28 June 2020

10. Peace over Performance with Amy Balog

 

Today we are speaking with a writer, speaker, and founder of ConnextionPoint, Amy Balog. Amy designed a comprehensive coaching approach that allows leaders to harness their most significant internal leadership asset, their Center. The experience of Amy's clients is a journey to find their peace as the ultimate source of their potential and performance.

Let’s get into Amy’s story and find your peace in high demand roles

Things you will learn in this episode:

[00:01 - 01:34] Opening Segment

  • I talked briefly about valuable information that you can take advantage of in this episode
  • I introduce the guest, Amy Balog to the show
  • We exchange greetings and friendly remarks

 

[01:35 - 09:46] Peace Over Performance

  • Amy talks about the underlying feeling of leaders behind its question, "What do I really want out of life?"
    • Reflect ourselves in these 3 dimensions: Job, person, talent.
    • Lost attention to ourselves and to our talent.  We become our job
  • Amy provides us with valuable information about what peace over performance means
    • The importance of having clarity before making decisions
    • Know your center: a powerful thing against the three dimensions
    • Find ways of celebrating your talent

 

[09:47 - 17:35] Discovering our Dark Side and Self-Awareness

  • Amy gives us a deeper understanding of the dark side we have in ourselves.
    • We become chronically reactive in our lives
    • We are biased to action
    • We move too fast and we lose the potential of the situation
    • We don't listen to ourselves or listen to others
  • Amy shares the importance of having self-awareness
  • Are you stressed and have health issues because of your job? It’s time to listen to Amy’s powerful advice
    • The power of taking good care of yourself and your body 
    • Celebrate your talent

 

[17:36 - 21:37] Choosing Humility Over Pride

  • Amy shed some light about the meaning behind her quote “Humility is beautiful growth that comes when pride has finally run itself out”
    • Being so prideful that you forget to listen 
    • Give ourselves room to mess up

 

[21:38 - 24:56] Closing Segment

  • Final Thoughts to our listeners?
    • “Do not depend on our achievements validated to us to feel loved, instead trust that we have compassion and compassion can live in our lives”
    • “It's great to be striving, just do it with great peace and do with great compassion and life will be a good thing”
  • For more information on Amy, be sure to follow her at the links below.
  • Final words from me

 

Tweetable Quotes:

“We can lose our own agency, we can almost without realizing it literally be unfolded into the environment that we're in, and suddenly that is the source of all our energy and what our identity becomes” -Amy Balog

“Realize that you're bigger than your job because your talent is always evolving, and you respect that about yourself and you celebrate it” -Amy Balog

“Score never defines you, your choices do” -Amy Balog

“We have to give ourselves room to mess up, not be under such intense performance, self-pressure that because our pride will let us go there, it will totally impact our growth” -Amy Balog

“Humility is beautiful growth that comes when pride has finally run itself out” - Amy Balog

“Do not depend on our achievements validated to us to feel loved instead trust that we have compassion and compassion can live in our lives” -Amy Balog

“It's great to be striving, just do it with great peace and do it with great compassion and life will be a good thing” -Amy Balog

 

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You can connect with Amy on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter or visit her website http://connextionpoint.com/

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