Protecting Your Mindset During This Season
To remain curious and creative, protect your mind.
Protecting Your Mindset During This Season
Articles about mindset
You Are Awesome (with Neil Pasricha)
You Are Awesome (with Neil Pasricha)
Developing resilience as a creative pro.
Circles of Influence and Concern
Circles of Influence and Concern
How to deal with organizational decisions, cultural forces, and other things that live outside of your ability to influence.
The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur (with John Jantsch)
The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur (with John Jantsch)
Developing a mindset that will help you thrive.
Quit Your Approval Addiction
Quit Your Approval Addiction
Three key principles for avoiding the "likeability trap".
Escape Hatches
Escape Hatches
There are a number of ways in which we build "escape hatches" to relieve the stress and fear that we might under-perform. On this episode, I talk about three of those common "secondary ways of escape", and how to begin to counter them.
Podcast: The Lie About Success That’s Holding You Back
Podcast: The Lie About Success That’s Holding You Back
What does success feel like at the beginning, or in the middle? It's difficult to say. In fact, many massive successes felt like anything but success when they were in the early stages. On today's show, I share some thoughts about how to prevent the hurdles of uncertainty from limiting your ability to engage your work.
Podcast: One Mindset Tweak That Will Change How You Approach Your Work
Podcast: One Mindset Tweak That Will Change How You Approach Your Work
Tactics are important and necessary if you want to do brilliant work, but so is mindset. You can be the most talented and disciplined person on the planet, but if you have a blind spot in your mindset you will eventually fail. On today's episode, I talk about one very important mindset tweak that will help you to bring your best effort every day.
Raise Your Inner Game (with David Levin)
Raise Your Inner Game (with David Levin)
There are two "games" that we play as creative pros: the outer, and the inner. The inner game is about how you deal with stress, the limiting narratives that prevent you from doing your best work, and the inevitable conflicts you experience in the course of your day. Today's guest David Levin will share insights into how to improve your game with insights from his new book Raise Your Inner Game.
Podcast: Don’t Apologize For Your Existence
Podcast: Don’t Apologize For Your Existence
Have you ever been in a meeting, and introduced an idea, then felt the urge to discount or qualify your idea with "well, that's just my opinion", or "just my 2 cents"? Or, do you find the need to apologize anytime you speak up or offer an insight? Please stop. If you're in the room, you have value to contribute and you shouldn't feel the need to apologize for your existence.
Bravery Is A Discipline, Not A Trait
Bravery Is A Discipline, Not A Trait
People who choose bravery know what drives them, and they care more about the outcome than they do about temporary discomfort.
Podcast: Comparison and Competition
Podcast: Comparison and Competition
Have you ever looked around at the work of others and felt like yours isn’t measuring up? Has this ever caused your passion for your work to wane? Don’t allow the slow ratcheting-up of expectations to paralyze you. Use the work of your peers and heroes as fuel, and don’t allow it to trip you up or cause you to drift off-course.
Podcast: Tom Rath
Podcast: Tom Rath
Tom Rath is the author of several books, including Strengths Finder 2.0, and Eat Move Sleep. His new book is called Are You Fully Charged?, and addresses the small actions that make a big difference in everyday effectiveness in life and work.
Feeling Nervous About Your Work? Good!
Feeling Nervous About Your Work? Good!
Stretching always requires that you risk failure, which means you will probably feel a little over your head from time to time. Don’t mistake a little nervousness for weakness. Use it as fuel.
Why Does Criticism Sting?
Why Does Criticism Sting?
It’s often not the circumstances we learn from, but our response to them. Identifying limiting narratives or patterns of self-destruction can help us spot them when they crop up, then nip them before they cause us to implode or obsess needlessly over critique.
Run Your Race, Not Someone Else’s
Run Your Race, Not Someone Else’s
Run YOUR race. Execute YOUR plan. Do YOUR work, not someone else's. Don't allow envy, spite, ego, or greed to derail you or cause you to chase a phantom ideal that was never meant for you.
AC Podcast: riCardo Crespo on Comfort Zones
AC Podcast: riCardo Crespo on Comfort Zones
In this informal conversation, riCardo Crespo shares his thoughts about how to avoid your comfort zone so that you can do your best work.
AC Podcast: Confidence vs. Ego
AC Podcast: Confidence vs. Ego
There's a fine line between engaging in your work with confidence and engaging in your work with an inflated ego.
AC Podcast: Lies, Lies, Lies (Yeah!)
AC Podcast: Lies, Lies, Lies (Yeah!)
Are there lies or limiting beliefs that are holding you back from your best work?