016: Going for No with Andrea Waltz

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🗓️ 25 May 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Who would have thought failure could be fun? Andrea Waltz explains the ‘go for no’ philosophy, and how learning to fail might just be the best thing for your career.

— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) Why aiming to fail can actually increase success in the long run.

2) How to turn “no” into a positive word.

3) What you can do to put the “go for no” philosophy into practice in your life.

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— ABOUT ANDREA —

Andrea Waltz is passionate about helping people overcome the fear of the word NO and feelings of failure and rejection that go along with it. Along with her husband and business partner Richard Fenton, they share their message through books, training programs and speaking at conventions and conferences. They are authors of Go for No! and with 300,000 copies sold it’s been in the top 20 of Amazon’s “Sales” books for the last five years.

• Andrea's book: Go for No! Yes is the destination, No is how you get there by Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz

• Andrea’s website: goforno.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: Dr. Carol Dweck’s ‘Mindset’ research

• Book: Do It! Let’s Get Off Our Butts by Peter McWilliams

• Book: The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz

• Blog: Seth Godin’s blog

• Book: The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo

• App: Followup.cc app

• Book: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

• Book: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Liz Gilbert

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete McKitis.
0:18.0	Okay, well, once again, we are in for some fun with this here,
0:21.0	episode 16 with Andrea Waltz and Andrea had some really fun
0:25.8	perspectives when it comes to rejection and just really reframing that whole thing
0:29.8	by applying what they call the go for no philosophy.
0:34.5	So I think you're going to enjoy this interview.
0:36.1	It's one of the shorter ones.
0:37.5	And if you like shorter things and getting a lot of information
0:41.0	in a short amount of time, Definitely check out awesome at your job
0:43.7	dot com where you can just sign up for the golden nugget emails and so you can get kind of a
0:49.8	summary executive briefing style info from each guest that comes right to your
0:54.1	inbox and you can also check the archives for all those so if that's up your
0:57.6	alley check that out and in the meantime from Andrea we're going to learn
1:01.5	one why aiming to fail can actually increase success in the long run.
1:06.7	Two, how to turn it no, and your perceptions of it into a positive word.
1:11.4	And three, what you can do to put the go for no philosophy into practice in your
1:17.6	career and life and as always you want to check out some of the bonus stuff. You can find that at awesome at your job
1:23.3	dot com slash ebb 16 for the transcript and such and here's a little bit about
1:27.8	Andrea Waltz is passionate about helping people overcome the fear of the word
1:32.3	no and feelings of failure and
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