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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

891: Finding Calm, Balance, and a Cure for Workaholism with Dr. Bryan Robinson

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Bryan Robinson shares the dangers of work addiction–and how you can recover from it. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) What workaholism is–and how you can tell if you have it. 

2) The 10 C’s to help you find your calm. 

3) How to befriend your negative emotions. 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep891 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT BRYAN — 

Bryan E. Robinson is Founder and Chief Architect Officer of Comfort Zones Digital, Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a psychotherapist in private practice. He writes for Forbes.com and Thrive Global and is the author of over forty books, including three editions of Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them and #Chill: Turn Off Your Job and Turn on Your Life. 

• Book: Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Work-Life Balance 

• Book: Limestone Gumption: A Brad Pope And Sisterfriends Mystery 

• Website: BryanRobinsonBooks.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl 

• Book: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Chartwell Classics) by Mark Twain 

• News Site: The Huffington Post 

• Publication: Thrive Global 

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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 McIdest.

0:19.3

Hello and welcome to episode 891 with Dr. Brian Robinson.

0:23.7

We got Brian back a second time because he has so much good perspective when it comes

0:27.9

to finding the calm.

0:29.7

The balance when there is too much stuff, too much stress.

0:34.3

If you are having a hard time letting go of work or setting boundaries, Brian's got so

0:39.1

much great stuff to put you in a happier, chiller place.

0:43.7

The older and one, what workaholism really is and how to tell if you have it.

0:48.6

Two, the ten C's to help you find your calm.

0:51.6

And three, how to befriend your negative emotions.

0:54.3

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

0:57.0

articles that we've referenced, please visit us over at awesometirejob.com slash ep891.

1:02.6

And while you're at awesometirejob.com, you're recommending you check out our gold nuggets

1:05.2

which gives you the summary, wisdom, the actionable tidbits, each gas suggests, an email you

1:10.8

can read in about two or three minutes.

1:12.9

You can read the goods from Brian, those ten C's in particular you might want to written

1:17.9

a reference for, as well as unlocking the whole vault, the archive of all 891 of these

1:23.6

summaries, those are called the gold nuggets, front and center, over at awesometirejob.com.

1:28.7

Now here's a bit about Brian.

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