Build the life you want, the easy way.
Changing your life comes from changing your habits, behaviors, and routines.
If you’re like me, you’ve tried to create healthy and positive habits, and realized, this stuff is hard.
Regardless of what you’re trying to improve, if it’s your health, wealth, relationships, or anywhere else, something about who you are and the actions you take will have to change.
On this podcast host Paul Levitin gives you real-world strategies and brings on leading experts to help you not only succeed in your quest for change, but to do it with ease.
Most high performers are taught to suppress emotions to stay rational. Chris Sparks argues the opposite: emotions are signals, and learning to read them is a superpower. Drawing on insights from Buddhist philosophy, the Hoffman Process, and executive coaching, this episode teaches you to decode what your emotional reactions are really trying to tell you.
Chris Sparks is an executive coach and founder of Forcing Function (forcingfunction.com), where he works with entrepreneurs and high performers to unlock peak productivity. A former professional poker player and turned executive coach, Chris brings a uniquely analytical yet human lens to performance and decision-making. Connect with him at chris@forcingfunction.com.
KEY EPISODE POINTS
- Why outcome-focused thinking is a trap (and what to focus on instead)
- How to treat decision-making like a product you iterate over time
- The signals we underweight or ignore in key decisions
- How a process orientation makes you more resilient under pressure
- Playing the long game: why no single decision matters as much as you think