You’ll Never Be The Same After This Life Advice | Muniba Mazari

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:11Can you talk about the importance and what you did to just overcome fear after fear and what that did for you, that exercise of overcoming them? I think the biggest obstacle is a long list of fears. All sorts of fears, known, unknown. My biggest fears were three. They were my major fears. So I wrote them down. And I said, you know what? I'm going to overcome these fears one at a time. My biggest fear was facing people. Now when I say this to the world that, you know, I was scared of facing people, people think I'm being funny. But no. And it's not the fact that I did not want to see people or I just hated people.

0:49That's why I didn't want to see them. You know, I was tired of, you know, those remarks like, oh, poor girl. I was tired of being treated as a patient. Oh, how do you feel? I feel the same. Ask me more about what I'm doing in life right now. And this mercy in their eyes that, oh, poor girl, that really, you know, that was killing me from within. And I said, you know what? I'm going to overcome this fear of facing people. And, you know, maybe one day they will understand that I'm okay. I'm okay the way I am now. I've accepted myself. So please, you need to accept me too. And as they say that when you think about doing something, the universe conspires.

1:29while I was thinking constantly about how can I overcome this fear of facing people? How can I do this? I was going to the malls. I was doing groceries, but that wasn't enough. Out of the blue, I got a call from TEDx. The guy said that, you know, we really want you to come and share your story. And without missing a second, I said, I'm doing it. So that's how I gave my very first TED talk. and in fact while I was giving the talk you know I was sharing my life story with the world. There I was sitting in front of so many people and sharing my story thinking what am I doing? You know I'm literally becoming an open book and everybody can come and say things to me because you know here I am but then I realized that maybe you know someone somewhere in the audience needs my words.

2:23So I'll do it for that one person. And then later that girl came from the audience. And in that moment, I realized that, you know, probably being speaker is my true calling in life, maybe. You know, then the other biggest fear was the fear of not becoming a mother. And I was constantly thinking about it. How? How can I work? And then I sat down with my mother one day and I said, Mama, I want to adopt a child. But I was scared. Now, being a wheelchair user, I said, you know, it will be hard. And my mother said, I'm with you. We'll raise him together. So I said, can we do this? She said, yes, let's do it.

2:57And that's how. So I applied for adoption. I waited for two years. And then one fine day out of nowhere, I got a call. The lady said, there is a baby boy. And would you like to adopt? I said, is that even a question? Of course, yes. So that's how Nile came in my life. And then the other biggest fear was abandonment. As we were talking earlier, what happens when people leave? Trust me, nothing happens. We are so scared of abandonment that, again, when you let go of all the extra people, you realize that you never needed them. You just never needed them. So have a good relationship with yourself and you will never be scared of abandonment.

3:41Why do you think so many people are afraid to be alone? This is kind of like this fear. I don't want to die alone. I can't, you know, go day by day without having friends around me all the time. I can't be alone. I can't go to dinner by myself. I can't go to the movie by myself. I can't walk down the street alone. Why is there this insecurity or fear that so many people have? Because we forget that we came in the world with nothing and we live with nothing. We came alone crying. And when we were born, we were in pain, right? And we were crying. That was the sign of life. Oh, the baby is alive because the baby is crying and the baby is in pain.

4:18And when we leave, we are alone. So many people have left. Life does not stop. Because we are social animals, right? We human beings are social animals. We need to socialize. Problem is not with the relationship. The problem is the expectations that we have with our partners. That my spouse has to make me feel good. It doesn't work that way. your spouse is a human being too fighting battles you are doing too again if you two are not complementing each other your life will become miserable and also there's one thing that i've noticed people are competing i mean two people in a relationship are not complementing each other they're competing with one another this is so silly i mean you are supposed to complement each other.

5:08And no wonder why so many people are so broken. Either they switch to the new relationships like that because, oh my God, what will happen if we are all by ourselves? Trust me, nothing happens. Being a wheelchair user, I have spent so much time on my own and it did not kill me. So when you sit with yourself, you realize, oh, I'm actually a good company for myself. And that's it. So you go you meet people, you socialize because it's fun, but not because you need to do it, but because you want to do it. You know, there's this thing where we shouldn't be abandoning ourselves. We don't need to be at an event or be in relationships with people if they are constantly toxic, like you said, or if they're making us wrong or bad, if they're not accepting us.

5:56That's really a form of self-hatred if we keep putting ourselves in those situations and we abandon the love for ourselves, the boundaries we need to create to have the environment of peace and love and joy. So I think it's important for us to remember that. Like we don't have to keep showing up in situations where people are trying to hurt us. We can protect ourselves and not abandon ourselves. When people show you their true colors, believe them. Yeah, absolutely. Do not justify their toxicity. Oh, you know, my spouse is being overprotective. You know what? Because he's so much in love. No, that's toxic.

6:33That's bad. And it's only going to get worse. So be aware. When people show you their true colors, believe them. What advice would you give to people who are struggling to figure out what their dreams are and also how to go after them? We have this constant pressure of overachievement thanks to social media. Why? Because everybody's posting about something great. You know, I achieved this. I achieved that oh my god hashtag global trotter I cannot afford to buy a ticket I cannot go anywhere what am I supposed to do right when you see people posting rather bragging about what they have done in their lives every day projects after projects to question yourself am I doing enough am I good enough is my life meaningful enough right but let me tell you something social media is all about the good stuff.

7:30Nobody is going to post about their daily struggles. When I try to sit every day in the morning because my back muscles don't work, I fall back. Then I try to get up, I fall back. And it happens, it continues. So basically, I start my day as a failure because I just cannot sit on my own without the help of my mother. But my social media doesn't show that. It's all about inspirational things, right? so please you don't have to be an overachiever every day sometimes just waking up in the morning and not giving up on yourself is a huge achievement you know and I do it every day you do it every day we all do that so appreciate it and be kind to yourself

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