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164. Growing Your Business by Focusing on Your 20% | Chris Suarez Oct 29, 2018

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At the end of the day, do you feel fulfilled and content?

Imagine working hard to scale your business and having the first year where you net a million dollars. The year after, again, you net a million dollars. And then you realize something's wrong.

The person you're going to meet today is a perfect example of this. He worked so hard to build a business that could scale, that could create abundance for his people and for himself personally. He did, in fact, net a million dollars two years in a row – then he realized that he was cheating himself out of what it actually means to live a life. We're going to go on a journey to see how he began to apply the 80/20 principle, focusing on his 20% for a maximum of just two hours a day, and then brought people into his world to take his 80% so they could all live a bigger, more fulfilled life.

If you are someone who has the capacity to bring leverage into your world, then you will want to pay close attention to what Chris Suarez has to say in this episode.

In this episode, you will learn...

[22:17] What it means to live experientially
[24:33] What you can do if it feels like you're cheating yourself out of what it means to actually live a life
[36:45] The habits you can acquire that will make being a great coach, being a great leader, and being a talent magnet easier or unnecessary
[48:50] The ingredients of contentment & an exercise you can do to find your opportunity

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

Are you spending your time or are you investing your time?

So many of us go through our day unconsciously just spending our time and there is no return on the investment. We work hard, we're busy, and we wonder if we are even getting anything done. As a result, many of us are lacking fulfillment and, certainly, many of us are lacking contentment.

If you want to chance this cycle, whip out a sheet of paper and start by writing down everything you do in the day, from the moment you wake up to when you go to sleep, to get an honest snapshot of where your time is going.

Then, you can use the equations Chris shared to determine whether you are investing your time or passively spending it:

(Activity x Time) / Choice = Money
(Money + People) / Opportunity = Time
Time + Money = Experience
(Time x Money) / Experience = Contentment

You take activity times your time, or time on task over time, divided by choice, meaning you're being strategic about where that activity and time is being invested. That equals the money. And you take money plus people, leveraged over opportunity, meaning focusing on the right opportunity. That gives you time. Then you take time plus money and that gives you experiences. Then time times money over experience is what gives you the contentment.

Finally, ask yourself these questions:

Are you investing your time on the right activities? Could you be doing better? Where could you be doing a better job of investing in people? And where could you be having the people that are already in your world focusing on even better opportunities? Where could you be investing your time and money in experiences that matter? And how can you design your time and money around experiences rather than hoping the experiences just show up?

Links & Tools From This Episode

Connect with Chris: pdxpropertygroup.com/team/chris-suarez/
Learn more about The ONE Thing Couples Goal-Setting Retreat: www.the1thing.com/event
Interested in getting a coach who is certified in the principles of The One Thing? Go to The1Thing.com/coaching

AWESOME FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU!

Get more support & accountability: Join the Living Your ONE Thing Community
The Kick Ass Guide To Accountability
Form your first power habit with your 66 Day Challenge Calendar

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163. How To Host Your Own Goal Setting Retreat | Jay Papasan & Wendy Papasan Oct 22, 2018

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Consider the things that you want to accomplish in your life... is it possible for you to achieve those things alone?

Achieving all of our goals requires the support of our significant others, our business partners, our bosses, and our friends. But how many of us actually have a process for setting goals with these people who have a stake in our success? Sadly, very few of us do. But this is something we can change!

Over a decade ago, The ONE Thing co-author Jay Papasan and his wife Wendy Papasan set aside a night for ONE purpose: casting a vision for what they wanted their lives to look like together so that they would be on the same page – and the idea of a couples goal-setting retreat was born! In this episode, we’re sharing a live webinar featuring Jay and Wendy, in which they talk about what their retreats look like and what you need to know to prepare for your own goal-setting retreat.

As you go through this episode, if you find yourself thinking, “I want to do this,” you have three options:

Download the FREE Kick Ass Guide® to Your Couples Goal Setting Retreat: https://www.the1thing.com/resources/kick-ass-guide-to-your-couples-goal-setting-retreat/
Join us in Austin for The ONE Thing Couples Goal Setting Retreat: www.the1thing.com/event
Can't make it to Austin? Get access to The ONE Thing Goal Setting Master Course: www.the1thing.com/gsrcourse

In this episode, you will learn...

[12:20] How you can prepare for your goal-setting retreat (even if you’re on a budget)
[17:00] What you can do if your significant other, friend, or teammate is not a goal setter
[30:50] What it looks like when your goals are not aligned & how you can collaborate in this situation
[36:00] How you can keep your goals in front of you throughout the year (even when life gets in the way)
[46:00] The basic framework for your goals & the boundaries you should set

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

Gary Keller says you’re never more than five years away from where you want to be – if you’re willing to do the right things and you have support from the people around you.

So ask yourself, who are those people, that handful of people, who matter most when it comes to achieving what you want to achieve? Do those people know what you’re really striving for over the next 12 months, or the next five years? And what would be possible if, every single day, you had them in your corner supporting you while you take the actions necessary for success?

Don’t let this be just another piece of content that goes in one year and out the other – make a commitment to yourself to be the kind of person who takes action!

If you want to bring a goal setting retreat into your life, you have three options:

Download the FREE Kick Ass Guide® to Your Couples Goal Setting Retreat: https://www.the1thing.com/resources/kick-ass-guide-to-your-couples-goal-setting-retreat/
Join us in Austin for The ONE Thing Couples Goal Setting Retreat: www.the1thing.com/event
Can't make it to Austin? Get access to The ONE Thing Goal Setting Master Course: www.the1thing.com/gsrcourse

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162. Setting Goals as a Couple | You Can Be Anywhere You Want in the Next 5 Years Oct 15, 2018

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What were the things you really wanted out of life five years ago... and do you have them today?

For many of us, the answer is no. But why? Most of us don’t know the proper way to set our goals or create a plan that we CAN accomplish, and we don’t have the tools necessary to build a real relationship with our goals so that we can make consistent progress – and that’s why we created The ONE Thing Couples Goal Setting Retreat.

John Schumacher and Carol Stack are perennial goal setters, but they never did it together. Then, after going on their first couples goal setting retreat, they saw a transformation in their results.

If you want those results in your relationship – whether that be with your significant other, business partner, team, boss, or friends – then you have three options:

Download the Kick-Ass Guide® to Your Couples Goal Setting Retreat: https://www.the1thing.com/resources/kick-ass-guide-to-your-couples-goal-setting-retreat/
Join us in Austin for The ONE Thing Couples Goal Setting Retreat: www.the1thing.com/event
Can't make it to Austin? Get access to The ONE Thing Goal Setting Master Course: www.the1thing.com/gsrcourse

In this episode, you will learn...

[10:20] How to recognize and break through that ceiling of achievement you keep running into
[15:30] Why setting goals as a team can help you overcome limiting beliefs
[20:00] What happens when you come together to create a plan and accountability
[28:30] How you can get buy-in from your significant other or team members for a couples goal setting retreat
[37:20] Why annual goal setting will quickly become a habit that you won’t want to break

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

Imagine that it’s five years from now and you are looking back at this very moment; the moment that you knew you could be anywhere you want to be in the next five years, and you’re celebrating because you’re there.

What does that look like for you, and what are the things that you started doing differently?

We know that many of you listen to the show because you’re high achievers, and you’ve probably set goals at some point in time... which means you probably also know what it’s like to struggle with your goals because the people in your life don’t know how to support you. No one succeeds alone, but most people try to – and it doesn’t have to be that way.

Will you make a commitment to yourself and your future to identify the people in your life who have the greatest stake in your success, and then bring them in to set goals as a team?

If you want to bring a goal setting retreat into your life, you have three options:

Download the Kick-Ass Guide® to Your Couples Goal Setting Retreat: https://www.the1thing.com/resources/kick-ass-guide-to-your-couples-goal-setting-retreat/
Join us in Austin for The ONE Thing Couples Goal Setting Retreat: www.the1thing.com/event
Can't make it to Austin? Get access to The ONE Thing Goal Setting Master Course: www.the1thing.com/gsrcourse

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161. Discover If You're Accidentally Diminishing the Talent Around You | Liz Wiseman Oct 08, 2018

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Are you multiplying or diminishing the people around you?

After we released episode 145 with Liz Wiseman, author of New York Times bestseller Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, we received a lot of feedback from all of you. We all know that no one succeeds alone – but working with and leading other people isn’t easy, and we’re not taught how to do it in school.

So for this episode, we brought Liz Wiseman back, but with a twist: instead of us interviewing her, she’s going to turn the tables on Geoff Woods and help him identify where he’s diminishing as a leader. Whether you own a business, are a leader in an organization, or are an employee, this is a valuable episode because it will help you gain clarity on where you could be doing a better job of showing up and how you are influencing the people around you.

In this episode, you will learn...

[8:00] How your strengths can end up diminishing others
[19:35] What leaders can give their teams space and reign themselves in during meetings or conversations
[28:35] How learning a few “back pocket questions” can help you multiply the people around you (and what these questions sound like)
[35:40] What accidental diminishers can do to start intentionally multiplying & what employees or family members can say when they are being diminished
[55:55] ONE thing accidental diminishers should understand and implement

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

Where might you be accidentally diminishing?

It’s not a bad thing to admit that you have diminishing tendencies – we all do! One of the three commitments of The ONE Thing is following the path of mastery; always focusing on how you can get just a little bit better in any area of your life. There are spaces where you are doing extraordinarily well, but there are also places where you’re still a student and opportunities to improve.

So what is the ONE thing you can do that will make multiplying the people around you easier or unnecessary?

Links & Tools From This Episode

Learn More: multipliersbooks.com
Connect with Liz: LinkedIn
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman: Book
The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools by Liz Wiseman: Book
Take Liz’s FREE assessment to discover if you’re an accidental diminisher: http://multipliersbooks.com/adquiz

AWESOME FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU!

Get more support & accountability: Join the Living Your ONE Thing Community
The Kick Ass Guide To Accountability
Form your first power habit with your 66 Day Challenge Calendar
Check out our awesome blog!

The ONE Thing is produced by Podcast Masters

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160. Avoiding 3 Critical Mistakes of Business Growth | Abe Shreve Oct 01, 2018

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Why is it that the majority of businesses fail?

We see this all the time with, whether it's our members or the people that we do trainings with at a corporate level. Everybody always has the best of intentions in their career. Yet, they don't realize the subtle simple mistakes that they are making. And if they had the right person on the frontline of their business with them, coaching them, and guiding them, they would be able to avoid making the mistakes that ultimately lead to burnout.

For over a year, you have heard us talk about the possibility of introducing The ONE Thing Coaching, a one-on-one coaching program based on the principles of The ONE Thing. A lot of you sent us emails saying you’d love that opportunity, but we hadn't earned the right to bring this program to market because we were missing a person.

We found that person, Abe Shreve, and we’re excited for you to meet him in this episode. Over the last five years, he has personally led over 9000 independent coaching calls. He has had conversations with business owners from across all industries. And he has a unique perspective on what mistakes you may be making that will lead to burnout and, ultimately, to the loss of your business.

If you are interested in exploring what it looks like to have a coach who can be there and guide you based on the principles of The ONE Thing, go to The1Thing.com/training. You'll see an option for The ONE Thing Coaching, and you can submit your interest there.

In this episode, you will learn...

[05:53] Mistake #1: Not lining up the dominoes
[11:08] Mistake #2: Not learning to succeed through others
[38:31] Mistake #3: Not creating a culture where accountability is the lifeblood of how we work and interact with each other

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

If after this episode, you find yourself saying, "Wow, that seems like a lot,” remember that the path to getting everything you want starts by getting just ONE thing at a time. So what's the one thing you can do such that by doing it, everything else would be easier or unnecessary?

Maybe you need to complete your GPS for the upcoming year. Maybe you need to go through and do a 411 with your team. Maybe you need to look at your hiring practices. Maybe you need to sit down with your team in front of a white board and really ask, "What is our culture in one single descriptive word? What does it come down to?"

Whatever you choose, we hope that you are the type of person who actually takes action.

And if you believe what Abe says, that a great place to start would be to get a coach, please go to The1Thing.com/training. You'll see an option there for ONE Thing coaching.

AWESOME FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU!

Get more support & accountability: Join the Living Your ONE Thing Community
The Kick Ass Guide To Accountability
Form your first power habit with your 66 Day Challenge Calendar
Check out our awesome blog!

Come join us at this year’s Couples Goal Setting Retreat!

The ONE Thing Couples Goal Setting Retreat is more than an inspirational conference. It’s a 2-day workshop where you will discover a proven model for casting a vision for your life and establish 5-year and 1-year goals WITH the people that matter most to you. Whether you go with a significant other, a business partner, or team, discover how to achieve extraordinary results TOGETHER!

Go to the1thing.com/event to learn more & sign up for The ONE Thing Couples Goal Setting Retreat (Nov. 17-18, 2018 in Austin, TX)!

The ONE Thing is produced by Podcast Masters

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159. How to Set Goals With Your Significant Other if They're Not a Goal Setter | Jake & Alyx Dreyfuss Sep 24, 2018

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When you’re setting goals, do you ask yourself who in your life directly contributes to whether or not you achieve that goal?

No one succeeds alone – but most people try to. One of the biggest mistakes we see people making is that they set goals by themselves, then they struggle throughout the year because the most important people in their life aren’t on the same page.

Our guests Jake and Alyx Dreyfuss blocked off time for their first couples goal-setting retreat last year. In this episode, Jake and Alyx share the discussions they had, the changes that have occurred over the past year, and what they’re doing differently for this upcoming year.

If you want to learn more about what it looks like to go on your own goal-setting retreat, go to the1thing.com/event and check out what we’re doing for The ONE Thing Couples Goal-Setting Retreat in Nov. 2018.

In this episode, you will learn...

[12:30] How you know when you aren’t on the same page with the people close to you.
[17:00] What has surprised Jake & Alyx since their goal-setting retreat.
[24:15] Why you should set goals with not just your significant other, but also your business partner and/or team.
[26:50] What you should avoid when you’re setting goals.
[27:45] How to set goals when you aren’t a natural goal setter (and why you should).

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

The ONE Thing is the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results – it’s not the surprisingly easy truth. In this episode, you hear how challenging the process of setting goals together is... and you also hear how much it helps.

Who is riding shotgun with you who you can sit down with and have the deep conversations, which you might have been avoiding up until now? It’s not about negotiating for whose goal is going to win. It’s about understanding what the other person wants and asking how you can help them get it.

What would be possible in your life if you made a goal-setting retreat a yearly ritual?

Whether you choose to do it yourself or join us in Austin in Nov. 2018, go to the1thing.com/event to learn more about what it takes.

Links & Tools From This Episode

Connect with Jake: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

AWESOME FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU!

Get more support & accountability: Join the Living Your ONE Thing Community
The Kick Ass Guide To Accountability
Form your first power habit with your 66 Day Challenge Calendar
Check out our awesome blog!

Come join us at this year’s Couples Goal Setting Retreat!

Go to the1thing.com/event to learn more & sign up for The ONE Thing Couples Goal Setting Retreat (Nov. 17-18, 2018 in Austin, TX)!

The ONE Thing is produced by Podcast Masters

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158. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear Sep 17, 2018

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If habits decide your future and you decide your habits, what are the habits you can acquire today that will help you create your ideal future?

We want to help you form the power habits that will help you achieve extraordinary results, in every area of your life. That’s why we wrote The ONE Thing, that’s why we created the Living Your ONE Thing Community, and that’s why we’re sharing this conversation with someone who has built a career focused on helping others create better habits, make better decisions, and live better lives.

Our guest is James Clear, author of the upcoming book Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones (releasing 10/16/18), and in this episode, he will share how you can become the architect of your habits, rather than continue to be a victim of them.

We recorded this conversation as part of our monthly ONE Thing webinar series. Every month, we feature an incredible author so that you can learn directly from them and ask questions. If you want to sign up for our next FREE monthly webinar, head over to the1thing.com/webinars.

In this episode, you will learn...

[3:45] How you can leverage the compound effect of getting just 1% better every day.
[10:05] ONE thing you can do to make forming good habits easier or unnecessary.
[16:40] When you fall off the habit wagon, do you have to start over?
[20:35] How you can utilize habits as an entry point to positive rituals & routines.

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

What is that two-inch domino you CAN knock down that will help you form a power habit?

Sure, putting on your shoes and going out the door will not give you washboard abs – but does it make going for a run easier? It sure does! And if you set yourself up for success by focusing on that ONE, small, two-minute action, then you will start experiencing the cumulative benefits of getting just 1% better every day.

If you want more help on your journey, we have some FREE resources that can help: download a 66-day calendar and/or try out a PDF version of the upcoming The ONE Thing Planner.

Links & Tools From This Episode

Learn more at atomichabits.com
Connect with James: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter
Want to hear the rest of this interview? Head over to the1thing.com/webinars/atomic-habits-with-james-clear

AWESOME FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU!

Get more support & accountability: Join the Living Your ONE Thing Community
The Kick Ass Guide To Accountability
Form your first power habit with your 66 Day Challenge Calendar
Check out our awesome blog!

158. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear Sep 17, 2018

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If habits decide your future and you decide your habits, what are the habits you can acquire today that will help you create your ideal future?

In this episode, you will learn...

[3:45] How you can leverage the compound effect of getting just 1% better every day.
[10:05] ONE thing you can do to make forming good habits easier or unnecessary.
[16:40] When you fall off the habit wagon, do you have to start over?
[20:35] How you can utilize habits as an entry point to positive rituals & routines.

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

What is that two-inch domino you CAN knock down that will help you form a power habit?

If you want more help on your journey, we have some FREE resources that can help: download a 66-day calendar and/or try out a PDF version of the upcoming The ONE Thing Planner.

Links & Tools From This Episode

Learn more at atomichabits.com
Connect with James: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter
Want to hear the rest of this interview? Head over to the1thing.com/webinars/atomic-habits-with-james-clear

AWESOME FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU!

Get more support & accountability: Join the Living Your ONE Thing Community
The Kick Ass Guide To Accountability
Form your first power habit with your 66 Day Challenge Calendar
Check out our awesome blog!

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157. Hiring Top Talent and Finding the Right Assistant | Brindley Tucker Sep 10, 2018

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Do you feel like you could be doing more... but there’s just not enough time?

Whenever we feel like we’re running into a ceiling of achievement, when we feel like we just can’t quite do anymore, we’re just missing a person. As Gary Keller says, “No one succeeds alone.”

That’s why we’re sharing this conversation with Brindley Tucker, a KW MAPS Coach and the founder of Your Realty Leverage. But today’s episode isn’t about succeeding in real estate – it’s about being the type of person who can recruit and retain amazing talent, in whatever you do, so that you can break through whatever ceiling of achievement you perceive to be in your life.

And if you didn’t hear Brindley’s first episode, Ep 78 - How Mindset, Purpose, and Relationships Can Change Your Life in 5 Years or Less, we highly recommend listening to it as well. Her journey is truly incredible.

In this episode, you will learn...

[4:45] How you overcome the limiting belief that you’re not ready to bring on another person
[17:00] What 3 things you should be looking for in an administrative support partner
[21:00] How to live your ONE Thing when you are working in an administrative or support role
[28:20] How you can empower your support staff to live their ONE thing
[45:35] The importance of having a 411 with your people every week

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

The best business owners we’ve interacted with all have the habit of constantly looking for and forming relationships with new talent – and once they’re in a relationship, it’s truly a partnership.

The ONE Thing is the language of respecting each others’ priorities. And if no one succeeds alone, then we must succeed together.

One of the biggest obstacles is your environment – so who are the five people in your environment who most need to understand this collaborative language? We suggest you share the podcast with them today. It just may make your culture that much more productive.

Links & Tools From This Episode

Learn more at yourrealtyleverage.com
Connect with Bindley on LinkedIn
Listen to Ep 78 - How Mindset, Purpose, and Relationships Can Change Your Life in 5 Years or Less | Brindley Tucker
Listen to The Habit that Cost $100MM to Learn and Why It Was Worth It: Part 1 | Part 2
Read Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business by Gino Wickman and Mark C. Winters

AWESOME FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU!

Head over to the1thing.com/event to sign up for The ONE Thing Couples Goal Setting Retreat (Nov. 17-18, 2018 in Austin, TX)
Get more support & accountability: Join the Living Your ONE Thing Community
The Kick Ass Guide To Accountability
Form your first power habit with your 66 Day Challenge Calendar
Check out our awesome blog!

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156. It’s Life or Death Without Time Blocking | A True Story with Steven Gendel Sep 03, 2018

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What if getting your priorities done was literally a matter of life and death?

We know that living The ONE Thing isn’t easy. Surprisingly simple, yes – but certainly not easy. Whether you’re an employee, an entrepreneur, or a stay-at-home parent, there are always things that pop up and try to pull you away from your most important priorities. Most of us have the luxury of being able to accept that and try to do better tomorrow... but what if you didn’t have that opportunity?

That’s the reality for our guest Steven Gendel, whose son was born prematurely and weighing under two pounds. Over the past 19 years of his life, he has had 50 neurosurgeries and there isn’t a day that goes by without a moment where he almost dies. So today we have a conversation about what it looks like to not only thrive in your career but quit your corporate job to build four businesses, while every single day knowing that one of the people who matter most to you may not actually make it through the day – a situation that forces you to get extreme clarity on your priorities.

In this episode, you will learn...

[6:05] How you can go from living to thriving, even in a dire situation
[9:30] What you need to do so that your businesses can grow even if you have to spend six months in a hospital
[31:50] Why you need to empower the people in your world (and how to do that)

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

One of the things that impress us most about Steven is that he always shows up with a smile on his face – there’s a peace about him, and you have to wonder if it’s because he wakes up every day with true clarity on what matters most.

Based on what you heard today, what can you start doing differently? What are the things you’re doing today that you would stop doing, at the drop of a dime, if something happened to the people who matter most to you? Are any of your so-called priorities, in reality, just distractions?

What’s the ONE thing that you can do that will make everything else easier or unnecessary?

If you want some support in answering those questions, head over to the1thing.com/event to sign up for The ONE Thing Couples Goal Setting Retreat (Nov. 17-18, 2018 in Austin, TX).

Links & Tools From This Episode