Utkarsh NarangFounder, IgnitedNeurons · Your best doers become your worst managers as you scale. I turn them into leaders so your best people don’t leave.

Permanence takes only two minutes #podcast #mindset

28 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief podcast excerpt, Utkarsh Narang explores why sustaining personal change is often harder than initiating it. He references Lisa Broderick’s year‑long research, during which she interviewed top leaders daily, and the resulting book co‑authored with renowned coach Marshall Goldsmith titled Permanence. The conversation emphasizes that lasting change is not a finish‑line event or a New Year’s resolution but a continuous practice of small daily steps throughout a lifetime. The speakers stress a mindset shift toward living in the present, focusing on happiness now, and viewing the process of becoming the future self as the core of permanence.

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We've all tried to change things about ourselves, whether that's a new habit of meditation, becoming more fitter, becoming a better parent. But what if that change journey was not the hard part? What if staying changed was what the tough, scary part was?
I didn't want to be ashamed to report that I didn't even try.
Lisa Broderick spent a year every weekday getting on the phone with some of the most amazing leaders across the world. And what that whole research became was a book co-written with the OG coach, Marshall Goldsmith called Permanence.
It's about the small steps taken every day through the arc of a lifetime where you become.
Remember, it's not a finish line, it's not a New Year resolution, it's a way of life, it's a practice.
Almost everything I worry about now doesn't matter, and only a few truths remain. Be happy now. There is only now.
What if that person that you're trying to become, the future self that you're trying to serve, All that person was seeking was that how you go through that process and how you make change permanent. Let's dive in.