Trade Wars and Bolton, How to Focus, Rethink Your Setbacks

Trade Wars and Bolton, How to Focus, Rethink Your Setbacks

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 7, Episode 73

  • Mar 26, 2018 4:00 pm
  • 2:13:33 mins

Trade Wars and Bolton (10:10) Joe Cannon is the CEO of the Fuel Freedom Foundation, former Chairman of the Utah Republican Party, past assistant administrator in the US EPA, and editor of the Deseret News. Joe Cannon talks about the possibility of a trade war with China and the naming of John Bolton as the National Security Advisor. How to Focus (54:50) Rasmus Hougaard is the founder of the Potential Project, a global training organization which delivers mindfulness programs to more than 200 organizations around the world including Nike and American Express. We live in an age of information overload. With so many things going on around us, it can be difficult to maintain our focus while at work. This reduces our productivity and efficiency, ultimately hindering our own personal growth as well as the growth of the company. Rasmus Hougaard talks about how we can focus better. Rethink Your Setbacks (1:40:00) Jeffrey Bernstein, Ph.D., a nationally recognized psychologist with over thirty years of experience specializing in child, adolescent, couples, and family therapy. Dr. Bernstein recently published his fifth book, “Mindfulness for Teen Worry”. We all make mistakes in life, and how we view our mistakes can impact our quality of life. Thomas Edison said I didn't fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.” Viewing setbacks and disappointments as experiments, rather than failures, will lead to greater happiness. Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein explains how to Think of Your Setbacks as Experiments, Not Failures.

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