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Align Podcast

Jonathan Fields: How to Beat Burn Out and Perform at Your Best

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8923 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

20-50% of people quit their jobs without knowing what to do next. Are you one of them?  In a world of uncertainties, finding the thing that lights us up gets more difficult each day. Most of us are burnt out, dragging ourselves to work for the paycheck, status, benefits, and prestige until we wake up 10 or 20 years later wondering what it was all for.  How do we show up better in life and keep our sense of purpose? Jonathan Fields offers the tools and strategies we're looking for! Here, he talks about what defines a good life, where to find meaning despite uncertainties, and how to cultivate a still mindset to embody a more peaceful and productive inner state. Jonathan is the host of the top-rated podcast, Good Life Project. After years of researching what sparks people's motivation, he came up with a system that identifies people into 10 different Sparketypes. Among his greatest discovery is this: aligning our work with our Sparketype leads to a higher sense of fulfillment and renewed quality of life. Find out more about the Sparketypes in Jonathan’s new book, "SPARKED, Discover Your Unique Imprint For Work That Makes You Come Alive." What we discuss: 3:13 - Realizations on Good Life Project's transition into remote production 11:55 - Navigating uncertainties in a changing world 14:15 - How do we find our passion? 16:49 - What it means to live a good life, and Jonathan's inspiration for Good Life Project 19:53 - What are Sparketypes? 25:00 - Why swapping jobs or relationships isn't always the best first step toward a better life 31:00 - The importance of infusing play into our adult life 38:03 - How do we show up better in life, relationships, and at work? 46:28 - How to cultivate a healthy and peaceful mindset to avoid burnout 54:30 - What do we consider as "work,” and how do we find fulfillment from it? 1:02:14 - The algorithim behind the Sparketype Assessment Learn more from Jonathan’s website: https://www.jonathanfields.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Lion Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together

0:06.6

the world's leading experts in all things, health and wellness to help you optimize your mind,

0:11.0

body and movement. Today's gorgeous episode is with Jonathan Fields.

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He's one of the first podcasts I started listening to actually, referred to as The Good Life Project.

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He is the author of the most recent book, Spark,

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Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes Us Come Alive and

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How to Live a Good Life. He also wrote Uncertainty,

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turning fear and doubt into fuel for brilliance.

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He's been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, CNN, Vogue.

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There's like a long, long list of different media outlets that he's been featured on. I greatly

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appreciate John's mind. I feel like he's like part philosopher, part psychologist, part

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entrepreneur monk. Really interesting guy. I appreciate him very much and I think you guys are going to enjoy this conversation.

0:57.0

If you do, and you'd like more people to hear conversations like this, one of the easy things that you could do would be leave a review on wherever

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you're listening to this iTunes would be a likely place I want to thank Erica

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Bushwell for leaving the review awesome podcast exclamation point.

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Aaron, host of the Line Podcast highlights all aspects of nutrition and more in this can't miss

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podcast. The host and expert guests offer insightful advice and information that is helpful to anyone who listens.

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Thank you, Erica Bushwell. I appreciate you all so much. And yeah, thanks guys just for telling your friends.

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Thanks for full on the journey.

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Hopefully the information from these episodes

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are being implemented to your lives.

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Hopefully it's stirring up your day in a positive way.

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