943: Crushing the 9 Barriers to Taking Action with David Nurse
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
David Nurse reveals how to identify and overcome the roadblocks preventing you from taking action.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to bridge the gap between knowing and doing
2) The nine reasons why we don’t take action
3) The force that’s more powerful than motivation
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— ABOUT DAVID —
A former professional basketball player, David Nurse is today a mindset coach who has trained over 175 NBA athletes including seven-time All Star Joe Johnson, “Linsanity’s” own Jeremy Lin, NBA champ Brook Lopez, Domas Sabonis, Norm Powell, Keegan Murray, and Top 10 player/All Star Shai Alexander. As a coach, David also took the Brooklyn Nets from 28th in three-point shooting percentage to 2nd overall in the NBA in just one season.
David is also the author of the best-selling books Pivot & Go, Breakthrough, and the 2023 release, Do It: The Life-Changing Power of Taking Action. He was named by Real Leaders as one of the Top 50 Motivational Speakers in the World, and his podcast, The David Nurse Show, is one of the fastest-growing podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. David resides in Marina del Rey, California, with his wife Taylor Kalupa.
• Book: Do It: The Life-Changing Power of Taking Action
• Website: DavidNurse.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
• Book: "The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy by Jon Gordon
• Book: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World by John Mark Comer and John Ortberg
• Shia LaBeouf’s Video: "Just Do It" Motivational Speech (Original Video by LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | So many people will know and know the right thing to do, |
| 0:10.0 | but very few will actually do it because this bridge between knowing and doing there's a valley and in that |
| 0:18.5 | valley there's roadblocks there's resistance there's the unknown the uncertain and ultimately everything is based on the fear of the results |
| 0:28.9 | seek wisdom from the wise don't just seek wisdom from anybody that's going to agree with you or be your |
| 0:35.4 | yes man. One to the power of 365 is one but 1.01 1% more one step forward to the power of 365 is 37.8. That's how powerful |
| 0:49.5 | just taking one step forward a day is. That's David Nurse. |
| 0:54.0 | He's a mindset coach who's trained over 175 NBA athletes including all stars like Joe Johnson, |
| 1:00.6 | Jeremy Lynn, and Shay Alexander. |
| 1:02.8 | He's also the author of multiple best-selling books, including his latest, |
| 1:05.8 | Do It, the life-changing power of taking action. |
| 1:08.6 | So you'll learn one, how to bridge the gap between knowing and doing, two, the nine reasons why we don't take action, |
| 1:14.8 | and three, the force that's more powerful than motivation. |
| 1:18.6 | I'm Pete McKitis, this is how to be awesome at your job. |
| 1:21.3 | Now, here's David. |
| 1:23.0 | David, welcome. |
| 1:24.1 | Pete's honor to be here, man. |
| 1:25.8 | I'm so excited to dig into your wisdom, |
| 1:28.8 | but first, I'd love it if you could kick us off |
| 1:31.3 | with a super riveting tail of your adventures with folks in the |
| 1:35.7 | NBA. All right here it is 2018. It's a summer it is NBA pre-draft so NBA Pre-Draft. |
| 1:43.2 | So, NBA Pre-Draft is before the players are superstars. |
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