The Hidden Why Podcast

Eric Barker’s humorous, practical blog, "Barking Up the Wrong Tree", presents science-based answers and expert insight on how to be awesome at life.

Over 290,000 people subscribe to his weekly newsletter and his content is syndicated by Time Magazine, The Week, and Business Insider. He has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, and the Financial Times.

In this episode we discuss how to define success in order to live with purpose. With the view that the advice we've been given about success and achieving it is logical, earnest and wrong Erik reveals the science behind actual success and how anyone can achieve it. We also talk on productivity, balance and other thought on living life that matters.

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” Napoleon Hill

I believe it is okay to not be patient if the resource that is utilised doesn't bring with it any greater value or benefit towards the life you wish to live. Learn to say no.

However, sometimes we have to tolerate waiting or practice patience even when things are not enjoyable or as we’d truly with to be doing. Suck it up but understand why.

As it comes to living the life you wish to life patience and persistence is often a must. A skill that will allow you to accomplish what you set out to achieve. How we do that? I share my thoughts in this episode @ The Hidden Why.

Judson Brewer MD PhD is a thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery”, having combined nearly 20 years of experience with mindfulness training with his scientific research therein.

A psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions, Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments (below).

He has also studied the underlying neural mechanisms of mindfulness using standard and real-time fMRI. He is the author of The Craving Mind: from cigarettes to smartphones to love, why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits.

This is a very insightful and inspiring discussion.

“We live so much of our lives pushed forward by these “if only” thoughts, and yet the itch remains. The pursuit of happiness becomes the source of our unhappiness.”

How to become 10% happier - a true story by Dan Harris.

ABC correspondent and co-anchor for the weekend edition of Good Morning America, Dan shares his journey towards greater happiness after a panic attack on national TV. A very enjoyable and insightful read with no BS. Enjoy! THY - Be Inspired.

"Get maximum effect from minimum effort." Bruce Lee

In life, how do you truly wish to be? What can you do today with the minimal viable effort to start living it?

Life is all in the process. Overcomplicate the process and we overcomplicate life and that is sure to have impact on our freedom, fulfilment and happiness.

In this episode I hope to share the value of approaching change and all that we do using the MVE approach. Enjoy!

Mac Prichard is the founder and publisher of Mac’s List, an online community for people looking for rewarding, creative, and meaningful work.

More than 80,000 people a month visit Mac’s Site, which includes a job board, and a blog and courses about the nuts and bolts of job hunting and career management. Mac also hosts a weekly podcast, Find Your Dream Job, and is the author of the new book, Land Your Dream Job Anywhere.

In this interview we discuss how to get clarity around what you'd love to do, whats important and how to find your dream job. We talk on strategies to hacking the hidden job market including networking and other techniques. If you are seeking to shake things up in your work life you'll love what Mac's got to say.

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” Lao Tzu In positive psychology, flow, also known as the zone, is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed … Continue reading 365: Leigh Martinuzzi – What is FLOW? The How and the Why!

“Are you living life or just paying bills until you die?” Jay Samit is the author of Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation. He is a change agent who aim to teach others how the same strategies and principles used to disrupt industries, can be applied at the … Continue reading 364: Jay Samit Replay – Disrupt Your Life. Innovation, Creative Thought & Change

An awesome book! Read it - read it again - and benefit.

The book is a step by step guide in creating the life you desire and it starts off with creating and connecting with desire. Napoleon describes this as the turning point of all achievement. For whatever you want in this life, for the state of being that we all wish to obtain – happiness, there has to be an undeniable and powerful desire.

Listen to the podcast or read the book review using the link below. Be Inspired! THY!

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. Mary Tyler Moore

In this Episode Joshua describes how he believes the best way to greatness is by starting with what you can, no matter how rough, then improving with practice.

He then says that either you like what you hear or you don't. If you like it, please tell Leigh to help encourage him. If you don’t, find a newer recording from him in a few months, when he's confident he will have improved, and use his improvement to motivate yourself to take on a challenge you've put off for too long. You'll improve too.