Setting goals mindfully with AK Ikwuakor

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We’re heading into the second month of the year, which means many of us might need an extra boost of encouragement to keep those new year's resolutions going. Today’s guest has a unique approach to achieving goals. AK Ikwuakor, also known as Coach AK, is an executive coach and the author of The Next Right Move. He works with professionals to form habits that bring them closer to what they want to achieve. He sits down with Jessi to discuss how mindfulness can help us understand ourselves, and by extension our goals, much better. Follow AK Ikwuakor on LinkedIn and check out his book here. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir, now in paperback. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. To continue the conversation this week and every week, join our free LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:00.0	LinkedIn News.
0:05.0	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemple and this is Hello Monday.
0:10.0	The most nervous I've ever been for an interview was in 2016. Even now as I think
0:20.0	about it
0:23.7	I feel a little like I might throw up. I was in Barcelona for a trade show called Mobile World
0:26.4	Congress. I was set to interview Mark Zuckerberg, you know Facebooks Mark
0:31.1	Zuckerberg before an audience of about 8,000 developers in
0:35.1	business people and I knew this wasn't going to be a friendly audience. They
0:39.2	didn't really get or like Facebook's approach to doing business.
0:43.7	I also knew Mark got nervous for these kinds of things,
0:47.1	even in the very best of situations.
0:50.1	And I just remember beforehand, pacing back and forth in front of the bathroom mirror in my hotel room,
0:55.9	sweating, trying to envision things going perfect, just the way that I wanted them to.
1:01.6	I finally called a friend, she told me hey you can only control the things
1:07.9	you can control so focus on those things this is a key insight for anyone who's ever studied performance
1:15.8	and that's what we're talking about today. Personal performance. How do we
1:21.2	bring out our very best? We'll get into it after the break.
1:29.0	From LinkedIn News, I'm Leah Smart and this is everyday better.
1:33.0	Join me every week to explore the stories and ideas that show us how we can live
1:37.5	even better every single day with people who are changing the world.
1:42.0	Tune into my weekly podcast everyday better. with people who are changing the world.
1:42.8	Tune into my weekly podcast, Every Day Better,
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