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The School of Greatness

885 The Power of Counterbalance

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

4.822K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

IT’S NEVER GOING TO BE PERFECT. We all have this vision of the ideal life. We work hard and get everything done. All of our relationships are in great shape. We take time to exercise and eat right. But the truth is, there is no magical destination. And even if we reach that place, it could all be destroyed in an instant by one of life’s famous curveballs. Instead of looking at balance like a happily ever after, look at it as something you constantly need to reevaluate and adjust. For this Five Minute Friday, I revisited a conversation I had with Jay Papasan where he shared his philosophy of counterbalance. Jay Papasan is the co-author of The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. He wants you to be purposeful about the way you spend your time. Learn how to tackle the myth of work/life balance in Episode 885. In This Episode You Will Learn: About work/life balance and if it’s possible (02:00) Why balance is a verb, not a noun (02:30) How to counterbalance (03:00) If you enjoyed this episode, check out the video, show notes, and more at http://www.lewishowes.com/885 and follow at instagram.com/lewishowes

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0:00.0

This is five minute Friday!

0:05.4

The person that I'm bringing on today is Jay Papazan.

0:13.5

And he talks about the one thing that you can do that will accomplish more by doing less.

0:20.2

Okay?

0:21.2

Now, Sky Jay Papazan is an interesting guy and I think you're going to love this interview.

0:24.8

He worked as an editor for Harper Collins for a while.

0:27.8

And he co-authored the best-selling series, Millionaire Real Estate with Gary Keller,

0:32.8

whose co-founder of Keller Williams' Realty, one of the top real estate agencies in the

0:37.2

country.

0:38.2

He now runs a top residential real estate team in Austin.

0:42.5

Recently co-authored The One Thing, the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results,

0:49.2

which is a Wall Street Journal, Amazon, and New York Times best-selling author.

0:53.4

And The One Thing is a book for busy people who are just spinning their wheels and not

0:59.2

getting anywhere fast.

1:00.4

There's a graphic that we created for the book and I can't remember who made it in, but

1:10.8

it's this idea of work-life balance.

1:13.1

And that's an incredibly new phenomenon that we've even identified that as a problem.

1:18.0

I don't think that, you know, surfs back in the devil times worried about their work-life

1:23.0

balance, right?

1:24.0

This actually showed up in the 80s.

1:26.3

And a lot of that has been really exacerbated by the fact that cell phones and smartphones,

1:32.5

there's no barriers between when we're at work and when we're at home.

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