"When I focus too much on the outcome and reward, I get impatient with the process

 

Description

How's your patience? Do you get easily frustrated with slow processes or do you feel content with the time it takes to see results? This week on TPP we discuss the nature of impatience and how persistence is required to counter it. Join us and reflect on where you get overtaken by impatience and how that can be transformed into helpful persistence and productivity. 

 

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome and weekly win

06:40 Levels of patience

10:17 It's always a process

11:22 Dealing with delayed gratification

13:52 How can we transform impatience?

15:51 Useful impatience 

19:12 Countering impatience and the WHY

25:10 Strategies for developing persistence

32:10 Goodbye and find us online

 

 

Theme music: Something Elated / Broke for Free

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"The everyday choices that give you small relief, like just sitting down with your book, they're breaks in themselves. 

 

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome and weekly win

06:33 What does it mean to take a break? 

13:59 Everyday 'break' choices

17:43 Excuses and avoidance

23:04 Forecasting the need for breaks

25:20 Guilt over breaks

33:51 The time-crunch on life

36:13 Goodbye and find us online

 

Theme music: Something Elated / Broke for Free

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"Sometimes projects have a natural ending and sometimes there's a choice that needs to be made. 

 

Description

Whether it's school, uni, work or passions projects - we all have things we work on to completion. This week on the show we chat about when we know things are over, how to end them if they don't have a natural end and what the next steps are after completion. 

 

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome and weekly win!

02:54 What's next once you've done the thing?

06:57 Opportunities and timing

14:30 Setting the end of a project

16:48 Reflection and evaluation

23:22 When projects die

27:32 Goodbye and find us online

"When I feel prepared I'm confident I can succeed."

 

Description

Have you ever struggled with confidence? This week on the show we discuss what we feel confidence is, where we feel it and how we've been able to grow it. We explore the line between personality and confidence, especially how extroversion and introversion come into play when we consider confidence. 

 

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome and catch up

06:19 What is confidence?

07:52 Where/how do we feel the most confidence?

08:42 The connection with dressing up and confidence

11:22 Preparing to succeed

13:37 The connection between personality and confidence

17:22 Doubt and imposter syndrome

23:52 Do we need confidence?

32:04 Growing our confidence

38:10 Goodbye and join us online

"If I'm not focused, I don't engage with the work as much and I ask myself, Whats the point?"

 

Description

Is focus a mystical place we stumble upon for a magical moment, or can it be trained? This week on the Pursuit Project we discuss where and how we find focus and what distracts us most from getting things done. We talk about how external factors play into how focused you are and maneuvering your own focus rituals in a structured workplace. 

 

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome and habits catch up

05:09 Disciplining yourself to find focus

8:28 Focus: time or task?

12:03 External factors

15:41 Working without focus

18:32 Procrastiworking

20:31 Rituals to find focus

25:07 Distractions 

29:10 Goodbye and find us online

 

 

Theme music: Something Elated / Broke for Free

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"Social media make sit easier to see what everyone is doing and feel the pressure to be busy all the time too

 

Description

Why are we all so busy and when did it become a state of being? This week on the show we discuss how 'busy' has become who we are and if it should be connected with the concept of success. We think about what our baseline for normal is and when we can describe ourselves as busy. Share your thoughts on 'busy' on Twitter!

 

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome and catch up

05:26 Everyone's busy

09:35 Busyness = success?

14:43 Making your baseline

18:03 The concept of free time

26:05 Busy as a state of being 

33:40 Goodbye and connect with us online!

 

Show Notes

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Theme music: Something Elated / Broke for Free

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"I need everything planned out so that I don't have room to develop bad habits or be unproductive

 

Description

What exactly defines a habit and how do they define our routines and actions? This week on the Pursuit Project we discuss habits, what creates them, how we can change them and whether they have any control at all. If you've got some insight into how to make or break a habit - share with us on Twitter!

 

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome and catch up

04:50 Making a plan for productivity 

11:05 What exactly is a habit?

16:40 Causation of bad habits

19:14 Triggers & cues

23:16 Conditioning ourselves for habits

28:00 Habit control

30:48 Goodbye and find us online

 

Theme music: Something Elated / Broke for Free

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"When you always hear someone complaining, it becomes toxic and you create dissatisfaction for others

 

Description

This week on the show we discuss the nature of complaining and how and when it can become toxic for you and others. We explore the balance between complaining perpetually and having a well-needed rant, and consider the use and value of complaining at all. We'd love to hear your thoughts on this somewhat contentious topic on Twitter or on our website!

 

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome and catch up

05:51 The root of complaining

08:47 Ranting vs complaining

12:10 Balancing the need the rant and complaining

17:16 The complain train

20:05 Guarding ourselves against toxicity

25:21 Responding to complaining

30:50 Goodbye and find us online

 

Theme music: Something Elated / Broke for Free

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"The expectations around the things we should do with money make us feel as though if we don't have that we're not safe or stable 

 

Description

This week on the Pursuit Project we discuss the potentially taboo topic of money! We chat attitudes, experiences, stresses and more. Should we keep silent on money or is the topic all a bit to quiet? How can we improve financial literacy and learn to support each other in developing healthy relationships with money? Make sure to tweet us your thoughts!

 

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome and catch up 

03:57 Is money a taboo subject?

09:08 Learning how to deal with money

13:20 Learning on the job

14:30 Money and stress

19:05 Expectations and attitudes

21:16 Obsessed?

29:37 Attitudes for the future

"It's not likely I'll take advice from someone I don't respect

 

Description

Giving advice is easy but taking criticism is more difficult than many of us would like to admit. When is the right time to share your advice and how can we be more receptive to criticism? Join us this week as we chat about our experience with criticism, advice and thoughts of mentorship. 

 

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome and catch up

02:27 Seeking advice when lacking confidence

08:11 Taking criticism for the better

12:50 Mentorship and menteeship

17:00 Learning wrong from can improve

21:46 Personal advice and critique

24:13 Making decisions and just saying so

26:34 Being personal when giving advice

32:52 Goodbye and find us online