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How to Be Awesome at Your Job · 2025-09-22 · 39 min · 6,229 words

1095: Keeping Your Productive Groove through Movement, Thought, and Rest with Dr. Natalie Nixon

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If we don't have means, tools, ways in to build creativity as a capacity, we will be working in a very myopic way, we will miss opportunities, and we actually will not innovate in a way that makes that's interesting, that makes it exciting and cool to show up for work and that actually delivers value, meaningful value to the clients and customers we serve. That's Dr. Natalie Nixon. She's the CEO of Figure 8 thinking and a creative strategist who helps leaders catalyze creativity's ROI for inspired business results.

She's also the author of The Creativity Leap and more recently, Move, Think, Rest: Redefining Productivity and Our Relationship with Time. So you'll learn 1. the inner skills that make us more strategic and effective. 2. why not to dismiss your gut feelings.

And 3, how to prime your best. ideas in 90 seconds. And if you want a quick summary write up of the actionable wisdom that Natalie shares, I recommend you sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter, which you can find at awesometyourjob.com. I'm Pete McKaitis. This is how to be awesome at Your Job.

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