It's an Inside Job
Are you overwhelmed by managing career and leadership challenges, overthinking decisions, or facing uncertainty? I'm Jason Birkevold Liem, and welcome to It's an Inside Job—the go-to podcast for coaches, leaders, and professionals striving for career and personal growth.
Whether you're caught in cycles of rumination, dealing with uncertainty, or under constant pressure to perform at your best—whether as an individual or a leader—this podcast provides practical skills and solutions to help you regain control, find clarity, and build resilience from within. It's designed to enhance your coaching, communication, and collaboration skills while helping you thrive both personally and professionally.
Every Monday, we bring you long-form discussions with thought leaders on resilience, leadership, psychology, and motivation, offering expert insights and real-life stories. Then, on BiteSize Fridays, you'll get shorter, focused episodes with actionable tips designed to help you tackle the everyday challenges of leadership, stress management, and personal growth. So, if you're ready to build resilience, equanimity, and well-being from the inside out, join me every Monday and Friday.
After all, building resilience is an Inside Job!
It's an Inside Job
Active Awareness: How to Properly Harness Your Focus to Build a Resilient Mindset
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Active awareness is the essence of resilience. Where we choose to invest our attention is what we have flagged as important. When something is important to us, it means we have assigned it with value, and we have given it meaning. This meaning defines the search parameters of the RAS, which in turn creates the lens of how we perceive the world around us. It determines what we pay attention to and how we either engage or disengage with the world.
Psychologists found that when people view themselves as depressed, they don't notice or pay attention to the moments when they are feeling good throughout a given day.
Additionally, when we view ourselves as depressed, the only memories that readily come to mind align with our current viewpoints. Our entire past becomes coloured by our present identity. What once may have been good experiences are filtered by your current narrative.
What happens when we encounter stress and struggle? Stress is the great litmus test of how we are using the skill of active awareness. Are we embracing the struggle, or are we disengaging with it? What is our narrative around the source of the stress? What are the labels we are sticking to the situation and ourselves?
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Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story by Benjamin Hardy
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