484. The Key to Gary Keller’s Extraordinary Success

The ONE Thing

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Whenever Jay and Gary are out giving talks about The ONE Thing, they inevitably hear someone say, “Oh, you can do that because you are Gary Keller.” The fact is, he is Gary Keller because he has consistently applied The ONE Thing in his life. Gary joins the show today to discuss one of the core principles of The ONE Thing: consistency. Anyone can be consistent, but few people are. Gary and Jay break down the intersection of consistency and motivation, the role of habits and rituals, and the importance of blocking out time for your own ONE Thing. Challenge of the Week: Sit down with your favorite beverage and pick a category in an area that matters to you and ask yourself, what's the one thing that I could do to move this forward such that by doing it, any other thing that I need to do would be easier or unnecessary. Then, once you've identified it, look at your calendar, and ask the question, at what time in the morning should I do that? And then make sure you protect that time. It could be a very small thing, but by putting it on your calendar, you take that first step. You might be surprised—that first step might be all the momentum you need to keep doing it. 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. *** To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: the1thing.com/pods. We talk about: The power of relentless consistency The importance of identifying “the first domino” The value of work-to-home transition rituals Links & Tools from This Episode: Read “Flip” by Gary Keller, Rick Villani, and Clay Davis 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.
0:07.0	We have a special treat for you this week. Gary Keller joins us on the podcast, and we explore a number of topics. But the theme really is this idea that you find your intensity and your consistency. A lot of people can run a sprint for a week or a day, maybe even a month, but very few individuals have the power to show up and make a small contribution every day for a long period of time.
0:39.3	That consistency is, in fact, your intensity.
0:42.1	It's the power of not quitting.
0:43.8	And it's one of the superpowers that Gary identifies for himself.
0:47.1	And this matters because I know so many people who look up and say,
0:50.2	well, Gary can do that because he's Gary.
0:52.2	The truth is Gary is Gary because he did that.
0:55.4	When you look at all of his strings, there's this little tiny hidden one just showing up, being consistent, something that we can all do.
1:02.0	I hope you'll find it as empowering as I did.
1:04.3	It gave me a lot of confidence hearing from someone who's accomplished so much that something so small can make such a big difference.
1:12.6	The one thing that you and I preached, the one thing that we preached over and over was consistency. And a lot of people don't understand that intensity is consistency, right? And people get this confused. They think that success is small bursts of frenzied
1:30.8	activity, but slow and steady wins the race. And you have to put your faith in that. There's a
1:37.0	wonderful phrase when you were a kid. And it was, you bet your life. Well, here's the truth is,
1:42.5	you are betting your life on your thoughts and your actions.
1:45.9	The thoughts you choose and the actions that you take on, you are betting your life on the outcomes of that.
1:53.9	Most people aren't thinking at that level.
1:55.8	They're just acting and doing.
1:57.6	I get that.
1:58.5	I understand that, yes, that we get up and we just go. What you would hope at
2:04.2	some moment is that you have some wants and some needs, and here you go, right? You set a goal.
2:11.4	Right. It's an interesting thought, the idea of motivation, Jay, because when you do the research,
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