The Daily Growth Podcast
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The Daily Growth Podcast
The Daily Growth Podcast is a daily podcast (5 days a week) that teaches you how to succeed in life, at work, and in your long-term pursuits. Each episode is relatively short so that you can make it part of your daily routine. Topics covered include: Success skills, soft skills, time management, pro...
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Episode 80: Simple is where it's at
Keep it simple.
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Episode 79: Choose experiences over stuff
What's better to spend your time and money on: getting stuff or experiences? What should you get for your kids and why? Learn more in this episode.
Episode 78: Don't miss the experience
Too often we get caught up in recording everything that we miss the experience of the moment.
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Episode 77: You have to believe
People wont' follow just what you say, you have to believe in what you say and what you do.
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Episode 76: No Bad Teams, Just Bad Leaders
There aren't bad teams, just bad leaders.
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Episode 75: You Have to Know
To be successful in life and work, you have to know. Listen to learn more.
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Episode 74: Leaders - It's Time to Take Extreme Ownership
As leaders, we need to take extreme ownership. Listen to learn more.
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Can I get your feedback?
Let me know how this podcast could be better: thomas@theexceptionalskills.com.
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Episode 73: A mindset change that helps you get the job
In this episode we discuss a mindset change that could help you get the job you want.
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Episode 72: How you sit matters in conversation
How you sit can make a difference in the conversation. Learn more in this episode.
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Episode 71: Remove the barrier for better communication
Physical barriers can create a mental barrier in communication, which can hurt your communication and relationship. Learn more about it in this episod...
Episode 70: Get straight to the point
Sometimes we think it helps to "small talk" and beat around the bush when getting to an issue you need to talk with someone about - but that's wrong....
Episode 69: Don't be indirect about it
One of the killers of communication and conversation is being indirect. It can hurt us now and down the road. Listen to learn more.
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Episode 68: How to finally get that garage cleaned out (and stop procrastinating)
Tasks like cleaning out the garage can be daunting. We know we need to do it, but we keep putting it off and never get to it. How can we get this task...
Episode 67: Get the law of intertia on your side
An object in rest stays in rest, and an object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. Too often we stay in the state of rest...
Episode 66: What stretch goals are you pursuing?
Easy goals don't bring great change or incredible new technologies into our world - challenging, impossible goals do. Stretch goals can take your life...
Episode 65: Why "I Just Work Here" Is A Terrible Response
You've probably heard this before - you talk to an employee about an issue, and their response is "I just work here".
That's one of the worst t...
Episode 64: Block that time
Distractions kill our productivity. Blocking time can help up focus and get stuff done. Listen to learn more.
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Episode 63: Why open door policies aren't always effective
Some businesses have an open door policy for their employees, where the employees can drop by anytime to discuss issues or get help. Now, while on the...
Episode 62: It starts at the top
When it comes to customer service, dedication to goals, and behaviors at work, it all starts at the top. It starts with leadership. Listen to learn mo...
Episode 61: Model the behavior you want
As the saying goes, actions speak louder than words. If you want certain behavior from your kids, employees, or those in your charge, you need to mode...
Episode 60: What lens are you looking through?
Our perception of the things around us determine our reality more than the things itself. The lens we look at the world around us can affect our happi...
Episode 59: The power of expectations on others
You get what you expect - you may have heard that before. And it's true in many ways, including in what you expect from other people. You can influenc...
Episode 58: Give meaning to your job
Sometimes we view jobs just as jobs - we have to do them. BUT, if we can find purpose in them, how they benefit others, it can make a world of differe...
Episode 57: What Work Mindset Do You Have (And is it holding you back?)
The mindset we have at work can push us far, or it can hold us back. It can affect our mood and interactions at work. Do you have the right one? Liste...
Episode 56: Counterfact Thinking
When things happen to us, we can often imagine other scenarios. The question is, do the scenarios you imagine hurt or help you? Listen now to learn wh...
Episode 55: The Tetris Effect
What we focus on is what we see. Learn more how the Tetris Effect can affect our mood, our happiness, and our success.
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Episode 54: Success Doesn't Breed Happiness (It's the other way around)
Too often in our society, we think that if we just get successful, if we just get that job or money or relationship or object, we will be happy.
Episode 53: Why you need to embrace your ignorance
Sometimes when we don't know something, we like to fake it. We think we look better when we pretend to know it than admit we dont. However, that, in t...
Episode 52: Why we need to change our view of failure
Many of us have a wrong view of failure. We see failure as bad. We attach our worth to it. Whatever it is, we view failure in the wrong way - and it h...
Episode 51: Why you need to practice zero based thinking (and how to do it)
Too often we can get stuck in situations because we don't want to waste the time or money we have already invested - and we do so to our detriment. Le...
Episode 50: Why you need to fight the truth assumption
It's easy to assume we know the truth. We see what we've seen, we've experienced what we've experienced, so we know what happened or what the way to g...
Episode 49: Why unforgiveness is a killer (and why you sometimes shouldn't forget)
Unforgiveness is a poison. It can kill your success, your future, and your joy. But forgiveness doesn't mean you always need to forget. In fact, somet...
Episode 48: Why and How to Overcome Your Confirmation Bias
Confirmation bias hurts us. It keeps us from seeking and finding the information that will help us make better decisions. Learn more about it and how...
Episode 47: Why You Need to Stop The But
When we use the word "but" wrongly, it can take away from every positive thing we are trying to do. Learn why you need to stop using it and what to sa...
Episode 46: How to add new habits into your life
Sometimes we want to add new habits in our life, habits that can help us accomplish our goals or dreams, habits that can make us more successful, habi...
Episode 45: The best way to change bad habits
Habits are part of our life - but sometimes those habits aren't healthy for us. Learn the best way to change the habits in your life that you want to...
Episode 44: One Danger of Using SMART Goals
The SMART goals method can be useful as some of the acronym stands for parts of a goal that you want to use and do; however, there are dangers in usin...
Episode 43: The Power of Choice
Choice is powerful. It can motivate employees to be more productive, help direct people to move in certain directions, and more.
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Episode 42: Some great advice for playing the game
We sometimes have the wrong mindset when playing sports or even in school. It's about being good or bad, smart or not smart, winning or losing; but wh...