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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

782: How to Overcome Distraction through Minimalism with Joshua Becker

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Joshua Becker shares his practical ideas for letting go of distractions so you can focus on what matters most. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The one thing that starts day right

2) How money can prevent us from growing in our jobs 

3) How to tackle technology addiction 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep782 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT JOSHUA — 

Joshua Becker is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of five books: Things That Matter, The Minimalist Home, The More of Less, Clutterfree with Kids and Simplify. 

He is the Founder and Editor of Becoming Minimalist, a website dedicated to intentional living visited by over 1 million readers every month with a social media following of over 3 million. His blog was named by SUCCESS Magazine as one of the top ten personal development websites on the Internet and his writing has been featured in publications all around the world. 

• Book: Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life 

• Website: BecomingMinimalist.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino 

• Song: “Ill With Want” by The Avett Brothers 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:04.0

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

0:08.6

to flourish at work.

0:10.1

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

0:16.0

Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 782 with Joshua Becker.

0:24.0

Joshua's got some excellent perspective when it comes to how to overcome distraction

0:28.7

through his mindset of minimalism and how that applies to so many things.

0:32.5

You'll learn one, the one thing that starts the day off right, two, how money can prevent

0:37.2

us from growing in our jobs, and three, how to tackle technology addiction.

0:41.7

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that

0:44.5

we've mentioned here, please, pace a visit at awesome at your job.com slash EP782.

0:49.4

Here's Joshua's story.

0:51.6

Joshua Becker is the Wall Street Journal in USA today, bestselling author of five books,

0:55.8

things that matter, the minimalist home, the more of less, clutter free with kids, and

1:01.2

simplify.

1:02.2

He's the founder and editor of becoming minimalist, a website dedicated to intentional living

1:06.8

visited by over 1 million readers every month with a social media following over 3 million.

1:11.4

His blog was named by Success Magazine as one of the top 10 personal development websites

1:15.5

on the internet and his writing has been featured in publications all around the world.

1:20.2

Big thanks to Joshua for sharing his wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors.

1:23.6

Check them out.

1:24.7

One sponsor to check out is Stanford Continuing Studies.

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