For Growth Mindset
By: Shanzay Babar
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Fellowship, Amal Totkay

I find the amazing tips from Amal Totkay Growth mindset that how I can have a great idea and mindset of promoting my own small startup. And by having these fellowship guidelines I have learned a lot how can I be able to think over my ideas by finding the why and having a self-talk and come up with an innovative idea. I develop a self-power of defining I can do this, I got this. Other than that how to put yourself into challenges and situations to learn and getting out of my comfort zone and it will put my mind in developing a higher mindset. By having that mindset I have to work on my ideas, move from fixed to growth mindset and start to learn from my day to day achievements and upgrading the mindset.by having my own des I may also have to ask for feedback from the people around me giving me better functioning and reasoning. And the other way to experiment my own idea by keeping them within my habits and start to act on them that how can I deal with the conditions that I’m going to face after that. This can eventually led to improvement and confidence.

The favorite tip that helps me to make it appreciable is to getting out my comfort zone. By having a growth mindset thinking out of the box and doing something innovative. But also relating to that by having your own ideas there should refinement from the people around you maybe they can have a better idea of improving and interaction with outside people will also increase, so I started working on this tip to break the ice and ask people for help.

To develop a growth mindset there are different ways u can have to work firstly on accepting your flaws and imperfections, stop seeking the approval because when you prioritize approval over learning, you sacrifice your own potential for growth. Replace the word ‘Failing’ with ‘Learning’, try to understand that when you make a mistake or fall short of a goal, you haven’t failed; you’ve learned and the last but not the least place effort before talent because Hard work should always be rewarded before inherent skill.
AMAL TOTKAY
By: Muhammad Zeeshan Butt
Tags: Growth Mindset, Self Talk, Amal Academy

Growing Mindset

Amal totkay… These are basic advices from AMAL that will help me in my professional growth. I found it very amazing and helpful. These 5 totkay are really important to everyone who is feeling down in whatever situation he’s facing, these totkay will get you through this. I would also like to share these amazing tips to all of you through my blog;

1. Self-Talk 2. Get Out of Your Comfort Zone 3. Create New Habits 4. Ask People Help 5. Fake It Till You Make It

Here you go, note this down and apply to your daily life. These 5 tips will help you to have Growth Mindset, which helps us embracing changes.

Illustration of both Mindsets.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up, the most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. - THOMAS EDISON

I personally, find the first tip very helpful, SELF-TALK, this is one thing that I think we should make our habit on daily basis. Asking yourself to make it to the end is gonna be the best feelings you ever had when you’d make it. Keep yourself away from people with negative mindset. “Be mindful of your Self-Talk. It’s a conversation with the Universe.”

Be Kind to Yourself.

We can start implementing these great tips from AMAL in our lives to develop a Growth Mindset where we can have positive changes in our own self.
Reflection on Amal Totkay
By: Kainat Mustafa
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Fellowship, Positive Psychology, Amal Academy, Amal Totkay

#Growth Mindset Toolkit

“In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work — brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.” (Dweck, 2015).

The growth mindset leaves a positive impact on a person with a productive struggle which yields growth. By adopting the learning habits on daily basis make your day productive and leads you toward a healthy and happy life. Here I’m going to share some important Toolkits (totkay) for a growth mindset.

SELF-TALK:

Self-talk with yourself is internal dialogue, influenced by our subconscious mind, and it reveals our thoughts, beliefs, questions, and ideas which can be positive or negative depending on your personality, but if you are optimistic, self-talk provides you a healthy and positive outlook of life and encourages you to stay motivated to your goals.

2. GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE

Whenever we are in our comfort zone, our brains don’t want anything to change, but with the growth mindset, we are always ready to face new challenges, face our fears and come over to them, what I personally believe “ I can’t learn something new by being so static and living in the comfort zone”, explore new ideas make something innovative and keep working on your goals are ways by which you always resist your comfort zone.

3. CREATE NEW HABITS

our lives are reflections of our habits, how much we are happy unhappy, balanced or unbalanced, healthy or unhealthy routines; all are results of our habits. adopting healthy habits into a day of life, help our mindset change. If we are upgrading from a “fixed” to a “growth” mindset, schedule time for learning, and start noting down our learnings and achievements every day it becomes a part of our healthy lives.

4. ASK PEOPLE HELP

In the growing social media world, we always forget the people around us, help is not always about giving someone materialistic things, taking some time by people around you make a difference in your life, ask them for help if you need morally or emotional support from your siblings, friends.

5. FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT

when someone acts as if he/ she are competent and confident in an area, will eventually lead to improved competence and confidence and an optimistic mindset, a person can realize those qualities in their real life, so “fake it till me it”.

Through AMAL Academy, I have experienced through all these tips or we can say #Totkay, but I feel so much change and productive life since a month before, hope anyone can find these #totkas as helpful as me.
Growth mindset, some insight.
By: Muhammad Daniyal Khan
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Academy

Recently I got to know more and more about what growth mindset means, what the idea is, mainly because of this special place called Amal Academy. So to sum it up generally, to have a growth mindset means to yearn for learning new things, to have the drive and the passion to keep growing, evolving and be curious. A Growth mindset helps you learn from mistakes and helps you overcome your fears, it helps you believe that your goals are within your reach and that nothing is impossible as long as you’re willing to try.

So Amal academy gave us some really amazing tips, or ‘Totkay’, to help us develop, or at least start developing a growth mindset. I found the tips really helpful, they gave me a general idea of what to do next, what to change within me to start developing a growth mindset.

So to summarize, you need to start reflecting on yourself, what you lack and the areas of improvement, give yourself advice!, I’ve found out the best the advice is the one you give yourself. Also, to start changing things, learn new things and get out of your comfort zones, new challenges help us grow, and mistakes are one of our best teachers.

My favorite tips were to ask for help and to get out of our comfort zones, asking for help is the first step to self reflection, to accept that you lack something and that you’re willing to do something about it, to get out of your comfort zone and to accept challenges, rather look forward to them because only then you can truly grow. I personally have started to get used to this idea, to get out of our comfort zones, to learn new things, try new things and I’m trying to incorporate the idea of creating new habits. I’ll try to learn a new thing everyday and I’m hopeful it’ll lead to a fruitful turn of events.

Growth mindset is something that can be developed if one is willing to try. It only takes your willingness to be there, to do it and to see it through, some of the tips Amal gave us were really helpful. One can start doing something as similar as talking to themselves, to give positive insight, to give positive feedback and advice is something almost any of us can do. It’s a simple step towards a growth mindset, but it’s the simple things that bear fruits most of the time.