This is the One Thing podcast where we teach you the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results.

My name is Jeff Woods. I'm the Vice President here at the One Thing team.

Today we're going to switch it up and try something. I'm the vice president here at the one thing team.

Today we're going to switch it up and try something new.

In February of this year, we had what we refer to

is our family reunion for Keller Williams.

It's like our national sales meeting.

Over 18,000 Keller Williams. It's like our national sales meeting. Over 18,000 Keller Williams real estate agents flew into Las Vegas and we had our big convention.

At the convention there's a ton of different breakouts. I hosted one on time blocking and what we learned from

over 800 people like you on why you've tried time blocking but it hasn't become a habit.

You haven't been able to develop the habit of scheduling time on your calendar with yourself to do your most important work.

And in those moments when you're in those time blocks, to crush any distraction that pops up, meaning you're not

checking your email, you're not on social media, if your phone rings you don't

answer it. If somebody walks in and asks, hey do you got a minute? You say no.

Why is it that so many of us understand

that we need to do our most important work,

yet we allow all the things that don't matter as much

to pop up and steal our focus?

So this is a keynote that I delivered.

There was probably 4 to 500 people in the room and you'll hear me early on right away.

I'm going to ask a simple question. How many of you have time blocked ever and what you don't see is every single hand in the

room go up and then I ask the question how many of you have the regular habit of time blocking every day and crushing every distraction that pops up and threatens to steal your focus?

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