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Smart Self Growth

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Join two friends on a journey to adopt a growth mindset and to gain self-development skills. This podcast will cover a wide variety of topics from mental health to fitness.
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Episodes

Procrastination

Have you lately found yourself not getting things done? Do you plan and plan and plan but it never materializes because you just don't get on it? Join us on this episode as we discuss procrastination and help you get a better understanding of what you are going through and how to get things moving finally.

Jul 12, 202129 min

Auto Suggestion

Autosuggestion is a psychological technique related to the placebo effect, developed by pharmacist Émile Coué at the beginning of the 20th century. It is a form of self-induced suggestion in which individuals guide their own thoughts, feelings, or behaviour. The technique is often used in self-hypnosis. Through the dominating thoughts which one permits to remain in the conscious mind, (whether these thoughts be negative or positive, is immaterial), the principle of auto-suggestion voluntarily re...

Jul 12, 202117 min

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is built upon five pillars in they are the following Self-awareness Self-management Social awareness Relationship management Motivation So let's look at the first one which is self-awareness. What do we know about self-awareness? We have done a podcast based on meditation and self-awareness. You are welcome to check that out if you haven't listened to it yet they are still available. and you can find it on our Facebook. Self-awareness is knowing your emotions, and feelings...

Jul 12, 20216 min

Self-Discipline

We will be talking about self-discipline. It’s the ability to make yourself do things that should be done. The series of episodes it all boils down to taking responsibility and internal narrative. If you degrade yourself and punish yourself for failing you destroy any good chance of persisting. Shaming yourself will make you hate yourself. Willpower does not equal self-discipline. Willpower is like a muscle and if you overwork it will fatigue and fail. So rather find the real reason you want to ...

Jul 12, 202112 min

How to build resilience

The definition of resilience for physics from Mirriam-Webster dictionary: The capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress The first thing would be to believe that you ARE capable of bouncing back after going through something difficult. This belief will give you hope in tough times to know that I can do this, I’ll get through this, this too shall change. Resilience is like a muscle and is build over time especially through...

Jul 12, 202116 min

Mental Health (Bonus)

Disclaimer: We are not in any way proclaiming that we are experts in mental health. Please seek professional help if you are suffering from a mental illness. We also do not condone the taking or use of illicit drugs. Because mental health has got such a huge stigma that pervades it, it is of the same importance as any other life-threatening illness. Like heart disease or cancer, it would be better to see a professional rather than to self medicate. If you are starting to push people away try to ...

Jul 12, 202120 min

Exercise

The most important behaviour you should adapt and work on should be self-discipline. That's really the most important aspect of training because everything else goes along with it. Without self-discipline, you don't go to the gym and you won't stick to your workout routines. Self-motivation goes along with self-discipline because besides being disciplined you need that motivation to get you to the gym. Diet. You can find everything about eating online, you can find exercise routines online and t...

Jul 12, 202122 min

Emotional Regulation - Coping Skills

Emotional Regulation Strategies: Maladaptive strategies: Expressive suppression , which is you restrain from controlling your expressions verbal or non-verbally. As we learn we realise that this is something that would build up inside of us and would eventually cause us some suffering and pain. We suppress it on an emotional level which leads us into the next one which is... Thought suppression - where you would have negative or intrusive thoughts that you would suppress. Suppressed emotions and...

Jul 11, 202127 minSeason 1Ep. 2

Meditation and Self-awareness (Introduction)

Once you gain self-awareness you’ll find that you get more in touch with your surroundings and present moment but you also think clearer and make more rational decisions and you'll be able to observe your thoughts or words before you speak...limiting uncalled for reactions.

Jul 11, 202123 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Compassion, Empathy and Sympathy

There is no judgement in compassion. We feel other people's pain and we know and can feel they need help. And we help. Compassion always comes with empathy. It drives connectivity between people. Empathy is firstly not to judge the other person’s situation and then to relate to their emotion or suffering in such a way that you can support them and love them for what they are going through. Giving them the space to feel their emotions. The main difference between empathy and sympathy is understan...

Jul 11, 202116 minSeason 1Ep. 3

Habits

Habits are built on many emotions, skills and measurements, like time, patience, consistency, sacrifice and even rewards too. Some of them might even go together. For example, you might have to sacrifice time on one thing, for another, if you don't have time for both Start by identifying your goals, what's important to you and your personality plays a big part in this as well. This will give you the platform for building and breaking habits. so now that I've established what my goals are, I can ...

May 07, 202015 minSeason 1Ep. 4
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