Do Life Better Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Rick Hanson”

Purpose, Hope and Epic Challenges with Reid Anderton

Dave Jorna — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 05:00:00 +1000

What creates your greatest, most powerful sense of drive and determination? And, what provides you with your strongest sense of purpose and hope?

Today’s guest is a truly inspiring example of incredible strength, drive and passion for making a positive impact.

Reid Anderton is a record holder for solo cycling around Australia and is now attempting to break the Guinness World Record for cycling across Canada.

Reid shares about:

His Guinness World Records attempt
How the death of his brother, Steve, inspired him to create something purposeful and challenging
His charity work with disadvantaged children
How his sense of purpose created his drive and determination during his record breaking solo ride around Australia
Creating purpose and positive impact from tragedy
Reid’s one message for disadvantaged children

To follow Reid’s epic ride across Canada, visit www.canadachallenge.org.au. To support Reid’s charity, Eagles Wings, visit www.we.org.au

Reid’s challenge: Don’t be stuck in something boring, go and find something that inspires you and gives you purpose.

You can follow me on Instagram at @davejorna and @dolifebetterpodcast. To contact us about retreats, leadership training and workshops visit www.projecthatch.com.au or email us at hello@projecthatch.com.au.

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You Can Do Hard Things - Solo Round

Dave Jorna — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 05:00:00 +1000

What’s your dream goal? Have you started working towards making it a reality, or is it still only in the dream stage because it seems too difficult?

Last weekend, I turned one of my long-term dreams into a reality by finishing my first marathon. The training and race day were perfect opportunities for me to use many of the strategies we’ve shared on this podcast and to test them out in a fairly extreme situation, well extreme for me anyway!

Maybe your dream isn’t to run a marathon, instead it might be to get a promotion, start a business, get that job, be accepted into your degree or something else. You have what it takes to do hard things by turning those dreams into goals and then into reality. You just need to take the right steps - physically and mentally.

Here are the techniques I used that will also help you achieve your big goal:

Necessity
Visualisation
Feed the good
Real, positive self talk
Celebrate the wins
Back yourself

This week’s challenge: choose one of the above areas to work on this week so that you can keep moving closer to achieving your goal.

You can follow me on Instagram at @davejorna and @dolifebetterpodcast. To contact us about retreats, leadership training and workshops,
visit www.projecthatch.com.au or email us at hello@projecthatch.com.au.

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Habits for Living a Good, Full Life with Dr John Barletta

Dave Jorna — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 05:00:00 +1000

What does a good, full life look like to you?

There are specific things you can do to create this a reality.

In this episode Dr John Barletta and I chat about the following:

We can deliberately create and embrace opportunities so we can have a good, full life.
Flourish by using PERMA(H):
- Positive emotions: deliberately find activities that provide positive emotions
- Engagement: find a space where you can get in the zone to experience flow
- Relationships: positive connections with other people
- Meaning: the deeper purpose and goal behind why do I do the things that I do in my life?
- sense of Accomplishment or Achievement: move forward with endeavours big and small to gain a sense of mastering in your life
- Health: what I am doing to look after my mind and body, such as exercise, nutrition, and mindfulness
Relationships are critical for flourishing

The challenge: take the VIA strengths survey online at https://www.viacharacter.org/www/, find out your top 5 strengths and think about how you use them, or could use them, to fulfil your goals in your life.

Dr John Barletta is a Counselling and Clinical Psychologist in Brisbane who promotes healthy living via integrated positive psychology principles. His expertise includes therapy, workshops, keynotes, medico-legal and psychological assessments, corporate consulting, executive coaching, mediation, and clinical supervision.

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Hardwiring Your Brain for Happiness, Calm and Strength with Dr Rick Hanson

Dave Jorna — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 05:00:00 +1000

I’ve been looking forward to bringing you today’s episode with Dr Rick Hanson ever since we organised the interview.

As many of you know, I’m training for my very first marathon which I’ll be running the Sunday after this episode is released, and I’ve been using a lot of what Rick spoke about in my training as a way to build up my resilience, inner strength and enhance my mind game. And come race day, I will certainly be drawing on a lot of his tips and strategies, especially when the struggle begins.

I first heard of Rick a couple of years ago on the School of Greatness podcast with Lewis Howes, and his messages have helped me create a lot more happiness, self confidence and resilience in my every day life…and I know it will help you too. In fact, our earlier episode on savouring was inspired by what I previously learnt from Rick.

In this episode, Rick will help you overcome the brain’s negativity bias, release painful thoughts and feelings, and replace them with self-compassion, hope, and inner peace. He will also show you how to turn your everyday experiences like the warmth of a friends smile or a pleasant meal, into lasting inner strengths which become hardwired into your brain, such as resilience, balance and positive emotions.

Rick and I chat about:

Savouring and gaining as much as possible from experiences of every day
Building psychological muscles to influence who you are becoming
How to create positive internal change by changing the brain in half a minute or less
How negatives stick like velcro and positives slides of like Teflon
How to counteract the negativity bias
Resting in a sense of your own self worth, confidence and capability
Gratitude makes you stronger
The importance of looking for beneficial experiences
Three keys ways to build resilience
Rick’s daily routine and habits
Why it’s important to move through life like a sticky net
Rick’s personal practice for a rapid release of anger

Rick’s challenge for the week: take in one good thing every day and do it deliberately.

You can contact Dr Rick Hanson at www.rickhanson.net

For information on Rick’s books, visit https://www.rickhanson.net/rick-hanson/

Rick will be in Melbourne, Australia in July, 2018, for Open Ground - http://www.openground.com.au/rick-hanson-australian-tour

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To contact us about retreats, leadership training and workshops, visit www.projecthatch.com.au or email us at hello@projecthatch.com.au.

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