995: Going From Overwhelmed to Unstoppable by Resetting your Mindset with Penny Zenker

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🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Penny Zenker shares her secret for enhanced productivity, peak performance, and unstoppable focus: the Reset Moment.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How distractions lead to burnout

2) The sneaky secret behind your zapped energy levels

3) Why productivity shouldn’t be your focus

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— ABOUT PENNY —

Penny Zenker (AKA “The Focusologist”) is a sought-after speaker, bestselling author, and former C-Suite executive of a global top-five research company. Over the past three decades, she has built and sold multiple multimillion-dollar companies—including an award-winning tech firm she founded.

Today, Penny helps leaders prioritize what’s most important, so they can achieve seemingly impossible goals -even in times of rapid change and growth. Penny has shared her expertise with industry giants like Deloitte, Pfizer, SAP, Samsung, and NASA, and been featured by NBC News, ESPN, FORBES, INC., and many more.

She has written two best-selling books: The Reset Mindset and The Productivity Zone to help people stop their tug of war with time. Her popular TEDx talk, The Energy of Thought has surpassed one-million views worldwide. And her podcast, Take Back Time, ranks in the top 2% worldwide, reflecting her commitment to helping others regain control of their focus and achieve peak performance.

• Book: The Reset Mindset: Get Unstuck, Focus on What Matters Most, and Reach Your Goals Faster

• LinkedIn: Penny Zenker

• Quiz: Distraction Quiz

• TEDx Talk: The energy of thought | Penny Zenker | TEDxPSUBehrend

• Website: PennysKeynote.com

• Website: TheResetMindset.net

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss

• Tool: Due app

• Tool: TextExpander

Past episode: 475: Achieving 50% More with 1% Effort Using the 80/20 Rule with Perry Marshall

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0:00.0	productivity isn't the point. We spend so much time and effort trying to be more productive that sometimes what we don't realize is that we are being productive for productive sake so in a way we're just being busy. So we would see a lift in our mental health.
0:28.0	We'd be able to have deeper, more meaningful relationships. We'd be able to experience more joy in the work that we do and in the time that we spend because we'd be spending it more on the things that matter most and things that give us energy versus things that take our energy away or
0:45.2	splinter our energy into lots of different directions. So we would just be
0:50.0	happier and be more fulfilled if we would take back our focus.
0:55.8	These times that we say we're going to do something and then we don't, that diminishes
1:00.4	us in some ways and it creates stress because we kind of internally it affects us when we say I'm going to do something and then we don't follow through.
1:10.0	It affects our confidence and our ability to follow through with things on a consistent
1:15.0	basis.
1:16.0	That's Penny Zanker, also known as The Focus Alpogist.
1:26.8	She's a sought-after speaker, best-selling author, podcast host, and former C-suite executive
1:32.0	of a global top five research company.
1:34.1	Her podcast, Take Back Time, ranks in the top 2% worldwide and helps people regain control
1:40.0	of their focus and achieve peak performance.
1:42.6	Penny specializes in helping leaders prioritize what's most important
1:46.2	so they can achieve seemingly impossible goals, even in times of rapid change and growth.
1:51.4	So you'll learn, one, how distractions lead to burnout.
1:54.0	Two, the sneaky secret behind your zapped energy levels. And three, why productivity shouldn't
2:00.3	be the focus. And if you want to read these takeaways all the faster or just have a handy
2:05.6	text-based review, I recommend you sign up for the gold nuggets at awesome at your job.com.
2:10.8	Our free email newsletter there provides actionable wisdom that you could read in just a couple minutes.
2:16.0	I'm Pupakitis. This is how to be an awesome at your job and now here's Penny. Penny, welcome.
2:25.0	It's so good to be here.
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