NAPO2022 Call for Presentations Deadline, Membership Reminder, NAPO Stand Out Podcast with Guest, Nir Eyal

The Deadline for Call for Presentations is Monday, August 2nd

We are accepting proposals for the NAPO2022 Annual Conference for general and advanced concurrent sessions that will offer attendees an exceptional educational experience.

Please be sure to review all of the guidelines and instructions here before proceeding to the submission form. This will help you to gather all the necessary information for your proposal prior to starting the process.

All submissions must include a short description of your session along with the learning objectives of the presentation. Click here for assistance in writing your learning objectives.

All submissions must be submitted via the submission site and completed no later than August 2, 2021 at 11:59 PM PST.

We invite you to submit your proposal today by clicking here, or visit the NAPO2022 Annual Conference "Call for Presentations" page and scroll to the bottom of the page to begin.

Calling All NAPO Professional Members

To ensure your information appears in the public facing Professional Directory, please check your NAPO profile for the following:

Organization Name: You must include your organization name in the professional information area of your profile to ensure your listing appears when anyone searches for a NAPO Pro in the public Find a Pro Directory.

Address: Include your full mailing address; inclusive of city, state and postal code in the Professional Information area of your member profile

If you have an apartment or suite number, include this on the ‘Address Cont’ field.
If you are using a P.O. Box for your business, enter the full address of the USPS location where your PO box is located in the ‘Address’ field. Then enter your P.O. Box information in the ‘Address Cont’ field.

As the online Professional Directory search is powered by Google Maps, we suggest you confirm your mailing address for accuracy in the Google Maps search at maps.google.com.

Note: Only your city, state and zip code will appear to the public in the online Professional Directory. Your street address will not be visible to the public but it must be included for the search to work correctly.

Why You Want to be Indistractable

Episode 80 of the NAPO Stand Out Podcast features Nir Eyal, Author of “Hooked” and “Indistractable”. After a profound moment in which his daughter showed him how easily distracted he was, Nir went on a journey of discovery which culminated in his second book, Indistractable. In the pursuit of indistractability, the importance of planning cannot be overstated, but Nir stresses that we need to move away from to-do lists and plan in a way that allows us to live in alignment with our values.

Tune into this episode to discover the process of shedding our distractibility, and how we can learn to harness our psychological powers in order to live our most fulfilling lives!

Key Takeaways:

Definitions of distraction and its opposite, traction.
How sometimes, even things that feel productive are actually distractions, and why this type of distraction is so dangerous.
Exploring internal triggers versus external triggers, and which ones lead to more distracting actions.
Exploring the steps to becoming indistractable.
Why it’s better to tell yourself, “Not yet,” rather than, “No”.
Ways that we can change our mindset around planning our time.
What it really means to be an indistractable person.

Join NAPO Stand Out Podcast Host, Clare Kumar as she interviews
Nir Eyal, Author of "Hooked" and "Indistractable".