#1 On organising your life and connecting with people

Our guest today is the Hon. Steve Bracks AC. Steve is widely regarded as Victoria’s favourite premier, and is one of Victoria’s longest serving and most successful Premiers winning three consecutive elections including record majorities in the 2002 and 2006 elections. Mr Bracks holds multiple honorary doctorates and honorary positions for example as an Adviser to the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste and Director of the Bionics Institute of Australia Board. Mr Bracks is now Chairman of the superannuation fund Cbus; and a number of other organisations including the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) Trust.

I could go on and on - this fine gentleman has a list of accomplishments as long as your arm and then some. But the thing that really lands for me, and why he is a hero of mine, and one of the focal points of our conversation is how and why he left in the middle of his term as the Premier of Victoria.

We talk about:

• How his colleagues, friends, family, men vs women responded to this decision;
• Power and giving it away;
• Being a dad;
• Switching off from work - very relevant in the time of coronavirus and working from home;
• How to organise your life, in particular the importance of routine, self-discipline and planning - and the role that this plays in achieving our life goals, and
• How connecting with people helps with mental health. 

It was such a pleasure talking to Steve - he’s a lovely man, very generous, and from where I sit at least, the sort of person we could do with a lot more of in society today.

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