797: How to Find and Do Your Great Work with Amanda Crowell
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 5 September 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Amanda Crowell shares practical wisdom on how to make time and space for the work that matters most to you.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to get clarity on the work that fulfills you most
2) How to say no to the commitments eating up your time
3) How to stop procrastination from sabotaging your goals
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— ABOUT AMANDA —
Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk: Three Reasons You Aren’t Doing What You Say You Will Do has received 1.5 million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and TED Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.
Amanda lives in New Jersey with her husband, two adorable kids, and a remarkable Newfiepoo named Ruthie.
• Book: Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else
• TEDx Talk: Three reasons you aren’t doing what you say you will do | Amanda Crowell | TEDxHarrisburg
• Podcast: Unleashing Your Great Work
• Website: AmandaCrowell.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss
• Book: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
• Book: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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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 McHydus. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us for episode 797 with Amanda Crowell. |
| 0:23.6 | Amanda shares how to make time and space to do more of the work that matters most to you. |
| 0:29.6 | For great work, see how they're in one, how to get clarity on the work that fulfills |
| 0:33.3 | you most. |
| 0:34.3 | Two, how to say no to the other commitments eating up your time. |
| 0:37.8 | And three, how to stop procrastination from sabotaging your goals. |
| 0:41.2 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or some links to bits that |
| 0:44.8 | we reference here, that's over at awesome at your job.com slash EP 797. |
| 0:49.4 | And if you're at awesome at your job.com, check out some of our goodies like the full tech |
| 0:53.6 | searchable transcripts of all 797 of those episodes and a whole lot of other goodies |
| 0:58.4 | at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:00.0 | Now here's Amanda story. |
| 1:01.0 | Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist speaker, author, and the creator of the great |
| 1:05.5 | work journals. |
| 1:06.5 | Amanda's TEDx talk, three reasons you aren't doing what you say you will do has received |
| 1:11.3 | over one and a half million views and has been featured on Ted's ideas blog and Ted |
| 1:15.2 | shorts. |
| 1:16.2 | Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, the Wall Street Journal, Quartz, |
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