504: Building a Gratitude Mindset to Increase Productivity with Karl Staib
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 20 October 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Karl Staib shares how gratitude leads to a more pleasant and productive work life.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) How gratitude improves productivity.
2) How to cut negativity and boost gratitude.
3) How to find more energy for your goals.
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— ABOUT KARL —
Karl Staib is an author that seeks out growth at every turn. When his father passed it was focusing on gratitude that helped him get through one of the most difficult times in his life. That's why he wants to bring more gratitude into the workplace. His work inside a fortune 500 company that regularly ranks in the top 10 for best places to work has shown him the importance of gratitude and how it increases productivity and communication. If you enjoy his writing, he encourages you to reach out to him at BringGratitude.com.
• Karl’s book: Bring Gratitude: Feel Joyful Again With Bite-Sized Mindset Practices
• Karl’s website: BringGratitude.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Study: The Science Of Gratitude: How Being Thankful Makes Us Happier – David DeSteno
• Book: Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation by Edward L. Deci and Richard Flaste
• Book: The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor
• Book: Emotional Success: The Power of Gratitude, Compassion, and Pride by David DeSteno
• Book: Siddhartha by Herman Hess
• Previous episode: 317: How to Form Habits the Smart Way with BJ Fogg, PhD
• Previous episode: 357: The Six Morning Habits of High Performers with Hal Elrod
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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 McChitis. |
| 0:19.2 | Have I told you lately listeners |
| 0:21.0 | just how grateful I am for you? Well it's super totes a lot |
| 0:25.3 | grateful and our guest here today Carl Stave is going to talk about the power of |
| 0:28.8 | gratitude and how it can boost your productivity and your experience of work engagement and enjoyment. |
| 0:34.0 | So you'll learn one how gratitude in fact improves productivity. |
| 0:37.6 | Two, how to cut negativity and boost gratitude and three how to find more energy for your goals if you want to check out the show notes |
| 0:44.4 | the transcript or the links to islands we've referenced it's on over at awesome at your job |
| 0:47.6 | dot com slash epp 504 and now here is Carl's story Carl Stabe is an author that seeks out growth at every turn. |
| 0:55.0 | When Carl's father passed away, |
| 0:57.0 | it was focusing on gratitude that helped him get through one of the most difficult times in his life. |
| 1:01.0 | And that's why he wants to bring more gratitude |
| 1:03.6 | into the workplace. His work inside a Fortune 500 company that regularly ranks in the |
| 1:07.7 | top 10 for best places to work has shown him the importance of gratitude |
| 1:11.2 | and how it increases productivity and communication. |
| 1:14.1 | If he enjoys writing, he encourage you to reach out to him at bring gratitude.com. |
| 1:19.1 | Big thanks to Carl for sharing his wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors check them out. |
| 1:25.2 | Now here's Carl. |
| 1:27.2 | Carl thanks for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at your Job podcast. |
| 1:30.5 | Thank you. Thank you for having me. |
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