Episode 23: Jeff Haden on Motivation and How We Can Achieve Our Goals

The Power of Bold

Adam speaks with Jeff Haden, one of Inc.com's most popular columnists and author of The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up To Win. The conversation begins with Jeff sharing how he left his stable career in the manufacturing industry to become a ghostwriter (02:25 - 11:54). He shares how he picked up the skills to begin his writing career (11:55 - 13:24) and how he prefers following a professional versus a coach when learning a new skill (13:25 - 18:59). Jeff then describes the Motivation Myth (19:00 - 22:36) and why effort leads to success, which leads to motivation (22:37 - 25:05). He then shares what to do if you have many interests, but feel stuck (25:06 - 30:18) why broadcasting your goals to the world might not be the best idea (30:19 - 33:47), why you should set goals and then focus on your processes (33:48 - 40:46) and why we should say "I don't" instead of "I can't" when being tempted to divert from our processes (40:47 - 45:15). The interview concludes with Jeff sharing how you can leverage identity when you spend the first week and a half to two weeks working toward your goals (45:16 - 56:27) and what we can do today to start developing our own processes to achieve our goals (56:28 - 1:01:42). For show notes and a transcript of this episode, visit www.thepowerofbold.com.