417: Finding Joy Through Intentional Choices, with Bonni Stachowiak
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed
Bonni Stachowiak is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, a professor of business and management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, Bonni was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. She joins me monthly to respond to listener questions.
Key Points
- Don’t spend time feeling guilty about things you have to cut.
- Focus on quality over quantity.
- Your priorities will change over time.
- Sometimes even good things can crowd out what is really important.
Resources Mentioned
- The Checklist Manifesto* by Atul Gawande
- Getting Things Done* by David Allen
- TripIt
- PackPoint
- Ending Human Trafficking podcast
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| 0:00.0 | Bonnie and I are often asked, how do you do it all? |
| 0:03.4 | The truth is, we don't. |
| 0:05.3 | On today's episode, where we work to be intentional in saying no, |
| 0:09.5 | so that we can find joy in the things that matter most. |
| 0:13.3 | This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 417. |
| 0:17.5 | Produced by Innovate Learning, |
| 0:20.0 | Maximizing Human Potential. maximizing human potential. |
| 0:30.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahofiac. Leaders aren't born, they're made, |
| 0:36.8 | and this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations. |
| 0:42.6 | This is normally the question and answer show |
| 0:45.8 | once a month on the first Monday and a month. |
| 0:47.6 | We usually turn the show over to you, |
| 0:51.2 | respond to questions that have come in, and we're doing something a little differently this time. |
| 0:56.0 | In the same spirit of turning it over to you, many of you will recall in the last month or so I sent out a survey of our listeners to |
| 1:06.5 | discover more about what you're thinking what's working that we're doing here |
| 1:10.0 | on the show what's not working how we can continue to improve specifically how I can |
| 1:14.0 | continue to improve and we're in the midst of processing that and I'll come back and say |
| 1:18.4 | more once we have some more data on all of that so almost 700 of you responded and filled out that survey. Thank you so much, |
| 1:26.0 | which is why we're still processing it. In the meantime, though, I started looking through some |
| 1:29.8 | of the comments and a few of the comments that came in were some version of how do you do all this stuff and get it all done and have some sense of work life balance and integration and all that and I got to thinking about that and |
| 1:45.1 | Bonnie and I get this question some version of this question on a somewhat regular basis and |
| 1:49.6 | so I thought I'd invite Bonnie to join me today |
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