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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

080: Finding and Doing the One Thing with Jay Papasan

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Decisions, Interview, Selfhelp, Fun, Speaking, Education, Careers, Skills, Money, Training, Meaning, Career, Thinking, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Success, Collaboration, Winning, Self-improvement, Mockaitis, Writing, Development, Wins

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Author Jay Papasan helps to zero in on that one thing that matters most. You'll Learn: 1. The key question you must ask yourself to unlock your “one thing” About Jay Jay Papasan is the co-author of the bestseller The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results with Gary Keller. He also worked as an editor at Harper-Collins Publishers. Jay also co-owns a successful real estate team affiliated with Keller Williams Realty with his wife Wendy in Austin, Texas. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep80 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:16.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here with Jay Papa's on.

0:25.0

We're gonna learn one the key question you must ask yourself to unlock your one thing

0:31.0

two there is no two there's just one thing because Two. There is no two.

0:33.0

There's just one thing because we're talking about the one thing, all about bringing that focus.

0:37.8

And Jay would know his stuff when it comes to this.

0:40.0

He is the co-author of the bestseller The One Thing, the surprisingly simple truth behind

0:44.8

extraordinary results with Gary Keller.

0:47.3

He also worked as an editor at Harper Collins, Publishers.

0:51.5

Jay also co- owns a successful real estate team affiliated with

0:54.9

Keller Williams Realty with his wife Wendy in Austin, Texas. Here's Jay.

0:59.4

Thanks so much for being here on the How to Be Awesome at your Job Podcast.

1:03.4

Hey, thanks for having me Pete. This is exciting.

1:05.6

Oh, I'm excited to dig into it as well.

1:07.8

Now, I'm intrigued.

1:09.0

So your book, the one thing, you say the articulation of the message kind of had some inspiration from

1:15.5

curly from the movie City Slickers. It's been quite a while since I've seen that movie.

1:19.4

Can you refresh our memory and what's the inspiration there?

1:22.1

Yeah, you know, it's funny is that that was one of the last sections to go in the book

1:26.8

even though it's right in the beginning, right?

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