How to Find Meaning and Live a Good Life with Jonathan Fields
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Fields is a father, husband, award-winning author, executive producer, and host of one of the top-ranked podcasts in the world, The Good Life Project. He also speaks globally to groups and organizations and his work has been featured widely in the media including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Oprah Magazine, and many others.
Eric and Jonathan chat about a few different topics relating to how we can bring more meaning and fulfillment into our daily activities that lead to living a good life.
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Jonathan Fields and I Discuss How to Find Meaning and Live a Good Life …
- How people can bring more meaning and enjoyment to their day job
- The challenges and importance of setting boundaries for work time
- Learning to shift focus on how to be more effective rather than putting in more time
- The idea of investing in yourself when considering career or other life changes
- Jonathan’s “sparketype” framework
- Asking the question “How can I be a light in other people’s lives” in both professional and personal lives
- The process of change and how we can equip ourselves to handle forced change
- Finding the sweet spot of what motivates us and our approach to behavior change based on our personality
- How identifying our values can make behavior change more effective and sustainable
- Building flexibility and creating tolerance in your goals knowing perfection isn’t possible
- Knowing why we want to change is a critical component to making change and understanding
- Dealing with low moodspath to personal change
- Learning to be happy love yourself in your current state while you can also look to change
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| 0:00.0 | stepping into change can happen in a functional way, in a healthy way, in a constructive way, or a wildly dysfunctional, unhealthy and destructive way. |
| 0:10.0 | And sometimes the difference between the two is more subtle than we'd like to think. |
| 0:22.5 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:24.5 | Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:34.5 | And yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:38.5 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:43.5 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:46.5 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:49.5 | But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:57.5 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:04.5 | Where were you in 92? Bouncing your butt to Sir Mixla? Wondering if you, like Billy Ray Cyrus, could pull off a moment? |
| 1:24.5 | Now I had as a podcast all about it. |
| 1:26.5 | I'm Jason Longfied, and on my new show, We're Were You in 92, we take a ride through the major hits, one hit wonders and shocking scandals that shaped the wildest 12 months in music history. |
| 1:34.5 | You know, the president came after me, everybody, time, water, with madness. |
| 1:39.5 | Music was magic, and I had completely burned that to the ground. |
| 1:43.5 | I realized I'm the forbidden fruit. |
| 1:46.5 | So listen and follow We're You in 92. On the IHR radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. |
| 1:52.5 | Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Jonathan Fields. |
| 1:57.5 | Jonathan has been on before, and in this episode him and Eric just discuss a few topics they felt like talking about. |
| 2:03.5 | Jonathan is an award-winning author, global speaker, and host of the popular podcast, The Good Life. |
| 2:09.5 | His work has been featured widely in the media, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, Oprah Magazine, and many others. |
| 2:16.5 | He's also the author of the book Sparked, How to Live a Good Life, and Others. |
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