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The ONE Thing

123. Where are You Making Excuses Instead of Getting Results? | JT McCormick

The ONE Thing

NOVA Media

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today we are getting raw and vulnerable with all of you. In our conversations with all of you, we've learned that many of you are making excuses for your results – and in reality, the ONE thing you're failing to do is look in the mirror and accept accountability.  JT McCormick had an unfortunate childhood – it's hard for many of us to fathom growing up in his shoes – but in spite of his tumultuous start in life, he has managed to achieve an extraordinary level of success. Sometimes we lack the perspective to look at our situation and find gratitude, and as a result, we end up making excuses, but JT is here to serve us all a big helping of Perspective Pie.   The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode: We can all make the CHOICE to achieve more – it just requires a simple mindset shift and some elbow grease. In this conversation, you'll hear when JT chose to be the best at everything he did, even scrubbing toilets.  So we have a question for you: Are you doing the best that you can do, or are you doing the best that can be done? What is the ONE thing you can do to show up as the best in business, family, or wherever is most important to you – and where in your life are you making excuses when you could be getting results?  In this episode you will learn... [17:40] The only three things you need to achieve success. [21:10] What you need to know if you feel stuck against the ceiling of achievement. [22:20] ONE thing you can do to get clarity and shift your mindset.  AWESOME FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU! Get more support & accountability: Join the Living Your ONE Thing Community Form your first power habit with your 66 Day Challenge Calendar Check out our awesome blog!  Links & Tools From This Episode Learn more at JTmccormick.com Connect with JT on LinkedIn  I Got There: How I Overcame Racism, Poverty, and Abuse to Achieve the American Dream by JT McCormick & Tucker Max  Will you help us get to know you better? Go to the1thing.com/podcastquiz  Production & Development for The ONE Thing Podcast by Podcast Masters Mentioned in this episode: Factor 75 Head to FactorMeals.com/one50 and use code one50 to get 50% off. That’s code one50 at FactorMeals.com/one50 to get 50% off! Factor 75

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Jeff Woods here, just a quick heads up. This episode is not kid-friendly.

0:05.4

So if you've got your kids in the car, I would suggest pausing and listening to a different

0:09.2

episode because we talk about some pretty intense things. It's a great episode, just not confrontly.

0:14.6

If you're cool with that, enjoy the episode.

0:16.6

This is the One Thing Podcast,

0:20.3

where we teach you the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results.

0:25.0

My name's Jeff Woods. I'm the Vice President here at the One Thing team.

0:30.0

Thank you for being here with us today.

0:32.0

Over the last, now just over a year,

0:34.2

it has been an incredible honor to serve you

0:37.3

through this podcast.

0:38.4

And I want to say thank you to Sam Bevin,

0:40.0

who left us a review on his podcast player saying that he downloaded the one thing on January 2nd

0:46.4

and has been listening to it every morning since while exercising and he specifically loved

0:51.4

the episode we just did with Rachel Benson,

0:53.6

which really kick-start him signing up for our program, Living Your One Thing,

0:56.9

just because of how raw and vulnerable and relatable the episode was.

1:01.5

I share that with all of you because today is going to be

1:05.4

another one of those episodes that is raw. It's vulnerable. The title of this

1:11.6

episode is Where Are You Making Excuses instead of Getting

1:15.8

Results? A few weeks ago, we were at our national meeting for Keller Williams.

1:21.0

I had the chance to sit down with many of you as listeners.

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