427. Your 2026 Reset: The One Change That Will Transform Your Firm with Jay Papasan [Encore Edition]

The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill

Michael Mogill

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

5.0 • 539 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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What if the reason you're not achieving extraordinary results isn't because you're doing too little, but because you're doing too much? In this encore episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael Mogill sits down with Jay Papasan, Vice President at Keller Williams Realty and bestselling author of The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. Jay breaks down why the popular concept of balance is a fallacy, how multitasking is actually killing your productivity, and why discipline is not what you think it is. From understanding the truth about willpower to mastering the focusing question that changes everything, this conversation delivers a master class in achieving more by doing less. Here's what you'll learn: Why multitasking is a lie that's costing you 28% of your day and lowering your IQ by 11 points How to use selective discipline and the 66-day habit formation principle to make success automatic What the focusing question is and how it creates clarity around your most leveraged activities Want to achieve extraordinary results? This episode shows you exactly how to get there. ---- Show Notes: 03:52 – The origin story of The One Thing, from a 14-page handwritten essay to a bestselling book 05:59 – Why focusing on one thing is such a challenge despite being simple 09:01 – Walking through the process of using extreme Pareto to narrow down priorities 13:04 – Debunking the myth of multitasking and why it's costing you 28% of your day 19:36 – The Green Beret story: how training creates habits that last decades 28:26 – Defining willpower as different from discipline and why it's a limited resource 30:16 – A powerful study on parole judges that proves willpower depletion is real 36:47 – Counterbalancing instead of balance and why it matters for business and life 47:23 – How purpose gives you direction and a clear sense of priority ---- Links & Resources: The One Thing by Jay Papasan Atomic Habits by James Clear Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin Willpower Doesn’t Work by Benjamin Hardy Grit by Angela Duckworth Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod The Pareto Principle ---- Do you love this podcast and want to see more game changing content? Subscribe to our YouTube channel. ---- Past guests on The Game Changing Attorney Podcast include David Goggins, John Morgan, Alex Hormozi, Randi McGinn, Kim Scott, Chris Voss, Kevin O’Leary, Laura Wasser, John Maxwell, Mark Lanier, Robert Greene, and many more. ---- If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like: 383. AMMA — Why Comfort Will Quietly Destroy Your Law Firm 334. Dr. Benjamin Hardy — From Limiting Beliefs to Limitless Potential: A Guide to Personal Growth 78. Dr. Katy Milkman — How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

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0:00.0	The idea here is if we just go right to the heart of it, balance is not a destination. That's Jay Pappison, best-selling author of The One Thing. When I'm public speaking, right, and I'm in a room with a bunch of people, I'll often ask people, if you're physically able, would you stand up on one foot? And I'll say, great, are you balanced or are you balancing? And everybody's like, I'm balancing. I'm like, thank you.
0:23.5	It's a verb.
0:24.6	It's not a stand up on one foot. And I'll say, great, are you balanced or are you balancing? And everybody's
0:21.3	like, I'm balancing. And I'm like, thank you. It's a verb. It's not a noun.
0:31.3	I'm Michael Mogul, founder and CEO of Crisp, the nation's number one law from growth company.
0:36.1	I've built my business through practice,
0:37.9	not theory. Crisp started with just $500 to my name and has grown to over eight figures in
0:42.5	revenue over the last few years, earning a spot on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing
0:46.9	private companies in America. Our approach has been to take everything we've learned about generating
0:51.2	massive growth within our own organization and help the country's most ambitious and committed law firm owners do the same for theirs. In each episode
0:58.2	of this podcast, I sit down with innovative market leaders from the legal industry and beyond
1:02.3	to learn from those who thrive in the face of adversity, challenge the status quo, and define
1:07.2	what it means to be a true game changer. Today we're kicking off 2026
1:11.8	by revisiting one of our most popular episodes
1:13.8	from the podcast where I sat down with Jay Pappison,
1:16.5	author of The One Thing,
1:17.7	which has sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide
1:20.2	and appeared on more than 500 national bestseller lists.
1:23.3	I sat down with Jay to discuss the real way
1:25.5	high performers set goals,
1:27.1	why balance is a distraction not a
1:28.7	solution and how doing less is the fastest path to doing more if you constantly cheat on time
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