In this first solo episode, I share the keys to building a reputation. I go over the changes I made in my personal journey that not only helped me build confidence, but also reputation.

I discuss how what we REPEAT builds the REPUTATION

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Welcome everyone.

I am really excited for today, because today

I'm going to be recording my first episode solo episode, there's no guest.

I'm going to just share what I have learned

through my own experiences and working with some of the many world

class coaches mentors in my personal pursuit.

So welcome.

Let's get started.

I wanted to talk about change

because that's one thing that has left me here to head.

So if we take a moment to pause,

you know, just maybe take a deep breath.

Just relax, officers look around.

Look within those.

You will realize that

there's only one thing that is constant that is absolute truth

that I guess nobody can debate upon is that

change.

The change is constant and it's always changing.

Just a minute ago, we took a breath

and we realized, you know,

the breath was changing, right?

The breath you took a moment ago

is not the same breath you're taking now, and you may not be conscious about it.

You may not be consciously breathing all the time.

And that's all right.

But it's happening.

It's happening behind the scenes and it's changing, constantly changing.

And that's the very essence of the life.

That life is always changing, right?

And then we have things

that become routine when things become routines.

It's basically that, you know, you're not consciously

looking at them, but they are happening.

Breaths.

Your breath, you read, is a great example of that.

Your body, your skin.

Your weight is another example, right?

These are food samples that we may not be always conscious.

Like you don't know from day to day unless you are measuring every day

your weight, you are following some routine for program

what your weight is, but it's always changing, right?

The hair on your skin are changing.

The color of your skin is changing.

You may not realize that it's not the same as when we were born, right?

We look a lot different than when we were born to who we are today.

So the first thing I want to really

touch upon is that life is changing.

It is life changes.

The only thing that is constant in life,

and it will continue to happen.

No. With the change.

The question comes after he coins just about to change.

Or is it unconsciously happening?

In my case, for the last 20 years,

it was unconscious, there were things that I was consciously making

changes of all, but most of the things were unconscious, right?

What I was eating every day or, you know, the time I was waking up

to getting up from the bed, the clothes I was wearing,

the work, you know, the route I was taking to my work.

It was all routine.

It was all unconscious changes every day that I was doing.

And. I'm so glad for 2020.

I'm thankful for it is that it made me conscious.

It made me realize that, you know, there are so many things

that I'm not even consciously thinking that's just part of my routine.

And one of the questions I get asked,

you know, by the people is how do you retain what did you do?

How you started from,

you know, going from your I.T.

career into podcasting?

You know, were there any steps, did you think about it?

And truth be told, I didn't think I was going to do podcasts.

In fact, a year ago, I didn't even know, you know what?

All was involved. I had no clue.

But here we are and recording this solo episode just a year later.

That's because I became conscious.

So I want to talk about how do you become conscious?

And what steps you take to make a change.

The very first thing I started to notice,

or the very first thing, was

I started becoming aware and I became aware

that a lot of things actions

in my daily routine were unconscious.

Just like if you're hearing this first time or if you've heard it

now that you heard it, you know it.

You can look at what you did yesterday, day before, yesterday

and day before yesterday, a week before a month before.

And if you sit down and write those steps or those actions, what you do

from your day to do, you realize a lot of those actions are unconscious.

In a sense, they are habit they you don't have to think about.

They just automatically happen.

And those are our unconscious actions.

And if our, you know,

history says that more than 60% of those actions are automatic,

they are unconscious, that we are not even thinking about it

and just lock me up

like if 60% of the times I'm not even thinking is just happening.

What are the chances,

you know, I'm going to be able to get where I want to go in my pursuit?

What are the chances that those decisions, those automatic actions

that I might have acquired a year to year

five to ten years ago are still

on the path of where I want to go.

So the whole thing is becoming aware of those actions.

The second thing I realized was.

That I don't like a lot of those actions, right?

All the results of those actions

and that made me question those actions.

You know, for example,

one of the things that I started to notice

in 2020 was because I was sitting all the time.

I was not moving enough because I was working from home,

and that meant I was available most of the times.

I was doing calls in the days and the nights I was working,

and I didn't have much to do because there was no social interaction.

So I was almost I don't want to call it stuck,

but I was choosing to be on my laptop

and just to work and

do whatever I needed to be done.

And I only noticed the result of it, but I started to see

I was not fitting in my clothes anymore because I was reading.

There was no movement.

I was just sitting, eating, sitting, sleeping, eating, sitting, sleeping,

eating, sitting, sleeping.

And that was my routine.

And months later,

probably six months later, I'm no longer fitting into those clothes.

That was a change.

It wasn't conscious I didn't want to be nor fitting into my thoughts,

but it pulled me and made me realize there's something not right here.

So as I started to question my

actions, daily actions, what I was doing,

I realized there were things that would not a line.

And like we always do,

we want to change everything

in the flick of, you know,

the event and just snap.

We want to change it like this.

But I could not go back

to my original size and just snap

because it didn't happen and snap it happened over the course of six months.

And that's another thing to realize whenever you want to change something,

especially something that has been part of your routine habit.

You can make a decision in a snap.

But the result may not happen in the snap.

So what I did was

I took some time off from work.

Sorry, go ahead.

Move it back first.

As I realize there are a lot of things that were not aligned,

I wrote all those things.

I wrote what I didn't like about them.

I I didn't want those things in my life like, you know,

not having the same with having to change the clothes sizes.

I didn't want those and I didn't want to work the same things.

I didn't want to be in a place in next five,

ten years where I was answering to

an employer or somebody who was,

you know, controlling my time.

I didn't want that.

So as I realized those things that I didn't want,

I knew I had to change and I had to break away from

my routines

for me because I was in a position and I had opportunity.

It was maybe the part of

it was the timing also that I could ask some time off from the work,

and I realize that I may not be the case for everyone.

But if you can, when you realize when you want to make a change

or you want to think about the change,

I would highly recommend taking some time

off, just breaking away from the routine.

So I took some time off on day one.

I thought I was going to change everything.

I was going to get up early.

I was going to meditate, I was going to read books, I was going to move for walk.

I was going to.

He told me I was going to exercise, you know, a whole bunch of things.

I was going to spend more time with children and family, my wife.

And just

an hour into it, like the first day an hour into it, I went for a walk.

I didn't get up early.

I didn't do well the breakfast, but I took a walk

and just said I wouldn't do it.

I just started.

I think I said on my laptop, I started watching something

and there was my take on.

So nothing happened and same thing again next to the next day,

and I had realized that

maybe I'm overwhelming myself by,

you know, trying to do so much.

And obviously, my brain didn't even trust me for that.

My body didn't trust me because I have not been focused on myself

for such a long time.

And all of sudden, I could not go back

and start everything that I would in a moment.

And then I started to, you know, read about

and hear from some of the coaches, the mentors and how do I make the change?

How do I do?

What do I do so that I can make sure

I can get ahead, get one step at a time?

And that was the key one step at a time.

So instead of trying to do too many things in my day,

I made a promise to myself that I was going to go for a walk.

30 minutes a day, I think it was 20 initially,

so I've made a promise that 20 minutes a day I was going to do a walk by the

this morning.

Whether it's night when it's before dinner, after dinner, it didn't matter.

I just made myself the promise that I was going to keep that promise

for the next 30 days.

And as I started to do that, obviously,

firstly, I was excited and

the second day I was excited I would be, you know,

within weeks, there were days where

my body was telling me, it's OK to skip one day, you know,

we've had a long day or whatever, but I kept

going on my promise

and I kept telling myself my body that I am changing like I'm consciously.

I have to make that

decision and I have to stick to it.

So basically,

what I started to do is I started to repeat the promises

I was making and I was keeping those promises,

and that 20 minutes became 30 minutes to 45 minutes

and I was walking two to three miles on a day

and it gave me so much more confidence,

like when I started to keep the promises that I made to myself,

I really bought back the trust with myself,

and that gave me the confidence to add more.

And I added, started getting up early, started meditating,

started reading more, started to engage with more coaches.

I had mentors, but it all started with one small change.

And then this whole process, I realized

one key thing that was important.

And that was.

What is it that I was repeating in my day?

You see,

I realized what I had a beat.

Because the reputation I have it built, the reputation

I have with myself at both the reputation I have with people.

So if I am repeating

lazy actions and the actions that are not aligned with my region where

I'm heading, that's the kind of reputation I'm going to have with myself.

Yes, I'm going to have this stellar reputation way with others,

but more importantly, the reputation with myself,

because when I don't build the right reputation with myself,

I don't have confidence to go and do the things that I want to do

because every time I would want to do those things,

my self reputation, myself limitation will come in and say, Hey.

He was just talking, you never do that.

You know, the brain will not believe the body will not believe,

and that will not happen.

So if I can give away

what I learned in the hall here

through my own experiences, that led me to change

from a high tech career to coaching robots in public,

speaking to making a podcast connected with so many different guests.

It is the key is.

What am I had a beating?

My reputation is close to my reputation.

That's all I wanted to share with you,

so I hope this was useful for you.

I feel like that they make commands like subscribe

and let me know what you thought about it.

And if you're trying to implement the change,

let me know if there is something I can help you with

through my journey through the gates I have on the podcast.

Let me know I'll be more than happy to share.

And, you know, give you a hand because truth is, nobody does it alone.

So in summary.

Change is constant,

repetition builds repetition.

Thank you. All right.

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