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2 Things Dance teaches you about Life!
By: Lavanya Saraf
Tags: Growth Mindset, Dance, Life Lessons, Grit, Personal Development

I have been dancing since last 4 years and it’s been one of the most beautiful journey. Not being a trained dancer since childhood and trying to embark on this journey in your 25-something-age was a bit challenging but definitely worth it. Over the years dance has taught me two important lessons of life.

1) Every individual is unique and has their own style

2) Grit and Growth Mindset

Every Individual is unique and has their own style

My dance instructor always encouraged us to look at ourselves in the mirror while dancing and not others because every body is different and unique. You have your own movement and style which cannot be compared with anyone. You should focus on what style works for you rather than trying to fit into the style and body movement of other people. The same goes in life. We lose out when we compare ourselves to others. What works for others may not work for you.

When we have this mindset we appreciate people for what they are and the uniqueness they bring in which can be very powerful.

Grit and Growth Mindset

While learning the different steps in hip hop, jazz funk or belly dancing, there were many times that I failed to get the step at the first go. But I knew that the more I practice, the better I will get. And yes, it did. Each attempt brings you closer to getting the dance step right.

In the second or nth attempt it may appear that you are not there yet but all the attempts and improvements add up and lead you to finally learn the step. Same goes with life, we may face failures but we need to keep at it — keep learning and improving yourself. The improvement may seem small now but they compound over a period of time.

Hope you found this new perspective emerging from the dancer’s world useful!
Grow. I am sure that once we step out of our…
By: Aarij Aziz
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Academy, Amal Fellowship, Success, Point Of View

I would love to compare the Growth mindset and Fixed mindset but I have a point that’s worth explaining and it will help all of us as we progress in our lives.

I am sure that once we step out of our comfort zone we start growing and we grow to an expectation beyond our imagination we keep surprising ourselves….. And develop new habits as a result of our effort.

But my mind clicked on a thing when I was revising all these Amal Totkay.

Self Talk ( helped me a lot) Get out of Your Comfort Zone ( that’s what I am doing right now) Create new habits ( In progress ) Ask help from others ( No one can grow without help ) Fake it till you make it ( Like me trying to write this blog as a professional)

Any Guesses till now? Let me make it easy for you.

We get out of our comfort zone and we make new habits right.

After that, we start feeling proud of ourselves over this act but little do we know is that we are again stuck in our new comfort zone.

Ohh too bad we struggled to get out of our comfort zone but here we are again.

Now that’s the thing I was talking about. I just wanted to clear a very important point to all of you guys that although sometimes we think that we have crushed our comfort zone and the same story again but we forget the basic principle behind the Growth mindset which is to grow without stopping if we stopped at a point we might get comfortable again.

The question is What Do we do?

Let me think!

And the answer is Grow Grow Grow ( I might have created a principle of my own here 😂).

Grow so that you get out of your comfort zone, Grow so that you can create new habits, Grow so that when you are stuck somewhere you can talk to your self, Grow so that you can ask others for help if you don’t know what to do, Grow so that you can make it even if you don’t fake it.
Amal Totkay
By: Waseela Mushtaq
Tags: Growth Mindset, Principles Of Progress, Amal Totkay

The topic seems to be interesting and funny in its nature but yet is very important in daily life.

In Pakistan and everywhere in the world, most probably people used to do these totkas as in scarcity and easy to make, easy to do at homes, no extra effort is required to do. i have always seen my mom and my aunts doing totkas in routine practices as to preserve anything for long term use, for treating some sort of pains and for improving the lifestyle to make it simple and easy.

here I'm going to discuss some most important amal totkay that can be used to grow our mindset and that are much more important to add them in my life.

The one of them is “Self Talk”. Self talk means self analysis and reflecting back to yourself is about never push your brain to negative vibes rather drag it to think positive manner. When you think and take things as positive, creativity and innovations come along with this.

Stepping out of comfort zone: Yeah, this point is directly related to success and to lead yourself towards achievement. Just think about why to get out of your comfort zone even we are very happy by staying in this zone. if you I've in this zone you cant be creative and develop fixed mindset which is hurdle in growth of our success.

Developing new habits helps to reinforce thinking with action like pushing yourself to challenges to make decision making strong at spot.

Feedback is a gift that someone gives you so here is time to implement the principles of progress in your life like action, self-exploring, hard work and team up and then ask people what changes they observed in your life and either is positive or negative.

Fake it until you make it: it simply means makeover yourself what do you want to be. if you want to be entrepreneur in life then develop that attitude and keep making changes in your life according to that then one day you will be entrepreneur.
My Perception regarding AMAL Totkay
By: Muhammad Umer Muzammil
Tags: Growth Mindset, Growth Strategy, Growth, Success

“In this World, you are either growing or you’re dying, so get in motion and grow” (Lou Holtz)

A human is just like an Idol if it doesn't have the curiosity of continuous personal growth. I wasn’t fully aware of the concept of growth mindset until AMAL academy came to rescue me and provide me with the best 5 tips for personal growth.

The 5 undisputed tips were not only inspirational and pivotal for my understanding but also made a great impact on my intellect. Every Tip is realistic and imperative for an impressive career ahead. I really like the ‘fake it, till you make it’ trait as it was in compliance with the psychological backround.

My takeaway regarding the 5 tips is concise and clear that a person has to sacrifice his/her leisure time to productiveness in order to gain monumental growth towards his/her goal.

Basic Rule for growth

My favorite tips regarding growth mindset were “Fake it. till you make it” & “Get out of comfort zone” due to the reason that I believe that when you pretend to do something, you are in the way of mastering it unconsciously and humans work better when they are facing challenging times respectively.

I have started to adopt the tip of ‘getting out of the comfort zone’ as I am doing Multiple projects and internships during this AMAL Fellowship with no leisure time for myself.

For initiating a Growth Mindset, we have to build productive habits in ourselves and say no to excuses. We have to stay motivated and proactively participate in eye-catching opportunities.

“I don’t have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to be what I want to be.” (Muhammad Ali)
Project 1: Reflection on Amal Totkay
By: Memoona Siddique
Tags: Growth Mindset, Learning, Amal Academy

AMAL compiled 5 Totkay which are the basics of developing a Growth Mindset:

1. Self-talk

Increasing self-confidence and curbing negative emotions can be best possible by positive self-talk. When we constantly tell ourselves a single narrative than our mind has no other option than to believe in it. This is how subconscious works.

Our subconscious mind records everything we say and do in a pattern that determines our self-concept. This is why repeated positive affirmations are so effective that we can actually reprogram our own thought patterns by slipping in positive and success-oriented narrative. Accepting our negative emptions and showing compassion towards ourselves is the need of hour. So we can use the power of a smile to reverse the tone of a situation.

2. Get out of your comfort zone:

For a growth mindset, it is necessary to get rid of any kind of fears we have, either it be the fear of being mocked at or the fear of unknown. Many times it happened that after losing an opportunity, we conclude that It won’t be as bad as we expect. We often are unable to jump into an opportunity because we’re self-conscious. All we need to know is no one is paying that much attention to us. Others are scared too.

3. Create new habits:

Doing the same things everyday can be boring and we lose interest and procrastinate easily. Downside to getting used to a routine, is that we forget how to think for ourselves. Without noticing, we’ll begin to unconsciously look for someone else’s directions to follow. Our mind wants someone or something to give it instructions.

Don’t be afraid to do things that you wouldn’t normally do.

Set goals and challenge yourself daily, then evaluate and re-evaluate your goals.

4. Ask people for help:

I always tell myself regarding a problem that: “I’d rather not ask for help. I have to solve this myself, no matter what.” Obviously this attitude of mine exhibits a strong sense of responsibility. I used to think that I will be able to solve my problems on my own without bothering other people. Amal learning has taught me that asking for help is not at all a weakness, instead it is a strength that will strengthen us eventually. We should ask for other’s feedback every now and then.

5. Fake it till you make it:

I came to know that this is an English aphorism which suggests that by imitating confidence, competence, and an optimistic mindset, a person can realize those qualities in their real life. I always consider it wrong to pretend something which I’m not. But for a good, Amal has introduced me with this concept.

This trick is also backed by Science. Scientists have found that if you want to lift your mood, you should force yourself to smile.

Similarly listening to happy music can alleviate the mood.

Pretend you know more than you do, and eventually you will.

Have I started implementing already? What can I do to develop a Growth Mindset beginning from today?

I have already started implementing these tips and embraced the process of learning. Some of the takeaways I compiled as:
Amal Totkay-Tips to develop a Growth Mindset
By: Samrah Moin
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Fellowship, Amal Totkay

The ‘Amal Totkay’ are about five well thought tips to develop a growth mindset. In personal and professional life, a growth mindset is mandatory if wants to learn new things, be successful and stand out by making a difference. I personally found these five tips to be very helpful and easy to follow in changing a fixed mindset gradually into a growth mindset.

From Fixed to Growth Mindset

The first tip is about self-talk so that one can reflect the kind of mindset they possess at the moment as improvements, big or small, come after self-realization. The second tip stresses upon getting out of your comfort zone by taking challenges, responsibility and to take charge and be a leader without authority. Third tip is about adopting new powerful habits like self-reflection, journaling the day to day activities, making SMART goals that can shape and nurture a growth mindset. The fourth tip encourages you to do not hesitate while asking for feedback from people around you about the mindset changes you are reflecting daily. This will improve the growth pace. And the last tip is all about accepting, experimenting and acting out the traits of a growth mindset as it eventually comes into habit which can lead to a permanent change of a fixed mindset to a growth mindset.

AMAL’s Five Tips (Totkay) for a growth Mindset

Among these tips my favorite ones are self-talk and adopting new habits as first tip will help you reflect the mindset you possess (Khudi) while the second tip will pave the line of action for improvement (Amal). I have started following these tips since the day I got to know about them and I can observe how the fixed portions of my mindset are becoming more flexible ad acceptable to changes. Starting from today I am motivating myself to step out of my comfort shell and take responsibility, show eagerness in learning new things, accepting different challenges and look for solutions strategically while staying optimistic, motivated and grateful!
Growth Mindset and Book Reading
By: Jawwad Mehdi
Tags: Growth Mindset, Lifelong Learning, Bookreading, Just Start

The people who are willing to learn are having a growth mindset. This mindset helps you to become a lifelong learner. There are many tips to achieve this mindset but the ones I followed are getting yourself out of my comfort zone and the other is creating new habits.

The best habit which I developed to learn new things was book reading. This habit helps me in strengthening my brain and increases the ability to empathize. I find it as the best practice to release stress. My writing skills are also improved by reading more and more and I have more vocabs.

One who wants to make his analytical skills stronger and to improve focus and concentration is advised to develop this habit. I feel that there’s no better food for the brain other than books. As, reading is the best way to rapidly gain a deep, and broad understanding of a topic.

According to neuroscientists, reading “rewires” those areas of the brain responsible for spoken language and vision. This improves our cognitive intelligence.

Reading has really a great impact on your personality as it allows us to see things from others points of view. Then it’s the source of motivation also, which is a pathway to success.
Reflection on AMAL TOTKAY
By: Huma Javaid
Tags: Growth Mindset, Love Yourself, Amal Totkay

Before going to the reflection I will share some AMAL TOTKAY For Developing A Growth Mindset.

· Self-talk

· Get out of your comfort zone

· Create new habits

· Ask people for help

· Fake it till you make it

All the tips are very good. If someone really practices these tips he/she can do anything in the world. They will always have some particular goals for them .it makes their lives purposeful and happy.

So to live a wonderful life you should know yourself. Reflect on your strengths and weaknesses. When you know your weaknesses, try to work on them. To learn more about yourself, you have to come out of your comfort zone. When you try a new thing, you will know more about yourself. So take challenges and give your best to accomplish them. Then again reflect on yourself. J

Among all the tips I really love the idea of come out of your comfort zone and fake it till you make it. In the past both these things kept pressurizing me.

fake it till you make it

Sometimes I wanted to do something but I can’t .i always gave excuses to myself. But now I just thought if it is halal or haram. If it is halal then I will try it no matter what kind of work it is.

When i started doing something new, i found people who are proficient in those things but I was struggling with basics.it puts pressure on me.do I really want to do it or not? Is it good enough? Should I quit? I asked myself such questions. But the idea of fake it till you makes it and Kaizen approach (just change yourself by 1% everyday) removes all my burdens and always gives me a push towards my goals

Now I am trying everything that comes to my mind. Because I feel that this age will never come back. When I die I will be ok if I have a lot of mistakes but I can’t bear if I have a lot of ‘‘IF’s’’
Reflection Of Developing A Growth Mindset
By: Syeda Yumnah
Tags: Growth Mindset

Growth mindset is necessary for being a lifelong learner. People believe that intelligence and talents are fixed but according to the research, these are the traits that can be changed. We can polish our skills, talents and intellect. There are also some tips which can help an individual in developing a growth mindset:

Self talk Get out of your comfort zone Create new habits Ask people for help Fake it till you make it

Growth Mindset Reflection

Takeaways:

Don’t tell yourself that I can’t do it. Always say ‘I can do it’.

Welcome new challenges instead of avoiding it.

Note down your everyday learnings.

Ask people for feedback.

My Favorite Tips:

Create New Habits: Adopting new good habits in place of bad habits which you’re eliminating is the road to growth mindset. Try to make notes of your daily learnings and achievements. Ask People For Help: Ask people for constructive feedback and try to welcome any type of criticism and then improve your weak areas.

Implementation:

I have already started telling myself that I can do it and started asking people for feedback. Amal academy is teaching us how to adapt to growth mindset. I found this activity helpful.

Developing A Growth Mindset Beginning From Today:

For beginning from today, come out of your comfort zone and face the challenges of your life. In this way, we can develop a growth mindset.
Smiling as a Form of Defense?
By: Samantha Drobac
Tags: Growth Mindset, Psychoanalysis, Self Improvement, Personal Development, Psychology

Smiling as a Form of Defense?

Photo by Nicholas Kusuma on Unsplash

There are times where we have no desire to smile and yet our brain will force us to smile. Where you are just having a terrible day or got unfortunate news but if you are out and about around others, you try your hardest to hide the feelings inside with a smile outside.

You might even put up an even bigger smile where you’re on the verge of tears.

When we smile, our brain produces this neurotransmitter called dopamine. Even if the smile is forced and doesn’t match our true mood or emotions at the time, you still feel as if everything is ok for a little bit.

By merely forcing your facial muscles to create a smile it fools your mind and this dopamine release will allow us to temporarily get a slight feeling of “happiness” and will help reduce the stress inside us — balancing out our flight-flight response.

You might or may have not realized how your brain tries to protect us when we are feeling down, but it does and it’s fascinating that even with a smile it will try to mitigate some stress.

I like to pay attention to people's smiles to see if I can figure this out and recognize when they are hiding sad emotions from the world. A trick I use is by paying attention to their eyes and mouth when they smile because when people have a true smile, the edges of their eyes and mouth will form a genuine wrinkle. I notice their eyes close (not entirely) but enough that it causes these wrinkles and their mouth will develop a slightly wider smile.

I don’t call them out on it, I just simply witness.

Where am I going with this?

Honestly, nowhere but just to lay it out.

Not everything has to be a 10 step process on “How-to…” or a 1500–2000 word long story with a beginning, middle, and an end. Sometimes it’s good to just share some insightful yet brief notes just like this one.
Amal Totkay ( Growth Mindset)
By: Faizan Ali
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Totkay

Here is my reflection on Amal Totkay of growth mindset

a) These five tips of Amal Totkay are extremely helpful to build a growth mindset and be an Entrepreneur in our life. It provides the help of thinking innovations in our ideas

b)There are a lot of things to takeaway from these tips but i learn about the principal of Amal that is kam kam kam and learn about khudi by deep thinking about my self.

c) My favorite tip is “ Get yourself out of comfort zone”

d) Yes Alhamdulillah I start myself to get out of my comfort zone.

e) By learning new Ideas.
Reflection On Amal Totkay
By: Muhammad Muaaz
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Growth Mindset

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. — Albert Einstein

In Growth Mindset people don't rely only on current situations and scenarios they always try to improve themselves. This whole phenomena can create new opportunities of learning for you .Growth mindset makes us eligible to learn throughout our lives .It makes us more productive to certain goals of our life, Near to me Growth Mindset is the key to success.

Here are some of the toolkits or in Amal academy we say these “TOTKAS”.

Self Talk

Self talk is something that always helps me the most. Self talk can make you able to find out the drawbacks in yourself or the weak points where you have to work. This provides us the better look of anything and make us more feasible to certain goals and achievements. I would definitely say Self talk is the only major thing that can make you exceptional to the world.

Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone

we are always only confined by the walls we build around ourselves. This is the barrier we have to get rid off. We must push ourselves to the new environment. This can lead us toward productive zone.

Create New Habbits

New good habbits can make our life desirable. Right new habbits helps us to become the person we always wanted to be. New amazing habbits are the fundamental part of growth mindset. These can increase the overall perspectives and quality of our lives.

Ask People For Help

We should not feel shy by asking some help from others. May be the thing we are stucked at can be resolved with the help of someone else.This can develope or skills of extrovertness.

Fake it Till You make it

It is very interesting for growth mindset. Try to train your mind on the principle of “Fake it Till You make it.”This could automatically trained your mind for the future coming things.

Take Aways From These Totkas

For the development of growth mindset one must have above explained points in practice .These can make your life.You can achieve what you always wanted to be by acting on these totkas.

My Favorite Tip

Don't hesitate in asking for help to someone other . Don't create imaginary world like that is he/she going to say about you?

Work,Work and Work until you succeed.

#AmalAcademy

#AmalTotkas

#GrowthMindSet
Reflection on Amal Totkay
By: Sajjad Ali
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amalfellowship, Reflection On Totkay, Totkay, Sajjad Ali

Amal Totkay Growth Mindset:)

I would love to write on every point from Amal Totkay it was really a great experience for me to explore all these points so here I’ll share my opinion about Amal Totkay which I have got from them.

Self-Talk

The way you talk to yourself creates your reality. As Edmond Mbiaka said:

“Positive self-talk is to emotional pain as pain pill is to physical pain.” –

So it will definitely have a great impact on your mental level as well as your physical body. Self-talk makes you more responsible and gives you a chance to analyze yourself and offers you an opportunity to polish your skills. When we try to self-talk so I think we can judge ourselves more deeply than others so this will definitely help us.

Get out from your comfort zone

Nobody can achieve their goal without struggles. Never try to find out a shortcut. We have to get out of our comfort zone to make big things. By pulling our self in challenging situations we can do something bigger than our expectations.

Create New Hobbits

Every next moment of your demands a different version of yours. So we always try to learn new skills and I think in this era of knowledge we have to command on emerging skills which can make us able to survive in this era of struggle.

Ask People Help

Being a social animal we have to help others as well as in our difficult time we shouldn’t hesitate to ask help to others because when we ask others to help this thing encourage them and by doing this we can make a great network.

Fake it till you make it

Human psychology proves it whatever you consider about yourself you become. If you consider yourself as a dumb person your mind works accordingly but if you consider yourself as a good person you become. So we always try to think good about ourselves.

My favorite tip is Learning new hobbies, and I started learning new skills.

And I hope it will definitely help me a lot
AMAL Tips for Growth MindSet
By: Muhammad Uzair
Tags: Growth Mindset, Learning And Development, Amal Academy, Power Of Mind

There are two types of mindsets that shape our lives, Fixed vs the Growth mindset.

People with a fixed mindset believe that their abilities and qualities are fixed traits and are constant and consider talent alone leads to success where else efforts remain insignificant. However, a Growth mindset drives motivation and achievement.

Fixed mindset vs Growth Mindset

It was wonderful to go through the AMAL tips for having a growth mindset which could be summarised as follows;

Having positive thoughts, “Yes I can”. Testing the limits leaving the comfort zone Learning new each day and tracing achievements Growing together and tacking feedback Pretend to be a winner and there you actually win.

This has made me believe that nothing is impossible but in return, it requires effort, dedication, and commitment.

The tip which got my attention the most was the power of leaving behind the confront zone, this may be the hardest one for me but this is what promises growth and change for the positive.

We all can have a growth mindset if we commit our self to these easy to implement yet very effective AMAL tips for having a growth mindset.

The whole journey from a fixed state to growth one would be full of challenges but what does matter more is the change we get.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’! — Audrey Hepburn
Reflection on Amal Totkay
By: Hamza Rao
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Academy, Amaltotkay

Reflection on Amal Totkay

Totka is an Urdu word that means a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers. Such totkay are used in desi houses, these may be effective or may not sometimes. As being Pakistani, I love to follow them.

Amal academy is magnificently adding many skills in us and these totkay are going to be helpful through out the life as they are worthy and beautifully titled.

So, what are Amal Totkay? They are basically five tips that help you to shift your mindset & develop a growth one and these tips are very easy and helpful, you just need commitment and if you give your all, you surely will be able to develop a Growth Mindset in no time. Following are the five Amal totkay.

1)Self talk:

It can be known as hobby. We meet the real us by talking to ourselves. By doing this we can discover new things about us and can find solution of the problems. I love self talking.

2)Get out of comfort zone:

It is like leaving your bed and think of walking on uneven surface, but that road leads you to a beautiful destination.

One should develop a habit of facing challenges, to learn something new and should be volunteer to have success life. Habit of working hard should be developed which helps one’s for getting out of the comfort zone.

3)Create new habits:

Its a key to successful life to have an ever growing mindset as it helps us to adopt new habits which could be highly helpful for achieving something new in life. “We first make our habits then habits make us.” Let’s know “How to create a new habit?”

4)Ask for help:

We can’t make success alone, we need people around us. Sometimes we need help, sometimes we ask for feedback, these leads us to see another side. One should not be ashamed of asking help.

5)Fake it; till you make it:

I am in love with this tip. I use this often. It adds such a positive energy in me. Acting or thinking of achieving covers the half way of success. While faking you are believing yourself and when we have faith on us we attain the success.

My Takeaways from these Totkays:

For the development of a growth mindset, consistency, determination, self-improvement, constructive feedback, honesty with yourself and hard work are most important.

My Favourite Tip:

Leave your comfort zone. Work, work, and more work is key to success. One can polish one’s abilities through work. No one can be successful until he fully devotes himself or indulges himself in that thing.

One can deny the importance of all these tips if he fully wants to improve himself and want to achieve something in life.

Thank You 😊
Reflection on Amal Totkay
By: Muhammad Waqas Zafar
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Leadership

Before reflecting on Amal Totkay it is essential to share why Amal Academy focuses so much on them and what they do?

Amal Totkay, As the name indicates is a set of life hacks that will help anyone to develop a growth mindset. In Amal, we are thought that a growth mindset is a leadership trait. Why so? Because people with a growth mindset have an underlying belief that their learning and intelligence can grow with time and experience, in people with a growth mindset, the brain is most active when they are being told what they could do to improve. They view setbacks as an opportunity to learn. They tend to try harder in an effort to overcome the problem. A leader with a growth mindset sees opportunities for their team, even during times of crisis.

The 5 Totkay that Amal shared are

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

l find all 5 Totkay are very effective and all of them will contribute to developing a growth mindset but the one I like most is creating new habits this has the potential of making someone a lifelong learner, the right habits will help me reach my goals.

“You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine” — JOHN C. MAXWELL

I am already working on changing my bad habits with good ones and the first on my list is to decrease my time on social media and spend that to read/write blogs.

To develop a growth mindset we all should start implementing these Totkays one by one rather than making a sudden change and ending up at the same spot.
Growth Mindset and Why is it Important
By: Fatima Imran
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Totkay, Fake It Till You Make It

It’s been three weeks since I joined Amal, and one of the most important things I have learned there is, what’s the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. Why developing a growth mindset is necessary and what good will it do? In Amal, they ask you a lot about your strengths and weaknesses and what can you do to improve them. By making smart goals, by doing what you love, but the following five steps are most helpful;

1. Positive self talk

2. Getting out of your comfort zone

3. Creating new habits

4. Asking people for help

5. Fake it till you make it.

My favorite step is “Fake it Till You Make It”. When something is so outside of our comfort zone, we tend to avoid it. When we lack confidence in a particular area, our brain tries its best to make us stay out of it, but if we fake confidence and see outside of our fear, we will get to know that that particular thing was not that difficult and eventually we will become confident. I have started implementing this step since I joined Amal. Every time I try to do something outside of my comfort zone, I fake confidence and if I come out of it with good results, it gives me more confidence.

Developing a growth mindset isn’t as hard as it sounds. You just need to be kind and inculcate a positive attitude towards yourself and others. Making smart goals is a great way to increase the productivity level. I am trying my best to develop a growth mindset by working on my smart goals and by faking confidence in some things I am a newbie at.
The growth mindset| Amal totkay
By: Mujahid Ur Rehman
Tags: Growth Mindset, Self Improvement

For developing the growth mindset, the amal totkay is very important and helpful because talking with yourself is like discovering yourself. Getting out of your comfort zone is another key element for self development and growth mindset. You can’t achieve wonders while being in the comfort zone.

My favorite totka was asking for help. I used to be the person that feel shame for asking from some friend or class fellow . but now i can feel better and dont hesitate to ask for help. Now i believe that one should ask for help because no one knows everything.

From today, i will start asking for help. I will go extra mile to work on my soft skills.
Amal Totkay
By: Muhammad Shahbaz Qadir
Tags: Growth Mindset, Blogging, Amal Totay, Self Esteem

A growth mindset is very essential in daily life If you want to succeed in this world. I want to emphasize the following 5 tips that are useful for a developing mindset

1.Stop seeking approval.

2.View challenges as opportunities

3.Self-talk

you have to know first what you are, and what you want to do

4. Place effort before talent

5.Learn from other people’s mistakes

Reflection on these Totkay:

I found these tips from the online course provided by Amal. I learned how to find myself first then to put effort and never say that I am not able to do this because nothing is impossible. My favorite tip is self-talk. Seeking the challenges as opportunities to learn something from everything. We just have to take the first step towards something that we want to do by self-reflection than hardworking in that field will ensure a growth mindset
The Secret — Power of positive thinking
By: Mubbsher Idrees
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Academy, Secrets, Books, Sucesso

The secret book by Rhonda Byrne

After reading this book and watching the whole movie based on this book. I realize that when we think about something, then actually we are attracting something thing towards us. If we think about positive things then we attract the positive thing towards us and verse versa.

As we know about the concept of growth mindset, we know that if we think that, we can do it then actually we are attracting the position energy toward us and verse versa.

Therefore if you practice by thinking that I can do anything then you will do it no matter what happened. It just links a game when you are playing a game your focus is to win the game and when you succeed in the game you feel that you can do anything.

you can compare these circumstances with the level of a video game whenever you are stuck in the game you push yourself much harder to win that level. Apply the same strategy here.

Steps towards success

whenever you stuck in any place these tips will help you to gain your strength back

Self Talk :

Leave your negative thought behind, And full your mind with a lot of positive thinking.

Get out of your comfort zone :

If you feel that you are in your comfort zone, it means that you are no growing then you should find a way to get out from it.

Create new habits:

Make new habits such as reading books which will develop a lot of creative thinking in your mind.

Ask people help:

Don’t feel lonely whenever you are stress, go to your loved ones, and tell them the circumstances, you will feel better after that.

Fake it till you make it:

Strongly recommended that you should tell yourself that you become the person you want, just feel this it will help you to grow faster.

Make new habits such a reading books which will develop a lot of creative thinking in your mind.

Ask people help:

don’t feel lonely whenever you are stress, go to your loved ones and tell them the circumstances, you will feel better after that.

Fake it till you make it:

Strongly recommended that you should tell yourself that you become the person you want just feel this it will help you to grow faster.
SELECT YOUR CHAMPION
By: Abasiodiong Godson
Tags: Growth Mindset, Champion, Personal Development, Growth

It’s Christmas day, and everywhere is merry and set.

I just decided to drop a 'lirru' something you should ponder on.

A number of young persons have decided to enjoy the rocking chair, primarily because they don't believe they are capable or enough for any task.

More interesting thing was, the pandemic left everyone no choice but to stay safe. So, it was okay for them that the only thing they did at home was catch cruise.

Is this you?

Do you feel your insecurities outweigh your capabilities?

Hey, look!

Something from the story of David will inspire you.

At one time, the Philistines were preparing for battle with the Israelites. A certain Philistine Goliath, challenged the Israelite army to bring on one man to fight him and if such man wins, the Philistines would become slaves to the Israelites.

Goliath was a giant, wearing an amour weighing 126 pounds!

Follow me.

Now David was just a shepherd boy sent to serve food to his brothers in the army, and there, he learnt about what ensued.

David decided to fight the Philistine, assured that God will deliver him into his hands.

Guts.

Here's the place I almost jumped screaming. After David had selected his 5 smooth stones, he had a face-off with Goliath.

I choose to see the exchange of words between them this way: Giant: Young boy, select your champion. Young and skilled David: I am my champion!

You know exactly how this story ends.

Here's my lesson for you.

You should always see yourself as a winner; a champion in every fight that life throws at you.

Consciously, select your champion. And let that be you.

In every situation. See yourself as a winner. As victorious. As up to the task. And always be ready to put in your best.

Merry, Merry Christmas!
Amal totkay illuminating the “GROWTH MINDSET”:
By: Khansaa Abid
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Growth, Amal Academy, Growth Mindset

The Amal tips are the totkas that are going to help you to shift your mindset from fixed to GROWTH.

-Growth mindset helps you to adapt to changes around you easily and think innovatively towards your problems and in finding solutions to the daily life problems. The amal totky’s are the way to the growth mindset.

When you talk to yourself, you hold yourself accountable and question your capabilities. When you know your power you can get out of your comfort zone according to that and you are doing something out of your daily routine.

-This also play a part in shaping your personality.

My takeaway is “Fake it till you make it”:

If a human is determined to do something, one must be persistent to it and mold one’s mind according to it by acting confidence and rigid towards the goal.In the process of acting, the mind itself will get used to the constant confidence and the actions will change into reality.

And “Asking for help”:

We,humans,are sent to this world to support each other in the hard times.We can not survive without each other’s help.Hence,we should never feel hesitant in seeking help from someone.Moreover,seeking help from someone can open new doors of information to you.
The One Key to Unlocking it All
By: Anthony Ricco
Tags: Growth Mindset, Friendship, Relationships, Authenticity, Vulnerability

And how I realized it was the greatest change I could ever make in my life and have never been happier with my relationships

Photo by Jacob Rank on Unsplash

I feel like i’ve gone back and forth my entire life trying to be comfortable in my own skin. Most people that know me seemed pretty surprised by that but I think it’s something everyone struggles with. Especially with social media, big Hollywood movies, and sports stars everywhere seemingly showing us how we should and shouldn’t look.

But authenticity isn’t about how you look…it’s about how you feel and act.

I recently wrote an article about how the best clothing one can buy is the clothing they feel (and act) the most comfortable in. And I think that idea flows perfectly into this one.

As i’ve progressed through my twenties and into my thirties my anxiety and depression drove me down a hard path of figuring out how to be happy in the present moment. And in my opinion finding the key to my authentic self has been one of the hardest, yet most rewarding journeys i’ve ever been on.

While I have yet to find my “dream girl” i’ve noticed that each and every one of the relationships in my life has grown tremendously due to my new-found authentic self finally shining through. I’m closer with my family more now than ever. They all open up more to me now than ever before.

I’ve left some friends in the past that i’d outgrown. I used to take that type of stuff so personally, good friendships dwindling and leaving my life for good. But what i’ve learned is when one door closes a better one usually opens. I now surround myself with some amazing friends, some as new as 1 year, yet I feel like i’ve known them for a lifetime. Being my authentic self around them makes me happy. They constantly cheer on my accomplishments and we all act that way towards one another. I truly love them like my second family.

It took me most of my twenties to truly realize all my relationships get better, faster, when I’m projecting my authentic self. No masks, no shields, no fake bravado. True, 100%, vulnerable me - 24/7. Everyone shines brighter around me if I lead through my most authentic self and I absolutely love it. Seeing those around me feed off my vulnerable qualities and show their wounds along the way is honestly one of the things i’m most proud of in my life.

Nothing bonds people stronger than hardship. And we all have checkered pasts’ and broken hearts. The sooner we feel comfortable talking about them openly, the sooner we can move on from them and realize we’re all a little broken on the inside and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Amal Totkay: A Reflection on their efficacy
Tags: Growth Mindset

Growth mindset is a mindset of persons with believe that they can develop their talent through passion, hard work, good strategic approach and by brainstorming. Growth mindset is more likely to take risks, they are more motivated, have positive mindset, show better work relationship and performance level is much higher then fixed mindset.

Amal Totkay : A reflection on their Efficacy

Following are some amazing “totaky” by Amal for the development of growth mindset

Self talk

It’s a common myth things happen the way you think about them and I believe it. If you think positively, your plans will also be in that way. Talking to yourself that you can do it will automatically turn into actions.

Get out of your comfort zone

Getting out of comfort zone, taking new challenges and exploring new skills will upgrade mindset.

Create new habits

Creating new habits can change mindset from fixed to growth mindset. For time being, if someone wants to stay stick to planned schedule, taking little steps everyday, documenting and revisiting your daily learning from it, will help you to stay stick to your schedule.

Ask people help

Brainstorming help you to analyze functioning and progress you are making and help in refining of ideas.

Fake it till you make it

Pretending to be confident, competent and actually helps in growth of confidence and enhance competency.

Takeaway from Amal Totkay

Getting out of your comfort zone not only helps in personal growth but also in professional one. Some of these benefits are

Challenging yourself with new risk broaden your thinking, open mind to new ideas and let you think out of the box. It also helps in creating new habits but also let you work with people you are not comfortable with Helps you to learn new skills Boost confidence in work place Let you explore multiple careers Increase stamina to work in stress environment

#Amal Academy
Amal Totkey
Tags: Growth Mindset, Amal Academy

All things are difficult before they are made easy.

Having a growth mindset is a blessing, but having a fixed mindset, I believe, is a curse. When you have a growth mindset, you are always open to new ideas. You have the flexibility to change your perspective. You can view the world with another person’s eyes. But when you have a fixed mindset, you do not enjoy the same pleasures of life. You are rigid and you lack the ability to easily grasp new ideas.

Amal totkey provided 5 tips for developing a growth mindset, which I’ll be talking about in more detail.

1- Self-talk:

Self-talk is really important and what you talk to yourself is also very important because that has a great impact on your life. When you consider yourself a weak and fragile person, you end up being weak and easy to hurt. However, when you think about yourself as a strong person who is capable of doing almost anything, then you become a person who is a reflection of your positive thoughts. Therefore, when you talk to yourself, make sure it’s the good and positive things only.

2- Get out of your comfort zone:

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.

Great things do not happen in the comfort zones. You have to get out there, and go through a difficult road to find contentment in your life.

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.

3- Create new habits:

If you don’t have a growth mindset, don’t worry. It is not something that is undoable. You can always create new habits that will change your lifestyle. If you have a fixed mindset, and you want to have a growth mindset, just start working small and try to develop those habits that will change your perspective. These include reading books, listening to podcasts, listening to other people only for the sake of listening, not for answering them back or proving them wrong, etc.

Dreams don’t work unless you do.

4- Ask people for help:

If you are trying out new things, or you are trying to develop new habits, just ask your peers to help you. Don’t be shy. Just ask them whether they have felt any change in you or not. Ask them if you are improving or not. Do not hesitate. For a growth mindset, it is important to remain open to new ideas.

5- Fake it till you make it:

If you are trying really hard but haven’t gotten instant results, then I’ll suggest you to be patient. You cannot change your mindset at the speed of lightning. You cannot wake up one day with a growth mindset. Things take time. Give them their proper time. Don’t worry if your mindset hasn’t changed a bit. Just start acting like you have a growth mindset. Act like those people who have a growth mindset. Learn new things. Accept challenges. Listen to other people’s ideas, etc. Eventually you will see that you will end up having a growth mindset. As Shakespeare said:

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.

So fake it till you make it.