481. How to Stay Calm and Focused During the Holiday Madness

The ONE Thing

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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December is chaotic. The kids are out of school. Family is visiting, or you're traveling. There are parties you should go to and gifts you should buy. Don't forget the holiday cards! If ever there was a season for The ONE Thing, 'tis the season. Jay and his personal coach, Jordan Freed, spend this episode giving you the tools you need to have a meaningful, calm(ish) holiday season. They walk you through how to use your imagination to gain clarity, identify the things you can't control, and stay on track with at least one positive habit. Our hope is you make this a holiday season that you'll look back on with joy. Challenge of the Week: Don't Pause the Positive Identify one positive habit you already practice and commit to maintaining it throughout the holiday season. It could be taking 10,000 steps/day, drinking a set amount of water, or sticking to another simple, achievable habit. If you're a bold risk taker who wants to dream big and achieve a higher level of success in your life or business, visit the1thing.com. *** Boost your language skills fast. Want to learn a new language but tired of the same old boring apps? Check out Lingoda. Lingoda provides real live classes with actual teachers, 24/7. Yes, 24/7. So whether you’re an early riser or a night owl, you can fit language learning into your busy schedule. Start your 7-day free trial today! Use my promo code ONETHING50 to get up to 50% off. Visit try.lingoda.com/OnethingPod now and discover why Lingoda is your perfect language partner. *** To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: the1thing.com/pods. We talk about: Sticking to at least one positive habit during the holiday season Using your imagination to achieve clarity Pausing to identify if you’re trying to control an uncontrollable Links & Tools from This Episode: Free Resources Want to be a guest or share feedback? Email [email protected] or send us an audio note at Speakpipe.com/the1thing. Produced by NOVA

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0:00.0	I'm Jay Papazan and this is the One Thing, your weekly guide to the simple steps that lead to extraordinary results.
0:18.6	Our goal this week is to help you find your calm and the chaos of this holiday season. We all have a lot happening. We all have a lot of challenges. How do we figure out what matters and then kind of cut through the chaos, exit overwhelm, and get back to productive action? Our guest this week is my coach, Jordan Fried. Jordan also happens to be our head coach at the One
0:38.0	Thing organization and helps us build out all of our training content. So you're just going to love
0:41.9	everything that we have to share this week. We've got lots of practical tips for you in this
0:45.6	episode and we dive right in.
0:53.0	Most people are listening to this in December.
0:55.5	And for me, December is one of the most chaotic months.
0:58.7	If you've got kids, school's ending.
1:01.6	You're planning to figure out, well, what am I going to do when my kids aren't in school, but I'm still at work.
1:06.7	You might have holiday parties that start to dot and litter your calendar. Now you have to plan
1:12.3	for babysitters and outfits and holiday parties might mean holiday gifts and what do I get the boss
1:18.8	and what I'll get my coworkers, what I'll get my family, my friends. All of these things start to pile up
1:23.2	lest I even mention holiday travel, which usually means family.
1:31.9	And normal year, we'd say, and you've got family politics, but this year you might have family politics plus politics, given the state of where everything's going.
1:35.8	I'm probably just stressing people out, just saying all this at once, right?
1:40.2	And then if they're an achiever, they've got their year-in goals, right?
1:43.7	They're making the last sprint.
1:45.0	Did I get my health goals or my work goals or whatever?
1:48.3	And to me, the cherry on top of the chaos pie, the thing that stresses me out the most
1:52.4	because I've got one of those Southern moms is a holiday card list.
1:56.7	Like we actually try to send out holiday cards.
1:58.8	I'm not sure why we do this to ourselves.
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