591: How to Prevent Work and Stress From Taking Over Your Life with Bryan Robinson

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🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Robinson shares the small, but impactful practices that help us strike a healthier work-life balance.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The key difference between loving work and workaholism

2) How to keep your survive brain from overwhelming you

3) Four micro chillers that offset stress and boost your mood

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— ABOUT BRYAN —

Bryan E. Robinson, Ph.D. is a professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, psychotherapist in private practice, and award-winning author of two novels and 40 nonfiction books that have been translated into 15 languages. He has appeared on 20/20, Good Morning America, ABC's World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, NBC Universal, the CBS Early Show, and The Marketplace on PBS. He hosted the PBS documentary “Overdoing It: How to Slow Down and Take Care of Yourself.” His book, Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them, is now in its third edition (New York University Press, 1998; 2007; 2014). He developed the Work Addiction Risk Test (WART), an instrument used worldwide to measure work addiction. He lives in Asheville with his spouse, one Yorkie, three Golden doodles, and Krishna, an adopted cat, who wandered into their lives, along with occasional bears at night.

• Bryan’s book: #Chill: Turn Off Your Job and Turn On Your Life

• Bryan’s website: BryanRobinsonBooks.com

• Workaholic test: How Chill Are You?

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Man's Search for Meaning The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust by Viktor Frankl

• Book: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

• Past episode: 267: Managing Self-Doubt to Tackle Bigger Challenges with Tara Mohr

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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.
0:16.3	Hello and thanks so much for joining us here
0:21.1	for episode 591 with Brian Robinson.
0:24.0	If you have ever experienced work or stress just feeling like too much, Brian's got a whole lot of
0:30.7	actionable tips and techniques. I've been loving it. So you'll learn one, the key
0:36.4	difference between loving work and workaholeism, two, how to keep your survived brain from
0:41.4	overwhelming you. And three, four microchillers that offset stress and
0:45.9	boost your mood. So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to
0:49.3	islands we referenced, it's at awesome at your job.com.
0:51.8	slash EP 591.
0:54.6	Now here's Brian Story.
0:55.5	Brian E Robinson PhD is a professor emeritus
0:58.4	at the University of North Carolina and Charlotte,
1:00.8	a psychotherapist in private practice, and an award-winning author of two novels and
1:04.5	40-4-0 non-fiction books that have been translated into 15 languages.
1:09.8	He's appeared on 2020, Good Morning America, ABC's World News, NBC Universal, the CBS
1:16.5	Early Show, and the Marketplace on PBS.
1:19.5	He hosted the PBS documentary Overdoing It, How to slow down and take care of yourself.
1:23.6	His book chained to the desk, a guidebook for workaholics, their partners and children,
1:28.2	and the clinicians who treat them is now in its third edition.
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