How do you keep bad moments from turning into bad days? It is helpful to have a tribe of people who listen to your problems, while keeping you levelheaded and focused on the best possible solution. Being able to pause, breathe and reflect on moments throughout the day can help you to stay on track by not getting caught up on the small things. Executive Coach, Speaker and Best-Selling Author, Michael O’Brien, uses personal experiences to SHIFT corporate leaders into the right mindset, so they are able to achieve great success + not sweat the small stuff.
* – The last bad day* – How adjusting your mindset can better your body* – Re-labeling your days* – Positive energy ripples that help shape others* – “Smoking Hopeium” vs. understanding the bad & broken* – How to set your intentions for the day* – Leaning on your peloton to achieve success* – How good listeners help solve problems* – Grabbing PBR: pause, breathe, reset* – The power of gratitude* – Finding the micro doses of kindness* – The importance of curiosity & values
Website:
https://www.michaelobrienshift.com
Mentioned Books:
My Last Bad Day Shift: How to Prevent Bad Moments from Turning into Bad Days – Michael O’Brien
Shift: Creating Better Tomorrows; Winning at Work and in Life – Michael O’Brien
Full Episode Transcription:
Todd: (00:01)Awesome. So we’ll just jump right in. So, Michael, I’m so excited to have you here. We had a good conversation right beforehand, but so much we’re going to get into on the show. Oftentimes we talk really high level sort of philosophy, a mindset stuff, but I’m really excited to get really tactical and want to hear, give you a chance to share your story and, and teach us about what you do for people.Michael: (00:25)Well, I’m totally stoked to be with you, Todd. I’ve been looking forward to this all day long. So this is a highlight and I’m ready to get as tactical as you want to get. So let’s bring it on.Todd: (00:35)Excellent, excellent. Well first of all, I made, I made you save some of the juicy details of a really bad day that you’ve had. You’ve had a pretty, pretty interesting experience that is very unique. So maybe we can start with that and how that’s effected you, how it’s, you know, driven you to do what you’re doing right now and how you help people have their last bad day.Michael: (00:59)Yeah. So my last bad day is the juice. Like that’s a juicy story. So I had been an avid cyclists, gosh, going back to my high school days and I had a company offsite meeting, so I was like sort of live in like the typical script. I came out of college and I thought, well here’s the script that you need to follow in order to have a successful career in life. And I thought I was doing a pretty good job followin...