164: Jay Papasan on The ONE Thing You Can Do to Master All Areas of Life
Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod
Hal Elrod
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2017
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode of the Achieve Your Goals podcast, we're releasing a live recording from one of our Quantum Leap Mastermind events. During this inspiring conversation, Jon Berghoff talks with Jay Papasan about his latest book The One Thing. You'll learn how finding purpose and prioritizing what matters the most can lead to extraordinary results in every area of your life.
Jay Papasan is a bestselling author, public speaker, corporate trainer, and serves as vice president and executive editor at Keller Williams Realty International, the world's largest real estate company. He is also vice president of KellerINK, co-owner of Keller Capital, and co-owner, alongside his wife Wendy, of Papasan Properties Group with Keller Williams Realty in Austin, Texas.
The books he's helped craft have collectively sold over 8 million copies. His most recent work with Gary Keller on The ONE Thing has led to selling over half a million copies worldwide and garnered more than 250 appearances on national bestseller lists, including #1 on The Wall Street Journal's hardcover business list.
In this discussion, Jay shares his story and explains how an opportunity to work with Gary Keller completely transformed his life. He shares principles form his most recent book and discusses topics like giving strategically, purposeful contribution, prioritizing what matters, forming successful habits, thinking big and much more!
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- You'll hear how his bathroom conversation with Gary Keller resulted in co-writing and publishing The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, which has since sold over 1 million copies worldwide.
- Jay explains why being a great father and husband is his biggest achievement in life.
- How The One Thing can help you prioritize what matters, form successful habits, and live a life with no regrets.
- The role that purpose plays in your priorities, productivity, and profit.
- How to lead a successful life by giving strategically.
- Why it's selfish for you to try and keep your business from growing.
- Jay outlines the 5 stages of giving and how you can use them to make a massive impact on the world.
- Jay shares his tips for getting young people to care about contribution.
- What Gary Keller can teach you about consistently thinking BIG.
- Jay takes questions from the crowd on business, publishing, real estate, investing, giving & receiving, and more!
- Jay's success factors for for writing & publishing a book.
- Why research is an incredible form of marketing.
AYG TWEETABLE
''Purpose gives you priority and priority gives you productivity.'' - Jay Papasan
EPISODE RESOURCES
- JayPapasan.com
- The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
- The Millionaire Real Estate Agent: It's Not About the Money... It's About Being the Best You Can Be!
- Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
- The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
- Body For Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength
- Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer and Life
- Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
- 365Give
- Book In A Box
- The Front Row Factor: Transform Your Life with The Art of Moment Making
- Wealth Can't Wait
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. |
| 0:09.5 | I am your host Hal Elrod and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies |
| 0:14.8 | to take your life to the next level as well as interview world-class experts and |
| 0:19.2 | entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves and we ask them to give you a |
| 0:24.0 | peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do the same. |
| 0:28.0 | Ready? Here we go. |
| 0:30.0 | Achieve your goals, Podcast, Listeners, or Goal Achievers. John Berghoff here, |
| 0:37.0 | standing in for Hal Elrod this week. Again, if you and I have never met, you can always go listen to episode 152, where Hal handed over |
| 0:45.8 | the rains, at least for a period of time while he heals and recovers. |
| 0:50.6 | I'm super pumped to tell all of you, he's doing really great right now. If you haven't heard this, Hal was diagnosed last October, it may be in October, November, with a very rare form of cancer. And he's now going through his fifth or sixth round of chemo which is crazy and |
| 1:07.6 | it's positive because he's doing really well right now. I just talked to him about five |
| 1:12.0 | minutes ago. Hey, before I tell you |
| 1:13.7 | about this week's episode, it's a conversation I had at our last Quantum Leap |
| 1:18.0 | mastermind meeting with Jay Papazan, the author of the one thing and I'm sure many of you are familiar with his work just a couple |
| 1:25.0 | shout-outs so first of all a number of you joined us last week in Cleveland for our |
| 1:30.4 | inaugural leaf certification leaf stands for leading with experiential appreciative |
| 1:37.2 | facilitation. |
| 1:38.8 | And really what that is and what we taught and what it's all about and what that community is is a story for another |
| 1:44.2 | episode I'll probably do in a few weeks but the short of it is we really believe I |
| 1:49.1 | believe that the world is calling for really brand new methods and new motivations for what it means to be a leader |
| 1:56.6 | or an entrepreneur that leads a team or an organization of any size and in that certification |
| 2:02.4 | last week was nothing short of |
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