271: Peter Bregman - Author of 4 Seconds

Peter Bregman is the CEO of Bregman Partners, Inc., a company that strengthens leadership in people and in organizations.

His most recent book is Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Produtive Habits and Get the Results You Want, a New York Post top pick for your career in 2015. His previous book was the Wall Street Journal bestseller 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, winner of the Gold medal from the Axiom Business Book awards, named the best business book of the year on NPR, and selected by Publisher’s Weekly and the New York Post as a top 10 business book. He is also the author of Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change and contributor to five other books. Featured on PBS, ABC and CNN, Peter’s articles and commentary appear frequently in Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Psychology Today, Forbes, The Financial Times, CNN, NPR, and FOX Business News.

"There is no passion in playing small, in settling for a life that is less than you are capable of living" - Nelson Mandela

If you have a job the general consensus is that you should hold on to it tooth and nail. In this economy it would be foolish to quit a job. Well, the he** with the media campaign about mediocrity. The economy is no worse then any other time and to hold on to a job out of fear is just silly. ( I was going to use a harsher word but it is a G show!)

Your wellbeing and happiness is paramount. As one writer put it, this is not life 1.0. You don't get another one. Settling is not an option.

Listen to how to combat those tough feelings of job frustration as I detail the reasons you stay in a job you hate.

"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined." - Johnny Carson

Johnny Carson was right. Your career makes up a significant portion of your life so don't continue doing something that makes you miserable.

So many people are ruled by fear and continue in jobs that have no meaning for them. Some don't even know if it is time to move on, find another job or start your own career.

That is exactly why I chose today's topic, to start having people question what they are doing a minimum of 8 hours a day.