265: Learn to Say NO (to even some good things!) with Dorie Clark
If you love hearing from women who support others on their leadership journey, then today’s show is a treat for you. My guest will inspire you with tips, advice, and insights into success, positive thinking, and goal setting. Join us!
Dorie Clark is a true internet superstar. She helps people get their ideas heard in a crowded, noisy world, and she’s been honored with awards too numerous to count. Dorie has written the #1 leadership book, Stand Out, and her new book, The Long Game, will be available soon. She is a former presidential campaign spokesperson, frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, consultant, speaker, graduate of Harvard Divinity School, producer of a Grammy-winning jazz album, and Broadway investor. The New York Times describes Dorie as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.”
Music Credit: My good friend Lindsay Katt – https://lindsaykatt.bandcamp.com/track/stick-by-me
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Show Highlights:
The beginning of Dorie’s creative journey in a family that encouraged multiple interests and endeavors
How Dorie left for early college at age 14 for more independence and intellectual freedom
Dorie’s multi-hyphenate titles: consultant, professional speaker, executive coach, author, business school professor, online course creator, musical theater writer and investor, and aspiring ping-pong master
How Dorie manages time and energy by factoring in “opportunity costs” and learning to say NO to even some good things
How to make decisions and not live with FOMO and regret
How to structure your calendar to reduce overwhelm with “manager” days and “maker” days
How Dorie plans tasks according to energy level peaks throughout the day
Why Dorie never gets “stuck”
How Dorie replenishes herself with creative energy by playing ping-pong
How to guard against failure - and the crippling fear of failure
How Dorie’s book, The Long Game, teaches long-term thinking with provisional hypotheses
Great advice Dorie received from Marshall Goldsmith: “Keep coming back and teaching yourself new things, no matter how successful you become.”
How our community can support and nourish us
How Dorie finds herself in the middle of a ten-year goal initiated in 2016 to write a show that makes it to Broadway
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Check out Dorie’s website or take her Strategic Thinking Self-Assessment
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