403: Transition Well Through Your Day, with Gretchen Rubin
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Gretchen Rubin: Outer Order, Inner Calm
Gretchen Rubin explores happiness and good habits and is the author of several books, including the block-buster New York Times bestsellers, Better Than Before*, The Happiness Project*, Happier at Home*, and The Four Tendencies*. She is the author also of the new book Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness*.
Key Points
- When people have control over their stuff, they feel more in control of their lives.
- If you need a physical reset, do 10 jumping jacks.
- Your physical needs will override your emotional needs.
Resources Mentioned
- Internal Time* by Till Roenneberg
Book Notes
Download my highlights from Outer Order, Inner Calm in PDF format (free membership required).
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| 0:00.0 | You go from one thing to another to another to another all day long. |
| 0:05.0 | But how to handle all those transitions? |
| 0:08.0 | On this episode, Gretchen Rubin shares strategies to create a bit of inner calm by being mindful about outer order. |
| 0:16.5 | This is coaching for leaders episode 403. |
| 0:21.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:25.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:32.0 | This is Coaching for Leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahovia. |
| 0:36.9 | Leaders aren't born. |
| 0:38.6 | They're made, and this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom that will empower you to become a better leader. |
| 0:46.4 | One of the calls of leadership for all of us is handling a lot of complexity in our days. |
| 0:52.0 | I know when I'm talking with our audience members, Academy members, |
| 0:55.7 | how many people are talking to me about all the transitions we have to make in any given day, |
| 1:01.6 | both in our professional lives, |
| 1:03.4 | going between meetings and customer interactions |
| 1:06.6 | and needing to dive in and also do strategic thinking |
| 1:10.2 | on our own. |
| 1:10.7 | And then, of course, the personal things |
| 1:12.1 | that come into play, play too of being a good |
| 1:14.4 | family member or a parent or a friend. |
| 1:17.2 | So many transitions that happen in our daily lives and when I came across today's |
| 1:21.6 | guest's new work I just couldn't help but think of what a wonderful person for us to learn from on how to |
| 1:27.6 | navigate transitions, create a bit of order, hopefully find a bit of calmness there and do that effectively. |
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