Say It Skillfully® – Marshall Goldsmith, Earning Our Lives - a podcast by Molly Tschang

Say It Skillfully® is a show that helps you to benefit from Molly Tschang’s expert guidance on the best possible ways to speak your mind at work in a positive and productive manner. In Episode 141, Molly is joined by Marshall Goldsmith—her biggest inspiration for Say It Skillfully, a huge contributor to the fields of management, leadership, and coaching, and a man who helped create coaching as a discipline. He joins the show to help us live in the present and also shares what he’s been up to, including his new book! Usually always traveling, Marshall talks about adjusting his lifestyle during Covid times and how he made the most out of the situation. Hear about how reaching out and having conversations with people about their lives during the pandemic helped him learn a lot and fueled his book, The Earned Life. Don’t miss key themes from the book, including the importance of not overly focusing on outcomes. Always an outstanding coach to me and many others, Marshall passes on many lessons learned. He talks about separating achievement from personal peace and success. He shares the importance of “forgiving people for who they are.” Marshall describes how many successful people are unhappy, because finding happiness in achievement is very short term and can cause people to live in the past. Also, he shares what he learned by studying Buddhism, including being happy with what you have, and how his book applies Buddhist philosophy to everyday life. Don’t miss Marshall go in depth about aspirations, ambitions, and actions, and also share a related story about one of the biggest mistakes he made, which ended up in him breaking his neck! He shares his top takeaways, including three themes from interviewing old folks near death: 1. Be happy now. 2. Never get so busy climbing the ladder of success that you don’t make time for friends and family. 3. If you have a dream, just go for it. Marshall inspires all to know no boundaries and to commit to taking action so that all can be safe, seen and heard, and our true and best selves. Molly’s thought for the week (of course from Marshall): The pursuit of an earned life is not a goal for a distant time, but a way of living every moment. #sayitskillfully resources for you: https://sayitskillfully.com * How to ban the three words that kill conversation http://bit.ly/3h1FGeZ
Marshall on previous episode of Say It Skillfully: * Episode 100…Being Happy Now and Here https://bit.ly/3Aha5hc * Episode 29…Dealing with reality as it is, “feedforward and more...https://bit.ly/3zitwIa

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