A Radical Approach To Goal Setting With Tara McMullin

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Show Notes:

My approach to goal setting and productivity have changed in a big way based on what you’re about to hear.

Listener favorite Tara McMullin is back on Rebel Therapist Podcast, talking about a huge pivot she’s made in her work life. She's also sharing her new book, What Works, A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting.

A bit more about her:

Tara McMullin is a podcast host, writer, and speaker who’s been making business make sense for small business owners for over 12 years. She’s the host of What Works, a podcast about entrepreneurship for humans that’s been downloaded over 4 million times. She’s also the co-founder of YellowHouse.Media, a podcast production agency. Tara brings a unique perspective to business thinking informed by her background in theology, interests in endurance training and critical theory, and strengths as an autistic creator.

Also, Tara was my business coach/strategist for as long as she WAS a business coach/strategist.

Here's some of what we talked about:

  • Making a big pivot by leaving her role as the leader of the large and thriving business community she’d built

  • Why acknowledging our limits and depleted reserves is powerful

  • Leaving behind big-G Goal setting on the path to becoming self-transforming subjects with agency

  • Annie’s sabbatical and how it set her up perfectly for this book and an overhaul of her goal-setting practices

  • How the Positive Thinking movement (Capital P, Capital T) has been harming us and how to resist it

  • How to recognize when you’re in the Validation Spiral and move out of it

  • What Tara’s working on now and how she manages her capacity

  • One thing you can do to increase your sense of agency starting today

More From Tara:

Get the book:

What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting

From Tara’s company

From Amazon

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