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End of the year and if you're like me, we're all probably been reflecting and thinking 'oh if only I worked harder' or f...
19/12/2022

End of the year and if you're like me, we're all probably been reflecting and thinking 'oh if only I worked harder' or feeling guilty and 'I need to make up for all the time I wasted' 😫

Ngl this last few months I've been thinking I feel like I should have worked harder this year and achieved more and questioning what if I had worked harder, where would I be now? 🗺

Let me give you real examples why it's never too late to work hard to achieve your dreams and be successful:

📚 Marvel - Stan Lee created his first hit comic title 'Fantastic Four' just before his 40th bday. Only then he went onto creating Spiderman and Wolverine and continued with playing a critical role in building our Marvel universe!

🍗 KFC - Harland Sanders set up KFC mid 60s where he finally sold his secret chicken recipe after struggling for years and years to make ends meet and today it's worth over 15 billion.

🦕 Charles Darwin - The father of evolution himself was thought to be a 'common boy' by the world. Only at age 50, he published On the Origin of Species.....and fought hard for his work.

🥂 Coca - Cola - John Pemberton was a biochemist and American Civil War veteran best known for inventing Coca-Cola in 1886 when he was 55....like the one thing the whole world bonds over haha.

So re-evaluate where you wanna be, set those goals and get moving on them now - don't wait for the New Year 💫⭐️

P.S: you don't want it bad enough if you think you've missed the boat....it's never too late 🕑

Whenever I see someone with 5 houses I'm like damn, I want that 😂 & today I''m still finding my balance between living t...
23/11/2022

Whenever I see someone with 5 houses I'm like damn, I want that 😂 & today I''m still finding my balance between living today vs leaving a legacy.

Over the last year, I shifted focus from my side hustles (1) to (2)...so all the time I was spending after work on my side hustles was spent on:

- Getting used to Manager life and trying to 'carve a path' I can call my own 👩‍💼 and that basically in itself is 3 jobs at the same (building a capability in my firm, client projects and supporting internal firm operations)

- Spending time with people I really care about and making unforgettable memories 🎉

- Travelling across different countries, taking in culture.....and lots of alcohol at all my friends wedding's (I've been to 12 this year it's wedding season 👀🍸)

From spending my whole life on the former, the last year I've kinda been doing the latter. Although still part of me feels like I'm wasting my life and 'crucial years' 😂 but I feel like it's time to start getting back to that purposeful productive grind again.

Feel like I'm slowly revving up to focusing on trying to balance 1 with 2 but anyone else struggling to be on top and do everything at the same time 😂

Let's talk about not having your life figured out. I keep asking myself 'What do i want to do with my life?' and no matt...
19/08/2022

Let's talk about not having your life figured out. I keep asking myself 'What do i want to do with my life?' and no matter how hard I think, I always land on 'I don't know.' And that's okay fam.

1. You're probs gonna change your mind 🌊 - When we were kids, what we wanted to be when we were older is probably not the same answer you'd give if you were asked that question now. Dreams change. And so what your dreams are now will evolve too. Whatever you decide what you wanna do with your life now will change in 5 years time...direcrions change and just like water, changing it's path the more it erodes.

2. You have time ⏲️ - KFC, McDonalds, Coca Cola were all created by people in their 50s. You may think time is running out but seriously mate, age holds no barriers.

3. We have our own journeys 🛣 - With social media, I always see the highlights of people's lives. People's achievements, people achieving their goals - and I love to see that! But sometimes I fall into this trap of comparing myself - it's okay to take longer to buy that dream home or get into that dream job. We all have our own journeys - the only person you should be comparing yourself too is your last self.

4. Rushing leads to bad decisions 😔 - I feel like when I'm under pressure to make a decision, I let other people influence who I date, my career decisions, where I live etc etc and sometimes we settle....and it's only after we settle we realise how bad the decision was.

5. You're limiting yourself 🪜 - Putting these limits on what you wanna achieve on your life stop you achieving your best out of life. You stop seeing possibilities and just want to go from A to B as quick as possible - shutting down all the different paths you could discover, all the different things you could learn. Do you wanna die knowing you didn't try everything you wanted to?

Let's talk about imposter syndrome. I recently got promoted from Senior Consultant to Manager and feel like I'm winging ...
09/08/2022

Let's talk about imposter syndrome. I recently got promoted from Senior Consultant to Manager and feel like I'm winging myself through everything 😭😭😭

Here are some things I'm tryna tell myself and help you overcome imposter syndrome:

1. It's an insane growth opportunity - You're stuck in the situation now - use it to your gain. Use the feeling of being uncomfortable to upskill yourself in areas you think you're weak - Tim Ferris says you only need to read 3 books to get to 95% of the knowledge that other people are at 📖

2. Celebrate your successes - When you look back and see how far you've come, you'll realise how insane your journey has been 👏

3. You're not alone - The more I speak to seniors around me, I realise they feel out of their depth too. A lot of them pretend they got their s**t together but going through exactly the same. It emphasises it's okay to feel like this. 🫂

4. You got given this opportunity for a reason - Be it if you got promoted or not, other people believe in your capability of getting this s**t done and SO SHOULD YOU! 😇

Swipe ➡️ for the biggest financial mistake I made in my 20s :) Can you guess? Finally out of a hoodie and out of the 6 ...
01/02/2022

Swipe ➡️ for the biggest financial mistake I made in my 20s :) Can you guess? Finally out of a hoodie and out of the 6 month rut Youtube fam ❤🥳

P.S: New video uploaded on signs that you should quit your job - link in bio xx

It's come to the time where everyone is writing goals. Here's a couple of tips to keep in mind if you get obsessive abou...
28/12/2021

It's come to the time where everyone is writing goals. Here's a couple of tips to keep in mind if you get obsessive about goals (like the Aries in me lmao):

1. Hanging onto goals when they no longer serve you is a recipe for disaster - learn to know when to quit, when they don't mean as much as you. There were a couple of things I thought were important to me this year but on reflection I never achieved the goal cause I was forcing myself to care about something I never did 😭

2. Goals aren't important, it's the habits - Goals aren't a destination, they're a direction but processes you develop and the journey mean so much more than getting to the end. I've grown the most I've ever grown over the past 2 years and that's because some of the goals I set were too ambitious that hell even if i didn't reach them, I developed af as a person 🤷🏾‍♀️

3. Achieving goals doesn't make you happy - I feel like we say to ourselves, when we reach this XX, that's it - life is made. I've found out that some of the goals I've achieved that should make me happy (10k on YT) really haven't. Sometimes you end up wanting more. Goals are momentarily pleasures when achieved but train your mind for long term happiness...contentment in what you have today rather than what you want to have.

I've written down my goals for the year and this time keeping it close to myself - nazar 🥲🤣 If you wanna know how I write goals, link in bio and in the comments.

P.S: Are you working or chilling this week? Our firm has a shutdown so spending the week catching up with friends, meeting new people and fingers 🤞🏽 shooting a video finally!

Coming towards the end of the Year and reflecting on what I've learnt and what I still want to learn. Last year I said I...
21/12/2021

Coming towards the end of the Year and reflecting on what I've learnt and what I still want to learn. Last year I said I'd try to learn Mandarin and  guitar.

Both of these are 'hard skills.' What matters more imo and is more beneficial in the long run are 'soft skills' - you can use them more in different aspects of your life.

A few soft skills I'm gonna try to learn next year are:

🐌 Patience - I'm impatient with myself and often means I just want to get to the end rather than enjoy the journey lol. I don't thrive well with long periods of uncertainty or instability eek

✂️ Emotional self control - Sometimes we let the emotional side of us take over (that's me all the time) and means we are reacting to situations, rather giving a response. Lesrning detachment my friends is the key haha

🧠 Stop overthinking - When I care about something I kinda let my mind spiral from all angles, need to sometimes let go and just go with the flow (Chinese concept of Wu Wei - read up on it)

Although next year, I also wanna learn to:
🏍Get a motorbike license - What happens if WW3 kicks off yo I'm outta here (pilot license was first but too spenny)

🧘‍♀️ Meditate - My mind is chaos lol I often speak before I think so feel this will help me but find it soo hard to get into

💃 Salsa - Who wants to join me in London 👀

Lmk what new skills do you wanna learn next year? I'll be soo interested to hear & probs take a few for myself to develop hehehe 💙🌟💯

It's coming to the end of the year and I'm sure many of you, like me, are thinking about career goals....and promotion. ...
16/12/2021

It's coming to the end of the year and I'm sure many of you, like me, are thinking about career goals....and promotion.

Here's my top tips for going for promotion (it's never too early to start):

👩‍💼Speak to leadership - You need to make your leadership aware that you want to go for promotion EARLY. And by early I mean a year early. Make sure you know who is going to be in your promotion panels and speak to them. Also by speaking to them early, you can understand why you may not be promoted and start to plug the gap!

📖 Build a case - Watch https://youtu.be/BbnNr8exrfk on how to build your promotion case i.e. why you should be promoted. Create a presentstion and make sure when you speak to Leadership you go through it

🖊 Collect written feedback - Make sure you get client and internal feedback from your managers, peers and junior employees...specifically on your weaknesses in your case i.e. the parts why Leadership may NOT promote you. Literally evidence for you to make your case stronger

⭐ Find your unique selling point - What makes you different to everyone in your area? What value are you providing 🤔 Find it and use it as your unfair advantage (your elevator pitch basically)

💥 Get stretch roles - Always look for roles a grade above. As a senior consultant, I'm looking for manager roles that mean I'm being stretched and showing I'm already working at the grade above.

More tips on my channel around promotion - specifically what qualities they're looking for.

P.S: Working from cause I literally had 0 meetings (okay 3 - that's nothing lol) 🙈😆

We've all been worried about what people will say, what people will judge and changed who we are in fear. Over the last ...
06/12/2021

We've all been worried about what people will say, what people will judge and changed who we are in fear. Over the last few years, I've learnt to not care (as often) 😅

Here my top tips on how to switch off, stop caring what other people think of you & be BINDASS 🌶:

1. Confidence is key - this builds up over time and I gained it by doing a lot of things solo and spending time by myself. The more comfy you are with your own opinions, your thoughts and your skin, you'll stop wondering what other people think of you because you're content with who you are & you respect your own opinion. It comes down to self-worth 💯

2. Compartmentalise - It's okay to let those thoughts of 'what will other people think' flow - think it for a couple mins, an hour or a day, whatever you need. But then close the door on it. I need a day to process stuff and then once I sleep, it's like it doesn't affect me anymore. My way of dealing, find yours. If it's binging on ice cream - all good 😆

3. Be okay with not being perfect - Life isn't meant to be perfect and once you accept that, you'll get immune to not being perfect. Use imperfections as teaching tools rather than as a measure of success - when you stop tieing ppl judgements to your value of success, you won't care

4. Stop judging others - Ironic right. When you stop thinking if something is right / wrong, you simply observe. I can't explain this one lol but by not judging others, I somehow am less worried about being judged 🤷

5. People don't actually care - It's the Spotlight Effect. We overestimate how much people care about what you're doing or saying. Reality is, we all have short attention spans - give it 5s and they're probably thinking about what they should eat 🤣

This isn't to say that I don't get affected, I defo do - even more by ppl I care about. Just need to learn when to take yourself out of the spiral otherwise it's going to stop you from growing. Learning is the beginning of discovering your insecurities and how you can remove them :)

P.S: Regrets are worse than not taking the risk cause you worried what someone else thinks x

Let's talk about dealing with failure. I was 🤏🏽 this close to winning Young Consultant of the Year and when my name wasn...
01/12/2021

Let's talk about dealing with failure. I was 🤏🏽 this close to winning Young Consultant of the Year and when my name wasn't read out, my stomach actually sank and it felt s**t.

So here are my top tips with dealing with failure:

1. Don't give up - literally everyone fails at some point of their life. I mean J.K.Rowling was rejected by 12 publishers for Harry Potter. See when you give up, that is truly when you're failing imo

2. See this as a growth opportunity - identify why you failed, understand the gap you need to bridge and upskill yourself so it never happens again. Most of my work is helping private companies make more money so I've realised I need to do more consulting work that impacts society 😅 Learn and adapt fam ❤

3.. Don't benchmark yourself to other people's definition of success - your definition of success may be different to someone else's and that's okay. But never, and I mean never beneath and judge yourself on theirs. It's fine to overthink and take a day to process it but MOVE ON, let's not be obsessive now

4. Recognise going into everything you're doing, failure is an option. Never not do things because you're scared of failing. When you see everything as an opportunity to fail and learn from it, you'll get more comfy with the idea of failing. And not care eventually hehe 🙃 at least you tried

5. Re-energise yourself - You're gonna feel low and s**t but find ways to put yourself into a different space and get those endomorphins going. I went for walks to clear my head in the forest - and a cheeky trip to Barcelona helped ngl

P.S: I've been distracted. You know I'm 0 or 100 and I wasn't giving YouTube attention. I can't multitask, I'm hopeless but back again 💯

Last few months I've been dying with a lack of motivation. Have you noticed haha. Realised it all starts with discipline...
15/11/2021

Last few months I've been dying with a lack of motivation. Have you noticed haha. Realised it all starts with discipline. Discipline gives us habits. Habits give us consistency. Consistency is the foundation for success.

If you're struggling with getting disciplined, here's a few things that are working with me:
1. Timboxing in your calendar - set time in your calendar to work on one thing outside of work that will help you reach your goals, really helpful way to remind yourself
2. Start small and build up - your rather start or do a little, than none at all
3. Find someone to keep you accountable - I told brother throws water at me if I don't film lmao
4. Remind yourself why you're doing this in the first place - and the negative of where you'll be if you do nothing
5. It's all about belief, the mind is a fragile thing. If you believe you can do it, you will. Practice confidence in yourself and your abilities - focus on improving your weaknesses

This winter, let's get back our mojo 🤞🏽

P.S: Some extra Dubai pics - currently suffering bad period pains whilst working in British winter and just thinking about the heat 🙃 Where do you want to travel next?

What a mad week. From coming in the top 10ish young consultants of the UK to missing my Barcelona flight and workshop fo...
08/11/2021

What a mad week. From coming in the top 10ish young consultants of the UK to missing my Barcelona flight and workshop for the client 🤣

Was a bit gutted about not winning MCA Young Consultant of the year but failure keeps us going, keeps the 🔥 burning. Gonna share a video about embracing failure cause boy oh boy, tons of thoughts about this. Teaser: At first I felt gutted, knocked my confidence a bit but then realised I shouldn't benchmark myself against other people definition of success. When we all look back at our journeys, we've come farther than imagined so reflect and focus on the positives! We've all achieved so much and should be so grateful for what we've learnt 🙏

Missing the first half of my workshop was tragic. I panicked at the airport and was about to do a 6 hour layover in Dublin just to get there in time - my Director, bless her, told me it's fine, don't stress, go home and have a good sleep and a Partner will pick up the first half. Honestly, the importance of teamwork. Being there to pick up...be it no matter if you're an analyst or a partner. And secondly, treating us as humans - putting my health over being there on time for a client workshop speaks words to me 🥰

Anyway, kinda leading something I've never done before. Have no clue what I'm doing. Send help 🆘️

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