184. Making a Living or Making a Life? How Failure Can Be Your Key to Success | Brian Scudamore
The ONE Thing
NOVA Media
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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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's Jeff Woods, I'm the vice president here at the One Thing team. |
| 0:14.6 | Over the past few years, one thing that I have really noticed is that so many of us prior |
| 0:22.0 | to living the one thing. |
| 0:24.0 | We're living a life by default. |
| 0:26.0 | We're waking up, checking email, checking social media, |
| 0:29.7 | reacting to whatever we see there, |
| 0:31.8 | getting ready, heading to the office, opening our computers, checking email, reacting to whatever |
| 0:36.4 | we see there, sitting in meetings, getting out, checking email, going to the next meeting, |
| 0:41.7 | and this repeats day after day after day. We are so busy and we wonder why we don't feel like we're getting anything done. |
| 0:50.0 | And that's living a life by default, getting what you get. |
| 0:54.0 | This idea of shifting from living a life by default |
| 0:58.0 | to living a life by design. |
| 1:01.0 | Casting a vision for what you actually want for your life someday from now. |
| 1:07.0 | And based on that, goal setting to the now, |
| 1:09.5 | identifying where would you need to be five years |
| 1:11.2 | to feel like you're on track for your someday. And then based on that, what would you need to be five years to feel like you're on track for your someday? |
| 1:13.3 | And then based on that, what would you need to accomplish this year to be on track for your five |
| 1:16.9 | year? |
| 1:17.9 | And once you know that, what are the priorities you've got to focus on this month to be on track for |
| 1:22.1 | your year? What do you have to accomplish this week to be on track for your year? What do you have to accomplish this week to be on track for your month? |
| 1:26.4 | The person you are going to meet today has gone on a long road, with many many failures and you will hear that one thing |
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