398 - The ONE Thing with Jay Papasan
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
I am super excited today to introduce you to Jay Papasan. He is the co-author of The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results with Gary Keller. Jay is a best selling author and executive at Keller Williams Realty.
I quote the ONE Thing mantra regularly - What's the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it
everything else will be easier or unnecessary?" Clarifying our number one priority ensures that we make great decisions. We know what to say yes to; and then say no to everything else.
Jay and I explore the origins of the ONE Thing question, and how I have applied it to my life and business. My understanding of the ONE Thing has grown over time and can be applied in any arena at different levels at different times in our lives. Jay shares how you can use this ONE Thing question to figure out what to do today, and in life. He graciously explains what his own lifetime ONE Thing is in his own life.
There are limitless possibilities for how we can use our time, so the ONE Thing question can break down your choices so you can clarify what makes the biggest impact for you. Making decisions proactively ensures a better investment of your hours and your minutes so that you have fewer regrets. Time is not renewable. It is a precious resource and who you give it to matters greatly.
Jay also gives some great guidance on how our habits decide our futures. He shares his ideas about making rules for how you choose to spend your time. Listen in for his amazing advice! He explains how he balances openness to new people with those he already has decided are the most important.
Jay also teaches us about how to best set goals and the secret to improving our chances of achieving them. He talks about accountability and how to set the steps to stay on track to reach our goals. Systematically working backwards from the goal helps to create a straight line of actions that will move the needle and he shares how to set up a system. This is a proven process that naturally narrows our focus on key goals.
Perfection is overrated. Let's make progress.
Follow Jay and learn more at the1thing.com .
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| 0:00.7 | This week's mailbag comes to us from Elena. |
| 0:04.1 | I just wanted to thank you. |
| 0:05.8 | I recently tested positive for COVID and have been in bed for days. |
| 0:09.8 | Today, finally failing somewhat normal, but still isolated in my room to try to keep my family healthy. |
| 0:16.3 | I asked my husband to bring me my Sunday basket. |
| 0:19.1 | I actually call it a Tuesday basket because I do it on Tuesdays normally and then my laptop. |
| 0:24.9 | Even though my head is still fuzzy, I have all of my priorities here on index cards. |
| 0:30.0 | I know nothing will slip through the cracks because it is all right here. |
| 0:34.0 | Add five more days of quarantine to tackle some of them. |
| 0:37.2 | I am so glad I already had your system in place. |
| 0:40.3 | It gives me a feeling of some control in this stressful time and helps me jump right to the things that I need to tend to first. |
| 0:47.8 | Thank you for being the light in my 2020 and for moms and maybe dads everywhere. |
| 0:53.3 | I am hooked. |
| 0:54.7 | Do you have an organized 365 success story? |
| 0:58.0 | If so, we would love to hear about it. |
| 1:00.6 | Please send us an email at Customer Service at Organize 365 and tell us how you have taken back your home, |
| 1:07.9 | your paper, and your life with Organize 365. |
| 1:17.8 | Welcome to the Organize 365 podcast. |
| 1:21.4 | I'm your host, Professional Organizer, Productivity Expert, and Motivational Speaker, Lisa Woodruff. |
| 1:28.5 | This podcast will help you embrace progress over perfection and create lasting, functional organizing in your home. |
| 1:36.2 | I have so much to share with you, so let's get started. |
| 1:42.2 | I'm super excited today to introduce you to Jay Papazen. |
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