
How to Lead in a World of Distraction
Four Simple Habits for Turning Down the Noise
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How to replace inner chaos with an emotional awareness that will maximize your influence and result in a calmer, less stressful, and more fulfilling life.
While many leaders train themselves on how to tune out external distractions that keep them from being productive, they remain deaf to the inner desires and emotions churning beneath the surface. Pastor and author Clay Scroggins describes spiritual disciplines and tangible daily steps to help you incorporate four noise-cancelling habits into your daily life:
- Finding simplicity - how does simplicity bring clarity?
- Speaking to yourself - you're not crazy. Many of us do it; and there are real benefits!
- Getting quiet - silence is difficult. Why emotionally healthy leaders make time for it.
- Pressing pause - what does the word sabbath even mean, and why is it so important - on both a practical and a spiritual level?
By embracing these habits, business, church, and ministry leaders will be able to identify and understand their emotions and develop a calm and effective leadership style.
In this follow-up to his best-selling book How to Lead When You're Not in Charge, Clay Scroggins focuses on the real dangers of distraction and how to create space for personal evaluation and exploration.
"This book is such a valuable resource - not just for leaders but for anyone longing to make a difference in the world." (Dave Ramsey)
"Clay helps you move beyond the distractions to a moment-by-moment awareness that will help you regulate the way you think, act, and feel." (Ian Morgan Cron)
"In this book Clay provides leaders with practical ways to turn down the noise personally and organizationally." (Andy Stanley)
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- Private
- 11-09-21
Over delivered- again Clay!
Great book! “Ruthlessly curious about our emotions” Well said!
We do need to do our inner work, so it doesn’t become a blind spot, whether leading ourselves or our team.
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- Joel
- 04-05-22
Most engaging non-fiction
Easily the best narration for any audio-book I’ve listened to.
The content is also great. Sure, you could argue that a good bulk of the information aren’t ground-breaking discoveries, but the analogies, examples, and practical life-applications are articulated and presented in a way that’s new to me (and I’m an avid self-development reader).
If these sorts of books are your bread-and-butter, I’d say give it a listen. You will definitely learn a thing or two that can help you in life, work, relationships, etc.
Also, the author is a Christian pastor, but don’t let that deter you if you don’t share the same faith. He hardly talks about faith in the book. And when he does, take from it what applies to your walk.
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- SHAKA
- 07-24-23
Good tips
Eh... Howzit 🤙🏽
Good job clay.
Not a big fan of Andy Stanley.
Overall good stuff.
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- Jay B. Jennings
- 11-01-19
Turn Down for WHAT?!?
This book was actually very different than I expected. I thought this would be about leading folks who were easily distracted. Not so much. Instead Clay focuses on how leaders need to turn down the white noise in their own lives in order to lead more effectively. Pretty sure this will be a re-read in the near future. I had the pleasure of listening to the audio book. Clay actually reads this one himself. This is easily THE BEST performance of an audio book I’ve ever heard.
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- emax
- 07-08-23
Excellent overall with some errors
The message and performance are excellent. If you listen—you’ll pick up a number of excellent thoughts. Be careful though and check facts before taking them for granted. There are some inaccuracies or errors in the book:
- He says emotional intelligence is defined as understanding yourself. That’s part of the definition but the important other part is understanding others.
- He seems to dismiss the importance of process by referring to Bezos. That gives an inaccurate impression of Bezos’s thinking. Process is often important to follow even if it doesn’t produce the outcome you want.
- He says even Roger Federer has a coach. Actually Roger Federer became so great at one point that he did not have a coach for quite some time.
Having said all of the above. The positives about this book outweigh the few negatives. Well done!
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- Mike Smith
- 02-06-25
Godly perspective
Clay is authentic and has great insight. He's genuine and caring in a way that can help build and grow your overall mindset, not just your leadership style.
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- Jmj
- 06-01-20
Great complement to Clay’s sermons and leadership series
Clay’s assessment of the “noise” that holds us all back in life is a timely message we all need to hear.
The book identifies different distractions and missed opportunities because we are anchored to the urgent instead of the important. Clay shared practical and applicable ways to find the signal in the noise of your life and I’ll certainly be putting these techniques to use in mine.
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- C. Montgomery
- 02-05-21
Leaders take notes
Insightful & helpful for me, I’ve run my business for 22 years & though I use some of the tools already- it simplified why I do & gave me new tools, I’m more confident going forward. Thanks so much!
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- Troy and Lisa Robertson
- 06-08-20
Turn up your leadership turn down the distractions
Clay’s book How to Lead in a World of Distraction has a modern approach to the distractions that plague our leadership. Clay’s own voice comes through loud and clear sharing his passion to see current day leaders pay closer attention to what they allow to consume their time. The wisdom from Clay’s thoughts are often only lessons learned by experience and this book offers insights for leaders to adopt earlier in their growth. His four main habits of simplicity, speaking to yourself, getting quiet, and pressing pause are overlooked by todays leaders as they allow their leadership to be attacked by the distraction’s leaders are not attending to. Yes, as leaders we must be emotionally healthy enough to “turn down the noise low enough and long enough to allow space for curiosity.” - Dr. Troy Robertson, Leadership Coach
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- Laura Moorehead
- 10-06-19
Truth
Clay Scroggins has officially spoken truth into my life. Wow, great book and so true. Time to not be oblivious so I can be emotionally healthy.😅
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