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The Workday Mindset Podcast
by Populus Radio
The Workday Mindset Podcast features advice on how to think through challenging situations at work, show up at your best, and become an active participant in your own workday journey.
Episodes
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EP 038 - Bridges, Tunnels and Doors
In this episode I want to do something a little different and invite you to think about how three visuals - bridges, tunnels, and doors - are great vehicles for thinking about how to navigate challenging moments you encounter in your day, and at the same time be a way to open yourself up to...
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EP 037 - Stuck Inside Our Routines
Routines are a great vehicle for change. But sometimes we get so caught up in whether we're doing the routines right that we can find ourselves unintentionally stuck inside of them. And what I mean by that is we can get trapped in our desire to strictly follow the process of the routine, instead…
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EP 036 - Birds Before Land
Many of the big, meaningful changes we want to experience take time. They unfold over time and in a way that we almost never can quantify or completely influence or accurately predict. And sometimes when we're working toward a change that takes time, one of the challenges we face is that we get...
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Ep 035 - Caught Up In Other People's Success Stories
We can learn a lot from the success stories of other people. But if we're not careful about how we process and relate to those stories, we can start to get caught up in them and use them as a template to measure our own success - instead of studying the through lines or the nuggets of wisdom they...
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EP 034 - Get Your Hopes Up
We have a tendency to tell ourselves to not get our hopes up about something that we really want or something that we're excited about that involves a level of uncertainty. And we tend to tamp down our excitement through the words we use by adding qualifying statements - something like "This…
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EP 033 - Divesting a Thought of Its Power
When we think about a potential future scenario that makes us uncomfortable, our mind wants to "confront" the thought. It wants us to meet the thought on the thought's terms and to accept the future scenario as true - even if it has no basis in fact - so that we can come up with a solution, just…
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EP 032 - Embracing Inconsistency
We all spend a lot of time trying to be consistent and trying to project a sense of consistency to other people. And we do that both because we think that inconsistency signals to others that we're unfocused or undisciplined, and also because inconsistency can make us feel uncertain. But in truth...
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EP 031 - Moment to Moment Responsibility
When we think about what we want for ourselves in the future, it's natural for us to try to issue spot and for our mind to want to solve any problems that we see coming down the pipeline. Our mind wants to think through all the little nooks and crannies related to events in the future so that we...
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EP 030 - Internalizing "The Struggle"
When we're envisioning how a future version of events will play out, we tend to associate those events with "The Struggle." We constantly hear messages about how "Life is hard", "No pain no gain", "Nothing in life is free" - and we also are instinctually wired to look for the warning signs of...
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EP 029 - Buffers
Buffers are actions, routines, habits or thought patterns we engage in that help to keep challenging situations or things that we don't want to confront at an arm's length. Our minds are incredibly skilled at inserting buffers into our day as a way to avoid and push away things that we know will...
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EP 028 - Replacing Rules with Principles
Sometimes we become so consumed with whether we're following a rule that we've set up for ourselves that we lose sight of the ultimate benefit we wanted to experience through having the rule in the first place. While rules are of course helpful, sometimes they don't account for the day to day,...
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EP 027 - Intention Inspires Discipline
Sometimes when we're feeling a lack of motivation or focus, we tend to immediately think that it's due to a lack of discipline - that we're not doing a good enough job of buckling down and just staying focused. But we feel undisciplined over a long period of time, it often means that something is...
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EP 026 - Releasing Control and Becoming an Active Participant
In many areas of our lives, the idea of control is an illusion because it suggests that through enough training and discipline and focus, we'll have the ability to restrain or direct or command anything that we want. It suggests that there is a place we can arrive at where we can regulate or...
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EP 025 - Silent Benefactors and Seeking Validation
Sometimes when we create something that we're proud of - something that gives us a sense of true satisfaction - that feeling is immediately followed by wondering what people will think about it. And in that moment where we start to seek validation - where we start to wonder what other people will...
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EP 024 - What Your "Future Self" Would Tell You
One way to navigate a challenging moment is to envision what your "future self" would tell you about how to approach that challenge. Oftentimes when we're struggling to figure out how to move through uncertainty or something difficult, we get so caught up in the details that we lose sight of the...
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EP 023 - Managing Decision Regret
When we've made a decision, one of the things that impacts our ability to fully get behind that decision and move forward with intention is our tendency to experience decision regret. And we generally experience decision regret because as soon as we make a choice, we start to process new inputs,...
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EP 022 - Moving from Competitive to Creative
One way we've been conditioned to view opportunity is through the lens of competition. And here's what I mean by that: If we believe that there is a limited supply of opportunities, then that kind of thinking leads us to further believe that the only way to receive or acquire those opportunities…
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EP 021 - What If It Turns Out Better Than I Think?
When we think about something that's going to happen in the future, our mind is very skilled at turning our thoughts about a future version of events into a story about what might happen if we fail, if we try something new, or if we're criticized. And we know that our mind uses this story-telling...
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EP 020 - People Will Disagree With You - But That's Ok
When we express to other people that we want to make changes, or that we want to do something new or different, it's natural for us to be met with some disagreement and disapproval - including from people we respect or trust. And when we're met with the disagreement or disapproval of people we...
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EP 019 - Walking the Line
One way that we rob ourselves of meaningful experiences each day is by trying to constantly walk a perfect line. We put a lot of pressure on ourselves each day to strike the perfect balance between two competing desires or interests we have that seem to be on opposite ends of the spectrum. Things...
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EP 018 - Nature Abhors a Vacuum
In physics, there's a concept attributed to Aristotle that roughly translates to the phrase "nature abhors a vacuum." In layman's terms, the concept means that nature requires every space to be filled - and that there are no naturally-occurring empty spaces because denser surrounding material...
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EP 017 - Not To You, But For You
Here's one of the most limiting thoughts you can have throughout a day: "Why did this happen to me?" When we have this thought and ask the question this way, we get in the habit of looking at life and our workdays from a passive perspective. In this episode I give you a few common situations…
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EP 016 - Addition Through Subtraction
If you're looking to make big changes to your workday, one way to do that is to practice the concept of addition through subtraction - which is essentially asking the question: What can I take out before adding in something new? This can be a powerful concept but in practice it's hard to…
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EP 015 - Responding to Stressful Workday Situations
If we take stock of how we're thinking throughout the day, we find that we're just bouncing from thought to thought all day long. And as we're bouncing from thought to thought, we often don't realize that many of those thoughts are stressful ones that are triggered by very specific workday...
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EP 014 - Thoughts Are Not Facts
One thing that prevents us from making progress or moving through our day with confidence is our tendency to mistake thoughts for facts. We often let thoughts that have no basis in fact stay top of mind for us all day long. And not only that - we often end up accepting these thoughts which have…
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EP 013 - Workday Mantras
Repetition, in any form, can be an incredibly powerful way to cultivate change. In this episode I'll introduce you to a concept that will help you capture and steer the power of repetition when we apply it to the way we think about ourselves and our abilities, and that concept is called a workday...
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EP 012 - You Are Today What You Thought About Yesterday
At the heart of any change you want to see is an originating thought that sets an idea you have into motion. But sometimes when we're trying to make big changes or accomplish a goal that seems complex or uncertain, we lose sight of the fact that every outcome we want is driven first by a powerful...
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EP 011 - Plans Are Nothing, Planning Is Everything
Our ability to make plans is an important skill and a key part of our personal and professional growth. But what's even more important than knowing how to make a plan is being skilled in the art of planning, which includes the ability to acquire and process new information so that you can move…
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EP 010 - Equating Stress with Productivity
There's a common misbelief we have about how to approach our workday: in order to be productive, we constantly have to be in a state of stress. But it turns out that in many ways that belief is backwards. When we're able to identify the root of our stress and strip it away, and when we stop...
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EP 009 - You Can Only Hold One Thought in Your Mind at a Time
At any given point in time, you can only keep a single thought in your mind. Unfortunately, many of the thoughts that occupy that single, very valuable piece of real estate are the kind that don't suit us. But the good news is that we always have the ability to make choices about how we think…
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EP 008 - How to Build a Morning Routine
One of ways you can strengthen your workday mindset and show up at your best for everyone around you is to start your day with a routine that prioritizes you first. In this episode we talk about how to create one.
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EP 007 - Start Your Day Focused on You
It's very easy for us to think that the best way to help the people around us is to move through our day always putting others first. But if you really want to show up at your best for everyone in your life, and if you want to be the best version of yourself, you should start everyday focused on...
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EP 006 - There's No "Right" Way, Just Your Way
When we're looking for ideas or guidance on how to move forward with our career, we can very easily slow our own growth or talk ourselves out of pursuing a career path because we feel like we don't have what it takes to do it the "right way." But when it comes to your career and your work, there...
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EP 005 - Operating at a Deficit
If we're not paying close attention to our mindset, we can walk around for a good portion of the day doing what I call operating at a deficit. In this episode, we cover some simple ways to flip that mindset by changing the way you enter and exit your workday.
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EP 004 - Making Room for Work You Enjoy
We've been told all our lives that we have to suffer at work to get ahead. But it turns out that we don't need to suffer in order to make meaningful progress. In this episode, we talk about how making room for work we enjoy helps unlock who we are as a person and a professional.
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EP 003 - Share Your Intentions, Unlock Opportunities
There are opportunities all around us during our workday, but we miss them because we're not aware that they exist. It turns out there's a very simple way we can unlock access to those opportunities: changing the way we approach our conversations with other people. In this episode, we discuss how...
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EP 002 - You Can Start Your Workday Over Anytime
No matter what happens throughout a workday, we always have the ability to choose to start our day over anytime, and as many times as we want. In this episode we'll discuss how easy it is to fall into the trap of labeling a workday as "bad", and how we can start our day over simply by adjusting…
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EP 001 - First Thought, Second Thought, First Action
Changing the way we think is the catalyst for changing the way we act, so in this episode I want to introduce you to a simple concept that will put you on a path toward a better workday mindset.
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The Workday Mindset Podcast features advice on how to think through challenging situations at work, show up at your best, and become an active participant in your own workday journey.
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