490: Uncovering Your Why and Bringing it to Work with Justin Jones-Fosu

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Justin Jones-Fosu explains how to lead a more enriching work life by aligning your now with your why.

— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) How to get into your “achieve more” zone.

2) 12 questions for uncovering your why.

3) How to turn any job into meaningful work.

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— ABOUT JUSTIN —

Justin is on a mission to help professionals and workplaces to Work like they mean it! He is a meaningful work speaker and social entrepreneur who speaks 60-70 times per year to companies, organizations and associations in the US and internationally. His latest book Your WHY Matters NOW: How Some Achieve More and Others Don’t challenges the reader to merge their purpose and productivity to get more out of work and life.

• Justin’s book: Your WHY Matters NOW: How Some Achieve More and Others Don’t

• Justin’s website: JustinInspires.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Tool: Situational Leadership II by Ken Blanchard

• Book: Getting Things done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

• Book: Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy

• Book: Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team by Simon Sinek

• Book: The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile

• Book: Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute

• Previous episode: 235: The Power of Finding Your Why with David Mead

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete McKitis.
0:19.2	Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 490
0:22.1	with Justin Jones.
0:23.2	I have known Justin for years.
0:26.0	He is one of the most thoughtful high energy humans I know, so I think you're going to enjoy
0:30.3	learning from him.
0:32.3	We're talking about aligning your why with what you're doing now, so you'll learn one, how to get into your
0:36.9	achieve more zone, two, 12 questions for uncovering your why, and three, how to turn any job into meaningful work so if you want to check
0:45.1	out the show notes or the transcript or the links to the outlets we've referenced it's
0:48.1	at awesome at your job dot com slash f for nine zero if you're visiting awesome at your job
0:52.4	dot com I hope you'll subscribe to the gold nugget email list
0:55.0	where you can get the summary wisdom insights from Justin
0:58.4	and the 489 guests you've gone before him.
1:00.9	And a quick email you can read in about two to three minutes as
1:04.3	well as access to the whole vault of these gold nugget wisdom bits at awesome at
1:09.7	your job.com. Now here's Justin's story Justin Jones Fosu is on a mission to help professionals and workplaces
1:16.0	to work like they mean it.
1:17.7	He's a meaningful work speaker and social entrepreneur who speaks 60 to 70 times per year to companies organizations and
1:24.6	associations in the US and internationally.
1:27.0	His latest book, Your Why Matters Now,
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