Employ Five “Power Principles” to Radically Improve Your Life

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Elise Cortes. Welcome back to the
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Eliscortes dot com. Now getting into
today's program with us is Wendy Leshgold.

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She is the co founder of Fast
Forward Group, a professional development executive coaching

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company. We'll be talking about the
new book she co wrote with Lisa McCarthy.

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Mcarth called Fast Forward Five Power Principles
to create the life you want in

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just one year. Do you know
today from Los Angeles, California. Wendy,

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Welcome to Working on Purpose. Thank
you so much, nice to be

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here, nice to have you,
and I want to congratulate you and Lisa

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on this fantastic work. I know
what it is to bring a book into

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the world. As my guests or
as our listeners have heard me say several

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times, it's harder than bringing in
a baby. We're easy than bringing in

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a baby hard harder to let's let's
get it right. It is harder than

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bringing a you in the world than
I've done both, So I think you

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have two yes, Okay, okay, good, Well, let's just start

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here. I know a little something
about it because I've read your book,

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but my listeners and viewers haven't.
So would you just start by saying a

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little bit about your background and why
you and Lisa felt compelled to write this

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book and do the work that you
are together today. And I know you

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have to say something about the fact
that your childhood friends as well. Okay,

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so yes, Lisa and I've met
each other a very very, very

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long time ago. We met they
were girls in Sleepway camp and I always

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say sleep Boy camp friends are the
best friends. And we stayed connected,

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We stayed really really great friends,
and we always had this dream that one

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day we would work together. And
you know, we were in similar industries.

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We both were. I was in
advertising, she was in media,

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and we kind of were on this
career journey having you know, having families,

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building our careers, and then we
found ourselves really jointly at a crossroads

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about eleven years ago, and we
She was sort of going through reorg number

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five hundred and sixty eight, you
know, at her company, and I

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was at a point I had my
own at that point, I had my

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own executive coaching practice and found myself, you know, finally with my youngest

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child in school, able to travel, more able to and wanting to just

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impact more people. And so we
put you know, we joined forces.

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Really they decided, Okay, someday
we're going to work together. Is going

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to be today, and we,
with a lot of fear but a lot

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of excitement, launched the Fast Forward
Group with a really with a vision of

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transforming workplaces and cultures and helping people
to be the best they could be professionally,

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but also not have to put their
life on hold while they were doing

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that and do their very best work, and that has really been the mission

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of the fast Forward Group. Over
the last eleven years, We've been able

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to work with a lot of people
from a lot of really awesome companies.

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And you know what led us to
write the book is knowing that there are

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many people out there that might find
themselves in two camps. One camp is

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they were lucky enough to work for
a company that hired the fast Forward Group,

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they did the program, and they
were looking for a way to just

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keep it in their life. It's
a really really great actionable system and it's

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great to have a reminder. And
then the bulk of the people in the

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world have not done the fast Forward
program because they have not worked at Google

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or Facebook or Amazon or TikTok or
Chase or you know these other big companies,

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but they are interested in learning how
to do that too at their workplace,

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and so we wrote a book the
book for them as well. That's

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beautiful, Wendy. I just really
appreciate that service and I can I relate

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to that very very strongly. So
what I like to do in my program,

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Wendy, is it's one party education, one party inspiration and so and

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it's really curated content so you'll notice
that the things I put out that I

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wanted to talk about some of the
you know, it's not just the full

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description of your book or the full
contents of your book. I'm pulling out

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the pieces that I think really speak
to something that we haven't really spoken to

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much yet on the program. So
the first thing I want to put forth

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in that that I found really compelling
and really inligned with here is, you

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know, one of your one of
your principles is speaks to the massive value

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of bold vision. And I think
I loved what you put in there about

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when when we ask people to throw
their hats over the wall, this is

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what we mean for yourself, something
so convillain to play for that you don't

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have a choice but to go for
it. We love that, And so

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if you could speak a little bit
to this notion of the you know,

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the power of the bold vision.
Yeah, yeah, And I love that

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you called out that expression of throwing
your hat over the wall because we love

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that expression too. It's one of
those things it kind of sticks with you.

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So I just want to share where
it comes from, just to set

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this up, because I think that's
an interesting story. There was an Irish

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writer named Frank O'Connor famous. You
could google him. He's written a lot

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of things, but he when he
talks about his own life and his autobiography,

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he talks about when he was a
young boy. He grew up very

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poor and he would you go to
school in Ireland and when he and his

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friends would take these walks through the
countryside, they would come upon these high

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orchard walls and they had to figure
out how they were going to get over

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the wall so that they could keep
going and take their hats from their school

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uniform off their head and toss them
over the wall. So they had to

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figure out how to get over.
And we love this as a metaphor for

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life because we know that when you're
standing in front of the wall, it

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feels really insurmountable, like you just
think to yourself, I have no idea

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how I'm going to get over this
wall. But when you commit yourself to

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getting over, your brain starts to
get very busy figuring out how to do

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it, versus giving yourself all the
reasons why you can't do it. They

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call that creative tension, and I
find that to be so true in so

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many cases. So we ask people
to think about where in their life they

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would love to make something happen,
and maybe they don't know the clear path

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to making it happen. Where could
you throw your hat over the wall for

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something that you'd feel so great about, even if it's not clear to you

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in the present moment how you're going
to do it. I of course completely

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aligned with this. I align with
your five principles everything and your language is

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so vibrant and action oriented, and
what it also speaks to is even just

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the power of language. And one
of the things that you also talk about

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in the book. And again I've
pulled on this too, Wendy, because

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of my background and innovation and breakthrough
kind of work. So I recognize some

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of your language that I really resonate
with in this. So you talk about

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how you know, imagine the possibility
of your life just one year for today

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from today, and you say language
creates reality. The belief that something is

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possible starts and is continuously reaffirmed in
our language. And I know this to

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be true. The power of declaration. Think about this, I now pronounce

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you whatever you want to say,
a partner and partner. It's a declaration

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that you've brought something into being.
So if you could say a little bit

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more about the power of declaring yes, I think that it is one of

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the most it's it's not only one
of the most powerful things, but it's

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also can often be one of the
first things right that happens. And for

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most of us, we don't like
to make declarations. It feels very uncomfortable

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and even the word declare very rare
domain of language. People don't like to

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do it because it puts you on
the hook for something, and a lot

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of people feel fear around having to
then follow through with it once they've said

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they're going to do it, and
often the decision about whether or not to

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make the declaration it almost that's where
almost all the suffering lies is should I

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or shouldn't I? And you know, how do it? Once you've actually

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declared something in language, a few
different things happen. The first thing that

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happens is that it becomes something that
could potentially happen. Right. Doesn't mean

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it's a sure thing, but because
it exists in speaking, it all of

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a sudden becomes something that could be
possible. And so, you know,

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the very first thing is speaking it
into a possibility But the other thing that

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really happens once you do that is
that you could tell other people what the

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declaration is, which you know,
they say when you write down a goal

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of any kind, you're forty two
percent more likely to make it happen just

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by writing it down. But then
when you say it to another person,

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particularly someone in your life that could
hold you accountable, you're twice as likely

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to be able to make it happen. That's a really compelling statistic if you're

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you know, if you're looking for
better odds and you're thinking to yourself that

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it feels really uncomfortable to go for
something that I don't have to do.

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So those are just a couple of
the ways that I think about making declarations

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and why language can be so incredibly
helpful. The other thing I just want

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to say about language is not just
as it relates to goal setting, but

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also, you know, when you
think about the words that you use to

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describe yourself, to ribe other people, to describe situations, I think a

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lot of times people don't fully appreciate
the power of those words. And I

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want to give you just one example
that I think everyone will be able to

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relate to because it's such a big
watch out. And the first question we

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ask people in the vision exercise is
we say what are you known for a

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year from today? When we ask
people to think about, what is something

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you'd love to be known for that
maybe is different than how you're currently known,

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And we say to people, the
reason why this is such an important

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question is because when you're not thinking
about this question at all, you might

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end up being known for something that
you do not want to be known for.

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People use language like I'm so stressed
out, I'm so busy, i

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am exhausted to answer the question,
Hey, how are you? How's your

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day going, how's your week going? And then we wonder why when you

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go, if somebody would to go
ask that person what you know? What

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do you want to tell me about? That person? Tell me about Wendy,

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tell me about a last and they
say, oh, they're really busy,

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They're really busy, And then you
know you're sort of wondering, well,

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why am I known for being someone
who's really busy? It's all because

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of the language that you use and
how that reaffirms that belief and what's really

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interesting about that Wendy listeners and viewers
think about this for a second. If

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that's what Wenny just said becomes true
about you in other people's minds, Now,

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what's going to happen when there's a
great promotion. You're probably not going

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to be approached because you're too busy, right, The word on the street

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is you're too So I love the
intentionality of what you put forth. Love

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that Wendy, thank you, You're
welcome. And the other thing that I

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want to I want a presence for
our listeners and our viewers. That I

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think is really powerful about the exercise
you have in your book about creating that

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bold vision is you say that the
most effective visions in compass our whole lives,

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all the things we care about,
all the things we want deeply,

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all the things that light us up. I really think that's powerful, because

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boy, now you're talking about again, this is the whole life that you're

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talking about architecting, and I love
the idea the promise of one year by

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the way, when yeah, well
we should talk about both of those things.

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I think, first of all,
the whole life and this is really

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relevant to this notion of working on
purpose, which I love the name of

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your podcast, because I do think
that sometimes people don't work on purpose.

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They almost work on accident, or
write working hoping it works out, hoping

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that it's purposeful, hoping that it
And one of the things about writing a

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vision for your whole life is really
looking at how does my work complement the

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rest of my life. How do
I want to show up, how do

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I want to get better at certain
things? How do I want my relationships

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to look both professional relationships personal relationships, so that you can have more intentionality

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around your whole life. And I
just think people don't normally think about their

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life that way. It just kind
of, you know, they wake up

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on Monday morning and kind of go
back to to do list that was left

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over from Friday, and then just
sort of hit it hard for the whole

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week, and then they're exhausted at
the end of the day Friday, wondering

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why they didn't get more done and
wondering why there is important goals that didn't

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get touched. And this is really
the antidote to that. And you mentioned

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the notion of one year, and
we were very very thoughtful about the time

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length because people have asked us,
well, why one year, why not

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five years, why not ten years? You why not give yourself a longer

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range. And the answer to that
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be specific and to be really paint
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look like five or ten years from
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really gets in people's way. Whereas
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year, you still have time to
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enough to create great change and transformation
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so many unknowns that you really can't
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picture that's compelling not just for yourself
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Yeah. It's tangible, right,
I mean I can see in a

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year, right, I mean I
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five years is way too far,
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we do want to live these beautiful, vibrant lives that are uniquely our

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own. And so I think what
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principles and your plan and the exercise
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I fully align. I'm a fan
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you know, the great thing too
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people and this notion of declaring able
vision is really the it's a foundational power

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principle in our in our system.
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but we always start with it and
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It's not a one and done.
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you read it every month, you
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give people a lot of very actionable
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to your most you know, to
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year rolls around, you look at
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might scrap it and rewrite it,
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people that when you write it,
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uncomfortable. You're not just writing what's
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at what would I feel so proud
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I feel so proud to be in
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even if I don't know how and
what people share with us, and

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we've heard this from so many people. Is a year later when we kind

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of come back and say, Okay, how did it go? You know,

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how did you do? And they
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than I ever thought I would and
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absolutely no idea. I took ground, even if I didn't accomplish all of

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it, and they think I should
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going to play bigger. Right,
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What a beautiful contribution and impact.
Wendy, Let's let our listeners and you

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welcome listeners and viewers just kind of
think about that as we go on our

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first break. We've been talking about
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After Rick, we're going to get
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So I'm your host, doctor Alice
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and executive coaching company. We've been
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Lisa McCarthy called fast Forward Five Power
Principles to create the life you want in

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led by inspirational leaders that help them
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do business that betters the world.
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So one of my latest books,
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twenty three is called the Great Revitalization, How activating meaning and purpose can radically

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enliven your business, which helps leaders
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then offers twenty two best practices to
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can find those things. You can
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or also on Amazon if you're just
now joining us today. My guest is

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Wendy Lischgold. She's the co author
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the Life you want in just one
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one of your principles here in your
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our confidence and not listening to that
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does motivate them. So can you
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deciding how to listen to that inner
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worked with many really confident leaders,
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a lot of people say to themselves, Okay, well I'm really really confident

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in all of these situations. But
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people and I'm not myself and I
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prove something or apologize for something,
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you know, we all know that
when we're not when we're not feeling like

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we can you know, be fully
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dramatically decreases the likelihood of success in
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able to produce. And I think
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is directly correlated to the relationship that
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your entire lifetime, when you think
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most significant relationships that you'll have in
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is probably number one. Yeah,
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fueling that relationship so that we can
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life, who we are in our
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of who we're presenting to the world. So that's you know, one of

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the key reasons why this matters so
much, and we give people and people

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who are listening might be the same
in themselves. Okay, Well, that

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all sounds great, but how do
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how do I get more confident,
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where it feels the most uncomfortable.
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A lot about of it is about
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can use again and again and again
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So I'm going to give you an
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There's not enough time to go through
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you one. And one of them
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and with those people, it's like
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confident with, it's useful to keep
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mind. Oftentimes, what we're focused
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is our weaknesses, how other people
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the things we wish we had done
better, all of the reasons why we

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potentially might be unsuccessful in the interaction
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And that is the key of our
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look at different definitions of the word
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is focusing on our strengths and abilities
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focus on our strengths, abilities and
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habit with those people or in those
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and qualities, it's very hard to
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the practices we offer to people is
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are my strengths, abilities and qualities, and how can I deploy them in

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those situations and just like shifting your
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deficiencies and towards everything that you bring
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resist that, find it so hard
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I want to be humble, you
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seen as somebody who is obnoxious or
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look. I think for many women
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it is for men, but it
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practice of focusing on your strengths and
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you don't have to be broadcasting it
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to declare it for yourself, right, I mean it's so powerful. Yes,

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declare strengths. I've seen that as
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things that you've alluded to earlier that
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bit of time bringing to life for
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know, taking control of your time, energy and focus, and that we

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can choose to tell ourselves an empowering
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focus. That we have enough that
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intentional. But people always say things
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when I have time, I'll go
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really want when I have time.
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do that. I can hardly get
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think the way you put forth in
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be able to change the story about
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yeah, and the one about time. I mean, obviously people make up

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stories about all kinds of things.
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of how we relate to time,
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have enough time? Is that or
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know, you said, they're looking
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I don't have enough time. It's
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never comes. And you know,
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that I have exactly enough for the
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right, And sometimes when I say
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belief in the possibility that that could
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notion of I don't have enough time. There's no concrete truth in that.

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time, we collect so much evidence
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it's very hard to believe any other
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seems so true. And yet it
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of motivate ourselves to look for a
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I don't have enough time is happiness, peace, accomplishments, being able to

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pursue your dreams, relationships with people, a feeling, a sense of presence,

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so many things. So I choose
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enough time for what's important to me
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you, because it's not everything,
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that are important to me, but
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what your benchmark is for what what
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to you, it's very helpful in
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are less important and just choose not
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the things that are important, you're
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time on them. And you mentioned
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which we do spend some time on
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back to time and how we spend
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you know, really about how we
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we're spending our time doing something,
how we're you know, how we're showing

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up in those moments. And I'm
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the book, and it's again,
this is one that I think a lot

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of people will relate to, so
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being reactive and then being intentional.
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my own addiction, if you will, to my phone, and it kind

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of came to a head. I
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joke about with people that I was
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checking in and I would haha,
make a little joke about it. But

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then there was a you know,
an evening where I was at home with

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my husband and we were in the
middle of a conversation and he was saying

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something. It was kind of like
his mouth was moving, but I had

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absolutely no idea what he was saying
because I was looking at my phone,

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and all of a sudden, I
look over at him and he's waving his

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hands in the air, and he
said to me, Wendy, I'm over

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here right listen to what I'm saying. And it just hit me, almost

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like between the eyes kind of thing, that I was completely checked out,

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I wasn't present, and I was
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my phone in another land. And
that I realized not only was I doing

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people all the time, whether they
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personal life. I also realized that
not only was I doing it in the

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middle of conversations, but I was
also doing it. I could be watching

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a movie, a really good movie, I would still pick up my phone

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and it was kind of like this
automatic behavior where I was on autopilot.

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definition of reactive behavior because I was not

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thinking about it at all. It
was just very habitual and very reactive.

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was a steep cost for that, obviously,

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my relationship with my husband, other
people, a sense of peace and

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calm, not feeling like I had
to be always on all the time.

411
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You know, that's a very,
very very steep cost for that reactive behavior,

412
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which then enabled me to look at. Okay, if I'm going to

413
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create some radical change around this,
and I was going to be intentional,

414
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what would I have to do?
What would be new things that I would

415
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have to do in order to do
something about that addictive behavior to my phone?

416
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And I came up with some things
that worked for me, and obviously

417
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everybody would come up, you know, people come up with whatever works for

418
00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:33.319
them. But I needed certain guardrails. I needed guardrails at home. I

419
00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:38.519
needed guardrails in the office about how
I could prevent myself from being on my

420
00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:42.640
phone in those moments when really what
I wanted was to be present with people,

421
00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:48.759
right, And I have taken major
ground, and yet sometimes the train

422
00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:53.480
goes off the tracks and I get
derailed, but I remind myself to get

423
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back on track. And people in
my life hold me accountable because I told

424
00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:06.000
them just in my vision, right, you know, present and patient and

425
00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:08.519
you know, looking at people in
the eye when they're talking to me.

426
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:12.640
And my husband knows he has permission
to call me on it when I when

427
00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:17.960
I don't do it, and so
does my business partner, Lisa, my

428
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:21.599
co author, she knows she can. She'll look at me sometimes we're on

429
00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:22.960
zoom and she'll say, I know
you're on your phone right now. Stop,

430
00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:29.640
It's okay. So that's just you
know what it is to make those

431
00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:33.640
big behavioral changes that will, you
know, be in service of the things

432
00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:36.279
that are really important to you.
Yeah, and I love that you said

433
00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:38.960
earlier one of the principles enrolling others
in that vision so they can help hold

434
00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:41.839
you accountable to that. I think
it's just brilliant, very hard to do

435
00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:45.880
this kind of big work on our
own sometimes, right, Yes, And

436
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:49.799
also at least the other thing that's
really hard for many people in the workplace

437
00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:56.160
is to have permission from your manager
or if you're the manager, or you

438
00:31:56.200 --> 00:32:01.400
know, having giving other people around
you mission to hold you like accountable for

439
00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:06.680
things. Sometimes people feel, oh, I could never tell my manager that

440
00:32:06.680 --> 00:32:10.519
that would be too uncomfortable. And
yet oftentimes when you're the manager and you

441
00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:14.960
read your vision to the people on
your team, which is something we recommend

442
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:19.119
people do, and you say to
them, what I'd really like from you

443
00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:22.000
is I'd like you to hold me
accountable for X, Y and Z,

444
00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:27.039
because I know that's not going to
be easy for me, and there's going

445
00:32:27.079 --> 00:32:29.359
to be times when I'm going to
go off track, and I would really

446
00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:32.400
love that reminder. And then people
have permission to help to help you,

447
00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:37.119
and that's really really powerful. We've
seen that in so many workplaces that we've

448
00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:40.720
worked in, and it makes such
a big difference in the culture. I

449
00:32:40.839 --> 00:32:45.440
totally see that. All right,
let's give our listeners and viewers some time

450
00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:47.200
to also ruminate on that and think
about what that would look like in their

451
00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:50.319
own lives. Well, we take
our next break. I'm your host,

452
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:52.960
doctor Relice Cortes. We're in the
area with Wendy Leshkold, the co founder

453
00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:58.680
of Fast Forward Group, professional development
and executive coaching company. We've been talking

454
00:32:58.680 --> 00:33:01.799
about her new book that she co
wrote with Lisa McCarthy called Fast Forward five

455
00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:06.519
Power Power Principles to create the life
you want in just one year. We're

456
00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:08.559
going to continue the conversation after the
break, and there's one powerful word in

457
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terms of creating and living that life
that you really want in one year.

458
00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:15.920
There's a powerful two letter word that
we're going to cover that's going to help

459
00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:36.000
help you make that So see whips
will be right back. Doctor Elise Cortez

460
00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:40.079
is a management consultant specializing in meaning
and purpose an inspirational speaker and author.

461
00:33:40.359 --> 00:33:45.759
She helps companies visioneer for a greater
purpose among stakeholders and develop purpose inspired leadership

462
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:51.799
and meaning infused cultures that elevate fulfillment, performance, and commitment within the workforce.

463
00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:54.240
To learn more or to invite a
lease to speak to your organization,

464
00:33:54.519 --> 00:33:59.680
please visit her at elisecortes dot com. Let's talk about how to get your

465
00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:09.039
employees working on purpose. This is
working on Purpose with doctor Elise Cortes.

466
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To reach our program today or to
open a conversation with Elise, send an

467
00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:20.920
email to Alise A Lisee at eliscortes
dot com. Now back to working on

468
00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:28.519
Purpose. Thank you for staying with
us, and welcome back to working on

469
00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:30.440
Purpose. I'm your host, doctor
Elise Cortes. As I mentioned in the

470
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last break that we had the book
that I just came out with, the

471
00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:37.719
Great Revitalization. What I did for
you is I also created an assessment that

472
00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:42.000
you can use to be able to
evaluate to the extent to which your company

473
00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:45.159
is living today's standards. It's available
on my website at least Coortes dot com.

474
00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:47.960
It will help you score etc.
And see just how you're doing it

475
00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:52.360
where you might want to shore things
up. If you're just joining us today.

476
00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:55.199
My guest is Wendy Leshchold. She's
the co author of Fast Forward five

477
00:34:55.280 --> 00:35:00.400
Power Principles to create the life you
want in just one year. So I

478
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:05.639
dangled that little promise out there before
the break on purpose because I think there's

479
00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:08.000
such a power in little small words. And that little small word, of

480
00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:13.920
course we're talking about, is no. And I love how you talk about

481
00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:16.119
one. No is a complete sentence, It stands on its own all by

482
00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:20.960
itself. But no can help us
when we tell people no and we justify

483
00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:24.280
and you know, explain why it
doesn't fit into our overall vision. That

484
00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:29.159
can be so powerful for us,
and it gives us back that time that

485
00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:31.159
we thought we didn't have. So
if you could say a little something about

486
00:35:31.159 --> 00:35:36.079
this powerful, little to two letter
word that we have. Yeah, it's

487
00:35:36.119 --> 00:35:40.400
such a such a powerful word and
one that oftentimes I think people are afraid

488
00:35:40.440 --> 00:35:45.119
to use. Yeah, And you
know, I think part of the part

489
00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:51.079
of that fear comes from wanting to
be liked, wanting to please, not

490
00:35:51.199 --> 00:35:55.159
wanting to be seen as someone who's
not a team player. People don't like

491
00:35:55.199 --> 00:35:59.119
to rock the boat. They don't
like to make waves, and so they

492
00:35:59.159 --> 00:36:02.239
avoid using that word. And I
think one of the things that helps people

493
00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:08.639
use it more is having clarity and
conviction right around what's really important to you

494
00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:15.440
versus a lot of top priority and
so that it doesn't solve the discomfort completely,

495
00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:20.960
but it helps because at least you
have some conviction around why you're saying

496
00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:24.760
no. Doesn't mean the other person
necessarily cares. Sometimes they care, but

497
00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:29.280
sometimes they don't care. You know, they they're happy with just their no

498
00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:32.000
because then they're going to move on
and ask somebody else. But other times,

499
00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:35.679
you know, other times you might
feel that that can be inspiring to

500
00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:38.599
share what you are committed to with
another person. But one of the things

501
00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:42.960
we ask people to do is to
you know, how people have their to

502
00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:45.760
do list right this is the things
that they're going to do. We have

503
00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:51.480
people do a say no list,
and what are the things that you're being

504
00:36:51.559 --> 00:36:53.920
asked to do or that might be
coming up over the next couple of weeks

505
00:36:54.320 --> 00:37:00.599
that you are intentionally going to either
say no to delegate, which is deprioritize

506
00:37:01.199 --> 00:37:09.199
and onearthing what those things are can
be really really powerful for people because all

507
00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:13.119
of a sudden in that notion of
I don't have enough time and I'm feeling

508
00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:19.000
underwater and overwhelmed. It's the cloud
start to part and people start to see,

509
00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:22.440
Oh, Okay, if I'm not
doing all these things and I'm focusing

510
00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:25.800
on this big group of things that
are going to move the ball down the

511
00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:30.639
field for me, I might be
able to get somewhere. I might be

512
00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:34.440
able to see some of these things
that are in my vision. Right.

513
00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:36.840
I just think it's so powerful to
learn how to do that, and you

514
00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:39.199
offer various ways in the book that
people can do that, so we'll let

515
00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:43.960
them read from there. Yes,
related to that too, though. I

516
00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:49.639
also found your treatment of communicating with
intention and to propel things for using language

517
00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:55.079
of action specific and compelling really quite
important. And I found myself, I

518
00:37:55.400 --> 00:37:59.360
can recognize some of the language that
I use that you think you're trying to

519
00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:04.320
be accommodating, and you know,
compelling or not compelling accommodating, and yet

520
00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:07.719
you lose your effectiveness. So if
you could maybe get some examples of what

521
00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:12.639
you know ineffective indirect language looks like, yeah, well, one of the

522
00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:15.519
ones I'll start with is the use
of what we call disclaimers. Yeah,

523
00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:22.679
yeah, And it's oftentimes it's almost
like filler language because sometimes people are not

524
00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:24.840
even aware they're doing it. But
an example of it would be a great

525
00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:30.000
example is when people when people are
getting ready to share their vision with another

526
00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:35.000
person, oftentimes they will start sharing. They won't just launch into it and

527
00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:38.079
start reading it. They will say, well, this is kind of long,

528
00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:43.440
but just you know, here goes, or I really need to do

529
00:38:43.480 --> 00:38:46.440
some more work on this. It's
not quite finished, but right here right,

530
00:38:47.239 --> 00:38:52.679
and the same those types of disclaimers
can be used. People use it

531
00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:55.199
all the time in language, I
really would love you to come to this

532
00:38:55.280 --> 00:38:59.679
party. You don't really have to
because I know you are really busy and

533
00:38:59.719 --> 00:39:04.239
you have so many other things on
your plate. Butt and all of those

534
00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:10.280
disclaimers diminish possibility, they diminish your
impact, and they diminish the likelihood of

535
00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:15.000
somebody actually being president saying yes,
right, so what's the point that even

536
00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:19.840
out there right, you've just stopped
the brakes on it. Yes, exactly.

537
00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:22.719
And one of the conjunction, I
think it's a conjunction that is used

538
00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:29.800
in almost all disclaimers, is that
three letter word butt and a great substitute

539
00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:32.920
we find that butt is another really
disempowering piece of language. And if you

540
00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:40.039
can substitute it with and and find
the appropriate language there, it's much more

541
00:39:40.039 --> 00:39:45.559
expansive language. So that's another one
to look out for is where can I

542
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:51.840
substitute instead of butt use? And
another good one it's easy for people to

543
00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:59.280
eliminate is unnecessary apologies, right,
the word just I just want to tell

544
00:39:59.320 --> 00:40:04.719
you this one little thing. I
just need a moment where people try to

545
00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:09.079
fold themselves up into as small of
a space as possible, and that word

546
00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:13.360
kind of helps them do it.
And then the other one that we I

547
00:40:13.400 --> 00:40:16.480
think this is one of those that
the only way to get better at this

548
00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:22.360
is to practice and prepare and talk
slower is eliminating the filler words number one

549
00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:30.079
and using as few words as possible. Sometimes when we're uncomfortable, maybe we're

550
00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:34.960
making a request of someone, asking
somebody to do something, or sharing an

551
00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:37.960
idea, maybe we feel a little
nervous about it, making a recommendation,

552
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:43.719
and we pile on so many words
that our main idea gets lost in the

553
00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:46.239
shuffle and we don't even know that
we're doing it. So that's another one

554
00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:50.840
to big watch out for. So
many of us it's just even if it's

555
00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:53.840
practiced in the mirror, say it
in fewer words, even if it feels

556
00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:58.639
a little uncomfortable, do it anyway. That's the best way to get better

557
00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:02.480
at that one. I really relate
to that when, Wendy, when I

558
00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:07.639
can use an economy of words,
I do recognize I'm much more effective,

559
00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:10.280
I'm much more powerful. People listen
to that in a different way. So

560
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:15.800
I just think that advice is incredibly
well well taken. All right, So

561
00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:19.719
let's go on to one of my
favorite aspects of your book, and that

562
00:41:19.800 --> 00:41:23.239
I really want to celebrate here,
and that's the power of listening and adding

563
00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:28.480
curiosity to your practice. I mean, I know this from myself, Wendy.

564
00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:30.519
I mean, and I agree with
you wholeheartedly that most people don't feel

565
00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:35.199
heard. They're starved to be heard
and the moment. That's why what happens

566
00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:37.440
when people actually listen to them,
sometimes they can go on quite a bit

567
00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:43.519
because it's so refreshing for them to
actually have an audience that they're actually being

568
00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:45.480
listened, they're listening to them.
So if you could say a little bit

569
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:47.719
about that, and then I do
want to read a bit of an excerpt

570
00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:52.920
from your book that I think is
so so powerful. Okay, well,

571
00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:58.400
you know my feeling about this is
that oftentimes people hear the word listening,

572
00:41:58.440 --> 00:42:01.880
and they know everybody says I want
to I want to listen more. Everybody

573
00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:07.239
wants to get better at it,
and so you know, it's it's baffling

574
00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:10.000
why it's not happen Why is it
not happening more? And I think that

575
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:14.840
people when they're when you really get
down to it, they have the intention

576
00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:17.800
of just wanting to contribute, but
a lot of times that intention is sort

577
00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:22.079
of ill placed. So instead of
listening to just gain trust, understanding,

578
00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:28.280
have people feel heard, they feel
they have to come in with a solution,

579
00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:31.440
or they have to have add value
or give their point of view or

580
00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:37.320
share an experience from the past.
And yes, sometimes that is helpful,

581
00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:45.480
but it's overused, and what's underused
is the practice of just what we like

582
00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:51.679
to just call peeling the onion and
having somebody be able to share as much

583
00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:55.400
as they want about a given topic. And we do this exercise in one

584
00:42:55.440 --> 00:43:00.639
of our workshops where we say to
people, Okay, one of you is

585
00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:01.960
going to be the person sharing,
and one of you is going to be

586
00:43:01.960 --> 00:43:07.000
the person listening and the person sharing. Their job is to share about anything

587
00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:08.639
in their life they're excited about.
Could be they got a new puppy,

588
00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:13.000
they're going on vacation, you know, a book they read. And then

589
00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:16.599
the other person's job is they are
not you're not allowed to relate it back

590
00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:20.760
to you. You are not allowed
to take the person on a tangent.

591
00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:23.800
Your job is to listen and only
ask questions that would help them to be

592
00:43:23.840 --> 00:43:29.320
able to share more about the thing
that they're sharing about. And they only

593
00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:32.639
have to do that for about two
minutes. And when people come back from

594
00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:37.719
doing that exercise, they say,
oh my god, I cannot believe how

595
00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:42.360
much self management that required, right
because I wanted to say, oh,

596
00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:44.719
well, I got a new puppy
too. Let me tell you about the

597
00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:47.079
time when I had to hire a
trainer. You know, it's just so

598
00:43:47.320 --> 00:43:54.559
hard for people to just be quiet
and listen to somebody sharing. And I

599
00:43:54.599 --> 00:44:00.400
don't think it's because we're bad people
or anything like that. It's just something

600
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:01.840
we're used to doing. So it
just takes again, like anything, it

601
00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:06.760
just takes practice. And I think
when you get into situations where the stakes

602
00:44:06.760 --> 00:44:08.400
are high, you know, I
just shared with you an exercise we do

603
00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:12.719
in a workshop where the stakes are
extremely low, there is no need to

604
00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:16.400
come out with an outcome. But
when you're talking to somebody and you really

605
00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:21.800
do need to make you want to
and need to help them out of a

606
00:44:21.880 --> 00:44:24.880
jam of some sort, right,
you feel an enormous amount of pressure to

607
00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:30.000
kind of quickly go into solution mode. And that is where I think listening

608
00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:36.920
suffers the most in workplace for sure, but even in even in people's personal

609
00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:40.840
lives as well. Agreed, Agreed, Well, what I want to do

610
00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:45.519
next is I want to read this
passage and listeners and viewers. As I

611
00:44:45.559 --> 00:44:49.000
read this to you, I want
you to imagine that you could become someone

612
00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:52.440
who could listen like this, and
I want you to think about the difference

613
00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:55.840
in your life that this would make
and your impact and results. So I'm

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going to this is a direct quote
from your book here, Wendy, you

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write about somebody else's work here,
so you say in her powerful book,

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Time to Think Listening to ignite the
human mind. Nancy Klein explains that if

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you want to improve people's thinking,
give them your full attention, listen at

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the highest level, and ask inclusive
questions. She was inspired by the first

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excellent listener in her life quote,
my mother's listening was not ordinary. Her

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attention was so immensely dignifying, her
expression so seamlessly encouraging, that you found

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yourself thinking clearly in her presence,
suddenly understanding what before had been confusing,

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finding a brand new, surprising idea. You found excitement where there had been

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tedium. You faced something, you
solved a problem. You felt good again.

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She simply gave attention, but the
quality of that attention was catalytic.

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At that book, Time to Think, and then she has a follow on

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more Time to Think, really really
brilliant book. I think Nancy Klein is

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brilliant. And she has this expression
called listening to ignite, And I love

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that expression so much because people don't
normally think that listening creates such a direct

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response in how somebody else is able
to think. And when you think of

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when you've said an attentions and listen
to ignite you, you merely have to

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sit back and listen and ask questions. There's not a lot to do if

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you will, but the impact is
immense, as she describes in her book.

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But I love that term listening to
ignite because it's a quick one and

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it's sticky, and it's a good
thing for people to kind of hold on

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to. Mm hmm. And I
think you do such a beautiful job in

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that chapter of talking about the promise
of listening well and with curiosity, that,

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of course I also firmly align with. Yeah, so you know,

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one thing I want to say about
curiosity is that a lot of times people

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say, well, but what if
I'm just not interested in that? What

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if I'm just not curious about that? Right? And I always say,

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you can generate curiosity at will.
Yeah, it's true attention to it's it's

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amazing, it's amazing. Well,
we're almost at a time. But I

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want to do what I want to
do here towards the end of the show

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here, Wendy, is give you
a chance to be able to presence the

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promise of living from your five power
principles for our listeners and viewers. And

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maybe if you just want to walk
through them quickly, and because we didn't

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actually say what those five principles are, maybe we could end the show with

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that. Okay, great, here, let me let me just consult my

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word memory. Yeah, so you
want me to just like share that what

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the five power prins is. Yeah, yeah, because this really speaks to

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how we can create. You know, the promise what they promise to live

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are really best and I think is
so powerful. Yeah. So the first

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power principle one, as I mentioned, the most foundational one, is to

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declare a bold vision and share it. And that's where we always begin.

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And for people listening to this,
if you do nothing else coming out of

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listening to this, to this podcast, you can write your own bold vision.

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And there's so much instruction and guidance
on how to do that in the

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book. The second power principle is
choose a new perspective, and that is

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really all about how do we shift
the narratives and the stories that we tell

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ourselves that can be disempowering and negative
and get in the way of us accomplishing

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what is important to us and being
the person that we really want to be.

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So that's a really really powerful actionable
practice there. We like to say

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we have zero percent control over many
of the circumstances of our lives, Like

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think about the economy. We have
limited control over other people, but we

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have one hundred percent control and choice
over our perspective. Power Principle three is

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plan the work and work the plan. It's where the rubber meets the road.

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We give people a ninety day action
plan, like how do you actually

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do it? A Power principle four
and five are both in the domain of

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communication, and so the fourth one
is use language of action. It's really

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about gaining more distinctions around the language
that we use and being more intentional,

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all about the language that we use. And then power Prince Will five is

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stop talking and get curious. It's
all about listening and how to use that

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even when the stakes are high,
to be able to build relationship, trust

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and really produce results too. At
the end of the day. Those are

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the five power principles in book.
That's a beautiful way to finish. Wendy,

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I want to say thank you so
much for somehow coming into my world

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and I got to read your book
sharing with my listeners and viewers across the

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world. Thank you so much for
joining me on working on Purpose. Thank

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you for having me. It was
a pleasure listeners and viewers. If you'll

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learn more about Wendy Leshold or her
business partner Lisa mc carthy, the work

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they do at Fast Forward or their
new book Fast Forward. Start by visiting

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simply fast Forward group dot net.
Last week, if you missed the live

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show, you can always catch it
be a recorded podcast. We were on

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area with hortense Le Gentille, who
coaches executives across the globe. We drew

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the conversation from her book The Unlockedly
Dare to free your own voice, lead

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with an empathy, and shine your
light in the world. She gave great

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insight into how we can identify our
mind traps, operate a mind shift,

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and achieve a mind build. Next
week, we'll be on air with Paulina

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Marinova Poonpliano, talking about the book
that she wrote, Hidden Genius, The

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Secret ways of thinking that power the
world's most successful people. You will be

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delighted with the insights she provides about
studying these remarkable people that you can build

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on and fold into yourself. See
you there. Remember work is one of

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the best adventures and means of realizing
our potential and making the impact we crave.

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So let's work on Purpose. We
hope you've enjoyed this week's program.

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Be sure to tune into Working on
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Each week on W four C.
Why together we'll create a world where

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business operates conscientiously. Leadership inspires and
passion performance and employees are fulfilled in work

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that provides the meaning and purpose they
crave. See you there. Let's work

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on purpose.