1018: The Step-by-Step Guide to Building the Life You Want with Ximena Vengoechea

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Ximena Vengoechea shares her viral three-phase life audit exercise for surfacing and achieving your most important goals.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to transform your life with just Post-Its and a marker

2) How to turn fanciful wishes into actionable goals

3) How to stay motivated while pursuing hard goals

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— ABOUT XIMENA —

Ximena Vengoechea is a user experience researcher, writer, and illustrator whose work on personal and professional development has been published in Inc., the Washington Post, Newsweek, and Insider, among others. She is the author of Rest Easy and Listen Like You Mean It, and she writes a newsletter about personal growth and human behavior. She lives in New York.

• Book: The Life Audit: A Step-by-Step Guide to Discovering Your Goals and Building the Life You Want

• Blogpost: “How and Why to do a Life Audit”

• Website: XimenaVengoechea.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

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• Book: I Hope This Finds You Well: A Novel by Natalie Sue

• Book: Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg

• Past episode: 317: How to Form Habits the Smart Way with BJ Fogg, PhD

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Transcript

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0:00.0	We don't often make space to ask ourselves these big questions.
0:12.2	The Life Audit, it's not a progress report.
0:15.3	It's really, it's trying to reveal, like, right now, what are the things that I'm most interested in pursuing, and to
0:21.9	teach you something about that.
0:24.4	Whatever that goal is, how can you break it down into something really manageable?
0:29.5	So manageable that you are virtually guaranteed to succeed psychologically when you're pursuing
0:35.1	something new, it's important to get these quick wins
0:37.7	so that you go, okay, I can do this.
0:45.9	That's Hemanah vanquichea.
0:47.4	She's a user experience researcher, writer, and illustrator.
0:50.1	She's also the author of the viral blog post, how and why to do a Life Audit, which is now a book titled The Life Audit,
0:55.8	a step-by-step guide to discovering your goals
0:57.7	and building the life you want.
0:59.2	So you'll learn, one, how to transform your life
1:01.2	with just post-ins and a marker,
1:02.8	two, how to turn fanciful wishes and actionable goals,
1:06.1	and three, how to stay motivated
1:07.8	while pursuing hard goals.
1:09.7	I'm Pete Mcbukaitis. This is How to Be Awesome at your job.
1:12.1	And now here's Hima.
1:18.0	Jimena, welcome back.
1:19.7	Thank you so much for having me back.
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