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Help Wanted

How to Feel Better About Not Doing It All

Help Wanted

Money News Network

Self-improvement, Education, Business

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

There are days when we don't accomplish everything we want to. We all have them. And it feels wrong... but it shouldn't. Today, Jason gives you a new way to think about progress — and the motivation to keep going. And he starts with a very personal example. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The monopoly game is back at McDonald's, and guess what? It's still twice as nice, because

0:04.6

with double peel, you can peel on pack. Then peel a game on the McDonald's app, to when

0:08.8

prizes like, brand new mini-electrics, lovely McDonald's food, HBO and gaming laptops,

0:14.5

to be holiday vouchers, a thousand pounds in cash, plus tons of other incredible prizes.

0:19.3

18 plus UK only selected items, subjects of serving times and availability, and 17th

0:26.0

October, game plan, prize claims, my requirement, McDonald's app, seemingly rules.co.uk.

0:37.1

This is Help Wanted, the show that makes your work work for you. I'm Jason Feiffer, Editor

0:42.5

and Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, and I'm money expert in a cool lap in. On Tuesdays,

0:46.6

Jason and I answer the help line and help callers solve their work problems.

0:50.9

And on Thursdays, I give you one way to improve your work and build a career or company you

0:55.6

love. And it starts now. You're working on something. I know you are. It's why you

1:02.3

listen to this podcast, right? But it's not going as planned. Maybe it's taking longer

1:08.1

than you'd hoped, or it's harder than you expected, or more complicated, or more frustrating.

1:13.4

Anyway, you feel like you are doing something wrong. But what if you're doing it exactly

1:21.4

right? Today, I'm going to give you a new way to think about progress and the motivation

1:27.3

to keep going. And I'll start with a very personal example from this summer with me.

1:33.6

So I in July went to Boulder, Colorado, for a month with my family. It's a thing that

1:40.2

we do. And going into that month, I made a commitment to myself, which was that I was

1:44.8

going to deprioritize work. Why? Because Boulder has things that I want to enjoy, like the

1:51.9

outdoors and family and friends that I don't see often enough. We know a lot of people

1:56.2

there. And I wanted to take advantage of that, which meant morning hikes and afternoon

2:00.4

coffees that cut into my work hours. But of course, work didn't stop, didn't disappear

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