Becoming Your Best | The Principles of Highly Successful Leaders - Episode 395 - The "Negativity Effect" and the "4-Horsemen" of Disaster. How They Affect Your Home, Loved Ones and Work.

Episode 395 - The "Negativity Effect" and the "4-Horsemen" of Disaster. How They Affect Your Home, Loved Ones and Work.

09/05/23 • 33 min

Becoming Your Best | The Principles of Highly Successful Leaders

Part of becoming a great leader is not only overcoming the challenges of leadership itself but our personal limitations as well. The first step is identifying them and knowing and understanding their origin. Then, we must equip ourselves with the tools and resources to obliterate them: an antidote to eliminate their effects.

This week, I share the best advice from the noblest of companions, the one who holds long life in the right hand and wealth and honor in the left, one that is worth more than silver and gold and is more valuable than jewels: wisdom. We discuss Roy Baumeister's "Negativity Effect" and John Gottman's relationships' "4-Horsemen of Apocalypse."

Throughout this episode, you'll hear Roy Baumeister's brilliant responses to Jennifer Graham's interview about the "Negativity Effect," and you'll learn why most of us spend more time on negative thoughts, ideas, and feelings. We'll also discuss John Gottman's "4-Horsemen of Apocalypse" in professional and personal relationships, origin, meaning, and antidote.

Tune in to Episode 395 of Becoming Your Best and discover these fantastic tools that'll help you keep improving and get close to your best version.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

A bit about the inspiration for today's episode (2:30)
Why wisdom is such a valuable attribute (5:00)
The Negativity Effect (11:40)
Roy Baumeister's tips on parenting (15:00)
What are the "4-Horsemen of Apocalypse" for relationships (20:30)
The antidotes for each horseman (22:20)

Becoming Your Best Resources:

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Tune in to Episode 395 of Becoming Your Best and discover these fantastic tools that'll help you keep improving and get close to your best version.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

A bit about the inspiration for today's episode (2:30)
Why wisdom is such a valuable attribute (5:00)
The Negativity Effect (11:40)
Roy Baumeister's tips on parenting (15:00)
What are the "4-Horsemen of Apocalypse" for relationships (20:30)
The antidotes for each horseman (22:20)

Becoming Your Best Resources:

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Previous Episode

Episode 394 - Defining Moments of Leadership with Marsha Acker

"Have you ever had the frustrating experience of having the same conversation over and over at work or at home? Because if you have, that's your indicator, your canary in the coal mine telling you there's a lot more to that conversation you're missing."

In this episode, I'm joined by the extraordinary Marsha Acker to discuss how to identify and crack down on stuck patterns of communication that get in the way of performing at the highest level. Marsha is a Leadership and Team Coach, Author, Sought-after Speaker, Host of the Defining Moments of Leadership podcast, and the Founder and CEO of TeamCatapult.

Throughout our conversation, you'll hear Marsha's thoughts on the most common communication issues and their devastating effects on organizations, families, and personal and professional relationships. Marsha also shares tips to enhance our communication skills, reduce the noise's interference to the minimum, and create sustainable change.

You'll also hear about Marsha's background, what inspired her to become a facilitator, create the Model for Leading Change, and much more.

Tune in to Episode 394 and learn to identify and crack down on the communication issues holding you and your team back.

Some Questions I Ask:

Tell us about your background, including any turning points that massively influenced you and your work today (3:10)

What are some good communication tips for us today? (9:20)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

What led Marsha to work as a facilitator and become a communication expert (6:20)

Learn to separate the WHAT from the HOW (12:40)

What happens when an individual keeps coming back to a core issue (16:10)

Tips to maintain sustainable change (21:30)

Be welcoming to opposing ideas when communicating (25:20)

Resources:

Book: Marsha Acker - Build Your Model for Leading Change: A Guided Workbook to Catalyze Clarity and Confidence in Leading Yourself and Others

Defining Moments of Leadership with Marsha Acker podcast

Connect with Marsha:

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Becoming Your Best Resources:

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Becoming Your Best Library

Email: [email protected]

Book: Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders

Book: Conquer Anxiety: How to Overcome Anxiety and Optimize Your Performance

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Next Episode

Episode 396 - Leadership Wisdom for the Ages: An Interview with Ben Franklin

"The mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous was not sufficient to prevent our slipping, and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct." - Benjamin Franklin.

In today's episode, we have fun interviewing one of the founding fathers of the United States, drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first postmaster general of the United States, Benjamin Franklin. The writer, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and one of the leading intellectuals of his time talks about the 13 necessary virtues and how to stay focused on them so we can turn them into habits.

Throughout this episode, you'll learn about Ben Franklin's 13 virtues, what inspired him to create them, and how they inspired us and later became a transformational template for Steve's first book, "Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders." We also go through each virtue, learn how to turn them into habitual practices, how each of the 12 principles can help you become a highly successful leader, and much more.

Tune in to Episode 396 of Becoming Your Best, learn to cultivate and flourish the 13 virtues, and let them guide you through building a life by design and a more intentional existence.

In This Episode, You Will Learn: