#260: How To Attain The Freedom To Be Ourselves With Terry McDougall
In this episode of the Live Your Spa Life Show, Diane’s guest is Terry McDougall. She’s an executive coach, leadership consultant, speaker, and author of Winning the Game of Work: Career Happiness and Success on Your Own Terms. She works with high achievers who are stressed out, anxious, and struggle with impostor syndrome to relax into their full potential so they can enjoy more ease happiness and success in their lives and careers. Terry was a longtime marketing executive prior to becoming a coach, and today works with leaders and their teams in fast-growing startups and fortune 500 companies.
Important topics discussed:
What does Terry find in the area of Fear
Separate the vision of what you want from how it will happen
The elevator exercise
How did Terry get into a successful place?
Adapt and Change
Common pain points
Avoiding burnout
Components that cause people to be high achievers
Be selective about how you invest your time and energy
Favorite room
Quote:
[02:49] “So often, when people are not satisfied with what’s going on in their lives, they’ll get really attached to the pain that they’re feeling. And so they’re talking a lot about what’s going on, complaining, and venting and all of that. And there’s nothing wrong with that at all. It’s good for us to get in touch with that. But at some point, we sort of have to flip the table. And we’ve got to stop being so attached to things we don’t want and get very clear about what we want.”
[09:47] “High achievers are addicted to external validation. And that can often drive them to be very successful, but at a certain point, if we lose connection with ourselves, and if we’re constantly looking for validation outside of ourselves, it is very disempowering.”
[11:45] “When we take care of ourselves first, we have the energy to take care of others, and we’d become more confident in ourselves.”
[25:18] “We’re all under pressure to deliver and so forth. But we need to be selective and sometimes tolerate a little bit of discomfort in the short term, in order to get more done in the long term.”
Links and Resources:
Winning the Game of Work: Career Happiness and Success on Your Own Terms
https://terrybmcdougall.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrybmcdougall/
https://www.marketingmambo.net/1569061
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