515. The Way: 5 Principles That Create Extraordinary Results with Gary Keller

The ONE Thing

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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What does it really take to live your best life? This week, we’re joined by Gary Keller for part one of a special two-part conversation about “The Way”—five powerful concepts for leveling up, drawn from the newly rewritten Bold course. Gary and I walk through each idea, starting with the Misogi Challenge: setting a focused, time-limited challenge that pushes you beyond your comfort zone and transforms what you think is possible. Next, we explore the power of deliberate discomfort (or “exposure therapy”)—intentionally facing the things that make you uneasy, one tiny step at a time, to build real courage. Then comes Kaizen, the practice of making small, consistent improvements and trusting in the magic of compounding results. We dig into the science of habit formation—what Gary calls “the Myelin Effect”—and how repeating the right actions literally rewires your brain for success. Finally, we talk about the ancient art of Kintsugi: embracing your setbacks and using them to become stronger and more beautiful than before. These aren’t just concepts; they’re practices that can change your trajectory. Whether you’re taking on a bold challenge, working to expand your comfort zone, or putting the pieces back together after a setback, The Way is about choosing intentional growth, again and again. Challenge of the Week: Pick one small, uncomfortable thing you’ve been avoiding—something that nudges you out of your comfort zone. Maybe it’s asking for help, sending food back at a restaurant, or speaking up in a meeting. Take one tiny step toward it this week and see how it feels. Remember, progress starts at the edge of your comfort zone. *** To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: the1thing.com/pods. We talk about: Why taking on big, time-limited goals can change your self-belief How deliberate discomfort expands your comfort zone and reduces fear Why tiny, consistent improvements and habit formation are the real keys to mastery Links & Tools from This Episode: Training: BOLD course by Keller Williams Read Grit by Angela Duckworth Read Atomic Habits by James Clear Watch: Episode 512. Stuck Building Your Personal Brand? Here's How to Break Through with Rory Vaden 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	Hey, gang, I'm super excited. We have Gary Keller in the episode today. He actually gave a huge
0:05.2	presentation. It was probably the best attended at our annual convention earlier this year.
0:09.2	And it was in two parts. The first part is today. It's about the way, which is five concepts
0:14.3	for living your best life, five big ideas that you can put into action to improve both your
0:20.0	quality of your work and your personal
0:21.7	life. The other half is the 10 bold truce and we'll go into that next week. So this week,
0:27.6	let me give you a little history. What is all this about? We rewrote one of our signature
0:31.6	courses with our team here called Bold, and it is a multi-week course for real estate
0:36.9	entrepreneurs to absolutely level up their business. We've and it is a multi-week course for real estate entrepreneurs to absolutely level up their
0:39.7	business. We've tracked it for probably close to 15 years and seen people really, really make a
0:45.8	big leap from where they were to where they want to be by making a very focused effort, a very one-thing
0:51.5	kind of effort for a period of weeks. And so to get people in the
0:55.1	mood, right, to do something big, something to take some courage, we wrote these introductions.
1:00.6	So today we're covering the way five concepts for having the best possible life. Let's hear
1:06.3	them from Gary and I will jump in and give you a little one-thing commentary along the way.
1:11.2	I'm Jay Papazan and this is the One Thing, your weekly guide to the simple steps that lead to
1:16.0	extraordinary results.
1:35.5	So there's a way to living your best life, and it's by doing your best to be your best.
1:43.6	Do you hear that? It's called the way. The way to leading your best life are these five steps.
1:45.9	Here's the first one, the MISogi Challenge.
1:51.3	It's a difficult one-time event that sets your thinking and your fortitude to tackle really tough things in order to have achievement.
1:56.0	Okay.
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