Hey everyone, welcome again to Self Work Academy! I'm excited to have you all here and ready to dive into the real work. This community is built specifically for people who are serious about transforming how they communicate and show up in the world. We're not here to post motivational quotes and disappear. We're here to do the actual work that transforms how you communicate and show up in real life. Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be dropping frameworks, challenges, and systems that have personally changed my communication and confidence along with dozens of people I've worked with. Some of this stuff you won't find anywhere else. But right now, let me drop something fundamental for you when it comes to communication. CONSIDER THIS YOUR LESSON #1. Lesson 1: The Power of Strategic Pausing Most people think good communication is about having perfect words ready or talking faster to keep up. That's completely wrong. The best communicators understand that silence is a tool. When you pause before responding, three things happen: 1. You give yourself time to think instead of just reacting 2. You show the other person you're actually listening 3. You create weight behind your words when you do speak That’s the ACTUAL power of silence in your communication and body language. Now it’s nothing crazy, you could easily implement this in your conversations. But to make sure you take action… Here's what I want you to practice this week... Your Task: In every conversation you have, pause for 2-3 seconds before responding. Let the other person finish completely, WAIT, and then speak. Do this in at least 5 conversations this week. Could be with friends, family, coworkers, doesn't matter. After your conversations, come back here and comment: "Conversation [1/2/3/4/5] - Done" I want to see who's really committed to improving versus who's just here to watch from the sidelines.

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته How’s everyone doing? I’m Mazin, 20 years old and currently pursing a role to become a DevOps engineer with a clear roadmap and a trusted mentor. My biggest challenge right now is navigating the pressure, I recently dropped out of university because of the interest of student loans and had to give up forex trading due to impermissibility of CFDs which was kind of my golden ticket. Which really mentally destroyed me but i’m bouncing back In sha Allah. A goal I want to achieve is being able to eat clean, consistency in the gym and a solid sleeping routine. May sound small but will significant improve all areas of my life mentally and physically.