We talk about the myth of living a balanced existence.

The reality is if you're focused on a work goal, this idea being all in on one thing,

you'll be very out of balance in a lot of areas of your work life.

A lot of people think I'm working hard for my family and they're envisioning some time

in the more distant future when they're financially freeing it to spend all of this time with

their kids. And one, that's not guaranteed. You could get hit by a bus or an asteroid could fall on

your city tomorrow. It's just like, we don't know what's going to happen. And if anything,

this world's making that clearer and clearer to us. So you need to make much smaller bets. So that's

counterbalancing. So you need to make much smaller vats. So that's counterbalancing.

Welcome to the real estate and financial independence podcast. I'm your host Chad Carson.

You can also call me coach. And my mission here is to help you get out of the financial grind

so you can do more of what matters.

Whether you're a brand new listener or a longtime listener, I want to thank you for being back for another episode.

The title of today's episode is The One Thing, How to Get Extraordinary Results.

This is a conversation with Jay Papazan.

He's the co-author of the book, The One Thing. He's also the co-author of another book that I always recommend to people when they're first getting into real estate investing called the Millionaire Real Estate Investor. And in this conversation, we talk about one of the topics that I think is so fundamental that we don't get into in the show enough, but is your mindset and your approach

to the practical little things, your habits, your day-to-day routines, your mindset about

what you focus on and what you don't. Because we all know that we are overwhelmed. There's

lots of things going on in our lives. There's lots of things tugging at our attention.

Some of them are important. Some of them are not so important. But he really dives in to what makes

people who achieve extraordinary results, whether that's personally having a life that you can

be proud of with your family, with your health, with achieving personal goals, but also professionally

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