Reflection on Amal Totkay
By: Rabia Jameel
Tags: Amal Totkay, Amal Academy, Amal Fellowship

Amal Totkay are basically the five precious tips that help you develop a growth mindset which is a very positive approach to deal with life problems and communication with people . Making these tips a part of your life helps you to become more productive and clear in your insights about work and daily life

These five valuable tips are

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

How did I find the five tips ?

Honestly , these five tips are very helpful both in personal and professional life , i feel like the whole magic of having a growth mindset and how to achieve something incredible in life , is summed up in these 5 precious tips

What are my takeaways ?

If i discuss the tips in detail i can clearly tell what i learned from these tips and what are my takeaways

1.Self talk

My firm belief is that no one knows you better than you know yourself. You know what energy and potential you have inside and what really drives your insights. Self talk is like reflecting on our own mindset. If we improve the self talk we can make our lives more positive and peaceful for example if you ever find yourself saying “I have never done this thing before i cannot do this ” change that to “It’s an opportunity to learn something new and i will try to do my best” . Tell yourself pretty things. Make a room for change and turn that pessimistic approach into an optimistic one. learn that you have to be kind to yourself first.

2.Get out of your comfort zone

Nothing worth comes easy. Encouraging yourself and pushing yourself to unfamiliar places and you do things you wouldn’t normally do is what I call getting out of your comfort zone and it is a major part of changing your mindset into a growth one. If you want to achieve something big start taking risks, confront those fears and put yourself in challenging situations to know your limits. If you want to know the impossible go beyond possible .

3. Create new habits

Develop habits that reinforce your thinking with action and slowly get rid of the lazy habits that hinder your efforts to level up .i once read somewhere “we first make our habits and then our habits make us” . Develop the habits that define your long term goals and behavior. And change your lifestyle into a more productive one

4. Ask people for help

As humans we are often dependent on each other for support ,motivation and listening. Asking for help is always a great move you can make to know your progress while practicing something new. Ask people about how they feel about the things you’re doing or the changes you are making to yourself, society or work . Take feedbacks . Learn from the critics . It improves your resilience and develops a growth mindset . And yes how can i forget “ek aur ek gyara”

5. Fake it till you make it

This might seem funny to read but it is a very important tip when you are on the way to achieve something big no drastic changes can happen in days and even months you have to keep faking it until you reach the point of perfectness. Same goes for Growth mindset, even if you still can’t accept things fully, just compromise and fake it that you have changed and learn to be patient. Even researchers tell us that every act of smiling even if it’s fake will elevate your mood and replace sadness with joy ! Fake competence until your reach to that particular level of confidence. And it really works.

What are my favorite tips?

All the tips mentioned above are my favorite and i am trying my best to implement them in my life , faking it till i am making it ! But still the one I really like is “get out of your comfort zone” because I believe extraordinary efforts bring pretty changes and magical things happen when you step out of your comfort zone and make yourself learn new things .

What have i started implementing already:

I have already started implementing “Get out of your comfort zone and develop new habits” which is obviously changing my mindset and making me more productive and honestly I feel happy to practice those tips and see the changes these are bringing to my life.

What can i do to develop a growth mindset beginning from today:

Beginning from today i can develop a growth mindset by listening to people , acknowledging and embracing my imperfections , instead of telling myself that i am failing i can always tell myself i am learning . I can develop a growth mindset by breaking my rigid routines and start by developing new productive habits.

Thank you.