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Welcome to Jon Michail’s Personal Branding Masterclass. Jon is the founder and CEO of image group international, an award-winning image consulting and personal branding pioneer established in 1989. This podcast will bring you old-school wisdom, inspiring ideas, strategies and hacks for the new tech world. Here you will learn everything about personal branding: the system, the techniques and the right mindset to have a successful personal brand, image and reputation.

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Hello, Today, I will be about becoming the best version of yourself. Before we start the show, I kindly ask you to write the show on Apple podcast. Once you've done that, please email us a confirmation. And we will send you a book the real world guide to authentic personal branding. Now let's get started. Since the beginning of humanity, one thing hasn't changed, the ability to be able to imagine to do and to evolve. The one constant is that humans are constantly evolving. This is part of our personal and professional development. And creating the best version of yourself, you know, is a key points in achieving, among other things, the personal confidence required to give it your best shot. And if you can imagine that confidence, it's so important because as we all know, confidence stems from all certainly if you don't know, I'm going to share it with you now. Confidence stems from an ability to be courageous. And what that means is, the more courageous you are, the more confident you are. And what underpins all of that eye confidence with courage is of course, integrity. And then integrity is the key here. And integrity basically, is what we're aiming for today, from the perspective of an integral message in you specifically promoting yourself out there and presenting the best version of yourself. And that's what we're going to be covering in the next few moments. However, your ability to create the best, we'll call it authentic version of yourself starts from the same source deep inside you. So although you know your external image is a mirror of the internal, of course, your best self will always start from within, if you want sustainability, it's the only way it cannot start from anywhere else anywhere else. Or long term, obviously, you're going to need to revisit the inner anyway. So you're better off working on the inner having said that the inner and the outer work together. I know it sounds a little bit paradoxical. But that's the way it works. You cannot start out from anywhere else, as I mentioned, and the inner is really the way to go. You are born with the ability to be a better version of yourself every day. I mean, that is innate in you, it's part of what was created when you came to this earth. Any other story that stops that from happening is just that a story. Once you accept that you have the power to change yourself to correct aspects of yourself. And that could mean also you know, changing from the point of view of reinventing your career, or you know, reinventing your business or your relationships, that's part of that, you're ready to start creating a successful and amazing new. So it's accepting that everything is possible. Because without that mindset, and if you operate with a mindset that is opposite to that, and that could mean you know you're fixed, and there's no possibility of of that moment, then of course, you've sort of it's like, it's like you're in the hole. And basically, it's that's the way it is where, you know, with understanding that everything is possible in developing your your best self. I think that's very important. And of course, you would have experienced that yourself that that's possible as well, even at times, if you have to do a little bit of work, it might seem a little bit hard and so on. The reality is it's all possible. Without understanding your true nature. In all of this, you will always be at the whim of someone else's influence. And this is important. So if you want to your power back, if you want to stop being a victim, it's important that you take responsibility and take your power back and of course, but taking your power back then you're on your way to building and growing your best self. So you might ask me, but John, what has all this got to do with my personal brand? Well, if you think about it, everything I say, you know, your personal brand is an encapsulation of your best self. It communicates your persona, your image and your reputation to the world. It does communicate that now of course what it also means is if you're not happy with the messages you're promoting to the world, you know, communicating To the world, then of course, you've got an opportunity, you've got choices that you can always change as messages. And that's what the whole concept of being the best version of yourself sort of relates to because nothing is fixed, you can always change things, as long as you've got the mindset to say, Hey, I believe in possibility. So the path to reaching the best version of yourself is different for everyone. We know that. However, for long term sustainability, it's important to be authentic. And some insights I'm going to share with you today can also relate to your life, from the perspective of these insights for you to think about who you are, why you do what you do, and the kind of self improvement you're seeking. What is it that stopping you and as I noted before, it could be that you position it could be you're in a director role, and you want to get to the CEO position, or become a member of the board, or start a new business, or expand your business products or services. This is all part of the best version of yourself. Having said that, you can also transfer that to your business, and of course, to anything else that you want to improve and maximize value. So the first insight for today is to prioritize your mind body whelming. And we talk about this regularly. But this is essential. Because otherwise, if you don't get that, right, in my opinion, nothing matters. Nothing matters. I don't care how successful you become in your career, your business, your mind, and body health. And of course, I haven't mentioned spiritual health today. But certainly, if you look at the first two, and if you want to incorporate spiritual, that's great as well, if you don't get that integrated, what you're doing is it's a superficial approach, everything has to be integrated. And this is essential, because we live in in times where at times, this is not promoted, you know, other than, of course, you got mental health issues, and you're going crazy. That's not what I'm talking about. It's about getting yourself integrated, balanced. And from the perspective of powerful because for you to have your personal power back in need to be in control of that, you know, you need to have that under some sort of wrap. Otherwise, of course, it's going to blow up. If it's not going to blow up that it will blow up somewhere down the track. So it's essential to get this right at the outset. And as I've noted numerous times the current toxic political environment we're living in is making people ill, therefore, Mind Body, and in this case, if you want to incorporate spirit is essential to get the integration operating at maximum. Another insight is to stay close to the who, you know, to those who sincerely support you. Always, it's essential, you know why? While people are giving you support, it's essential so that you paid that back in different ways. And anyone that takes advantage of that sort of thing eventually ends up paying a price for that as well. So what we say is do a bit of a scope of your relationships, who are your supporters, who are the people who could trust like and respect, okay, and get them in your corner, and at the same time offer be reciprocal, from the point of view of helping others as well. Now, now, some really tough cookies out there, specifically think, look, I'm happy to sort of help hours old, but I don't really need help myself, well, guess what we all need help occasionally, ourselves. And it's good to have a whole team around you. Certainly, as I said, people that you like trust and respect. So what comes into mind there is, you know, some stoic values. And what I want to do is incorporate them as part of, you know, in some of these insights as part of your goals, and what I would call is your end game. But the, you know, the big virtues that really matter, you know, and have been with us since the ancient times, is, of course, wisdom. Another one is justice. And of course, I've already mentioned courage. And the last one is temperance. And what it means is specifically, you know, keeping at least these four at mind, will give you a lot of personal power back and give you a stoic approach to life from the perspective that there's gonna be a lot of ups and downs and make no mistakes, the ups and downs are gonna get a lot more severe. Okay, and you know, in all different areas. So it's essential that you get into the zone here, you know, what I'm telling you, it's an essential component. It's not like listening to the news, telling you a disaster is coming. And there's no solutions, right? You know, other than going hide morphia rah, rah, rah, the reality is if you have fear, you've got to deal with that as well. Okay? Because fear will actually eventually suffocate you because that's what it does, he'll close you in. And that's the last thing you want to be doing. You want to let go of that because you have personal power, as I mentioned, okay, the trickier there is to access that. The next insight is to keep focused and discipline with that focus and discipline nothing happens, you know, you're, it's like you're sort of chasing your own tail. Now under pressure, of course, that becomes worse for people. And then if you've got all the other stresses along anxiety, depression or whatever, of course, that's gonna make it even worse. So you want to get really clear about that. And how you're going to do that, of course, is we go back to step one, as I mentioned, to to get the mind body connection, right? And the last insight for today seems obvious, but at times is often forgotten is this. Don't just do things for others. Do also for yourself. And I would say do it for yourself first. Why? Because that's been integrity with yourself. And I know, you know, the story out there always, you know, help somebody else before yourself, do this, do that. I'm not saying don't do that. But what I'm saying is that the first motivation, inspiration is yourself, you know, you're gonna get benefits as well. Otherwise, if you're going to do it, you're doing it for manipulative reasons, most likely, and eventually, that will fail as well. So it's important just to keep that in mind, I support How can you basically not look after yourself, if we're trying to build our best self, honestly. So authenticity is to do it for yourself first, and become a beacon for others and get them to see how great you are, obviously, with a lot of positives that you're actually contributing society with benefits, of course, will follow and flow on, once you truly practice your divine right to be your best self. You know, the thing here is, is to get out of any what I would call his negative conditioning, and allow new possibilities to come into your life. And what I mean by that is the aspects of your life from growing up, you know, as a teenager, going to school, graduating, starting your career, your business, and so on, is about creating something that's going to give you joy and happiness in this lifetime. And this is very important. And everyone knows, that has worked with me, or has been to one of my seminars, workshops, that we support wealth creation, right at the top. Having said that, if the only thing you do every day is work, you know, get up in the morning to think how much money you're gonna make, without worrying about all the other things I've mentioned. Basically, that might be very successful for you, okay, but it's not our model. And it's certainly something that, you know, our clients come to discover fairly quickly, that that's probably not the best model for them either. When you have a client, like I have an example, you know, that could be worth 200 million plus, earns a lot of money has a lot of assets, and so on, but has had four heart attacks along the way. You got to question what is the value of those heart attacks? How much have you paid for those heart attacks, of course, you pay them by making a lot of money. But at the same time, your health, your relationships, and everything else is a bit of a disaster. So it's about getting that right, you know, and I'm not here to pontificate what is the perfect way of living. But from the perspective of integration, these are ancient wisdom, this is nothing new, this is what we've always had to do it, we're going to have a joyful life. And of course, I go back to number one, a mind body. And of course, I'll throw in spirit, the more integrated that the more power to you. So we've come sorted to the end of our chat. It's one of those conversations that we could go on forever and run a workshop on this every week. I trust that this episode was at least useful for you as a starter to get your thinking around your best self. And also, of course, concentrate a lot today on the inner image. Of course, your outer image also is important and to integrate together. But of course, I focused on inner image because that's the most sustainable long term. If you need any help in becoming your best version, of course, don't hesitate to contact me. And as always, I look forward to connecting with you. Just send me an email, and we can have a chat. My email address is in the episodes scription also, you know, don't forget to connect me on social media. My Twitter, it's Jon_Michail; on LinkedIn, it's Jon Michail; you can find me as Image Group International on Facebook. I want to thank you all and as usual looking forward to catching up with you next week. 

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