Is your relationship moving forward or are you caught in a predictable loop of business as usual? There’s nothing wrong with your day-to-day routine when everything is fine. But ask yourself: Is fine where extraordinary happens? Sometimes you’re at a point in your life where you don’t have a specific challenge to overcome—and that can be a good thing—and yet, sometimes, it can feel like you’re meant for something more. How do you take back control of your relationship and your life? Meet Monica ...
Sep 14, 2020•32 min•Ep. 261
Socrates said, “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” The truth is that change is hard—especially uninvited change. It is often that change that pushes you in directions you would have otherwise never explored, and that’s where growth happens. What becomes possible if, when ushered into new territory, you quickly reset your vision on what you are creating and let go of what existed before? Donna Miller’s proven business model of ov...
Sep 07, 2020•33 min•Ep. 260
What do you think the future of your work could look like? With everything that’s going on, we have the opportunity to pause, to ask different questions, and to reevaluate what our vision for the future looks like. All around the world, people’s opinions of what the future of work looks like have changed. We’re going to walk you through the questions we’ve been asking over the last few months, the research we’ve been doing, how our vision has changed, and how the principles of The ONE Thing line...
Aug 31, 2020•40 min•Ep. 259
What if we told you that you are only one habit away from making your goal a reality? It’s the truth. The problem is that, while habit formation is simple, it can be challenging. For anyone who’s tried to make a habit stick you know what it feels like to struggle with consistency and doubt. BJ Fogg, the author of the best-selling book “Tiny Habits” , is going to help you understand that the key to habit formation is not about thinking big and acting big: It’s about thinking big and going small a...
Aug 24, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 258
How do we unpack the lies that keep us from experiencing extraordinary success? One lie in particular that holds most people back is that “big is bad.” It’s tricky to debunk because, when you put “big” and “results” in the same sentence, many people jump straight to thinking that big is complex, time-consuming, or intimidating. But the four ambitious leaders of the Empire Building podcast live in a way that embraces big thinking. The massive goals they’ve set for their businesses are only exceed...
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 257
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...
Aug 10, 2020•33 min•Ep. 256
If you want to change your life, you have to get honest with yourself. What’s working? What isn’t working? Who’s bringing you forward and who’s bringing you back? Candid self-reflection can reveal things you wish weren’t there, but knowing what you’re dealing with makes big change possible. Our guest, Grace Vroom, knew something had to give; there were countless areas of her life that she wanted to improve, but it was only after getting honest about her addiction to alcohol that she started to m...
Aug 03, 2020•36 min•Ep. 255
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...
Jul 28, 2020•43 min•Ep. 254
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Jul 28, 2020•12 min
Did you come into this year imaging what was possible for yourself? Many of us had big plans for all the things we were going to accomplish this year—whether personally, professionally, or both—and then COVID-19 hit and we were derailed by our new reality. None of us had the existing habits we needed to support our new environments. Tom Bilyeu took a look at his life and realized he was capable of more. He decided to be the kind of person whose habits brought him closer to his health goals and h...
Jul 20, 2020•59 min•Ep. 253
Think back to your childhood: What did you want to be when you grew up? What dreams did you have for yourself? What did you envision your life looking like? Along your journey, you may have come up across ceilings of achievement—or on the other end, you may have been thinking too small. Any time you are hitting up against a ceiling of achievement in your life, you are missing either a person or a system, and today we’re going to look at exactly why that is true. Having the right people in our li...
Jul 13, 2020•43 min•Ep. 252
How do we lead people through fear? The answer, as simple as it may seem, is goals—but the right goals. If the purpose of a goal is to be appropriate in the moment, many of us have lost sight of the fact that our actions may not be leading us to where we want to go. We don’t want to sacrifice our long-term visions and our long-term goals based on short-term circumstances. As an individual, you can either be focusing on the past, the present, or the future. If you’re focusing on the past or prese...
Jul 07, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 251
Are you living a life by default or a life by design? Most people go through their lives by default: They wake up, check email, show up to the office, check email again, go to their first meeting, check email again, etc. And by the end of the day, they wonder why they didn’t get anything done. Day after day, this is how things play out, and they get to where they are by default — without intention or design. Billionaires do things differently. They imagine what they want their lives to look like...
Jun 29, 2020•32 min•Ep. 250
Do you ever find yourself going through the motions? Operating as if you’re on auto-pilot? Sometimes we get so used to the way things are that we forget to imagine the potential for the way things could be if we set our mind to it — if we asked the big questions and took the time to search for those answers. As a result, we settle into what’s comfortable in exchange for what’s possible. No one achieves greatness on auto-pilot. So many people are living their lives by default instead of by design...
Jun 22, 2020•38 min•Ep. 249
While we’ve all been forced to change the way we work and get things done, there’s one thing that hasn’t changed — the need to have conversations with the people that matter most, conversations that enrich our relationships. While we’ve all been working from home, this has presented its own set of circumstances. We’ve been closer to some people, which could create conflict, and knowing how to have conversations to enrich that relationship may be a mystery to some people. And since we have been m...
Jun 15, 2020•47 min•Ep. 248
Do you think you could turn your life around in just 12 months? Every single one of us is constantly looking up, imagining a future, and asking ourselves how we actually get there. How do we bridge the gap? How do we ensure that the things that show up on our calendar this week put us in alignment with the type of life that we want to be living? Ryan Moran is the owner of capitalism.com, he has built several big businesses in a short period of time, and he is the author of the best-selling book ...
Jun 08, 2020•58 min•Ep. 247
Are you holding on too tightly to the way things used to be? With all that is going on today, there is so much uncertainty. A marked lack of clarity. As business owners, what are some of the things we should be thinking about right now? Don’t let the past, and your attachment to it, stop you from casting a new vision that will bring you into the future. To help you get clarity, we sat down with past guest Keith Cunningham. He is one of the most important business voices of our time because he ch...
Jun 01, 2020•49 min•Ep. 246
Are your goals still achievable? Do they still matter? With all that’s going on in the world, people are really struggling with having a relationship with their goals — because the world has changed. As committed practice leaders of The ONE Thing, how do we get clarity on what our goals are moving forward, and how do we have a relationship with them so that, every single week, we know we are knocking the dominos down that put us on track for living the life we want? You have questions as you go ...
May 25, 2020•46 min•Ep. 245
Welcome to 2020 2.0: The new version of your year you weren’t expecting. So many people out there are throwing in the towel on this year and calling it a wash. We know you’re different — or at least, you want to be — that you ignore the setbacks and keep going in the face of uncertainty. When your goals for the year were canceled by a global pandemic you likely asked the question, “What's the ONE Thing I can do that will make everything else easier or unnecessary?” We’ve been asking the same que...
May 20, 2020•14 min•Ep. 244
If you could only choose one of the needs of your business to meet, which would you choose? Humans have a hierarchy of needs. It starts with psychological needs like water, food, and air. We have a need for safety — personal security, access to resources. We have a need for belonging, love, esteem, and at the very top, self-actualization. And just like humans have a hierarchy of needs, so too do our businesses. As humans, we’re instinctually wired to go for these things, and in the right order, ...
May 18, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 243
When you’re looking to achieve something extraordinary, you have to unlock the potential that lies within you. So many of us struggle with this. We think we are doing the best that we can do — but, really, most of us don’t know how much we’re capable of because we have never pushed ourselves past the point of discomfort. So, how do we find models and systems that allow us to shatter our ceiling of achievement? Mark Divine is a former Navy SEAL commander, the New York Times best-selling author of...
May 11, 2020•49 min•Ep. 242
It should be obvious by now: This is not business as usual. This is business like we’ve never seen it before. As leaders, we’re required to lead our teams, our brands, and our organizations like we’ve never led them before. Managing a crisis is about more than just staying afloat for the next few months — it’s about looking far enough ahead to point your people in a direction while also remaining agile enough to respond to challenges as they come. So, in this episode, we are sharing the strategi...
May 04, 2020•38 min•Ep. 241
With everything that’s going on in the world, every single one of us is dealing with ONE Thing: fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of what’s going to happen to our businesses, our income, our jobs. How do you actually deal with that fear? We all face fear, but it doesn’t have to be a bad thing — on the other side of fear is opportunity. Patrick Sweeney goes by the title of Fear Guru, and not only is he a subject matter expert when it comes to fear, but he has also been a tremendously successful ent...
Apr 27, 2020•48 min•Ep. 240
How are you adapting in these unprecedented times? The path of living The ONE Thing is relatively simple: you identify Your ONE Thing, you time block Your ONE Thing, and you protect your time block. That is a path of mastery that you go down over the course of your life. But we’ve been dealt a new hand now and circumstances have changed. We have to pivot and make sure that we can still be productive in the areas of our life that matter most. Ask yourself: what is The ONE Thing you can do, such t...
Apr 20, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 239
With everything that’s happening right now with COVID-19, we know that you have questions. So, we’re going to experiment with a new format in which Jay Papasan answers questions from the community. This has been on the back of our 411 for a while and this is a great opportunity to try it out. If you would like some additional support, visit the1thing.com/training . There is a goal-setting master course that can help you set new goals for this new world. In this episode, you will learn... [02:40]...
Apr 15, 2020•42 min•Ep. 238
The path to getting everything you want starts with getting one thing at a time. But there are so many things that we want in our lives, and when we view all the things that we need to do, it can be overwhelming. However, when we start living The ONE Thing, we learn to view that overwhelming list of things to do as dominos, line them up, and knock the first one over. The secret to living The ONE Thing is to think big, go small, and trust that the dominos will fall. Matt Plumer has an amazing sto...
Apr 13, 2020•41 min•Ep. 237
Why did you get into business in the first place? Most of us start businesses or aspire to start businesses because we want financial freedom and flexibility. And yet, the stats show that the majority of small business owners don’t have those things. That’s because there is ONE Thing that they don’t do — but if they started doing this ONE thing immediately, it would guarantee profitability for the rest of their life. Mike Michalowicz, the best-selling author of Profit First and the upcoming book...
Apr 06, 2020•44 min•Ep. 236
Time is running out. It's time to make a decision on the habit you will form that will help you make it through this challenging time and come out the other side even stronger. Join us at the1thing.com/habits .
Apr 03, 2020•17 min
We know our lives have been disrupted by COVID-19. The goals we set and the way we worked has completely shifted. What you may not realize is that you are forming habits right now... the question is, are they being formed by design or by default? In this episode we give you a simple way to choose ONE habit you can form to make it through this pandemic and come out the other side stronger. If you'd like to join us on our next 66-Day Challenge® for FREE over the next 66 days, visit www.the1thing.c...
Apr 01, 2020•19 min
If you knew what Your ONE Thing was, wouldn’t it make sense to make it a habit? Forming habits is more than just behavior change — It’s about getting clarity on the activities required to become the person you are striving to be. It’s about the daily choices that define your future self. It’s about leaning into habits as a system for small, daily improvements that, with time, add up to extraordinary results. Today, we’re going to hear from someone who knows a thing or two about habit formation. ...
Mar 30, 2020•58 min•Ep. 235
