520: Finding Focus with Michael Balchan
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean to live your best life? What does it mean to self-actualize? It’s easy to fall into the trap of chasing status, titles, or physical property; but isn’t what really matters to you based more on your values? If so, your best life could be much closer than it seems. On this week’s podcast, we’ll explore personal and professional growth with coach Michael Balchan.
Listen and learn:
- Why top performers have coaches
- The importance of stacking wins
- Celebrating success each step of the way
- How traction is the opposite of distraction
- How to outsmart our worst habits and become the best version of ourselves
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Michael Balchan is Head Coach and Chief of Staff of Heroic. He’s a Harvard-trained behavioral economist and psychologist, who spent almost a decade in finance before becoming a sought-after performance coach to executives and leadership teams.
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| 0:00.0 | When most of us think about our work life or our family life or our personal life, we're |
| 0:07.6 | trying to be the best version of ourselves. We're often struggling and stumbling, but we're trying. |
| 0:12.2 | I think this concept of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, this idea of self-actualization, being |
| 0:17.4 | the ultimate goal, being the best version that we can be is something that many of us, most of us, |
| 0:22.4 | can really hang our code on. The challenge is when we think about the best version of ourselves, |
| 0:27.2 | I think a lot of us conjure up images of job titles, social status, property, dollars in the |
| 0:33.9 | bank account, and while for many of us, if we were fully the best versions of ourselves, maybe |
| 0:39.2 | some of those things would come along, but I think for many of us, if we got rid of the extrinsic |
| 0:45.6 | signs of self-actualization and focused on the intrinsic, what really matters in terms of value |
| 0:51.8 | being the best version of yourself, not only might those extrinsic things might not be there, |
| 0:58.0 | there might actually be not that much at all, extrinsically, that would be in any way apparent that |
| 1:03.4 | you had become the best version of yourself. It might not be a 30 or a 50 year journey to get there, |
| 1:09.0 | also, it might be something that you already have, you already understand, you just haven't taken |
| 1:13.4 | the time to sit down and get clear on. I certainly haven't. On this week's podcast, we'll talk about |
| 1:20.0 | distraction, values, habits, goal setting, and this idea of trying to become the best version of |
| 1:25.5 | yourself. If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show. I'm a yoga teacher, a teacher trainer, |
| 1:29.8 | a serial entrepreneur, I'm the father of three kids, but first and foremost, I'm a student I like |
| 1:34.1 | to learn things, so I go into the world and find people who are starting companies, writing books, |
| 1:38.8 | medical doctors, researchers, and bring their best work here so we can live more inspired lives. |
| 1:43.6 | To support the show, scroll down or whatever app you're listening on and leave a rating and review, |
| 1:48.2 | I have a new YouTube channel that I have revived. If you search a yoga body, you'll find it online. |
| 1:53.3 | Lots of great yoga resources there. I have a weekly email list at yogabody.com forward slash |
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