917: Training Your Mind For Better Focus, Energy, and Willpower with Oren Jay Sofer

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🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Oren Jay Sofer shares how to engage contemplative practices to improve your focus, energy, and quality of life.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The five-item list that will help you focus better.

2) How to be unstoppable in the face of procrastination.

3) The three-second trick for boosting energy.

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— ABOUT OREN —

Oren Jay Sofer teaches meditation and communication internationally. He holds a degree in comparative religion from Columbia University and is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for the healing of trauma. Oren is also the author of several books, including the best-seller Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication and his latest book, Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices toMeet a World In Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love. His teaching has reached people around the world through his online communication courses and guided meditations. A husband and a father, Oren lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he enjoys cooking, spending time in nature, and home woodworking projects.

• Book: Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love

• Website: OrenJaySofer.com

• Previous episode: 292: Enhancing Work and Life through Mindfulness with Oren Jay Sofer

• Previous episode: 375: How and Why to Communicate Mindfully with Oren Jay Sofer

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• Book: Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart by James R. Doty

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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.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.1	With your host, Pete McIdus.
0:16.1	Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 917 with Orange Asofer.
0:23.7	Orange is back because orange is just such a delight.
0:26.4	I have many fond memories of orange voices.
0:29.2	I was getting familiar with the fundamentals of mindfulness from his course inside the
0:33.9	simple habit meditation app.
0:36.3	So he is back with more good stuff in this vein, sharing how to train our minds for better
0:42.2	focus, energy, willpower, and more with contemplative practices, but not in a way that's all
0:47.7	woo, woo, weirder, kind of out of touch, out of reach, but rather quite practical and
0:53.2	lovely.
0:54.2	One, the five item list that will help you focus better, two, how to be unstoppable
0:59.4	in the face of procrastination, and three, the three second trick for boosting energy.
1:04.0	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to out of
1:06.6	that we've referenced, please drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP 917.
1:13.0	And also my job right now, we got a fancy thing going down.
1:16.1	It is our listener survey.
1:18.2	We've had over 100 people share their input so far and we'd love to hear your advice
1:21.8	as well, which helps shape the direction of hundreds of future episodes.
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