The Mojo Maker Podcast with Nikki Fogden-Moore: For Leaders In Life | Healthy Wealthy and Wise

The Mojo Maker Podcast with Nikki Fogden-Moore: For Leaders In Life | Healthy Wealthy and Wise

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  • TVC076 Mission Meaning Mojo Mark Truelson
    TVC076 Mission Meaning Mojo with Mark Truelson
    Meet global speaker corporate disrupter and all round great guy Mark Truelson.
    Part of my Influencer and Founder Vitality series Mark’s courage to share his come back from depression to running a global consultancy is inspiring and real.
    Sharing his journey from hero to zero then how he got his meaning back in life with the help of some vital friends, a sense of purpose for his family and himself.
    We discuss the importance of speaking up, vulnerability, moving through moods when life throws you curve balls and how to actually accept the help you’ve been offered.
    Six years ago, after having decades of a successful career, Mark decided to start his own consultancy to help other organisations sort of build their disruptive capability.

    Probably at that time everything for me was fantastic. It was it flying. Out of left field my marriage dissolved. My wife decided that it was no longer for her, and suddenly my dreams became different. I became a solo dad with three kids, and the thought of building disruptive capabilities for organisations probably went down quite a bit.


    The Collateral Damage of Success
    Mark’s priorities got a re-shift. What was his meaning and mission now?
    Mark suddenly had to become the dad he thought he should have always been, and his big focus was on the kids.

    It was really difficult to keep focused on having a career, building a consultancy, and also being a fantastic dad.

    Many of the men and leaders who I work with in private coaching are on their second round of marriage and were hit hard as they climbed the corporate or business ladder and found their personal life was not growing or evolving at the same speed and alignment.
    They’re often realising they were working hard and not paying the right amount of attention to home life as it was “all for family”.
    Fulfilment isn’t just your financial bottom line. It’s remembering that your family, your personal well-being has to be part of that business plan as well.
    On Today’s show we highlight some vital elements for regaining your meaning and your mojo

    * Role Playing – The subconscious roles at home and at work
    * Staying Connected – Revisiting your shared purpose
    * Structures and New Game Plans
    * Nurture Personal and Commercial Relationships
    * Goals vs Actions

    1. Role Playing – Are You Subconsciously  Taking On A ‘Role’ At home
    What was fascinating, when I worked in corporate, all the structures were in place. So I was probably the workaholic. Loved going to work, loved getting people excited at work.
    I was sort of the general manager at work. My wife happily had the title of general manager at home. And our roles were very clearly sort of defined. When I decided to get out in the consultancy and build my own consultancy, that’s where the roles became a bit blurred. And if I look back, without trying to get that clarity between what I was doing and what my wife was doing, I think that was probably the genesis of our destruction from a relationship point of view.
    Often when people go into more senior leadership positions they lose sense of having to be responsible at work.
    There’s a lot of emphasis on performance and most people are cited saying,  I want to do this because I want to provide for my family. At the end of the day, your personal world, being your family, seem to be last on the list.

    * Whether or not you’re a founder or work for an organisation – remember to keep your blend at home as well as work and communicate.
    18 min
  • TVC075 Vinnies CEO SleepOut with Nikki McWatters
    TVC075 Vinnies CEO SleepOut with Nikki McWatters
    The 6th Pillar of Ultimate Vitality is giving back. This year I’ve signed up to do something a little different and join the Vinnies CEO SleepOut – choosing the more chillier location of Melbourne.
    I proudly support many non for profit events and have a long standing relationship with 2 key organisations.
     The Layne Beachley Aim For The Stars Foundation as a mentor and running workshops for their recipients, the RSPCA and then support local community projects and events where I can. 
     
    So why Vinnies CEO Sleep Out and why now?
    I was drawn to this particular cause after I got talking to a former CEO who had at one time almost lost his home, his family and everything. He was very near to living on the streets via a variety of interconnected events that had him going from hero to zero very quickly.
    We spoke about the role of charities who provide the behind the scenes bare necessity support for those who are on the brink mentally, financially, socially and physically.
    Organisations such as the Salvation Army and Vinnies. Providing a range of support from temporary housing to $50 for electricity, warm blankets or a meal for you and your children.
    It is not always those you would expect who need the help most.
    While we need to be aware of, support and build awareness for those who need us overseas and in far away places, there are many people who are in our own community that are in dire need for our support, a sense of connection, wellbeing and help when they need it the most.
    Before I head to Melbourne next week to join this event I wanted to share the story of someone else who on the outset you would never expect to have been homeless.
    Someone well educated, driven and ambitious. Who knows first hand what it is like to go from striving and thriving to barely surviving with a young family.
    I hope you enjoy this podcast with author and Vinnies SleepOut ambassador Nikki McWatters. Her story is real, raw and genuine.
    It’s up to us not to brush past people, to assume that people who need it the most even know how to ask for help.
    It’s up to us as family, friends and as a community to see the signs, to have empathy and break down the stigma so that we can create safety and a sense of belonging close to home.
    Meet Nikki Mc Watters 
    Nikki was born on the Gold Coast of Queensland in 1966, the eldest of four, to her school-teacher parents.
    A good student but rebellious, Nikki had aspirations of becoming an Academy Award-winning actress or a best-selling author. She dabbled in the theatre and revelled in rock n roll. At eighteen, after graduating well from high-school, she ran off to Sydney with a musician, with stars in her eyes and a bulging kit-bag full of dreams.
    Reality hit. A string of D-grade T.V commercials, a bit-part in a C-grade movie and some guest spots on Aussie soaps, was not ever going to bag her that Oscar. She married her muso (who’d become a roadie) and soon they had two young sons.
    In 1992, with two little boys under five, Nikki found herself alone and penniless when her marriage dissolved. She was 26. The relationship with her family was strained and Nikki moved onto the foldout couch of a nearby friend, with her children, and stayed there while she saved up for a bond on her own place.
    Her first independent home-sweet-home was a cockroach infested unit in a bad corner of Bondi Beach but she did her best to make it comfortable.
    Taking sporadic cleaning jobs for private homes she scraped by to pa...
    25 min
  • TVC074 Bullying In The Workplace With Tim Capelin
     
    TVC074 Bullying In The Workplace With Tim Capelin
    Bullying and intimidation is not just in the school yard.
    In this episode I chat to leading workplace and employment law expert Tim Capelin from Piper Alderman about recognising the signs of bullying in adults, what to do if you’re facing this situation and steps to change mindset and approach around supporting your family, friends or colleagues when under pressure.
    Tim has over 25 years of experience;  his commitment is to help people achieve greater success, and to do that through his expertise in employment law.

    I like being able to assist on both sides of these matters. Most commonly I’m assisting employers to get the most out of their employees, and assisting executives approach their employment as they approach other commercial negotiations that they deal with and get the best out of it for them, which usually has a win for both them and the company.

    There’s been a lot of coverage lately about confidence and career development and more recently in Australia how to tackle bullying in the work environment. This is a timely episode. Bullying is not just child’s play – and more often than not it’s the emotional forms of intimidation that are causing lack of performance, confidence and in worse cases extreme levels of stress and depression.
    I have asked Tim to share his insight and join the discussion around

    Identifying the signs
    How to take measured steps to ensure you can get help if needed
    Observe your own behaviour to be considerate of others.

    What are the signs of workplace bullying?
    How would you describe some situations that you’ve certainly had come across your desk?
    Tim: Bullying for adults in many respects is not different to bullying for children in that the experiences emotionally and physically are probably very similar. Certainly the emotional impact of it can be very significant.

    It usually arises from feelings of one party using their, particularly in the C-suite example, their positional power over others whether it’s a CEO or senior manager abusing their power to impose it upon the executives that report to them, or the CEO copying the behaviour  possibly from the chair.
    They often say whether you’re an executive or a CEO, it’s very lonely at the top. That possibly highlights or exacerbates the feelings when people are under stress and being what they perceive to be being attacked by their boss.

    Nikki: I think what’s interesting is a lot of talk about functional and strategic hard skills when we go through career development, but what we lose a lot of is our personal skills when we gain more responsibility in the workplace.
    Dealing with emotional matters become much more difficult because there’s many more layers on top of it than there would normally be. Let us also be clear that this is right through the organisation.

    I know people that actually when they wake up in the morning, they have heart palpitations, they’re drenched in sweat, and they’re actually afraid of going to work with exactly the same emotional repercussions as kids are afraid of going to school.

    We have people that are in really good jobs and really good positions actually feeling anxiety because of people around them in the workplace and not being able to deal with these emotional issues. They’re having physical repercussions and physical results due to that anxiety level as well.

    Tim: Absolutely, you can see that happen. It can be compounded by circumstances outside of the workplace as well.
    24 min
  • TVC073 Founder Vitality Stephen Woessner

    TVC073  Founder Vitality Stephen Woessner
    I welcome Founder of Predictive ROI, legacy maker and data guru Stephen Woessner on the show,  to share his insights and story on passion, purpose and the importance of people in building a brand and a business.
    Part of my Influencer Series Stephens direct, energetic and engaging story will have you inspired and taking action to lead in business and in life. Founder and self confessed “data-geek” Stephen Woessner is guru of all things about predictive ROI:  SEO, online marketing and how to take that special online real estate of yours, which is your website if you’re owning a business, from average to remarkable.
    Stephen’s career spans both public sector, being in academia six years, the private sector and owning five businesses.
    Take away some top tips on building your emotional energy bank, dealing with stress, creating a game plan for your people and staying healthy on the road.

    I asked Stephen what his approach is to blending health, wealth and wisdom throughout his career:
    The three pillars, keeping together the energy, the mental fortitude,  of having the right people around you and being able to fail forward and pick yourself up.
    Here’s our 7 Founder Vitality Tips to stay engaged, energised and create a culture from within:
    Founder Vitality #1: Legacy

    Billie Jean King said “A sense of purpose is a privilege.”

    Running a business and being responsible from an early age for Stephen  has been about following the family hard work mentality and out of admiration and respect for his Grandfather.
    This might be kinda out of left field for some of your listeners, but I think I owe it to my family. Specifically to my grandfather, Peter. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1902. He grew up in Istanbul as a young Greek male, at a time when it wasn’t awesome to be a young Greek male in Turkey, where there was public executions of Greek men. There was a lot of ethnic cleansing and my grandfather grew up in that.

    And when he was at the ripe old age of eight, he became the man of the house, because my great-grandfather didn’t come home one day, because that’s what the times were like. And my grandfather grew up in that.
    Stephen’s grandfather came to the US in 1920, he had $10 in his pocket, couldn’t speak the language, and had no friends. He didn’t have a robust LinkedIn account or a lot of friends on Facebook, or he couldn’t create a Kickstarter campaign.
    He had this dream that he wanted to have a restaurant some day. But he had no path to do that. He started cutting vegetables and cleaning lettuce and washing dishes at a downtown Canton, Ohio, restaurant.

    After coming to the country with nothing, six years later he had saved enough money to own his own restaurant, and that was just two years before the Great Depression. He gave away more soup than he ever sold, married an amazing woman and had four incredible kids along the way, was a man of extreme generosity.

    Through all of that, Stephen remembers the fact that his grandfather focused on how to smile and took care of his customers.
    “So when I’m sitting at my desk late at night I have this photo on my wall in my office, and it’s a photo of my grandfather Peter, standing behind the lunch counter in his first restaurant with four customers sitting there at bar stools, eating fresh soup and sandwich he had made earlier that day”.
    Founder Vitality #2: Keep Perspective
    When Stephen thinks of the struggle and the sacrifice in everything that his g...
    28 min
  • TVC072 Coping With Uncertainty
    TVC072 Coping With Uncertainty
    Welcome to one of a special series of episodes dedicated to dealing with uncertainty. 
    The importance of building courage to lead from within when we are faced with a challenging landscape at work or at home.
    In this episode learn the art of the NOW, THEN, WHAT and IF quadrant, reaching out to those who can help and making a game plan with communication and transparency.  
    If you are listening to me while you’re driving today, if you’re on the treadmill, or if you’re out working, or maybe you’re just sitting in the office and you’re having a nano-break, I hope you can find these tips functional and practical.

    Ask Questions
    Learn From Others
    Hold Space – Uncertainty is Not A Sign Of Weakness
    Keep Learning – Use Your Down-Time Wisely
    Reach Out For Professional Help
    Communicate 

    I’ve had a few of you email me and talk about coping with uncertainty – how to deal with life when you’re working on a project basis, maybe that you’ve started your own business, or you’re on a fly-in, fly-out or a contractor role.
    With many of the workshops at the moment, especially in mining, oil/gas and tech we’re having some really big discussions about leading from within when work is on a contract basis and the markets are volatile.

    * What do you do when you have your family and your friends asking you questions about when you will be back at work?
    * Or you want to plan for your future, but you don’t know when your next pay check is coming in?

    I want to give you a few of my coping mechanisms today that I coach a lot of my CEO and corporate teams on how we can navigate a chaos to calm.  To make sure that you can go from survival mode back into that shift, of feeling in control in the driver’s seat.  Understanding that there is a plan in place and there’s always a solution. 
    Let’s get started……
     
    #1 Asking Questions is Not A Sign Of Vulnerability
    Work with your teams or manager and open up the dialogue and discussion.  Asking a question is a positive thing, it’s not actually a vulnerability. 
    Being inquisitive, wanting to come up with solutions, putting some ideas on the table or letting people know that you’re perhaps not in the most centred state, you’re wondering what’s going to happen on the next quarter or the next week or the next job’s coming in…. it’s totally okay. Hold your space, be practical and ask away. 
     
    #2 You’re Not The First Person To Experience This – Lean In To Those Who Have Been There Before
    There are people that have walked that line with you as well.
    There are people that have had loads of experience and probably sitting around the table from you that it might’ve been their job for longer that know exactly how it feels to have this feeling of anxiety and uncertainty.
    Reach out, get some tips and tools and be proactive. 
     
    #3 –  Uncertainty is Not A Sign Of Weakness – It’s How You Deal With It That Counts
    First and foremost when you’re listening to this, uncertainty and anxiety are not a form of weakness. Take stock of the issues that are really bothering you and think about others as well who may be in the same situation. WRITE THESE ELEMENTS DOWN. 
    How much do we share?
    24 min
  • TVC071 Fitpreneur with Pat Hollingworth

    TVC 071 Fitpreneur Pat Hollingworth
    Meet my guest Pat Hollingworth on episode 72 of The Vitality Coach podcast. Mountaineer, adventure chaser and corporate culture coach, Pat has summited multiple 8000 metre peaks, including Mount Everest and helped his Nepali Sherpa mates set up their own mountain-guiding business based out of Kathmandu.
    Based in Australia, Patrick learned the art of alpine-style climbing in the mountains of New Zealand, Canada and France, and then the science of expedition-style climbing in the mountains of Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet, Alaska and Argentina.
    He’s seen the very best of what alpine style can offer, and also the very worst of what expedition style can deliver.
    We’ve done a couple of great episodes together, and the second of which I am sharing first, hope you enjoy this discussion finding your Fitpreneur as a leader and the art of communication

    * Walk and talks, and why sometimes it’s handy to understand that men talk side by side,
    * Sharing, connecting and ensuring we have being authentic in leadership and life
    * Using nature as a place for creativity, connection and problem solving
    * Are you leading with healthy, wealthy and wise

     
    When the gold content really comes out in conversations and the bonds start to happen.
     
    Fitpreneur Walk and Talks
    Is traditional meeting room style really the way to go in authentic and effective communication?
    What do you and you teams need to operate at you best:  

    one-to-one personal time to connect and to really sit down in front of each other
    activities to allow greater scope and sharing
    on the go short and sharp discussions
    the regroup to take notes
    longer strategy sessions
    space for personality
    all of the above


    I just think that the traditional business approach is almost confrontational, where you’re sitting across one another at a table.  It’s just that conversation tends to flow easier  when you’re walking side by side and to be honest, I don’t only find that with men. I find that with women as well.

    Fitpreneurs Mix It Up
    Rather than fixing to one style of communication why not think about a blend of healthy, wealthy and wise that allows you to connect not only on a work front but with friends and family too:

    Create a shared space
    Integrate walk and talks
    Organise a group activity away from your usual environment
    Understand your team and how they like to perform, think and communicate
    Understand your friends or family and how they like to perform, think and communicate
    With experience comes personality and confidence to create the above opportunities – to think like a Fitpreneur. Being a great leader is being able to bring your personality back into the role again, and to be yourself, so that authenticity.

     

    There’s no covering up any perceived kind of deficiency, because every human being is wonderfully flawed. When you’re in a really great team situation you  don’t hide any of that. That’s the beauty of what it is to be human is to accept your own flaws and find your dream team around you, Pat
     

    Fitpreneurs Take Time Out for Yourself.
    Patrick does this a couple of ways and most of all by going into the mountains.
    Whenever I go into the mountains, the rule is that I’ve got to come back out the mountains better.
    17 min
  • TVC069 From Stressed To Success
    TVC069 Stressed To Success. 
    Overspent and undernourished?
    What to do when you’re stressed, finances, energy and your mental hard drive is depleted.
    This podcast topic came via some of you who wrote in and asked how, when I coach with my clients, how we can so quickly get them feeling back in control and having a clear road map.
    Predominantly many of you said most of your stress always came back to being worried about finances and money.
    You’re not alone. So let me help you fast track from chaos to calm.

    It doesn’t matter how experienced we are, there are many, many paths that lead us down the road to financial fear, as an entrepreneur, as a CEO, as a small business owner, or just someone that’s trying to make ends meet. 
     

    In this episode I help you assess what’s keeping you awake at night and assign tasks to regain your feeling of confidence and control.
     
    First up I want to share with you a little story. I’ve got a really wonderful client, extremely intelligent and driven, he runs fantastic companies. On the surface it was all mega amazing. Underneath there was fear, panic, anxiety and bucket loads of stress. 
    Every morning the first thing he would think about was worry and concern about finances, about staff, about business, about clients, about all sorts of issues. As soon as he woke up.

    The first thought in the morning was a stressful thought.

    It wasn’t about being alive, abundance, gratitude, opportunity, wisdom and experience. “John” went to sleep at night and woke up in the morning with exactly the same feeling of chaos, anxiety and feeling out of control. 
     
     What happens when we are in this phase/state of internal chaos?

    You’re not making great decisions because everything is derived from fear and a thought of ‘lacking things’ time, money, ideas, support
    You’re no longer bringing your personality into your decision making  – you’re being robotic and not connected
    You’re no longer tapping into your experience with a sense of calm to decision making and navigating your way through the week.
    The smallest elements can throw you off track
    You’re not enjoying the journey anymore

     

    When you’re really in survival mode, where you’re just putting one foot in front of the other, life is where your agenda rules you, you’re putting out fires and just keeping your head above water –  you’re really not ‘in charge’ anymore.
     

    I call this  “survival status” – the pointy start end of the Chaos To Calm model. A model I’ve been using for coaching and workshops for over 10 years – how to assess where you are and make a game plan for getting back in control.
     
    So how can you make the simple steps to get back in the driver seat? Here are my top tips to replenish your personal and commercial vitality and take stock of whats really going on:

    Assess
    Select
    Assign
    Implement

    Step 1: Assess where you are right now
    It’s time to press pause and take yourself out of survival mode, into awareness mode about where you’re sitting with your finances, your business, your concern, so we can start doing some actions and create some tasks around it that will have you feeling back in control.
    Stress 101: Grab a sheet of paper and write down every single issue, every single worry, concern, roadblock, procrastination barrier, negative thought, write everything down,
    19 min
  • TVC068 Play Bigger Influencer Al Ramadan
    TVC068 Play Bigger Influencer and Innovator, Silicon Valley’s Al Ramadan
    Welcome back to the Influencer Fitpreneur Series. 
    I’m honoured to have a special guest on the show,  Play Bigger co-author and true innovator, Al Ramadan.  
    Co-founding partner at Play Bigger Advisors, Al has been a CEO, Entrepreneur, Operating Executive and Sailing Technologist.
    He is also a mentor, father and favourite uncle to an ever-growing circle of next-generation superstars.
    I met Al when we were both on a fabulous island in the Pacific, Namotu, and he was just about to launch his new book – Play Bigger; how Pirates, Dreamers and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets.
    A true definition of a Fitpreneur,  I hope you enjoy listening to this episode, as much as we did recording it.
    Al in San Fran and me sitting on the opposite side of the globe in Australia. At the time of this podcast recoding, Play Bigger was announced as one of the top 5 in leadership and strategy books in the US for business.
    It’s been a hell of a journey. Al Ramadan
    An Influencer From The Start
    In the early ’90s Al applied data science to Australia’s Americas Cup by showing data along with video – an innovation in sports performance analytics. As a result of this work, Al co-founded Quokka Sports, which pioneered data-intensive sports immersion on the Internet and revolutionised the way people experienced sport.
    He then joined Macromedia – and Adobe,  after Adobe acquired Macromedia, where he spent almost ten years changing the way people think about great digital experiences on the Web and on then-new mobile devices.
    At Adobe, Al led teams that created the Rich Internet Applications category and helped develop the discipline of experience design.
    Collaboration and Consciousness
    In 2011 Al started up his current big project, the company Play Bigger Advisers, with his 2  ‘brothers in life’,  Dave Patterson and Chris Lochhead. This new project meant the reach of knowledge and shared experience was going to go broader and make a bigger impact than ever before.

     “At Play Bigger, we help those that are already successful in venture capital, already established, take their businesses to the next level, to the ultimate transcendence”

    Al states that working in co-category design is a unique discipline. It’s a new thing, just like product design, company design, industrial design, experience design, all of these design methodologies have appeared over the course of the last 20 or 30 years. 
    The wonderful thing about silicon valley and everything else is creating something before the market even knows where to put it, and that’s often the challenge of innovative minds, is that they have an idea that doesn’t fit in a box yet.  
    People,  when purchasing, like to think in categories, so you may not realise it but category design is one of the leading product development areas in our day to day world.
    From cereals to diary products, washing products to bikes and cars.  For example an SUV is a category. 
     
    Writing Play Bigger The Book

    Due to their innovation and experience in Category Design,  Play Bigger advisors were repeatedly asked by people to do projects and they just couldn’t accept them – “we were too busy“. So this sparked the idea for Play Bigger the book.
    “We all thought collectively, the right thing to do is to try and get this discipline arti...
    22 min
  • TVC067 Design Winning Weeks
    TVC067 Design Your Winning Weeks – Every Week
    Welcome back to The Vitality Coach Podcast.
    Thanks so much for those of you that have left a review on iTunes – we are well over 65,00 downloads as at October this year, in 85 countries so it’s great to have so many of you tuning in. Plus messaging me about topics that you’d like help on.
    There’s a real struggle for many people at the moment with so much going on in our lives. Technology that saves time is reducing our time out,  we’re almost never ‘off’. So why do we still use the same script and rules for balancing our week and managing our schedules that we did 10-20 years ago, when clearly our time management landscape has changed?
    By thinking about your week every week and creating a game plan you can:

    reduce stress
    look at how you’re going to use your hours wisely
    press pause before answering emails and phone calls
    generate space for you to operate to your full potential

    That’s todays’s podcast is all about designing your Winning Weeks. It’s a crucial part of my Vitality Road Map™ program and has been for years. 
    My top 5 tips on Designing Your Winning Week
    How to rewrite your rule book and blend healthy, wealthy, wise aspects during your week.
    1 Plan Your Week, Every Sunday
    I know this sounds completely simple, and most people start off doing a great job but they stop being disciplined about it. 
    You need to be disciplined because if you don’t plan the week you want you’ll get the one you’re given.
    2 Be Practical
    You’re not the fairy godmother or a wizard where everything in the whole list is going to be possible. What vital commitments do you have and what is VITAL for you to achieve. Identifying these across all areas of work and home life is important to ensure you are chipping away at your goals. 
    Make It Visible:
    I sit down with a piece of paper, turn it landscape and I map out my top 6 pillars of a winning week.  

    * Health and wellbeing
    * Admin/career/productivity/client work
    * Family commitments
    * Friends I want to catch up with
    * Me time
    * Giving Back

    All of those  6 pillars are across the top of that page – in one row. Then I assign a few MUST do’s under each pillar heading
    For example for health and well being this week I’m going to plan some runs in, yoga, a massage this week and I’m doing some mini meditation minutes. 
    My health and wellbeing also means eating healthy, making sure I have good groceries and getting the food order or whatever else organised so I can choose that I’m fuelling my body as well as the fitness aspects of the week.
    The second pillar I go through is what core client deliveries do I need to do this week?  What are my vital areas of business? Who am I checking in with? What am I delivering on and then also what about personal and business admin; invoices, bill payments, insurances.
    I always check in every week on my KPI’s and my commercial goals like I recommend to my clients.
    I do the same thing, and I look at areas that might be coming up that I need to red mark or ear mark for planning and succession as well. My personal admin and finance, my client’s career productivity deliverables. What workshops am I giving? Who am I doing personal coaching courses with this week? What people do I need to follow up with in terms of new inquiries?
    20 min
  • TVC066 How To Manage Busy
    TVC066 How To Manage Busy
    Today’s podcast is all about managing busy. How to run your week rather than let your week run you.  
    There is a difference between hard work and working hard. In today’s episode I’m chatting you through some simple tools to keep yourself in charge of your day. Consistently. If you do what you love and you love what you do, you’re going to have an abundance of energy over what you normally think is possible. 
    As most of you know, especially those of you who follow me on social media, I’m rarely in one place for longer than a few days. This year has been a very big year for travel. I met lots of incredible people via my corporate vitality workshops,  speaking engagements, private Boardroom Retreats™ and private coaching with clients who inspire me right back. 2017 is already looking booked.
    More of the above, a series of book launches from Aspen to NYC, throw in a few trips to Fiji, and it’s all happening.
    Exhausted reading that?
    How do I keep my energy, my passion, my vitality and my focus for what I’m doing.  It all comes down to managing busy.
     Schedules, times and deadlines don’t change. It’s how we handle it that matters…

    harness your energy
    keep that focus
    know when to have downtime
    know how to take nano-breaks
    manage your personal space, especially when you have a public-facing job where you’re surrounded by a lot of people or you’re transitioning from working by yourself and then suddenly your kids come home and there’s a whole lot of noise and chaos.


    There’s a real art to finding that blend during busy periods when you’re building your empire or when you’re creating a life that you love. 

    Here’s my top tips on Managing Busy
    a) Go back to basics and keep it SIMPLE
    Don’t let chaos take you off track from being productive and thoughtful and also not getting into making decisions out of fear or panic.
    We can get pulled off direction with shiny objects and I know that I do a lot of different things.
    b) Use your 90 Day Plan as your compass to Manage Busy
    I constantly have to ask myself, “Is this part of my 90-day plan?” I religiously print out my 90-day plan and I break it down into immediate three tasks, my seven-day tasks, the 30-day goals that I have to achieve, and then where I need to be in those 90 days.
    I have that printed out in front of me. I take that with me. I review that before I accept appointments, before I have guest podcasts scheduled in, and before I plan my travel as well.
    Be productive!
    I use the car trips from the airport with my driver on the way to a meeting to do phone calls. If I’m extremely tired, then I put my phone down and I use that time for meditation.
    What it’s all about is looking at your day differently and looking at how you can best use the time. The time is not going to expand or contract. We have the same numbers of hours in the day as everyone else. It’s just how we use it and I think that’s really important.  
    c) Be selective with your time and your energy to Manage Busy
    I’ve always said yes to a lot of things, but now in order to be the best version of myself for the people that I coach and for the companies that I work with, I have to manage that workload and make sure that I have the mental agility as well as the physical agility to keep everything going. 

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