The ONE Thing Keeping You from Reaching Your Goals with Geoff Woods
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Jesse chats with Geoff Woods, President of ProduKtive, the training company behind the bestselling book The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. After leaving a high-stress and ultimately unfulfilling job in medical device sales, Geoff set out to surround himself with successful mentors. Eventually Geoff found Gary Keller and Jay Papasan, and immersed himself in their philosophy of the "one thing," that is, the concept of relentlessly pursuing the single most impactful thing you can do in your day, and arranging your schedule to accomplish that thing first.
Geoff describes the one thing as a stack of dominoes. Accomplishing the one thing you can do first -- "can" is the operative word here, this task must be small and easily achievable today -- topples the first domino in the chain, which topples the next, and the next, and so forth. Most people never do the work to identify this one thing, however, and get stuck spending lots of time toppling individual dominoes without ever setting off this chain reaction.
The connection to budgeting is clear. Before you give every dollar a job, you need to know what it is your budget needs to do for you -- what you value, what you are trying to optimize for. Once you've identified this, you can assign your dollars jobs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Wine Embers, my name is Jesse Meakum and this is podcast number 476 for Wine Ember |
| 0:09.7 | where we teach you four rules to help you stop if you paycheck to paycheck, get out |
| 0:12.6 | of debt and save more money. |
| 0:14.3 | Today I am pleased to have on the podcast Jeff Woods. |
| 0:17.1 | He is the VP of Operations, co-founder, head honcho, main operating guy at a company |
| 0:23.4 | called Productive and their job is to train people on being the most productive people |
| 0:29.0 | they possibly can be, specifically in business, but they also train just every day Joe and |
| 0:33.9 | Jane. |
| 0:34.9 | Jeff is a masterful teacher of the book, The One Thing and that book is phenomenal. |
| 0:45.3 | I can't say too many, I can't say more good things about it. |
| 0:49.5 | It's unbelievably useful in framing how you spend your time, how you spend your day, |
| 0:58.7 | thinking through what really matters, kind of leveraging the Pareto principle, the 80-20 |
| 1:03.6 | thing that we're familiar with, and it has just helped me tremendously, literally in |
| 1:07.5 | the last several weeks to just get really clear on what one thing matters and then going |
| 1:14.2 | after that. |
| 1:16.1 | You can tell that Jeff has taught this for a long time because in the podcast he's killer. |
| 1:22.0 | I couldn't help but draw so many comparisons between budgeting and then time management. |
| 1:28.4 | He doesn't like the word time management or how we spend our time, he talks about investing |
| 1:32.0 | your time. |
| 1:33.0 | The interview's just fantastic. |
| 1:34.0 | Jeff and I are like brothers from another mother. |
| 1:36.4 | If we had a love child, it would be some amazingly productive, money, savvy thing. |
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