198. The Habit that Cost $100MM to Learn and Why It Was Worth It (Part 2) – Keith Cunningham

The ONE Thing

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🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Do you have a habit of taking time to ask yourself big questions? In the last episode, we learned about how Keith Cunningham lost $100MM dollars – and why it was worth it because he developed this habit of thinking time. Really, we could all benefit from blocking off time in our calendars to purposefully sit down with great questions that truly evaluate how we’re showing up in the world and help us gain clarity. In this episode, we continue our conversation with Keith and learn more about the biggest mistakes that people make as a result of not having thinking time blocks. To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: the1thing.com/podcast. In this episode, you will learn... [3:30] How you can distinguish a problem from a symptom. [14:00] The questions you should consider during your thinking time to get clarity on what your obstacle really is. [19:45] The biggest mistake you can make when trying to develop a thinking time habit. [26:05] ONE exercise you can do to stop letting perfect get in the way of possible. [39:55] What stops people from building great businesses (and how you can avoid it). Links & Tools From This Episode Connect with Keith: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn The Road Less Stupid by Keith Cunningham Get Results With Your 411 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.
0:10.0	I'm your host Jeff Woods. This is part two of the habit that cost a hundred million dollars to learn and why it was worth it.
0:17.0	In part one we reviewed Keith's story. What happened? How he had lost a hundred million dollars and the one habit he formed that made it all worthwhile.
0:26.7	The habit of thinking time. Having time where you purposefully sit down with a great question, a question like, if my business could talk,
0:36.1	what would it say about me? Questions like, am I and a player? And to truly evaluate if you are showing up in the world as the highest level.
0:45.2	Questions like what assumptions am I currently making?
0:49.3	These are questions that so many of us do not ask yet when we do slow down and reflect on the answer
0:54.3	incredible clarity comes the reason that we are releasing this episode it came
1:00.4	out a year ago is because for a year I have intentionally been forming a habit around thinking time.
1:08.0	It's truly changed how I've showed up as a leader. It's changed how I show up as a business owner, a husband, a father, a person.
1:15.0	Any time when you find yourself lacking clarity instead of just blindly taking action and as Keith would call it running enthusiastically in the wrong direction,
1:24.3	you slow down, you ask a question, you search for the answer and you have a plan to put in place.
1:33.4	It's a surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results folks.
1:37.6	So in this episode we dive in to some of the biggest mistakes that we make as a result of not having thinking time blocks.
1:49.2	It's why when Gary and Jay and the one thing talk about time blocking,
1:52.9	one of the three things they suggest that every person time blocks
1:57.1	is planning time.
1:58.9	Time to sit down with great questions,
2:01.2	to reflect on where you've been, based on that to plan where you need to go.
2:06.4	If you would like to have your hand held and some more structure around what this looks like based on the one thing.
2:13.0	Head over to the one thing.
2:14.2	dot com slash training.
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