064: Rewiring Your Brain with MJ Ryan
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 23 September 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Executive coach MJ Ryan shows how to use mantras to retrain the brain to establish better habits and responses.
You’ll Learn:
- How to identify unconscious behaviors and what to do to overcome them
- The worst mental habit in the workplace to break right away
- An approach to developing your own game-changing personal mantras
About MJ
MJ is an executive coach to senior executives and entrepreneurs around the world. She combines a practical approach with methodologies from neuroscience, positive psychology and asset-focused learnings to help clients and readers more easily meet their goals.
She is a partner with the Levo League career network and the lead venture coach at SheEO, an organization offering a new funding and support model for female entrepreneurs. She’s the founder of Conari Press, creator of the New York Times bestselling Random Acts of Kindnessseries, and author of many books including her latest Habit Changers: 81 Game-Changing Mantras to Mindfully Realize Your Goals.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Book: Habit Changers by MJ Ryan
- Professor: Barbara Fredrickson
- Therapist: Dr. John Gottman
- Book: Random Acts of Kindness by The Editors of Conari Press
- Book: Traction by Gino Wickman
- App: Just Reminder
- Website: MJ-Ryan.com
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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 McChitis. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us on episode 64 of the How to Be Awesome at your Job Podcast. |
| 0:26.0 | And once again, I'm looking forward to sharing with you this guest, it's M.J. Ryan, |
| 0:30.0 | and if you have ever found yourself trying to establish a new habit or some good behavior, |
| 0:36.2 | but you've been slipping up along the way, M.J. Ryan has a handy idea to help reinforce that called Mant so you're going to learn one how to identify |
| 0:46.4 | unconscious behaviors and what to do to overcome them to the worst mental habit in the |
| 0:51.4 | workplace to break right away |
| 0:53.2 | and three an approach developing your own game-changing |
| 0:56.4 | personal mantra so if you want to check out the show notes the transcript and |
| 1:00.2 | links to things mentioned you'll find that over at awesome at your job |
| 1:03.1 | dot com slash eep six four however if you'd like to receive just those takeaways all |
| 1:09.6 | the faster in an email you can read in under two minutes to catch some of those tidbits from |
| 1:14.5 | MJ Ryan and the 63 guests who've come before her and the many to come after her. |
| 1:20.0 | Go ahead and sign up for the gold nugget email list over at awesome at your job. |
| 1:23.0 | You're worth it. |
| 1:25.0 | So here's a quick tid bit about M.J. |
| 1:28.0 | is an executive coach to senior executives and entrepreneurs around the world. |
| 1:32.0 | She combines a practical approach with methodologies from. executives and entrepreneurs around the world. |
| 1:32.6 | She combines a practical approach with methodologies from neuroscience, positive |
| 1:36.2 | psychology, and asset-focused learnings to help clients and readers more easily meet their goals. |
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