137. Don't Sacrifice Your Family For Your Business | John Lamerton

The ONE Thing

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Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 30 April 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Have you ever sacrificed your family time, your health, or your spiritual life, for your career? Today you’re going to hear about someone who fell into that trap: John Lamerton thought that getting everything he wanted required adding more things into his world, and as a result he ended up working 100 hours a week and sacrificing time with his family – until he got a massive wake-up call in the form of a newborn son. You’re going to discover what led to John’s mindset shift, and how subtracting, simplifying, and focusing allowed him to go from working 100-hour weeks to 25-hour weeks – all while making more money, experiencing less stress, and spending more time with his family. The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode: Our biggest takeaway from this episode is doing less – not more. Sometimes, the things you like doing, and even the things that make you feel productive (or maybe just busy), aren’t the things that are going to make you effective – and they detract from the ONE thing that actually matters most. What can you do, today, to get more clarity on the things that you’re currently saying yes to that you should consider saying no to? And are you willing to block out time on your calendar to figure it out – possibly even saying NO to something less important in the process? In this episode you will learn... [7:10] How you can cut hours from your work week (while getting more done). [13:00] How you can start intentionally choosing power habits and stop accidentally falling into habits. [22:15] ONE thing you can do every day to reshape the story you tell yourself about your identity. AWESOME FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU! Get more support & accountability: Join the Living Your ONE Thing Community The Kick Ass Guide To Accountability Form your first power habit with your 66 Day Challenge Calendar Check out our awesome blog! Links & Tools From This Episode Big Ideas... For Small Businesses: Simple, Practical Tools and Tactics to Help Your Small Business Grow by John Lamerton Connect with John: Facebook | LinkedIn 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. We wanted to let you know this month the one thing turned five years old and to help celebrate this
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0:35.1	as we write the next book, create the planner,
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0:41.2	So pause the episode, go to the One Thing.com
0:43.9	slash giveaway now because this giveaway is only going for a few weeks. So do it now
0:50.1	and enjoy the episode. This is the One Thing podcast where we teach you
0:56.2	the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results. My name is Jeff Woods
1:01.6	I'm the Vice President here at the One Thing team.
1:05.0	Have you ever sacrificed time with your family?
1:09.0	Or your health or spirituality or things in your personal life for your career.
1:16.6	If you ever told yourself the story that you had to work more hours to be successful and ultimately you ended up undermining the things that actually define
1:27.3	what success really means to you. Today you're going to hear a story of someone who fell into that trap. They thought that the path to getting everything they wanted required adding more things into their world rather than subtracting, simplifying, and focusing on the things that mattered most.
1:42.7	As a result, he ended up working 100 hours a week
1:46.6	and sacrificing time with his wife.
1:49.5	And when his son was born, he got a massive wake-up call. You're going to discover his mindset
1:55.1	what led to the shift and how he ended up going from working a hundred hour
1:59.4	weeks to working just 25 hours a week, all while making more money with less stress and being
2:07.2	closer with his family.
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