179. How a Promise Can Make Your ONE Thing Stick | Alex Sheen

The ONE Thing

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Have you ever scheduled time for your most important work? Chances are, all of us has done this at least once. But do you regularly time block and then protect that time like the air you breathe, defending it against every distraction that comes up? For most of us, the answer is no – but why is that? In this episode, we suggest that this is because we’re not great at keeping the promises we make to ourselves or to others – and we believe that if you can get a little more intentional about the promises you make when you’re planning your time, and the commitments you make to others, then everything else will become easier or unnecessary. Our guest, Alex Sheen, has taken this idea of a promise and turned it into a movement and a book called Because I Said I Would, which is helping people all over the world make promises that stick. We recorded this conversation as part of our monthly ONE Thing webinar series. Every month, we feature an incredible author so that you can learn directly from them and ask questions. If you want to sign up for our next FREE monthly webinar, head over to the1thing.com/webinars. In this episode, you will learn... [7:30] How the “market conditions” of promises have changed with technology [12:30] The anatomy of a promise [18:00] How you can gracefully say no – and still help people move towards their goals [28:30] How you can leverage time blocking to prioritize what you do and don’t promise to do The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode: What’s the ONE thing that you’re not doing that would make saying no easier or unnecessary? Maybe you need to get clear on why you’re saying yes to what you’re saying yes to and no to what you’re saying no to. If you don’t have clarity on your bigger purpose, your bigger Why, it can be difficult to stick to your guns and say no when it matters. Or maybe you need a go-to no sentence like Alex’s: “It would be easy for me to say yes right now, but I respect you too much to keep a promise I can’t keep.” How much time do you think you’ll need to block to come up with that sentence? And how many times do you think you’ll have to practice it, even just one time a day, before it just sounds natural? Sounds like a good candidate for a 66-Day Challenge: http://the1thing.com/66daychallenge. Links & Tools From This Episode Learn more at https://becauseisaidiwould.com/ Read: Because I Said I Would Get your promise cards: https://becauseisaidiwould.com/requestcards/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BecauseISaidIWould/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bcisaidiwould Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/becauseisaidiwould/ 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! 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	This is the One Thing Podcast where we teach you the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results.
0:09.0	My name is Jeff Woods. I'm the Vice President here at the One Thing team. We talk a lot about getting clarity
0:15.8	on what your One Thing is, time blocking your One Thing, protecting your Time Block.
0:20.5	That's how you start with the one thing.
0:23.2	And we know from standing in front of thousands of people
0:26.8	when we talk and do trainings,
0:28.8	if we ask you to raise your hand,
0:30.8	if you have time blocked ever, meaning you've scheduled time with yourself for your most
0:35.2	important work, every single one of you would probably raise your hand.
0:39.6	And if we said keep your hand up if and only if you are the type of person who regularly time blocks and protects that time like the air they breathe and defend it and crush every single distraction that pops up, most hands would go down.
0:55.8	Why is that?
0:57.8	In this episode, we would suggest to you that part of that is because we're not as great at keeping the promises we make to
1:05.8	ourselves and to others.
1:08.8	The person you are going to meet today, this idea of making a promise started as an idea that has turned into a movement.
1:16.6	A movement called because I said I would.
1:20.1	We originally had them on as part of our monthly one- thing webinar series where every month we bring on a best-selling author to share their book with you.
1:27.0	In this case, we brought on this person to talk about their book because I said it would because we think that if you can get a little
1:34.2	bit more intentional and be a little bit more purposeful about the promises that you make when you
1:38.6	are planning your time and the commitments that you make to others that everything else would become easier or unnecessary.
1:45.9	With that, let's get into this conversation with founder of Because I Said I Would and author of
1:50.4	the Because I Said I Would Book, Alex She.
1:53.3	This new podcast from Nova Media is coming soon.
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