Getting Out of the Box of Crayons

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Roxanne Jones is the co-founder and CEO of a company she founded 18 years ago. She has been working as a coach for two years, before becoming her own boss. In an effort to get in touch with what drives her, she asked herself three words: confident, onward and power. "I wasn't expecting any of those words to show up," says Jones. 'But it unlocked a new world'

Michael Bungay Stanier is the author of 6 books that have, between them, sold more than a million copies. He’s perhaps best known for his self-published book, The Coaching Habit, which is the best-selling book on coaching this century and is already recognized as a classic. He founded the training and development company, Box of Crayons, which has taught coaching skills to hundreds of thousands of people around the world and he created a book in partnership with Seth Godin which raised $400,000 for Malaria No More.

In this episode, Eric and Michael Bungay Stanier discuss his new book, How to Begin.

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Michael Bungay Stanier and I Discuss Starting Well to Finish Well and…

His book, How to Begin
Tools to deal with fear and anxiety when they arise
Sitting with the tension of ambition and contentment
The secret is, once you have a goal, the key is to stop worrying about the goal
That we unlock our greatness by working on the hard things
The three steps that make up the foundation of actually beginning
The key of beginning well that helps you stick with a project
How to set a Worthy Goal
The ways Worthy Goals can evolve
How to the prizes and punishments of various commitments

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