Connected Living: Recent Episodes
Matthew Smith
A guide for navigating our way through life, not completely unscathed, but all the more wiser and compassionate because of the scars we have picked up along the way.
In this episode I tell you about how to be curious and understand thoughts and emotions rather than allowing them to define you. I relive a time when I was unsuccessful at a job interview and how I sat with and was curious about my emotions rather than accepting a narrative I have about myself and interviews.
Whether at work or at home we have to have challenging conversations about performance or behaviours, sometimes we avoid them sometimes we jump in. They often don’t end well. Here is an approach to make difficult conversations helpful
Now we have explored there is other ways to lead our lives and our teams, we at some point should take action. This episode explores how to take meaningful action that will last, using William Bridges Transition Model
Why do we need to connect with others? It seems quite obvious doesn’t it? The answer as with a lot of answers that we reach for immediately is laden with assumptions.
Are we connecting to people because they see things the way we do and do not challenge us? Do we connect with people that that make us feel good rather than those that will help us grow?
What drives to connect with some people and not others and why can it be important to connect with a more diverse group
In this episode we explore attitudes, decision making and world view. This is the transition from understanding how we connect with ourselves to then better connections with others
Now you can fly we just dig a bit deeper in how to challenge the assumptions we make that prevent us from taking risks
What stops us from taking risks, and how to manage that fear and do it any way and how we pick ourselves up when we fail.
We discover how using Martin Seligman’s PERMA acronym can help manage our well-being and how a bucket and a tap can keep a check on our stress.
In this episode I am introducing myself to the world and the concept of Connected Living. I will also loosely lay out how the episodes will work.