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Squiggly Careers

#261 How to find your focus

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Business, Management, Careers

4.9838 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Finding focus is an important skill in a squiggly career, which can often feel full of change and competing priorities. This week, Helen and Sarah talk about practical ways to find your focus and share lots of ideas for action for you to experiment with. This episode is followed by a series of conversations with 4 different people to explore the topic of focus further. Throughout the week, you can listen to conversations with Emma Gannon on how to find focus and disconnect, Sophie Devonshire and Ben Renshaw on how to find focus and love your work and Johann Hari on how to find focus and increase your attention. Ways to learn more: 1. Download the PodSheet for this episode, head to https://www.amazingif.com/listen/ 2. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of squiggly career tools https://mailchi.mp/squigglycareers/podmail 3. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' For questions, feedback or just to say hello, you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah.

0:04.3

And this is a squiggly careers podcast where every week Sarah and I talk about a different topic

0:09.1

that we hope will help you to navigate the ups and downs of our squiggly careers

0:13.5

with just that little bit more confidence and control that we often might need in the middle of a naughty moment.

0:20.3

And this week we've got a mini series all about finding your focus.

0:25.1

We know it's a topic that's on lots of people's, including our minds at the moment.

0:28.9

I feel like I'm just in search the focus.

0:33.0

So the series is going to start today with me and Sarah.

0:35.7

We're going to get super practical about focus

0:37.8

and give you some ideas for action

0:39.5

and some coach yourself questions to really kickstart your focus.

0:42.9

And then for the rest of the week,

0:44.3

we've actually got three guest episodes to listen to

0:47.1

where we're going to dive a little bit deeper into focus

0:49.7

from a few different perspectives.

0:51.7

So on Wednesday, tomorrow,

0:53.5

you're going to hear Sarah talking to

0:55.2

Emma Gannon about how you can focus and disconnect. So all of those things that might get in the

1:00.7

way of your focus, Emma's going to give us some insights on how to stop that. On Thursday,

1:05.7

you're going to hear me talking to Sophie Devonshire and Ben Renshaw about how to focus and love your work. So if you're

1:12.7

feeling like you want to be a bit more purposeful and engaged in the work that you do, their insights

1:17.5

from their book love work will be really useful. And then the last episode in the series,

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