#413: Make Today Matter

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We all want to feel like our lives matter. To find this kind of significance, we often think in macro terms about our overarching purpose and values. Such reflection is certainly useful, but what are the smaller building blocks that will get us to those goals? What are things we can do to live more purposefully on a day-to-day basis? My guest lays out ten such habits in his latest book, Make Today Matter. His name is Chris Lowney. He started his vocational life studying to become a priest before discovering it wasn’t for him and shifting his ambitions to the corporate world, working first as a managing director at JP Morgan and now as consultant and keynote speaker. Today on the show Chris and I discuss tactics gleaned from both his experience as a Jesuit seminarian and as a business leader that can help you live each day with more meaning. Chris explains how to keep your most important values at the forefront of your mind, how to approach each day with bravery and heart, and how looking for little ways to do good deeds, express gratitude, and lead others in a positive way will all add up to a life that matters. Get the show notes at aom.is/maketodaymatter.

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0:00.0	Bremake here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast and we all
0:18.0	want to feel like our lives matter.
0:19.7	To find this kind of significance we often think in macro terms that are overarching purpose
0:23.2	and values.
0:24.2	Such reflection is certainly useful but what are the smaller building blocks that will
0:27.6	get us to those goals?
0:28.8	What are the things we can do to live more purposefully on a day-to-day basis?
0:32.4	My guest lays out 10 such habits in his latest book Make Today Matter.
0:36.1	His name is Chris Lowney.
0:37.1	He started his vocational life studying to become a priest before discovering it wasn't
0:40.4	for him and shifting his ambitions to the corporate world, working first as a managed director
0:44.1	at JP Morgan and now as a consultant and keynote speaker.
0:47.0	Today on the show Chris and I discussed tactics clean from both his experiences at Jesuit
0:50.4	Seminarium and as a business leader that can help you live each day with more meaning.
0:54.4	Chris explains how to keep your most important values in the forefront of your mind, how to
0:57.7	approach each day with bravery and heart and how looking for little ways to do good deeds,
1:01.7	expressing gratitude and lead others in positive way, all that up to a life that matters.
1:06.2	After the show's over check out our show notes at aowm.is slash make today matter.
1:27.6	Thanks so much for joining us.
1:31.2	So you have an interesting background.
1:32.3	A few weeks ago we had Father James Martin on the podcast who was his background interesting
1:38.2	because he went from the corporate world to becoming a Jesuit priest.
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