Are You Trying to Mow the Lawn?

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Right now we have so many things going at us that a lot of us have adopted the lie of multi tasking. Multi tasking were actually talking about doing two cognitive things at the same time. When we do that, it's not multi tasking, it's switch tasking. Our icue drops forty points. So it's literally like being stoned. And this presence of relationship is now a thing of the past. You can tell when someone's watching, or you can tell when people're checking something else and something else. It's literally re defining the way we do relationships. But there is good news. There is good information to be found in psychological research.

Kary Oberbrunner shares expert strategies for bringing your attention back to what matters most.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The wrong and right ways of dealing with task overload

2) The three components of deliberate magnetic focus

3) The two triggers of flow state

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— ABOUT KARY —

Kary Oberbrunner is CEO of Igniting Souls. Through his writing, speaking, and coaching, he helps individuals and organizations clarify who they are, why they're here, and where they should invest their time and energy.

Kary struggled to find his own distinct voice and passion. As a young man, he suffered from severe stuttering, depression, and self-injury. Today a transformed man, Kary equips people to experience Unhackability in work and life and share their message with the world. He believes the most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. His vision is to ignite 100 million souls by 2030.

Kary lives in Ohio with his wife, Kelly, and three children: Keegan, Isabel, and Addison.

• Kary’s book: Day Job to Dream Job: Practical Steps for Turning Your Passion into a Full-Time Gig

• Kary’s book: Elixir Project

• Kary’s book: Unhackable: The Elixir for Creating Flawless Ideas, Leveraging Superhuman Focus, and Achieving Optimal Human Performance

• Kary’s website: UnhackableBook.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Article: “Putting a Finger on Our Phone Obsession”

• Book: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) by Joseph Campbell

• Book: The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness by Morgan Housel

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