In this episode, Barbera Schouten and I discuss how to use high sensitivity to your advantage.
So if you want to discover your strengths, become self-aware, and achieve your goals, tune in now!
In this episode, you'll discover:
Episode 7: "Barbera Schouten Teaches Us How To Use High Sensitivity To Your Advantage"
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Origin Story
- How is it like living as an HSP.
- Felt that she was not good enough
- Had a hard time finding a connection because of her condition.
- Interested in a lot of things. Good with everything that she was doing.
- Employment wise, she just rolled with it, conforming with what employers wanted her to do - that led to a burnout
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First time finding out she has HSP when she was called out by her boss.
- Found out that she is not weird and not alone.
- Self-discovery
- Began exploring, found her authenticity
- Started her own business and helped other people discover and experience who were built the same.
9:33
Tools/methods/techniques that helped Barbera in starting her course for HSPs.
- Discovering your strengths and pitfalls
- Removing your mask and avoid being a people-pleaser so much.
- Not to be worried about being a people pleaser so much.
- To help people "what makes you, 'you'"
- knowing that you are someone with HSP and how you can create a bridge with who you are and the rest of the population.
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What exactly is HSP?
- Someone whose neurological network is built differently.
- Literally, see, feel, hear, smell, taste, and experience more.
- A whole lot more information is coming in. More susceptible to stress and burnout if a person with HSP is unable to manage the sensitivity.
- Ability to process a huge amount of info very fast and very deep level - being able to read bet the lines, hear what is not being said. Being able to distill if a solution is going to work or not.
- HSPs are often misdiagnosed/mislabeled. ADHD ADD, Autism,
- HSP is not a disease. It's not what you have, it is who you are.
14:49
How did Barbera used her knowledge and owned it to become your business with helping people? / Learning how to control yourself. Barbera discusses the user manual for HSPs.
One of her bosses sent her to a national psychologist agency
HSPs after a burnout know how did it happen.
HSPs are expecting to be treated the way they treat others. When they are kind to a person, they expect that the person will be kind to them as well.
You need to know yourself:
- As a course creator, what am I good at?
- Self-awareness, do not try to do anything
Focus and concentration
- Try not to fix all of the problems that you see that will distract you from doing your main task.
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Tips/tools/Actionable steps that Barbera uses to help out other course creators.
- plan everything
- blackout Agendas
- It works for starters but we tend to get bored and then it becomes more like an obligation.
25:53
Intuitive time management.
- Know what's happening on a very high level and know where you want to be.
- Have a long term goal (ex. 5 years) and there needs to be a systematic year by year to-do list or where you want to be after a year to achieve your long term goal.
- Set priorities.
- Know the order of importance of the things you need to do.
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HSP Rescue Formula / HSP Superpower System/
- System that you can look up to when you are not feeling 'okay' and know what you can do to make yourself better again.
- How you can use your HS for your business' success.
Barbera Schouten is an expert in high sensitivity, focus, concentration, and time management whose accomplishments include:
Online Course Creator
Creator of the HSP Superpower System
Entrepreneur
Learn more about how you can improve your results with high sensitivity, focus, concentration, and time management:
hspcoachbarbera.com
hspoweracademy.com
facebook.com/groups/hspsoulpreneurs
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