Are you on the road to mastery? It doesn’t matter what we endeavor to master – but if we want to live a life with extraordinary results, we have to master something. So, in this episode, we will share what walking this path looks like in our lives and offer you some practical advice that you use to begin walking your own path to mastery. If you want more support and accountability on your road to mastery, you can join the Living Your ONE Thing Community for FREE for two weeks at the1thing.com/co...
Sep 02, 2019•37 min•Ep. 205
Have you ever found that the principles we discuss in this show and in the book sound easy – but then, in practice, end up being really difficult to make a consistent part of your life? We get it, and we know that stumbling along the journey to living Your ONE Thing can feel isolating. That’s why our #1 priority this year has been nurturing the Living Your ONE Thing community that supports people who need more accountability; who need support when they feel lost or alone. Each month, the communi...
Aug 26, 2019•22 min•Ep. 204
What does it mean to have accountability in your life? Because there are different levels of accountability. We can hold ourselves accountable by using tools like a 411, 66-Day Challenge, or The ONE Thing Planner. We can bring accountability into our world by recruiting an accountability partner. Then, when we want the highest level of accountability possible, we have to look to an expert – to a coach. A lot of people ask us what it means to have a coach, how to know if it’s the right fit, and h...
Aug 19, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 203
Does your organization have a culture of accountability? In the last episode, Abe Shreve taught us that one of the critical mistakes that many businesses make is not creating a culture of accountability. It is a necessary part of sustainable business growth, but as many of us have experienced, it’s not an easy thing to do. So, today, Gene Rivers is going to teach us how he created a culture of accountability with his team – and how you can coach your people to their possibilities, too! If you wa...
Aug 12, 2019•53 min•Ep. 202
Are you accountable – to yourself and other people? We all want accountability in our lives, in one way or another, but developing habits around accountability and then building a culture of accountability within an organization are both a lot harder to do than they sound. So we invited a couple of our favorite accountability experts to join us for a three-part series that will help you bring more accountability to yourself, your team, and your organization. Today’s guest has personally led over...
Aug 05, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 201
200 episodes is a major milestone for us, in no small part because of the tremendous support and feedback we’ve received from all of you. To show our appreciation, we huddled together to figure out the ONE thing we could do to provide the most value to you in this episode. So, today, your co-hosts Geoff Woods and Kaelyn Loes are going to dissect the different mindsets that we adopt after we achieve big goals – and the choices that we can make to keep moving further down the road to mastery. If y...
Jul 29, 2019•23 min•Ep. 200
Imagine you are on an airplane and, along the way, it starts to deviate just a few degrees off course – if the plane does not correct course over the length of that flight, do you think you’ll end up in the right destination? Probably not, and who knows where we would end up! But this is the way that most people live their lives – they wake up, take action, and move forward, but they’re not always clear on exactly where they’re going or why they’re going there. And when they’re off course, they’...
Jul 22, 2019•37 min•Ep. 199
Do you have a habit of taking time to ask yourself big questions? In the last episode, we learned about how Keith Cunningham lost $100MM dollars – and why it was worth it because he developed this habit of thinking time. Really, we could all benefit from blocking off time in our calendars to purposefully sit down with great questions that truly evaluate how we’re showing up in the world and help us gain clarity. In this episode, we continue our conversation with Keith and learn more about the bi...
Jul 15, 2019•53 min•Ep. 198
Do you know what it’s like to be so busy taking action that it feels like you don’t have time to slow down and create a plan? We all feel this way sometimes. It’s become the norm in society – we wake up, we check email, we show up to work, we check email, we go to meetings, other people need our help so we stop to help them, and on and on. We race through the day feeling like we are so busy and then we question if we got anything done. Today’s guest shares why there’s nothing worse than running ...
Jul 08, 2019•52 min•Ep. 197
This show is often very inspiring, motivational, and simple, but life isn’t always that way – and sometimes things happen that rock you to our core. The grief that we feel as a result can be debilitating, causing us to feel stuck and hopeless. But that isn’t really the case. We all have the power to overcome any obstacle, even when life throws us unfair and unexpected curveballs. Our guest, Casey Balgard, has gone through every parent’s worst nightmare – the loss of a child – but, today, we’re g...
Jul 01, 2019•34 min•Ep. 196
Do you ever feel guilty because you’re not perfectly prioritizing Your ONE Thing, or because you’re not as successful as you’d like to be? We have to remember that living The ONE Thing isn’t about being perfect – and we don’t need to apologize if we stumble a little on the journey! We can give ourselves some grace. Today’s guest, Rachel Hollis, is the bestselling author of Girl, Wash Your Face and the brand-new book Girl, Stop Apologizing . She helps women all over the world balance everything –...
Jun 24, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 195
What does it actually mean to live The ONE Thing? Sometimes we have an idea of what we think it means to live The ONE Thing at the highest level. We start to take action, but things aren’t quite as easy as we thought they would be. So, today, we are going to demystify what it means to live The ONE Thing. Our guest has been living The ONE Thing at a pretty high level for over a year. She was a little skeptical when she started, but she had a powerful reason to push through – because her job was o...
Jun 17, 2019•36 min•Ep. 194
Around this time of year, things can start to get a little crazy. We all start the year with certain goals, but life often throws us these curveballs that we don’t see coming – and, before we know it, we’re struggling to find clarity and dealing with overwhelm. But, in the midst of all of that, there’s ONE thing we can do that will make everything else easier or unnecessary. In this episode, Jay Papasan returns to share how you can find your focus, cut your stress, and hit reset so that you can ...
Jun 10, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 193
When you think of the word “struggle,” what comes to mind? Many of us think of struggle as something negative, and it’s not a great feeling when you’re going through adversity, but we think today’s guest is going to change your mind about that. Bobby Herrera teaches us that inside of struggle is a gift – a gift that can truly change the way that we lead. Fair warning: this episode will probably pull at your heart strings a little bit, but most importantly, it’s going to challenge you to think ab...
Jun 03, 2019•51 min•Ep. 192
How is your health right now? For many of us, The ONE Thing is our health – or it should be. We get so busy and stuck in the day-to-day that we often neglect healthy choices and, instead, opt for convenience. Or we just feel so busy that making a healthy meal or going to the gym just feels impossible. Today, we want to introduce you to someone who has spent the last few years making health Her ONE Thing, and as a result, lost over 100 pounds. This is a journey that has completely transformed her...
May 27, 2019•35 min•Ep. 191
Everything you want in your career comes down to ONE thing – the relationships that you have. So when we neglect our relationships, we are limiting our own ability to accomplish our goals and live extraordinary lives. But you don’t have to settle for anything less than extraordinary, and as an extra bonus, cultivating great relationships will just make your personal and business life that much better! That’s why we are excited to share this conversation with Ken Coleman, one of the Dave Ramsey p...
May 20, 2019•57 min•Ep. 190
How do you bring change into an organization? The truth is, we don’t have to be in the C-suite of our organizations to spark change, or to even be a leader within our organization – because all leadership begins with self-leadership. So, when it comes to bringing The ONE Thing into an organization, it all begins with ONE person. In this episode, Geoff Woods and Jay Papasan share how leaders can begin living the principles of The ONE Thing with their team. We dive deep into the tools that we use ...
May 13, 2019•42 min•Ep. 189
It’s relatively easy for an individual to start practicing The ONE Thing in their daily lives... but how do you scale The ONE Thing throughout an organization? Behind the scenes, we’ve been asking ourselves this question, and we’ve been working hard to come up with an answer that will help all teams, from a local real estate office all the way up to a Fortune 50 company, make living The ONE Thing part of their organizational culture. Geoff Woods and Jay Papasan recently delivered a keynote prese...
May 06, 2019•44 min•Ep. 188
Have you taken any time to be grateful today? When we think about forming power habits, we often think about doing something that will improve our productivity or health. We rarely consider the transformative power of mindset habits, and one of the most powerful habits is gratitude. That may seem like an easy or trivial thing, but in practice, embodying a state of gratitude every day is both surprisingly challenging and significant. Our guest John Israel, founder of The Mr. Thank You Project and...
Apr 29, 2019•42 min•Ep. 187
Have you ever felt like you desperately want your situation to change... but no matter how hard you work, you just feel like you’re drowning? There are these periods of our lives when, no matter how much action we take, we feel overwhelmed, and we just wish that we could take back our lives. We’re ambitious, we’re driven, but that just doesn’t feel like enough to get any forward momentum. This is especially true when we have kids, because honoring work commitments and being present as a parent i...
Apr 22, 2019•43 min•Ep. 186
Do you ever struggle living the principles of The ONE Thing? We know that there’s a surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results – but simple doesn’t mean easy. It’s not easy to maintain clarity on Your ONE Thing. It’s not easy to get Your ONE Thing done before you do anything else. It’s not easy to honor your time blocks and shut down every distraction that comes up. So what does it really take to overcome that hurdle and start living Your ONE Thing consistently? To helps us answer th...
Apr 15, 2019•50 min•Ep. 185
Are you living a life by default or by design? Many of us are living a life by default. We wake up, check social media, react to what we see, head into the office, check email, react, sit in meetings, get up, check email, react, and then go to the next meeting – and this repeats day after day after day! We feel so busy, and we wonder why we don’t get anything done. When you live a life by default, you just get what you get – but when you life a life by design, you are working towards the goals y...
Apr 08, 2019•49 min•Ep. 184
What would your life look like if you had the opportunity to sit down and interview 10,000 millionaires about their journey? If we all had guidance on the ONE thing that could make building extraordinary wealth easier or unnecessary, we could transform our lives, our family’s lives, and the world. That’s why our guest and his team commissioned the largest study ever on net-worth millionaires. They then wrote about what they found in the bestselling book Everyday Millionaires: How Ordinary People...
Apr 01, 2019•38 min•Ep. 183
If you want to live the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results, you must make three commitments: Follow the Path of Mastery Move from "E" to "P" Living the Accountability Cycle In this episode we take you behind the curtain following our path of mastery. If you'd like to take your mastery of The ONE Thing to the next level, join the Living Your ONE Thing Membership Community Click here to start your FREE two week trial. Prices are increasing 20% on April 1st. You can try it for F...
Mar 27, 2019•19 min
Are your priorities today aligned with your five-year goals? If we aren’t taking steps towards our someday goals every single day, we’re probably never going to get there – at least not any time soon. But if we have the right mindset and structures in place, not only can we achieve our someday goals, we can achieve them even faster than we think is possible. Last week, Jay Papasan and Geoff Woods discussed the how billionaires set goals using a process called Goal Setting to the Now. Today, we’r...
Mar 25, 2019•56 min•Ep. 182
Are you living a life by default or are you living a life by design? Most of us are living a life by default. We wake up, take action, experience some successes, experience some failures, then repeat – but we get what we get by default. When billionaires set goals, however, they cast a vision into the future, then look backwards and set goals to the now. That’s how we live a life by design. In this episode, we’re sharing the first half of Jay Papasan and Geoff Woods’s keynote presentation at the...
Mar 18, 2019•31 min•Ep. 181
What happens when your actions aren’t aligned with your goals? When we are focusing on our ONE thing, it’s not like the rest of the world stops. The emails don’t stop piling up, meeting requests don’t cease to exist, and customer fires don’t magically disappear. The deeper we go into our one thing, the more this pressure builds – and we’re often so afraid of this chaos that we use time set aside for our ONE thing to clear off some of that 80% work. It feels productive for a moment, but in realit...
Mar 11, 2019•41 min•Ep. 180
Have you ever scheduled time for your most important work? Chances are, all of us has done this at least once. But do you regularly time block and then protect that time like the air you breathe, defending it against every distraction that comes up? For most of us, the answer is no – but why is that? In this episode, we suggest that this is because we’re not great at keeping the promises we make to ourselves or to others – and we believe that if you can get a little more intentional about the pr...
Mar 04, 2019•51 min•Ep. 179
So you have clarity on what your ONE thing is – but what do you do if you have more than ONE thing, or if your ONE thing changes? How do we know if we have truly earned the right to focus on something else? Today we’re going to hear the story of someone who tried to do focus on everything, until he started living the principles of The ONE Thing. He simplified his life, started scaling a great business, and struck an amazing counterbalance. However, in the last year, he looked up and realized tha...
Feb 25, 2019•51 min•Ep. 178
You’re listening to this podcast... but are you living The ONE Thing? Our guest read the book early on, started listening to the podcast, and achieved some extraordinary results as it pertains to his health – and all because he didn’t stop at consuming the content. He took action. Chris LaGarde struggled with his weight for his entire life, which ultimately affected his sense of worth and caused him to doubt if he even could have the body that he wanted. But by doing one thing at a time, over ti...
Feb 18, 2019•36 min•Ep. 177
