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Tyson Fury, one of the most successful heavyweight champions, has also fought a long battle with depression and tells Joe Rogan how he overcame it. The post From the Brink of Depression, Heavyweight Champ Demonstrates the Power of Positive Thinking and Self-belief appeared first on Good News Network .

Helping Your Team See the Bigger Picture If you want to achieve your quarterly sales quotas, slash expenses, or reach some other important benchmark, it’s import to remember your why—why you started your company, why you spent long days and longer nights helping it grow, and why achieving greater impact is critical. But unlike personal goals that are often chased in isolation, business is a team sport. And if you want to win as a team, you need to communicate your organization’s purpose so that your team members can make it part of their why. Get specific about your mission Few things ruin a team’s focus more than generic objectives (increasing website traffic or launching new products, for example) that aren’t directly connected to the company’s mission. According to Joel Schwartzberg , a communications expert and public speaking trainer, using abstract goals to share an organization’s purpose is a mistake that makes fulfilling the true mission much more difficult. “Whether your...

Forget Trust Falls and Puzzle It Out Together “Tell me about a time you worked with a team.” It is a common interview question, one many of us have heard before. If you’re like me, a flood of past teams comes cascading into your brain, some good and others not so good. There is the team where you had to the do all the work, and the team where you couldn’t get a word in edgewise. The team meetings that devolved into useless monologues and those that ended in smiles and fits of laughter. Some teams energize, while others leave us feeling depleted. Companies worldwide are moving away from hierarchical, functional organization towards networks of teams in an attempt to increase efficiency and better respond to business challenges. At the same time, teams have varying levels of effectiveness. In a 2013 survey conducted by the University of Phoenix, 68 percent of respondents had been part of a dysfunctional team. Only 24 percent reported preferring to work in teams. With such high leve...

4 Questions to Supercharge Your Team’s Commitment As leaders, we know that real growth happens only when people go beyond simply putting in time and bring their best energy to work. The problem is that team members sometimes see their job as nothing but a paycheck. In this episode, we’ll show you how to get the best effort from your people by asking four questions that clarify the purpose of their work.

How Companywide Bonuses Can Help Everyone Feel the Float Historically, the office wasn’t a place Americans strove to participate in endeavors larger than themselves. Got to the office to earn a living, the thinking went. Leave horizon-broadening for church and volunteer activities – or maybe a gardening club if you’re into that sort of thing. It need not be that way. With the right incentives, many employers today are helping their teams feel like they’re contributing to something beyond themselves. And that, in turn, is helping the bottom line. To be sure, money is an important part of the equation – for most people that’s the point of going to work. And many employers figure their workers will perform better by dangling individual, performance-based bonuses. But companies actually can increase their own revenue by parceling out extra pay based on firms’ financial returns. It’s not a form of socialism, but good business. When the tide started rising The idea is actually rooted ...

Glen Oliver always orders coffee and pays for the car behind him at an Ontario Tim Horton’s cafe. This time, it changed someone’s life, saving them from suicide. The post Buying Coffee and a Muffin at Restaurant Drive-thru Saves a Stranger’s Life (Podcast) appeared first on Good News Network .

By Leo Babauta The two biggest obstacles to doing meaningful work are familiar to many of us: Burden & complaint : The work feels like a burden (difficult, overwhelming, annoying) … you might do the task but you rush through it or mentally complain about it, not wanting to do it. Unimportant & putting it off : It doesn’t feel important to do this difficult task right now … so you feel like putting it off. You rationalize why it’s OK to put it off. Either of these sound like you? You probably recognize yourself in at least one of these (if not both), as they’re incredible common. The first pattern makes our work (and things we have to do in our relationships and personal lives) feel like a huge burden, which makes us have a negative attitude towards the work. If you do this with your partner, they’ll feel it. If you do this with your kids or other family members, they’ll feel it. If you do this at work, your work will suck more. The second pattern makes us rationalize n...

By Leo Babauta Many of us are pretty busy, not only with a full plate in front of us, but constantly piling more and more onto the already overfull plate. What’s going on here? Why are we so overloaded? And how do we start to deal with this constant problem? If you’re like me, you have a habit of starting new commitments, new projects, new challenges, new books, new programs … and then halfway into it, you realize you already had too much to do, and what were you thinking anyway? At this point, my usual approach is to start to simplify — I realize I’ve taken on too much, and then I start to cancel commitments. I tell people I just can’t do what I said I’d do, which feels pretty bad (to let people down) but it’s also a huge relief to let go of a burden. I’ve come to realize this is a pattern of mine. And it’s not serving me. Taking on too much, and then quitting commitments and projects … it leads to: Not being trustable, because people can’t count on you. Not being good at fin...

The Dodgers took to the field recently, not for the baseball fans, but playing ping-pong with Matthew McConaughey, Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, and Bryan Cranston to serve underprivileged kids. The post Baseball Playoff Winners and Celebrities Play Ping-Pong in Dodger Stadium to Lift Kids From Trafficking (Podcast) appeared first on Good News Network .

You don't have to cut out the cheesecake in order to lose weight – you just have to set your alarm for a time-restricted eating schedule. The post When Diets Don’t Work, Try Time-Restricted Eating – It’s Not All About Counting Calories appeared first on Good News Network .

How to Silence Your Inner Critic Once and For All Many leaders have bigger goals than they admit to. Criticism, fear, and naysaying give them a sense of “goal shame” and keep them playing small. Today, we’ll help you silence your inner critic once and for all so you can bust through your upper limit and finally accomplish the big achievement you’ve been dreaming of.

The Benefits of Going Positive Does this one ring a bell? You, reader, are your own worst critic. Your penchant for nitpicking every detail and harshly critiquing your accomplishments makes it difficult for you to make progress or sometimes even get simple work done. If it doesn’t apply to you or someone close to you, then you have a great day. If it does, then read on, Macduff. What your inner self-critics needs to do is learn is that focusing on your strengths is a better pathway to success than fixating on weaknesses. Take these three steps and you will become your best critic and champion. 1. Realize you are more than enough Self-criticism is normal and even healthy in small doses. But as the saying goes, the dose makes the poison. When you always approach your work with negativity, it’s paralyzing. It also makes you more susceptible to criticism from others who may not have your best interests at heart. You need to know that much of the criticism in your head has no resembl...

How High-Achievers Deal With Goal Shaming Big goals are often the seed for big success. Monica Louie knows this firsthand. The Facebook ad expert launched a new company and set an audacious goal of earning $100,000 her first year in business—despite having made only $8,000 the previous year with another venture. It was such a big goal, in fact, that a recently hired business coach advised her against it, stating that she would likely get discouraged en route to her goal and quit well before her milestone was reached. Louie, however, wasn’t deterred. “I know myself, and if I don’t shoot for a big goal that seems completely out of reach, then I won’t take the kind of action I need to take in order reach my full potential,” she says. “This strategy paid off because in my first year of my new business, I ended up making $91,000 of revenue.” Though just landed shy of her goal, Louie says that the extra $9,000 doesn’t matter. “I still proved to myself that I could make an impact with ...

By Leo Babauta Much of our lives is spent numbing out to what we’re experiencing. We don’t want to feel uncomfortable, so we seek comforts and procrastinate. We don’t want to feel fear, so we avoid uncertain situations. We don’t want to stay in the present moment, so we distract ourselves with technology, or get lost in thoughts about the past or future. And we are so good at numbing ourselves to our experience. This is not a judgment — I do it too. But what if we blocked all of our exits, and stopped ourselves from numbing out or escaping being present to our feelings and the moment in front of us? What if we committed to not running to our favorite numbing methods? Favorite Numbing Methods & Some Alternatives to Numbing Out Let’s consider the some of the most popular kinds of numbing methods (see if you do any of them) and consider some alternatives to Numbing Out: Procrastination and running to distractions — when you feel like a task is too overwhelming, too difficu...

By Leo Babauta Everyone feels insecurity. It’s a part of our lives, which are filled with uncertainty, no matter how much we want to get rid of that uncertainty. We often use the term “insecure” to negatively label a person who doubts themselves, but in truth, no one is free from feeling insecure. We feel self-doubt, we feel anger that stems from a feeling of insecurity, we feel fear and groundlessness and frustration. All of this comes from the insecurity of the uncertainty of life. And none of it is a problem. It’s not a problem that we feel insecure sometimes. It’s not a problem to feel fear or self-doubt or anger or frustration. These are just feelings, and they come up in response to the uncertainty of the world. The problem comes from how we deal with the feeling of insecurity. We might curl up and hide, lash out at someone in a hurtful way, harden our rigid views of the world so that everyone else is wrong and we’re continually angry. We might procrastinate and run to distr...

How Coaching Can Help With Those Curve Balls After years of tumult and uncertainty, major parts of Steve’s life were coming together nicely. For more than four years, the website designer had held a staff position at a prominent management consulting firm. Invitations to speak on digital trends at industry conferences flowed to him. Off of work hours, the 43-year-old completed a steady stream of – paying – freelance projects. On the home-front, Steve, a longtime bachelor, was six months into a relationship with a smart and attractive professional woman, Anna. After years of frustration on the dating scene, Steve figured had hit the lottery. Then the good fortune turned sour and fast. How times change Steve’s firm sent in new management as “fixers.” The office director wanted to make change for the sake of change. Steve got hit with a layoff, as did several colleagues. And within weeks his relationship with Anna was no longer so much fun. Minor differences apparent in the couple...