883: How to Thrive in Uncertainty and Chaos with Dan Thurmon
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Dan Thurmon shares powerful tools to make chaos your ally.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to reframe the stresses of uncertainty.
2) How to break the patterns of negative self-talk.
3) The tiny language shifts that make a huge difference.
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— ABOUT DAN —
Dan Thurmon is the founder and President of Motivation Works, Inc, a company that helps leaders and their organizations move confidently through change and transformation, so they become, achieve, and contribute MORE. His clients include Bank of America, Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Honeywell, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft, Marriott, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Prudential, State Farm, and Walmart.
He’s delivered thousands of presentations across six continents for audiences including world leaders, Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, educators, and even troops on the front lines of battle in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2011, he was inducted into the prestigious Speaker Hall of Fame -- and is one of fewer than 200 living speakers to have received this honor.
Dan is also a writer and content producer. He’s authored three books: Success in Action, Off Balance On Purpose, and most recently, Positive Chaos.
Along with his speeches and books, Dan produces an ongoing, weekly video-coaching series and podcast in which he shares leadership principles and life-enhancement strategies in under three minutes.
• Book: Positive Chaos: Transform Crisis into Clarity and Advantage
• Study: DanThurmon.com/research
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Tool: Theracane
• Past episode: 876: How to Present Like the Pros with Michael J. Gelb
• Book: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
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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 to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete Makaitas. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and welcome to Episode 883 with Dan Thurman. |
| 0:22.0 | Dan has some excellent perspective on how you can reframe elements of chaos, |
| 0:28.0 | uncertainty, the unpleasant bits, and turn them into a really powerful ally that drives you forward in some great ways. |
| 0:36.0 | You'll learn one, how to reframe the stresses of uncertainty, two, how to break the patterns of negative self-talk, |
| 0:42.0 | and three, the tiny language shifts that make a huge difference. |
| 0:46.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced, |
| 0:50.0 | please visit us over at awesom at your job.com slash ep883. |
| 0:54.0 | And while you're there, check out some of our goodies like the Golden Nugget email list, |
| 0:58.0 | the 10 days who would hang out work free email course, all the transcripts fully searchable and full text, all such a good stuff. |
| 1:04.0 | At awesom at your job.com. |
| 1:06.0 | Now here's a bit about Dan. Dan Thurman is the founder and president of Motivation Works Inc, |
| 1:10.0 | a company that helps leaders and their organizations move confidently through change and transformation. |
| 1:14.0 | So they become, achieve, and contribute more. |
| 1:18.0 | His clients include Bank of America and many others. |
| 1:20.0 | He's delivered thousands of presentations across six continents for audiences, including World Leaders, |
| 1:24.0 | Fortune 500 companies, and many more. |
| 1:26.0 | In 2011, he was inducted into the prestigious Speaker Hall of Fame |
| 1:30.0 | and is won a fewer than 200 living speakers to have received this honor. |
| 1:34.0 | Dan is also a writer and content producer. |
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