Moonshots Podcast: Superstar mindsets and success habits

Listener Update July 2022 A handy guide to all the shows and Moonshots goodies for July 2022 - a summary of the Productivity and Happines series. A big shout out to our members and a special mention to the new members in June: Daniel Alcaraz, Andrew Hyde, Ravi Govender and Evert van de Plassche. Become a member Moonshots Podcast is creating a podcast to help improve yourself, your thinking and lea...

What is the formula for a happy life? Neil Pasricha's , The Happiness Equation is a book that will change how you think about pretty much everything—your time, your career, your relationships, your family, and, ultimately, of course, your happiness. Neil Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, a New York Times–bestselling author of the Book of Awesome series and a Walmart executive. After selling more than a m...

Serena Williams announced her retirement from tennis, so we wanted to re-post our show featuring her. We can learn much from her as an athlete, a mother and an entrepreneur. Serena Williams has revolutionized women’s tennis with her powerful style of play and has won more Grand Slam singles titles than any other woman or man during the open era. Serena holds the most Grand Slam titles in singles,...

Every time you see him, he's laughing. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama , the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet , a Nobel Prize winner, and a hugely sought-after speaker and statesman. If you ask him if he's happy, even after so much loss, the Dalai Lama will give you an unconditional yes. What's more, he'll tell you that happiness is the purpose of...

Can You Learn to Be Happy? If you feel like you’re floundering when it comes to finding meaning in life, look no further than Tal Ben-Shahar’s Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment . He’ll give you some specific and actionable tips to increase your joy today. Learn about this emotion in just 3 lessons: Happiness breeds success and all life goals point toward it. Balance y...

Airbnb Inc. Co-Founder Joe Gebbia is stepping back from a full-time role at the home rental giant to spend more time with his family and explore new projects at the company that made him a billionaire. The Moonshots Podcast leaps into the world of design innovation with the co-founder of Airbnb, Joe Gebbia. To celebrate his work and learn how to make design breakthroughs and discover the courage a...

Matthew McConaughey’s Greenlights is not a conventional memoir. As he neared age 50, the Oscar-winning actor revisited the journal he kept for 35 years to see what he could learn from it.  Get Greenlights from Amazon https://geni.us/GreenLights Get the summary via Blinkist https://blinkist.o6eiov.net/XxjAky Become a Moonshot Member https://www.patreon.com/Moonshots Matthew McConaughey describes a...

Hello members and subscribers! The thirteenth Moonshots Master episode is here and we are leaping into Leadership and Shared Vision! As always we kick off with a slice of inspiration, and who better to get us started than Ken Blanchard who discusses how being a better manager starts with having a mindset that leans towards servant leadership , and our differentiation of vision and mission statemen...

Dan Harris the Author of 10% Happier and Nightline anchor embarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to get happier that is truly achievable. After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America , Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes.  Harris realized that the source of h...

Jordan Peterson has crafted a modern understanding of how to pursue what is truly meaningful for you. We dive into our top 5 motivating and inspirational rules from Jordan Peterson, spanning both his books and popular global bestsellers Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life & 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos Dr. Peterson has published more than a hundred scientific papers and authored bo...

Between the training and three attempts, Goggins did more than 67,000 pull-ups in nine months. But more than his physical endurance Goggins showcased the power of repetition.  He tried three times to accomplish this goal  Learning from each attempt  Never accepting he couldn’t meet the challenge  Not listening to the negative comments - that he didn’t have the physical strength to do it Four pull-...

When you’re up to your eyeballs answering emails, returning phone calls, attending meetings, and scrambling to get that project done, you can turn to this inspirational, motivating, and at times playful book, Do More Great Work: Stop the Busywork. Start the Work That Matters by Michael Bungay Stanier . In fifteen exercises, Do More Great Work shows how you can finally do more of the work that push...

A handy guide to all the shows and Moonshots goodies for June 2022, a summary of the Productivity series and a preview of the Creativity series. We also reveal which t-shirt designs will kick off our new Moonshots store. A big shout out to our members and a special mention to the new members in June Zaviere, Lauren, Craig, Steve, Tracy, Lasse, Gavin, Deborah, Damien, Cobi and Chris.

Cal Newport doesn’t like the distractions of technology. In fact, Newport thinks that our focus on technology and how it dominates modern business is holding us back. His book, A World Without Email : Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload, takes a sledgehammer to how technology runs the modern enterprise and, ultimately, our lives. The idea is not to jettison email but to make it sm...

Deep Work by Cal Newport is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It’s a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a superpower in our increasingly compet...

Hello members and subscribers! The twelfth Moonshots Master episode is here and we are diving into Critical Thinking and Opportunity Cost! Getting us started on the journey is Brit Lewis from Mr Hancock, who talks about Trade-Offs and how an understanding of scarcity can help us grasp the number of possibilities around us . We then have a breakdown from Study.com which explains choice, Opportunity...

For decades, Ken Blanchard's ; The One Minute Manager ® has helped millions achieve more successful professional and personal lives. While the principles it lays out are timeless, our world has changed drastically since the book’s publication. The exponential rise of technology, global flattening of markets, instant communication, and pressures on corporate workforces to do more with less—includin...

Atul Gawande is a renowned American surgeon, writer, and public health leader. He was a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and has written four New York Times best-selling books: The Checklist Manifesto , was Gawande's third book, released  in 2009. It discusses the importance of organization and preplanning (such as thorough checklists ) in both medicine and the larger world. The C...

Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey is a practical guide to managing your attention – the most powerful resource you have to become more creative, get stuff done, and live a more meaningful life. In Hyperfocus , Chris Baile y provides profound insights into how we can best manage our attention. He reveals how the brain switches between two mental modes – hyperfocus, our deep concentration mode, and scatter...

Discover David Allen's powerful methods for stress-free performance at work and in life. Allen's premise is simple - our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective results and unleash our creative potential. From core principles to proven tricks. Getting Things Done will teach you to - Apply t...

Hello members and subscribers! The eleventh Moonshots Master episode is here and we are diving into Entrepreneurship and Rapid Prototyping!! Rapidly getting us into the mindset of trying and testing, we start with Walt Disney as he discusses how to use prototyping to find success . We then hear from the genius of Dyson, Sir James Dyson, who reflects on how the journey to innovation takes time . We...

Part Two: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey , we look at how we must value and celebrate the differences in another’s perspective and commit to creating Win-Win situations that are mutually beneficial and satisfying to each party. How do we make these habits and ideas real? Teach, share and learn with others. "To go for Win-Win, you not only have to be nice, you have to b...

The Element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive at the Element, they feel most themselves and most inspired and achieve at their highest levels. With a wry sense of humor, Ken Robinson looks at the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the Element and those that stifle that possibility.  Drawing on the stories of a wide range of people, includin...

Jim Carrey, Film Star, Survivor, Inspiration. From humble beginnings to superstardom, he joins an elite group of comedians who have spanned the acting chasm to achieve phenomenal success. His book; Memoirs and Misinformation   is a fearless semi-autobiographical novel, a deconstruction of persona. In it, Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon have fashioned a story about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity,...

Elon Musk is unstoppable! He's the most prolific and productive CEO of our times - he's even a bit cheeky. That's why we love him at the Moonshots Podcast. With his recent purchase of Twitter, he is now involved in over five revolutionary companies. So, we ask, 'how does Elon do it?'. Elon Musk co-founded the electronic payment firm PayPal and founded the spacecraft company SpaceX . He also is the...