How to Develop a Positive Attitude (Ep. 32)

Do you find that you are hard on yourself?  Do you feel like it is necessary to be hard on yourself?  Do you wish that you could end self-criticism and become much more happy and free? In this podcast, I discuss how you can begin to notice and work with self-criticism.  I go through the book “On My Own Side” by Aziz Gazipura, a mentor of mine.  You will learn the key lessons that Aziz teaches in his brilliant book in order to become less self-critical and more self-loving. If you enjoyed this podcast and would like to learn more about how to develop your soft skills, check out engineersoftskills.com.

Do you wish that you were more positive?  Do you wish that you felt more positive energy throughout your life? In this podcast, I dive into some ways that you can uncover habits of negative thinking.  Then, I discuss how you can recondition your mind to have a bias toward positive thinking. If you enjoyed this podcast and would like to learn more about how to develop your soft skills, check out engineersoftskills.com.

In this podcast, I speak with Myke Macapinlac.  Myke began his career as a structural design engineer.  He decided that he wanted to improve upon his dating life and social life, and dove into learning social confidence. Myke now teaches STEM professionals how to create meaningful connections. In the interview, Myke shares a variety of brilliant insights into how you can develop social confidence as an engineer. If you want to learn more about Myke Macapinlac and how you can develop your social confidence, check out his website Social Confidence Mastery: https://socialconfidencemastery.com/ If you want to learn more about how to develop confidence and improve as an engineer, you can check out my website Engineer Soft Skills: engineersoftskills.com.

When it comes to becoming a better engineer, we often think that we need to become smarter and learn more technical information to improve.  And while there’s some truth to this, there is much more to the picture.   In fact, one way that we can enhance our abilities as an engineer is to enhance our energy.  Imagine if you had the capacity of a ferrari, but only got the performance of a camry.  No offense to the camry, but that’s not very efficient.  This podcast is about how we can get better results by increasing our efficiency and tapping into the ferrari like capacity that we have, but aren’t necessarily utilizing. This episode is all about the fundamentals.  These are the simple, yet not easy, habits of health that you can begin implementing to develop higher energy, better focus, stronger productivity, and greater happiness.  They are the key actions you can take to sleep, eat, and move in more effective ways to become a better you! If you’d like to find out more on how to develop yourself as an engineer and check out my website, you can visit: https://www.engineersoftskills.com/ 

On this episode of the Engineer Soft Skills podcast, I am joined by Sol Rosenbaum of The Engineering Mentor.  Sol has worked for 18+ years in energy engineering and has earned a variety of certifications, including the PE and CEM. We discuss Sol’s engineering background, his views on how one can develop as an engineer, his favorite books and resources, his top tips on productivity and job hunting, and a ton of other things. If you’d like to find out more about Sol and The Engineering Mentor, you can find him here: http://www.theengineeringmentor.com/ You can also find Sol on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/solrosenbaum-pe-cem-cpmp/ If you’d like to find out more on how to develop yourself as an engineer and check out my website, you can visit: https://www.engineersoftskills.com/

On this episode of the Engineer Soft Skills podcast, I am joined by Terry Suffredini.  We talk about the skills that engineers to develop to become successful in their careers, how to move from shy to confident, how to develop a career that you love, how to become productive, and much more. If you’d like to find out more about Terry, you can check out her website here: https://theengineerscoach.com/ Terry mentioned that she couldn’t list just a few of her favorite books on the podcast, so she created a page to list all of her favorites, which you can find here: https://theengineerscoach.com/recommended-reading/ If you would like to check out my website and learn about how you can develop your soft skills as an engineer, check out my website: https://www.engineersoftskills.com/

In this episode of the Engineer Soft Skills podcast, I bring on Pat Sweet of Engineering and Leadership to discuss how to become a better engineer. We talk about Pat's engineering background, his website Engineering and Leadership, his advice for younger engineers, and the top skills for engineers. We get into why soft skills matter as much as technical skills, his best tips on productivity and job hunting, and his favorite books. If you're curious to learn more about Pat and check out his site, you can visit Engineering and Leadership here: www.engineeringandleadership.com To learn more about how to develop your soft skills as an engineer, check out my site at engineersoftskills.com.

At this moment in time, many of us have had our work affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.  Many of us are working from home for the first time.  With that in mind, here are some tactics and strategies that you can use to work from home in a way that is effective and maintains your sanity. If you enjoyed this podcast and would like to learn more about how to develop your soft skills, check out engineersoftskills.com.

Do you regularly feel overwhelmed?  Do you start feeling like there are a million things you have to do, and then you get totally frazzled? On this episode, I talk about how to stop this madness.  This is something that I used to struggle with massively, and have learned a variety of strategies to go from overwhelmed to calm and focused. If you enjoyed this podcast and would like to learn more about how to develop your soft skills, check out engineersoftskills.com.

Do you wake up tired and low-energy?  Do you constantly hit the snooze button?  Do you wish you could get in more of the activities that you know are good for you, but you don't have the time?  Do you want to feel great everyday? On this episode of the Engineer Soft Skills podcast, we dive into morning routines!  We uncover why having a morning routine is so important and how you can craft an awesome one for yourself.   If you enjoyed this podcast and would like to learn more about how to develop your soft skills, check out engineersoftskills.com.