The Ignition Show with Chris Janzen

“In life, we either pay the price of discipline, or the price of regret.” – Jim Rohn

Whether we realize it or not, we are always paying a price for our choices and actions. 

From the discipline of making small micro decisions to saying no, or spending our time, attention and energy more wisely, to the bigger choices that require us to sacrifice some things we used to value but recognize those old things are holding us back.

 In this episode, Chris shares four ways to check in with yourself and see the warning signs that your discipline is lacking and you’re heading towards regret.

Enjoy the episode…

“In life, we either pay the price of discipline, or the price of regret.” – Jim Rohn

Whether we realize it or not, we are always paying a price for our choices and actions.

From the discipline of making small micro decisions to saying no, or spending our time, attention and energy more wisely, to the bigger choices that require us to sacrifice some things we used to value but recognize those old things are holding us back.

In this episode, Chris shares four ways to check in with yourself and see the warning signs that your discipline is lacking and you’re heading towards regret.

Enjoy the episode…

The post EP53 – The Price of Discipline vs The Price of Regret appeared first on The Ignition Show.

Following each interview, Chris is joined by his wife, Sarah, for the After Show.

In the After Show episodes, Chris and Sarah dissect their takeaways from the inspiring interviews, discuss how they are applying the wisdom in their own lives and how these topics have affected their journey on a more personal level.

Listen in for candid opinions, personal anecdotes and a dynamic interactions between husband & wife.

In this episode, Chris and Sarah discuss their learnings and ‘aha’ moments from Chris’ amazing conversation in Episode 51 with Billy Anderson.

Billy is a coach, speaker and founder of the Courage Crusade. He helps people to overcome their fears, build the courage muscle and live a life that is true to them.

What’s more, Billy is someone who practices what he preaches. He’s jumped out of an airplane more than 100 times, trekked in the Himalayas, Run with the Bulls in Spain, and swam with sharks in Thailand.

He knows what’s it’s like to be uncomfortable and is the author of the fantastic book, Your Comfort Zone is Killing You.

Following each interview, Chris is joined by his wife, Sarah, for the After Show.

In the After Show episodes, Chris and Sarah dissect their takeaways from the inspiring interviews, discuss how they are applying the wisdom in their own lives and how these topics have affected their journey on a more personal level.

Listen in for candid opinions, personal anecdotes and a dynamic interactions between husband & wife.

In this episode, Chris and Sarah discuss their learnings and ‘aha’ moments from Chris’ amazing conversation in Episode 51 with Billy Anderson.

Billy is a coach, speaker and founder of the Courage Crusade. He helps people to overcome their fears, build the courage muscle and live a life that is true to them.

What’s more, Billy is someone who practices what he preaches. He’s jumped out of an airplane more than 100 times, trekked in the Himalayas, Run with the Bulls in Spain, and swam with sharks in Thailand.

He knows what’s it’s like to be uncomfortable and is the author of the fantastic book, Your Comfort Zone is Killing You.

The post EP52 – [After Show] Having The Courage To Be Yourself appeared first on The Ignition Show.

The core tenet of this show is to bring you ideas, people and insights that can help you unlock more of your potential.

Sometimes it’s inspiring examples of people that have achieved amazing things, sometimes it’s people that bring amazing clarity to what’s needed to do amazing things and live an extraordinary life…on your terms.

I was reminded recently of one of the stark data points that exist on living life to the fullest and that is the greatest regret of people at the end of their life.

This is often described as “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.“

And isn’t that so true.

The most fundamental difference between people who are deeply fulfilled and those that are miserable or regretful, is that their life conditions matched their expectations of themselves.

Yet as our world seems to move with more pace, more urgency, more demands and more choice than ever before, it’s not easy to make the tough decisions to make big changes to get in more alignment.

So coming back to that greatest regret…it’s not that I just lived life true to myself…it’s specifically “I wish I had the COURAGE to live a life true to myself”

Courage — is so much easier to say that to act with at times.

There’s no doubt that some of the biggest changes or risks I’ve taken — moving countries, changing careers, ending relationships — required courage because I was freaking out when I thought about doing what I wanted to do.

And as you embark on the year ahead, I want you to act with more courage and really go for what you really, really want.

To help you with that, I’m super excited to bring you today’s guest, Billy Anderson.

When I think of courage, I think of Billy.

He is a genuine expert on helping people breakthrough their fears and creating a life that is true to them.

He has so many nuggets of wisdom in this episode, you’ve got to grab your pen and be ready to take notes. I think this is a podcast you’ll want to listen to more than once.

Enjoy the conversation…

The core tenet of this show is to bring you ideas, people and insights that can help you unlock more of your potential.

Sometimes it’s inspiring examples of people that have achieved amazing things, sometimes it’s people that bring amazing clarity to what’s needed to do amazing things and live an extraordinary life…on your terms.

I was reminded recently of one of the stark data points that exist on living life to the fullest and that is the greatest regret of people at the end of their life.

This is often described as “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.“

And isn’t that so true.

The most fundamental difference between people who are deeply fulfilled and those that are miserable or regretful, is that their life conditions matched their expectations of themselves.

Yet as our world seems to move with more pace, more urgency, more demands and more choice than ever before, it’s not easy to make the tough decisions to make big changes to get in more alignment.

So coming back to that greatest regret…it’s not that I just lived life true to myself…it’s specifically “I wish I had the COURAGE to live a life true to myself”

Courage — is so much easier to say that to act with at times.

There’s no doubt that some of the biggest changes or risks I’ve taken — moving countries, changing careers, ending relationships — required courage because I was freaking out when I thought about doing what I wanted to do.

And as you embark on the year ahead, I want you to act with more courage and really go for what you really, really want.

To help you with that, I’m super excited to bring you today’s guest, Billy Anderson.

When I think of courage, I think of Billy.

He is a genuine expert on helping people breakthrough their fears and creating a life that is true to them.

He has so many nuggets of wisdom in this episode, you’ve got to grab your pen and be ready to take notes. I think this is a podcast you’ll want to listen to more than once.

Enjoy the conversation…

The post EP51 – Having The Courage To Be Yourself with Billy Anderson appeared first on The Ignition Show.

“Change the way you see things and the things you see will change” – Wayne Dyer

Do you find yourself fretting, stressing or over indulging in something that’s been worrying you lately?

Are you getting tunnel vision on a challenge that’s been hanging around for too long?

This year you must keep things in perspective. In this episode Chris gives you three tools to break out of the box you put yourself in and elevate your perspective to keep you grounded, grateful or determined as you march towards your biggest goals.

Enjoy the episode…

“Change the way you see things and the things you see will change” – Wayne Dyer

Do you find yourself fretting, stressing or over indulging in something that’s been worrying you lately?

Are you getting tunnel vision on a challenge that’s been hanging around for too long?

This year you must keep things in perspective. In this episode Chris gives you three tools to break out of the box you put yourself in and elevate your perspective to keep you grounded, grateful or determined as you march towards your biggest goals.

Enjoy the episode…

The post EP50 – The Importance Of Perspective appeared first on The Ignition Show.

Following each interview, Chris is joined by his wife, Sarah, for the After Show.

In the After Show episodes, Chris and Sarah dissect their takeaways from the inspiring interviews, discuss how they are applying the wisdom in their own lives and how these topics have affected their journey on a more personal level.

Listen in for candid opinions, personal anecdotes and a dynamic interactions between husband & wife.

In this episode, Chris and Sarah discuss their learnings and ‘aha’ moments from Chris’ timely conversation in Episode 48 with Sahar Yousef.

Sahar is a cognitive neuroscientist and faculty lecturer at the Haas School of Business @ UC Berkeley who consults with leaders and organizations to be more productive and peak performing based on principles of neuroscience and physiology.

For the past 7 years, she’s been conducting research on cognitive enhancement — how to improve focus, memory, energy levels, motivation and stress management

Her most popular workshops include Becoming Superhuman: The Science of Focus and Productivity in an Always-On, Incredibly Distracting World and What Every Manager Should Know About How the Brain Works.

Following each interview, Chris is joined by his wife, Sarah, for the After Show.

In the After Show episodes, Chris and Sarah dissect their takeaways from the inspiring interviews, discuss how they are applying the wisdom in their own lives and how these topics have affected their journey on a more personal level.

Listen in for candid opinions, personal anecdotes and a dynamic interactions between husband & wife.

In this episode, Chris and Sarah discuss their learnings and ‘aha’ moments from Chris’ timely conversation in Episode 48 with Sahar Yousef.

Sahar is a cognitive neuroscientist and faculty lecturer at the Haas School of Business @ UC Berkeley who consults with leaders and organizations to be more productive and peak performing based on principles of neuroscience and physiology.

For the past 7 years, she’s been conducting research on cognitive enhancement — how to improve focus, memory, energy levels, motivation and stress management

Her most popular workshops include Becoming Superhuman: The Science of Focus and Productivity in an Always-On, Incredibly Distracting World and What Every Manager Should Know About How the Brain Works.

The post EP49 – [After Show] How to Eliminate Distractions appeared first on The Ignition Show.

It’s an all too common cultural phenomenon, to come to the end of a year and in spite of any and all successes in the past year, there can be a feeling of regret, or a pit in the stomach, that there was so much more that could have been experienced, achieved and contributed…if only you were more focused and productive.

If only you didn’t spend so much time on your emails, or in purposeless meetings, or social media, or binge watching Netflix.

Personally, over the last decade or so I’ve had the stark realization that each year seems to be passing by with more speed than the previous year – which then means that this upcoming year will be even more of a blur than 2019 – so with that wisdom from Captain Obvious I better knuckle down and start getting to work…

Or maybe that’s exactly the wrong thing to do.

Do you even stop to interrogate your own strategies for success and progress?

What if the exact way of working you THINK will get you to your goals is the exact thing that’s getting in your way.

This is an area of personal exploration that deserves the expertise and insights of a seasoned scientific analyst.

So I’m excited to bring you today’s guest, Sahar Yousef.

Sahar is someone we need to listen to: her work and research as a cognitive neuroscientist clearly shows that there are scientific realities about how the human brain works and our current work culture by-and-large is not in line with this reality.

As you listen to this episode, see if you can identify where your day-to-day approach to work, your to-do lists, your mobile phone…could use a high-performing, high-productivity upgrade.

You’ll be glad you did.

After all, 2020 will fly by and you owe it your life to bring the science of productivity and make the most of the days and months ahead.

Enjoy the conversation…

It’s an all too common cultural phenomenon, to come to the end of a year and in spite of any and all successes in the past year, there can be a feeling of regret, or a pit in the stomach, that there was so much more that could have been experienced, achieved and contributed…if only you were more focused and productive.

If only you didn’t spend so much time on your emails, or in purposeless meetings, or social media, or binge watching Netflix.

Personally, over the last decade or so I’ve had the stark realization that each year seems to be passing by with more speed than the previous year – which then means that this upcoming year will be even more of a blur than 2019 – so with that wisdom from Captain Obvious I better knuckle down and start getting to work…

Or maybe that’s exactly the wrong thing to do.

Do you even stop to interrogate your own strategies for success and progress?

What if the exact way of working you THINK will get you to your goals is the exact thing that’s getting in your way.

This is an area of personal exploration that deserves the expertise and insights of a seasoned scientific analyst.

So I’m excited to bring you today’s guest, Sahar Yousef.

Sahar is someone we need to listen to: her work and research as a cognitive neuroscientist clearly shows that there are scientific realities about how the human brain works and our current work culture by-and-large is not in line with this reality.

As you listen to this episode, see if you can identify where your day-to-day approach to work, your to-do lists, your mobile phone…could use a high-performing, high-productivity upgrade.

You’ll be glad you did.

After all, 2020 will fly by and you owe it your life to bring the science of productivity and make the most of the days and months ahead.

Enjoy the conversation…

The post EP48 – How To Eliminate Distractions with Sahar Yousef appeared first on The Ignition Show.

One of the most fundamental things to understand, in order to produce amazing results in 2020, is what drives your consistency, congruence and commitment to following through on the actions necessary to produce the results you want.

In this episode Chris provides a simple but powerful way — a “success pyramid” — to pinpoint what shifts you need to make in order to sustain the actions necessary. 

If you ever find yourself hesitant, resistant, overwhelmed or stressed about what you need to do, you can always find the answer by looking at your “pyramid”.

Grab a pen and take notes as this will help you maximize your success, and your happiness, in the year ahead.

One of the most fundamental things to understand, in order to produce amazing results in 2020, is what drives your consistency, congruence and commitment to following through on the actions necessary to produce the results you want.

In this episode Chris provides a simple but powerful way — a “success pyramid” — to pinpoint what shifts you need to make in order to sustain the actions necessary. 

If you ever find yourself hesitant, resistant, overwhelmed or stressed about what you need to do, you can always find the answer by looking at your “pyramid”.

Grab a pen and take notes as this will help you maximize your success, and your happiness, in the year ahead.

The post EP47 – Your Success Pyramid for 2020 appeared first on The Ignition Show.

Following each interview, Chris is joined by his wife, Sarah, for the After Show.

In the After Show episodes, Chris and Sarah dissect their takeaways from the inspiring interviews, discuss how they are applying the wisdom in their own lives and how these topics have affected their journey on a more personal level.

Listen in for candid opinions, personal anecdotes and a dynamic interactions between husband & wife.

In this episode, Chris and Sarah discuss their learnings and ‘aha’ moments from Chris’ intriguing conversation in Episode 44 with Allan Kleynhans.

Allan is a high-demand speaker and performance coach.

His area of expertise includes self-awareness, leadership and communication yet perhaps Allan’s true gift is helping people go deeper to truly understand who they are and who they can ultimately become.

Allan is direct, transparent and thought-provoking — his intense, authentic style on the stage keeps his audiences riveted and have earned him rave reviews globally.

Following each interview, Chris is joined by his wife, Sarah, for the After Show.

In the After Show episodes, Chris and Sarah dissect their takeaways from the inspiring interviews, discuss how they are applying the wisdom in their own lives and how these topics have affected their journey on a more personal level.

Listen in for candid opinions, personal anecdotes and a dynamic interactions between husband & wife.

In this episode, Chris and Sarah discuss their learnings and ‘aha’ moments from Chris’ intriguing conversation in Episode 44 with Allan Kleynhans.

Allan is a high-demand speaker and performance coach.

His area of expertise includes self-awareness, leadership and communication yet perhaps Allan’s true gift is helping people go deeper to truly understand who they are and who they can ultimately become.

Allan is direct, transparent and thought-provoking — his intense, authentic style on the stage keeps his audiences riveted and have earned him rave reviews globally.

The post EP46 – [After Show] The Path To Authenticity appeared first on The Ignition Show.

When I reflect on the year that was, and all the conversations I’ve had with my private clients and in workshops, there is no doubt that there was one big theme.

While the issues that people bring to the conversation are varied — dissatisfaction in their work or career, not taking care of their body enough, desiring more in their relationships, craving to take their performance to the next level…what underpins all that is a real, honest desire to live in more congruence with who they want to be…how they want to show up in their world.

Tactical strategies for improving their outward actions are essential, but the greatest transformations, in fact, the greatest sense of liberation — being freed to rise up into your absolute potential, always take the path to revealing the authentic you.

So today I’m delighted to bring a conversation with my friend, Allan Kleynhans. Not only does Allan bring a tonnes of truth bombs into our chat but he also comes from profound experiences. Growing up in apartheid South Africa he saw things that young boys should never see. Serving in the military during a civil war brought him extraordinary challenges and he battle with substance abuse took him further away from the truth.

Until he woke up.

Now — after many years of deep personal work and liberating him from his past, Allan is sharing his message with the world as a high-demand speaker and performance coach.

His area of expertise includes self-awareness, leadership and communication yet perhaps Allan’s true gift is helping people go deeper to truly understand who they are and who they can ultimately become.

Allan is direct, transparent and thought-provoking — his intense, authentic style on the stage keeps his audiences riveted and have earned him rave reviews globally.

Enjoy the conversation…

Also mentioned in the episode:

When I reflect on the year that was, and all the conversations I’ve had with my private clients and in workshops, there is no doubt that there was one big theme.

While the issues that people bring to the conversation are varied — dissatisfaction in their work or career, not taking care of their body enough, desiring more in their relationships, craving to take their performance to the next level…what underpins all that is a real, honest desire to live in more congruence with who they want to be…how they want to show up in their world.

Tactical strategies for improving their outward actions are essential, but the greatest transformations, in fact, the greatest sense of liberation — being freed to rise up into your absolute potential, always take the path to revealing the authentic you.

So today I’m delighted to bring a conversation with my friend, Allan Kleynhans. Not only does Allan bring a tonnes of truth bombs into our chat but he also comes from profound experiences. Growing up in apartheid South Africa he saw things that young boys should never see. Serving in the military during a civil war brought him extraordinary challenges and he battle with substance abuse took him further away from the truth.

Until he woke up.

Now — after many years of deep personal work and liberating him from his past, Allan is sharing his message with the world as a high-demand speaker and performance coach.

His area of expertise includes self-awareness, leadership and communication yet perhaps Allan’s true gift is helping people go deeper to truly understand who they are and who they can ultimately become.

Allan is direct, transparent and thought-provoking — his intense, authentic style on the stage keeps his audiences riveted and have earned him rave reviews globally.

Enjoy the conversation…

Also mentioned in the episode:

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