Podcasts about fire your boss a manifesto

This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, Soma Games earns a small percentage from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you, but all of our recommendations and opinions are our own. Welcome to the Soma SoulWorks Podcast! This podcast serves to help people, particularly those who may label themselves as "creatives," to seek wholeness and calling so they are ready to embrace the mission God has for them. Consider this podcast a rogue harmony of professional development and self-care, hosted by John Bergquist and Chris Skaggs. What’s covered in this episode: In this interview with Aaron McHugh, author of Fire Your Boss, we look into the workplace and how we can change our mindsets to help improve our role in them.The idea that every employee is an interchangeable cog is prevalent in the workplace. There is an emphasis on the service and resources an employee brings, rather than on the human being themselves; this is expected and normalized in the workplace. “We’ve outsourced our happiness and contentment to other people,” Aaron says. “It’s a fundamentally flawed system...There is a spirit of slavery over the workplace.” Aaron describes watching his grandfather work at Disneyland in its early years. Seeing the joy his grandfather had there helped him articulate something he wanted in his own work-life: Work is supposed to matter, make a difference, and be purposeful. The fundamental question Aaron asks here and in his book, Fire Your Boss, is, “What would it look like to bring all of yourself in an honoring and godly way to your work environment? How do I move from fear, being compartmentalized, and being complicit as a victim to living out freedom, wholeheartedness, and being empowered enough to hold myself responsible and accountable wherever I am?”Like in the serenity prayer, Aaron puts an emphasis that we should be seeking God’s input to understand what we can change internally and externally—that we can discern when we need to be adaptable vs. when we need to remove ourselves from a situation that’s causing us suffering. The good change comes with a shift in your mindset. Rather than waiting for an ideal opportunity to do your work well, you should be bringing patience, dignity, honor, spirituality, forgiveness, grace, and love to whatever job you’re doing. That’s the way you get promoted. “That’s the way of the kingdom.” Aaron says, “Wherever you are, you can become the kind of person who learns to thrive.”“Always believe that you are uniquely qualified to make a lasting contribution to the future of work.” - Aaron McHughResources mentioned:Fire Your Boss: A Manifesto to Rethink How You Think About Work by Aaron McHughWork, Life, Play PodcastAaron’s BlogSerenity PrayerSign up for the Tempus Divum newsletter Email us ideas, questions or suggestions at tempusdivum@somagames.com

Aaron McHugh joins us today as a special guest on the Dad Hackers Podcast. Aaron is a writer, podcaster, adventurer, and author of the best-selling book, Fire Your Boss: A Manifesto to Rethink How You Think About Work. He is mastering the art of living a sustainable work-life balance that constantly interweaves rhythms of play and adventure. That includes road trips in their 1974 VW Bus, aka The Joy Bus, catapulting them into many father-daughter adventures together. Grab the show notes as resources at https://dadhackers.us/123-2 Here's some other ways to connect with us: Check out the Iron Men Mastermind: https://dadhackers.us/ironmen Support Dad Hackers by grabbing some merch: https://dadhackers.us/store Connect with us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dadhacker1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dadhacker1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickantonucci/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/dadhacker1 Leave us a rating: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dad-hackers-becoming-the-men-god-designed-us-to-be/id1397765356

For most people life, work, and play belong in different categories, and we find ourselves out of balance with the things that matter in our lives. How can we start integrating these 3 facets of our lives so we have more meaning and purpose? Why is the vocation of work different from the spirit of work? What is the difference between destination and direction? How can we bring intentionality into our play? On this episode, author, podcaster, and adventurer, Aaron McHugh, talks about how we can bring work, life, and play together to make our lives happier.     The point is to run small experiments daily in the direction we want to head. Over time, that becomes the way we live. -Aaron McHugh   3 Things We Learned From This Episode Destination vs. direction Destination is feeling like you have to arrive at a certain place to feel like we’ve achieved something. The problem is that it’s frustrating and disappointing because it seems so far and out of reach. It’s better to focus on subtle 2-degree shifts, slowly making a change to where we want to go. Why we need to change how we see the stories of our lives  We don’t always get a chance to choose our story, but we each have an opportunity to choose how we live in our story. That means not playing the victim and instead finding the good in the challenges we face.   How to have real play in our lives For a lot of people, what should be a time of play becomes another field to be competitive and work. Try to allow your leisure time to actually be “play”, rather than merely another form of stress and comparison.   If we want our lives to be different, we have to do something different. There has to be a behavioral and directional shift. If we want our lives to be more integrated and wholesome, we have to bring repeatable, sustainable systems into everything we do. If we want to win the day, we have to win the first moments of the day. We have to take a different approach and remember why we got into the business we’re in. If we think of our lives with purpose and meaning, we can change everything completely.   Guest Bio- Aaron McHugh is a writer, podcaster, adventurer, and author of the best-selling book, Fire Your Boss: A Manifesto to Rethink How You Think About Work. He helps people restore balance in their work, their life, ​and relationships by learning to dream again, play more, and discover a sustainable pace. Go to https://www.aaronmchugh.com for more information.

Aaron McHugh is a writer, podcaster, adventurer, and author of the best-selling book, Fire Your Boss: A Manifesto to Rethink How You Think About Work. He is mastering the art of living a sustainable work-life balance that constantly interweaves rhythms of play and adventure. That includes road trips in their 1974 VW Bus, aka The Joy Bus, catapulting them into many father-daughter adventures together.Aaron works as an Affiliate Advisor for Aberkyn, a division of McKinsey & Co as a facilitator of transformation. He also works with Moving Performance, facilitating leadership change through the power of music.He and his wife Leith live in Colorado Springs, CO. They are celebrating twenty-five years of marriage in December. Their marriage has survived the death of their twelve-year-old daughter Hadley in 2011. Their twenty-two-year-old son Holden lives in Costa Mesa and is thriving in recovery three years clean and sober. Their youngest daughter lives at home still.In 2015 they rebooted their lives, sold their house and all of their belongings to reboot their life and start their life over again. It hasn’t been easy, but they would do it again. They love traveling, drinking box wine and spending time with their creative, hilarious and courageous kids.

Joe was a recovering alcoholic who upgraded his addiction from booze to running. He told me if I tucked in close to his elbow and ran hard, he promised it would be tough, but he wouldn’t drop me. He’d won duathlon world championships, and I was trying to complete a Xterra off-road triathlon. Predictably every day there was a workout-no two-days the same. There was banter before the run and color commentary and coaching afterward. Drafting behind his 150lb frame eased my pain while my legs and my mind trained to sustain the pace on my own. I became known as the apprentice, “Schoolboy.” On his elbow, I became capable of running faster than I could accomplish on my own. The principles of aerodynamics made it possible, but his commitment to pull me along changed my life. Where are you drafting, gaining an advantage provided by someone else? Whose elbow could you tuck into for a time? Where could you become the apprentice for a season? This episode is powered by my book Fire Your Boss: A Manifesto to Rethink How You Think About Work. Download your free chapter here.

Joe was a recovering alcoholic who upgraded his addiction from booze to running. He told me if I tucked in close to his elbow and ran hard, he promised it would be tough, but he wouldn’t drop me. He’d won duathlon world championships, and I was trying to complete a Xterra off-road triathlon. Predictably every day there was a workout-no two-days the same. There was banter before the run and color commentary and coaching afterward. Drafting behind his 150lb frame eased my pain while my legs and my mind trained to sustain the pace on my own. I became known as the apprentice, “Schoolboy.” On his elbow, I became capable of running faster than I could accomplish on my own. The principles of aerodynamics made it possible, but his commitment to pull me along changed my life. Where are you drafting, gaining an advantage provided by someone else? Whose elbow could you tuck into for a time? Where could you become the apprentice for a season? This episode is powered by my book Fire Your Boss: A Manifesto to Rethink How You Think About Work. Download your free chapter here.

Aaron McHugh is a writer, podcaster, adventurer and author of the best-selling book, Fire Your Boss: A Manifesto to Rethink How You Think About Work. He is mastering the art of living a sustainable work-life balance that constantly interweaves rhythms of play and adventure. That includes road trips in their 1974 VW Bus, aka The Joy Bus, catapulting them into many father-daughter adventures together. For information on his Reboot gathering, visit https://www.aaronmchugh.com/rebootworkshop/

Hey Gritty Musicians! This week's episode was inspired by another person's podcast episode. Check out the show here:   https://www.aaronmchugh.com/protect-the-asset-episode-123/   Aaron is rapidly becoming one of my heroes. Here is the top line of his bio:    "I want to help you restore balance and discover your path to a well-lived life. I write and speak on how to make adjustments to your thinking, your beliefs and your habits. The rewards are experiencing more joy, adventure and connection.”   I like it. I like it a lot. And his story can serve as a lesson for those of us out there who are struggling in this area. He is a writer, podcaster, adventurer, and author of the best selling book, Fire Your Boss: A Manifesto to Rethink How You Think About Work.   Now don't get me wrong, I don't want to fire my boss. I like my boss! But I DO want to rethink how I do my work so that I can be better at all aspects of my life. I work hard at my job year round. I'm not saying that because I want an award or pity from you. I say it because I think you work hard at your job too, and I bet that neither of us take the kind of time off we need to take.  It's not about “deserving” the time off. It is about creating the sort of sustainability in our lives that give us long term effectiveness, and more importantly, long term health.   Look, I may get hit by a bus crossing the street tomorrow.  I may be diagnosed with an incurable terminal disease next year.  But what is the point of living if we can't consistently take time to pause? I believe that mastering the concepts presented in this week's episode to be the single biggest indicator of long term success in life. More on this to come in the future, as I unpack a new approach to life throughout the year!