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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

607: How to Make Any Work Energizing and Motivating with Todd Henry

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Decisions, Interview, Selfhelp, Fun, Speaking, Education, Careers, Skills, Money, Training, Meaning, Career, Thinking, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Success, Collaboration, Winning, Self-improvement, Mockaitis, Writing, Development, Wins

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Todd Henry explains how to tap into your personal motivation code to bring more energy and excitement to your career. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) What it really takes to create lasting motivation 

2) How our motivations distract us—and how to curb that 

3) The 27 flavors of motivation 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep607 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT TODD — 

Todd Henry teaches leaders and organizations how to establish practices that lead to everyday brilliance. He speaks and consults across dozens of industries on creativity, leadership, and passion for work. He is the author of five books, which have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and the longtime host of The Accidental Creative podcast. 

• Todd’s book: The Motivation Code: Discover the Hidden Forces That Drive Your Best Work 

• Assessment: The Motivation Code Assessment 

• Todd's book: Herding Tigers: Be the Leader That Creative People Need 

• Todd's book: Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day 

• Todd's article: “Don’t Let Your Rituals Become Ruts” 

• Todd's website: ToddHenry.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Tool: Techo Planner 

• App: Momentum 

• Software: iZotope RX 8 

• Book: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 

• Book: Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies by Cesar Hidalgo 

• Personality: Deci EL, Ryan RM – Self-Determination Theory 

• Previous episode: 294: Generating Greatness from Creative Workers with Todd Henry 


— THANK YOU SPONSORS! — 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

0:04.1

The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required

0:08.5

to flourish at work.

0:10.1

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete LeCaites.

0:16.5

Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 607 with Todd Henry.

0:23.7

Todd has cracked the motivation code and helps us crack it as well.

0:28.6

The older and one, what it really takes to create lasting motivation to how our motivations

0:33.4

can distract us and how to curb that and three, the 27 flavors of motivation.

0:39.2

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adam's

0:41.6

Beaver efforts, drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP607.

0:46.4

Now here's Todd's story, Todd Henry teaches leaders and organizations how to establish

0:50.8

practices that lead to everyday brilliance.

0:53.8

He speaks and consults across dozens of industries on creativity, leadership, and passion for

0:57.8

work.

0:58.8

He's the author of five books, which has been translated into more than a dozen language.

1:02.4

And he's the long time host of the accidental creative podcast.

1:06.4

Big thanks to Todd for sharing his wisdom with us.

1:08.3

A big thanks to our sponsors.

1:09.7

Check him out.

1:12.0

Now here's Todd.

1:13.3

Todd, thanks for joining us here on The How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast again.

1:17.8

Pete, thanks for having me back.

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