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146. Stimulating Creativity to Achieve Extraordinary Results | Todd Henry Jun 25, 2018

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Are you limiting the possibilities of anyone in your world? We believe that leadership is teaching people how to think so that they can get what they need when they need it – but too often, we limit those around us, especially when it comes to creativity. However, achieving extraordinary results, even if you’re not an artist or don’t consider yourself creative, requires a level of unfettered creativity. Todd Henry, host of The Accidental Creative, joins this episode to share how we can stop putting up these roadblocks and start allowing the people around us to do their most important – and most creative – work.

In this episode, you will learn...

[6:20] How you can support your people’s creativity by helping them protect their time.
[10:00] How you can maintain trust with your team (or, more accurately, avoid losing trust).
[21:20] What you can do to create challenges that stimulate creativity, for yourself and your team.

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

Look at your normal day, look at how you have been investing your time, and ask yourself: Am I currently setting myself up to get my most important work done and create my best work? Based on that, what’s the ONE thing you can do that will make creating extraordinary work easier or unnecessary?

You might come up with a BIG answer. If that’s the case, keep asking yourself the clarifying question – what’s the ONE thing I can do that will make achieving that easier or unnecessary – until you’ve identified a single action, a two-inch domino, that you CAN knock down every day.

Links & Tools From This Episode

Learn more at accidentalcreative.com
Connect with Todd: ToddHenry.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Listen to Geoff on The Accidental Creative: accidentalcreative.com/podcasts/ac/the-one-thing-with-geoff-woods
Want to help us reinvent the planner? Go to the1thing.com/planner.
Create a routine & get more productive at millionaireproductivityhabits.com

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145. How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter | The Multiplier Effect with Liz Wiseman Jun 18, 2018

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What if we told you that, every single day, in spite of your best intentions, you were accidentally diminishing the capabilities of the people in your world? And what if we told you that, instead of putting a ceiling of achievement over other people's’ heads, we can learn to become smarter and multiply their possibilities moving forward? It’s a big concept, but in The ONE Thing, we teach you how to think BIG and go small – so today we want to offer you the small actions you can take to gain momentum.

Our guest is Liz Wiseman, a researcher and executive advisor who teaches leadership to executives around the world. She is the author of New York Times bestseller Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools, and Wall Street Journal bestseller Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work.

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...

[3:10] What it means to be a diminisher or a multiplier (and why you should strive to be a multiplier).
[18:20] What you can do to create challenges for your people that are empowering, without being so big that they are paralyzing.
[36:00] What you can do if your leader is a diminisher.
[44:05] How to shift from a diminisher culture to a multiplier culture in your organization.
[48:55] The ONE thing you can start doing with your time that will allow you to become a multiplier.

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

Where are you, in spite of your best intentions, accidentally causing the people in your world to hold back?

And what’s the ONE thing you can do that will allow you to multiply the talents of the people in your world, where you may currently be diminishing? We’d love if you left us a review sharing whatever you discover about yourself. We always want to learn more about you, and it helps us reach more people to create a bigger impact. Click here to leave a review in iTunes

Links & Tools From This Episode

Learn more at thewisemangroup.com
Connect with Liz: Twitter | LinkedIn
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman
The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools by Liz Wiseman

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144. The Habit that Cost $100MM to Learn and Why It Was Worth It (Part 2) - Keith Cunningham Jun 14, 2018

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In the last episode, Keith Cunningham shared the story of losing $100MM, the lessons he learned, and the habits that allowed him to make that money back in spades. If you haven’t already listened, we highly recommend checking it out (and taking notes). In this episode, we continue that conversation and Keith teaches us why thinking is the most important thing in business, and some of the questions that we need to think about if we want to achieve extraordinary results.

Want to win a FREE signed copy of The Road Less Stupid? You just have to do ONE of two things... Leave a review on your podcast player of choice sharing the ONE thing you’re going to do after listening to this episode (or part 2) OR... Share this episode on social media using the hashtag #theONEthing. We will select our 3 favorites to win a signed copy of The Road Less Stupid and announce the winners on July 9th!

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

Write this question on a piece of paper and think about it: What does your vision of excellence look like? Once you have clarity on that outcome of excellence, begin to design the steps you need to take to make that vision a reality. Remember: Consistent actions done over time produce extraordinary results.

In this episode, you will learn...

[1:40] How you can distinguish a problem from a symptom.
[12:10] The questions you should consider during your thinking time to get clarity on what your obstacle really is.
[17:55] The biggest mistake you can make when trying to develop a thinking time habit.
[26:15] ONE exercise you can do to stop letting perfect get in the way of possible.
[38:35] What stops people from building great businesses (and how you can avoid it).

Links & Tools From This Episode

Learn more at keystothevault.com
Connect with Keith: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
The Road Less Stupid by Keith Cunningham

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143. The Habit that Cost $100MM to Learn and Why It Was Worth It (Part 1) - Keith Cunningham Jun 11, 2018

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Can you imagine a habit so powerful that it was worth investing $100,000,000 to acquire it? Our guest, Keith Cunningham, joins us for a two-part interview because he literally paid that tuition – but he learned a lot from losing $100MM, and built habits that allowed him to make that money back, plus some.

Now Keith is traveling around the world teaching others how they can acquire this ONE habit that will make everything else in their business life easier or unnecessary, and he wrote a book sharing what he learned titled The Road Less Stupid. We’re studying him closely to see what we can learn and apply in our own business, and Geoff is on a 66-day challenge to make this a power habit that sticks.

Want to win a FREE signed copy of The Road Less Stupid? You just have to do ONE of two things... Leave a review on your podcast player of choice sharing the ONE thing you’re going to do after listening to this episode (or part 2) OR... Share this episode on social media using the hashtag #theONEthing We will select our 3 favorites to win a signed copy of The Road Less Stupid and announce the winners on July 9th!

In this episode, you will learn...

[8:00] The ONE habit at the heart of Keith’s success.
[17:15] How making decisions based on your emotions (as opposed to your intellect) can lead you down the wrong path.
[23:35] The 3 questions that will help you mitigate risk and change everything in your business.
[29:55] The key difference between business owners & business operators (and what you can do to shift from being an operator to being an owner).
[32:15] Your key to success, in anything.

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

Keith teaches us that the key to success is having the right people doing the right thing at the right time. You need A players on your team if you want to make an extraordinary impact, and one of the hardest things to do in business is hiring and retaining A players if you’re a C player. So ask yourself: Are you an A player? And if you are not, where are you falling short? Get clarity on your deliverable and your outcomes so that you can measure, test, and ultimately achieve A player status.

Links & Tools From This Episode

Learn more at keystothevault.com
Connect with Keith: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
The Road Less Stupid by Keith Cunningham

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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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142. Shatter Your Ceiling of Achievement and Work The System | Josh Fonger Jun 04, 2018

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Do you feel the ceiling, pressing right above your head? Are you wondering why you aren’t quite breaking through? The only way you shatter that ceiling of achievement is when you identify and start fo follow models and systems that will allow you to from E to P, or from entrepreneurial to purposeful. Gary Keller argues that you’re not a business owner until you can step away from your business, and your net worth goes up.

Josh Fonger has a particular expertise in this: he is co-founders and partners with the author of Work the System, which is all about how you can build these systems into your business.

In this episode, you will learn...

[8:40] What you can ask yourself to gain clarity on your strategic vision.
[15:30] How to relinquish control over things that have to be done by others & build necessary systems.
[25:50] How to create principles as guideposts for living the values of your organization.

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

Can you, at some point over the next seven days, document one process? Pick ONE thing in your business or personal life – even if it’s brushing your teeth – and prove to yourself that you can document what you do, when you do it, why you do it, and the result you get by doing it. If you’d like to see a version of our document and get a jumpstart, go to the1thing.com

Links & Tools From This Episode

Learn more at workthesystem.com
Connect with Josh on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joshfonger
Want to join Jay & Geoff for the very first The ONE Thing Mid-Year Reset Retreat (June 23rd & 24th in Austin, TX)? Head over to the1thing.com/resetretreat.

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Get more support & accountability: Join the Living Your ONE Thing Community Form your first power habit with your 66 Day Challenge Calendar Check out our awesome blog! -- Business news is dense and dry – but it doesn’t have to be that way.
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141. The Family Office: How Multi-Millionaires Think About Wealth Creation | Richard C. Wilson May 28, 2018

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How do you think about creating wealth… or do you even think about it? In this episode, we reveal the mindset required to create a net worth of $20M, $100M, or even more. The people we are talking about today did not inherit their money – they just think differently about wealth creation. To teach us about this mindset, we are talking to Richard C. Wilson, CEO of the Family Office Club Association, the largest community in the industry with offices that manage in excess of $1 Trillion in Assets Under Management.

In this episode, you will learn...

[9:30] The strategic habits that can make your someday vision a reality.
[13:50] How to identify what you should be focusing on learning.
[23:00] What Richard’s clients focus on to create a long-term competitive advantage.
[26:50] Where you should invest your funds.
[32:30] The ONE thing you can do, over time, to make an executive team opportunity easier or unnecessary.

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

The people who achieve extraordinary financial success, in Richard’s experience, didn’t get there through diversification – they got there through focus and planning. They understood what the big, long-term goal was and they made sure their actions, every day, were aligned and in integrity with their vision. Of everything you heard in this episode, what’s the ONE thing you can do to make achieving that lifestyle easier or unnecessary? Think BIG, and then go really small.

Links & Tools From This Episode

Learn more at familyoffices.com
Connect with Richard: Twitter | LinkedIn
Want to join Jay & Geoff for the very first The ONE Thing Mid-Year Reset Retreat (June 23rd & 24th in Austin, TX)? Head over to the1thing.com/resetretreat.

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

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140. Do What Matters Most & Get More Free Time | Jeff Sanders May 21, 2018

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Are you doing the same thing every day, working hard, without actually living your purpose? Sometimes it takes something catastrophic to compel us to do something different, or to take an action that we previously didn’t have the confidence to take.

For Jeff Sanders, host of The 5 AM Miracle Podcast, it took being hospitalized for him to realize that most of the things on his calendar simply didn’t matter. Jeff completely changed the way he manages his time, and the experience prompted him write a book called The Free Time Formula. In this episode, Jeff shares how he schedules his time, how he chooses what to invest his time in, and what you can do to begin taking action today.

In this episode you will learn...

[4:40] How to look at your calendar in an entirely new way.
[7:00] Why you don’t need to (and shouldn’t) fill every time block on your schedule with a task.
[14:10] How you can optimize your time by utilizing your strengths.
[18:00] How to begin auditing your time & identifying the changes you need to make.
[20:40] The ONE thing that makes everything easier or unnecessary, when it comes to acting in order of priority.

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

We urge you to take Jeff’s story as an opportunity to pause and reflect; if you continue to do what you have been doing, every day for five years, what will your life look like? Are you living the life you want to be living? If you want to make a change, first look at the seven circles: your spirituality, physical health, personal life, relationships, jobs, business, and finances. Now choose just one area and ask the focusing question: What is the smallest domino that you CAN knock over that will make everything else easier or unnecessary, in your world?

Keep asking that question until the answer is something so small, so doable, that it almost seems too easy. Think big, but go small – and prove to yourself that you can knock that lead domino down today.

Links & Tools From This Episode

Connect with Jeff: jeffsanders.com | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
Listen: The 5 AM Miracle Podcast
Read: The Free Time Formula

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139. Creating Work Life Counter-Balance Requires Delegation & a Change in Mindset | Dan Quiggle May 14, 2018

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Today, we want to take you on a journey. We host this podcast to show you new ways to live The ONE Thing at a higher level, and one of the ways that we learn best is through story, or through other people’s experiences. Our guest, Dan Quiggle, was well on his way to building a successful business – but the number of hours he worked prevented him from doing the thing that mattered most: being a father who was present for his daughter. While you listen to Dan’s story, assess where you are in your journey: Are you striking the right work-life counterbalance for you? Are you holding onto tasks that are limiting your impact? What does it mean to show up for the people who matter most in your life?

In this episode you will learn...

[2:20] Why work-life balance doesn’t exist.
[6:40] How you can build a business that scales without you.
[10:30] The ONE thing that separates successful people from extraordinary leaders.
[14:05] How you can practice work-life presence.
[19:20] What you can do to transition from work mode to family mode (and vice versa).

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

What was the ONE thing from this episode that resonated most with you? For us, it was when Dan asked, “Who’s getting the worst of you?” Many of us consider being a parent or spouse as the more important role in our lives, but too often, we give so much energy to work that our family gets the worst of us. So what’s the ONE thing you can do to show up as best version of yourself in the role that is most important to you? Continue to ask yourself that question until you narrow it down to one, specific, measurable activity that you CAN do. (You can get your own 66-Day Challenge Calendar at the1thing.com/66daychallenge.)

Links & Tools From This Episode

Download Dan’s free eBook: quigglegroup.com/kitchencabinet
Connect with Dan
We want your feedback! Click here to leave a review in iTunes

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138. Are you Networking or NOT Working? Jordan Harbinger May 07, 2018

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Imagine each of the seven circles of your life – spirituality, physical health, personal life, relationships, your job, your business, and your finances – is a ball, and you are juggling them. What happens if you drop the relationship ball? If you drop that ball, it breaks. We find that people often spend so much time focusing on their job, business, and finances that they, ultimately, end up neglecting their relationships, spirituality, health, and personal life.

Jordan Harbinger, titular host of The Jordan Harbinger Show, has been on a decades-long journey learning how to form powerful relationships and network in a way that brings results – as opposed to what a lot of us do, which is NOT working. In this episode, Jordan is going to share how you can really distinguish yourself and form relationships that matter.

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

What is the ONE thing from this episode that will make everything else easier or unnecessary, when it comes to your relationships? We really resonated with the idea that you need to stand out – you just have to be a little bit different. And this doesn’t even have to be a big thing! When everyone else is just clicking Like on Facebook, are you willing to actually send a text? And if you aren’t willing to do those things… are the quality of your relationships reflect of what you’re putting in? Remember: build the well before you need to use it; bring value to other people FIRST, not expecting anything in return.

In this episode you will learn...

[9:00] The 20% work that leads to 80% of results, when it comes to forming the right relationships.
[16:05] How you can become the type of person who brings value to others.
[19:05] Why only focusing on your particular skill set, or on what you already know, is hugely limiting.
[27:00] What you need to know about making an ask.
[31:50] The ONE thing that most people currently aren’t doing that can completely change everything.
[36:00] The most important people you should be connecting with.
[40:00] How you can leverage “The Benjamin Franklin Effect.”

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

Links & Tools From This Episode

Listen to The Jordan Harbinger Show
Connect with Jordan: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
Contactually - CRM and Contact Management Software
We want your feedback! Click here to leave a review on iTunes

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137. Don't Sacrifice Your Family For Your Business | John Lamerton Apr 30, 2018

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Have you ever sacrificed your family time, your health, or your spiritual life, for your career? Today you’re going to hear about someone who fell into that trap: John Lamerton thought that getting everything he wanted required adding more things into his world, and as a result he ended up working 100 hours a week and sacrificing time with his family – until he got a massive wake-up call in the form of a newborn son. You’re going to discover what led to John’s mindset shift, and how subtracting, simplifying, and focusing allowed him to go from working 100-hour weeks to 25-hour weeks – all while making more money, experiencing less stress, and spending more time with his family.

The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:

Our biggest takeaway from this episode is doing less – not more. Sometimes, the things you like doing, and even the things that make you feel productive (or maybe just busy), aren’t the things that are going to make you effective – and they detract from the ONE thing that actually matters most. What can you do, today, to get more clarity on the things that you’re currently saying yes to that you should consider saying no to? And are you willing to block out time on your calendar to figure it out – possibly even saying NO to something less important in the process?

In this episode you will learn...

[7:10] How you can cut hours from your work week (while getting more done).
[13:00] How you can start intentionally choosing power habits and stop accidentally falling into habits.
[22:15] ONE thing you can do every day to reshape the story you tell yourself about your identity.

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!

Links & Tools From This Episode

Big Ideas... For Small Businesses: Simple, Practical Tools and Tactics to Help Your Small Business Grow by John Lamerton
Connect with John: Facebook | LinkedIn

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