The Daily Podcast with Jonathan Doyle

Jonathan Doyle
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  • Self-Improvement
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There is always a gap between the life we live and the life that's possible for us. If you find yourself looking for ways to improve or have a life-long interest in personal development then this is the podcast for you. Over the last two decades I've had the privilege of speaking all over the world to over 400,000 people on the topics that really make a difference in their lives. We all need some encouragement from time to and this podcast is designed to help you in the areas of mindset, motivation, inspiration, business, relationships and much more.

  1. 12h ago

    It's Not the Work That's Exhausting You — It's the Unfinished Work

    If you woke up today wishing someone would finally explain the Zeigarnik effect — you're in exactly the right place. In the 1920s, Bluma Zeigarnik studied waiters who could hold enormous unpaid orders in their heads effortlessly — and forgot them completely the second the bill was settled. Unfinished tasks occupy the mind with roughly double the force of finished ones. I've used this principle in business for two decades. The practical move: every open loop gets a verdict — close it, date it, or kill it. The loop doesn't care which. Your mind does. Grab my book Bridging the Gap free as an audiobook — search "Bridging the Gap Jonathan Doyle" on any podcast app. Corporate speaking and executive coaching enquiries: jonathandoyle.co A new one every morning. Don't go back to sleep. Enquire about booking Jonathan to speak: https://jonathandoyle.co/ Connect with Jonathan on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jdoylespeaks/ Jonathan is on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpCYnW4yVdd93N1OTbsxgyw

  2. 1d ago

    You Keep Trying to Fix Your Life by Adding to It

    Today: subtraction blindness. Leidy Klotz's research published in Nature found that when people are asked to improve anything, almost everyone adds — new parts, new rules, new steps, new commitments — and virtually nobody subtracts, even when taking something away is the cheaper, faster, better fix. Now look at your calendar, your routines, your business. The first question was never "what's missing?" It's "what's in the way?" This week, improve something only by removing. Grab my book Bridging the Gap free as an audiobook — search "Bridging the Gap Jonathan Doyle" on any podcast app. Corporate speaking and executive coaching enquiries: jonathandoyle.co A new one every morning. Don't go back to sleep. Enquire about booking Jonathan to speak: https://jonathandoyle.co/ Connect with Jonathan on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jdoylespeaks/ Jonathan is on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpCYnW4yVdd93N1OTbsxgyw

  3. 2d ago

    In the Prison Camps, the Optimists Died First

    That was a dark opening, wasn't it? Admiral James Stockdale spent seven years as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton — and when asked who didn't survive, his answer was immediate: the optimists. "Out by Christmas" broke them. What Stockdale practised instead is the paradox now named for him: confront the most brutal facts of your current reality while never losing faith that you will prevail in the end. Success doesn't remove problems — it upgrades their quality. This episode is about carrying both hands full through whatever you're building. Grab my book Bridging the Gap free as an audiobook — search "Bridging the Gap Jonathan Doyle" on any podcast app. Corporate speaking and executive coaching enquiries: jonathandoyle.co A new one every morning. Don't go back to sleep. Enquire about booking Jonathan to speak: https://jonathandoyle.co/ Connect with Jonathan on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jdoylespeaks/ Jonathan is on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpCYnW4yVdd93N1OTbsxgyw

  4. 3d ago

    The Moment You Started Tracking It, It Started Lying to You

    What are you tracking in your life? Numbers matter — you cannot manage what you cannot measure — but the moment a measure becomes the target, it stops measuring anything. In this episode: Goodhart's Law, the famous cautionary tales of metrics gamed into uselessness, and why after 30 years and 600,000 people live I can tell you almost nobody tracks what actually matters. The audit: for every number you chase, ask what it's for — and find your giant nail. Grab my book Bridging the Gap free as an audiobook — search "Bridging the Gap Jonathan Doyle" on any podcast app. Corporate speaking and executive coaching enquiries: jonathandoyle.co A new one every morning. Don't go back to sleep. Enquire about booking Jonathan to speak: https://jonathandoyle.co/ Connect with Jonathan on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jdoylespeaks/ Jonathan is on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpCYnW4yVdd93N1OTbsxgyw

  5. 4d ago

    The Best Moments of Your Life Weren't Comfortable

    Think of the best moment of your life. I'll bet it wasn't on a couch. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi spent decades asking thousands of people when they felt most alive, and the answer was never passive comfort. Flow — peak experience — arrives when your skill meets a challenge just beyond it: voluntary, stretched effort toward something difficult and worthwhile. The climber on the wall, the surgeon mid-operation, the speaker in front of ten thousand. The disturbing implication: we spend most of our discretionary time on the exact activities least capable of producing our best states, then wonder why leisure leaves us flat. In this episode: the difference between deliberate rest (essential) and passive drift (exhausting), Mozart's four-year creative explosion after he voluntarily left everything safe, the threshold experiences chapter from my first book, and the ancient echo — Aristotle's eudaimonia arguing twenty-three centuries early that the good life is not a feeling but an activity: your powers, fully deployed, along lines of excellence. Grab my book Bridging the Gap free as an audiobook — search "Bridging the Gap Jonathan Doyle" on any podcast app. Corporate speaking and executive coaching enquiries: jonathandoyle.co A new one every morning. Don't go back to sleep. Enquire about booking Jonathan to speak: https://jonathandoyle.co/ Connect with Jonathan on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jdoylespeaks/ Jonathan is on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpCYnW4yVdd93N1OTbsxgyw

  6. 5d ago

    You Guard Your Money and Hand Out Your Hours

    You guard your money like a soldier and hand out your hours to anyone who asks. You would never give a stranger your bank details — yet every day the industrialised attention economy takes hours of the only resource that can't be earned back, and we call it relaxing. Seneca made the argument two thousand years ago in On the Shortness of Life: life isn't short — we make it short by wasting it on grievances, other people's agendas, and preparation for a life we never get around to living. Benjamin Franklin ran the counter-system: a written agenda every morning, an audit every night. In this episode: the infinite scroll was built on purpose by people who understood your dopamine better than you do; the tools I use to fight back (including physically bricking my phone); why intentional rest and generous time given consciously are not waste — autopilot is; and the audit to run tonight: hour by hour, whose agenda filled yesterday? Grab my book Bridging the Gap free as an audiobook — search "Bridging the Gap Jonathan Doyle" on any podcast app. Corporate speaking and executive coaching enquiries: jonathandoyle.co A new one every morning. Don't go back to sleep. Enquire about booking Jonathan to speak: https://jonathandoyle.co/ Connect with Jonathan on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jdoylespeaks/ Jonathan is on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpCYnW4yVdd93N1OTbsxgyw

  7. 6d ago

    Nobody Is Thinking About You — The Spotlight Effect

    Here's the most liberating sentence in psychology: nobody is thinking about you. Thomas Gilovich's Cornell studies mapped what we now call the spotlight effect: we massively overestimate how much other people notice us. In the famous experiment, students wearing an embarrassing t-shirt guessed roughly double the number of people who had actually registered it. The mechanism: every person is the lead actor in their own film — which makes you an extra in theirs. In this episode: why this kills the business never started, the gym never joined, the hand never raised; the honest exception (genuinely evaluative environments exist — elite teams, selection processes — but they are not most of your life); and the ancient echo — Marcus Aurelius, the most watched man in the known world, marvelling in his private notebook that we love ourselves more than anyone else yet value strangers' opinions above our own judgment. If the man with an empire watching could see the spotlight was imaginary, so can you. Grab my book Bridging the Gap free as an audiobook — search "Bridging the Gap Jonathan Doyle" on any podcast app. Corporate speaking and executive coaching enquiries: jonathandoyle.co A new one every morning. Don't go back to sleep. Enquire about booking Jonathan to speak: https://jonathandoyle.co/ Connect with Jonathan on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jdoylespeaks/ Jonathan is on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpCYnW4yVdd93N1OTbsxgyw

  8. Jul 29

    You're Not Staying Because It's Good — You've Already Paid

    You're not staying because it's good. You're staying because you've already paid. The sunk cost fallacy is the very human inability to walk away from what we've already invested — money, years, energy, identity. We focus on the size of the loss instead of the only question that matters: what is the next dollar worth? In this episode: the Grand Designs house on the cliff that cost a man his marriage and still sits unfinished, the stop-loss discipline from trading — deciding in advance where you'll stop the bleeding — and the audit across the categories where this quietly runs lives: friendships past their use-by date, the safe career you never liked, the gym membership you won't cancel because cancelling means admitting. One clear boundary: this does not apply to covenant commitments — marriage is not a trade. But nearly everything else deserves the honest question: if you arrived fresh today, would you buy in? Grab my book Bridging the Gap free as an audiobook — search "Bridging the Gap Jonathan Doyle" on any podcast app. Corporate speaking and executive coaching enquiries: jonathandoyle.co A new one every morning. Don't go back to sleep. Enquire about booking Jonathan to speak: https://jonathandoyle.co/ Connect with Jonathan on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jdoylespeaks/ Jonathan is on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpCYnW4yVdd93N1OTbsxgyw

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There is always a gap between the life we live and the life that's possible for us. If you find yourself looking for ways to improve or have a life-long interest in personal development then this is the podcast for you. Over the last two decades I've had the privilege of speaking all over the world to over 400,000 people on the topics that really make a difference in their lives. We all need some encouragement from time to and this podcast is designed to help you in the areas of mindset, motivation, inspiration, business, relationships and much more.

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