485. Your Past Has Purpose

The ONE Thing

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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If you’re listening to this podcast you’re probably a high achiever. A doer. Someone who is in constant motion. That’s all great, but don’t forget to pause and reflect. Purposeful reflection will lead you to more success and satisfaction. Here are the nine reflection questions Jay goes over in today’s episode: What did I accomplish? What challenges did I face? Where did I fail? Who supports me and helps me grow? What relationships are missing in my life? When is enough enough? What do I fear? What brings meaning to my life? Who am I becoming and who will I be in the end? Write down your answers. Identify patterns in your answers. Discuss them with the people closest to you in life and business. Then use it to create your intention for 2025: This is the year that I finally– fill in the blank. Jay walks you through, step-by-step, how to get the most out of this reflection and intention activity. Be sure to tune in. Challenge of the Week: Set a clear intention for 2025. This will be the year that I finally… you fill in the blank. Put that somewhere where you cannot avoid it. You cannot ignore it. You cannot forget it. Set your intention for 2025. You will be surprised at the end of the year how much progress you have made towards that goal. 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: Nine questions to guide your purposeful reflection One sentence to set your intention for the next year The importance of keeping your intentional highly visible throughout the year Links & Tools from This Episode: Read “Managing Oneself” by Peter Drucker Listen to Episode 480: Is Your Serial Achievement an Addiction? Here’s How to Break the Cycle Check out The Ed Mylett Show 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.
0:18.5	We're down to the final hours of 2024.
0:22.4	If you're like me, you spend a lot of time thinking about the future.
0:26.0	Lots of achievers are always asking, what's next, what's next?
0:29.0	What do I need to do next?
0:30.2	What do I need to do next to get my goal?
0:32.4	We don't live in the past very often.
0:35.2	We don't look back very often.
0:37.4	And while this constant forward focus is a
0:40.1	great recipe for achievement, it's a really poor path to wisdom. And what it can lead to is
0:46.0	repeating the same mistakes. So if you're one of those people, and I'm raising my hand, I'm one of
0:51.7	them, that tends to be very future focused.
0:54.7	This is a great episode for you.
0:56.3	I'm going to walk you through two powerful practices that you can use to wrap up your
1:01.2	24 and kick off your 2025.
1:05.0	For all of you forward focused, high achievers, always running, always moving, can we just
1:09.6	hit pause for the duration of this
1:11.8	podcast and maybe a little extra time for you to do the work? I promise you will move forward with more
1:17.2	clarity. So let's start with reflecting on your past with a purpose. Let's look back at
1:27.2	2024 and really get clear about what our highs and
1:31.6	our lows are. Every year when my wife, Wendy, and I do our annual goal setting retreat,
1:37.1	the very first thing we do is our highs and lows for the year. And I find it helpful to flip through my photographs and look through
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