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Dec 2021
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727: How to Start Something New and See ...

How to be Awesome at Your Job
About this episode

Michael Bungay Stanier shares his three-step process for starting and achieving your most ambitious goals. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The secret to crafting more motivating goals 

2) Why we often falter—and how to strengthen your resolve 

3) The four people you’ll want on your journey 


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— ABOUT MICHAEL — 

Michael Bungay Stanier is the author of six books which between them have sold more than a million copies. He’s best known for The Coaching Habit, the best-selling coaching book of the century and already recognized as a classic. His new book, How to Begin, helps people be more ambitious for themselves and for the world. Michael was a Rhodes Scholar and plays the ukulele badly. He’s Australian, and lives in Toronto, Canada. Learn more at www.MBS.works. 

• Book: How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters (website) 

• Book: The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever 

• Book: The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever 

• Book: Do More Great Work: Stop the Busywork. Start the Work That Matters 

• Podcast: 2 Pages with MBS 

• Website: MBS.works 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Product: Baron Fig 

• Book: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen 

• Book: Virgil Wander by Leif Enger 

• Poem: “The Man Watching” by Rainer Maria Rilke 


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