The ONE Thing

No one succeeds alone — yet, most people try to. One of the biggest mistakes we see people making is that they set goals by themselves, and then they struggle throughout the year because the people who are in their life — the people who have to buy into their goals if they want to accomplish them — aren’t on the same page. That’s why we created The ONE Thing Couple’s Goal-Setting Retreat, modeling...

When you set your goals, are you doing it by yourself or with your significant other? When we’re not aligned with the people who are most important to us, the people who have a significant stake in our lives, we’re eliminating one of the most powerful support systems we have — and putting obstacles in the path of our goals. So how can we get them on board with the goal-setting process, even if the...

What were you taught about setting goals as a kid? If we’re taught anything, we’re usually taught to set goals around New Year’s. But now, as we head into the last quarter of the year, is actually the perfect time to start considering our goals for the upcoming year. Gary Keller and Jay Papasan show us that, if you want to have great success, you have to have a bigger view of time — and you have t...

Where are you on the journey of TIME? We start by treading to keep our heads above water. Then we start implementing some of the systems, followed by eventually mastering those systems. And towards the end of the journey, eventually, we will all want to turn around to empower others — especially our family. Today, we are going to meet a couple, Brock and Angie Nyborg, who were introduced to The ON...

The ONE Thing is about the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results — but anyone who has tried knows that simple doesn’t mean easy. Life throws us curveballs. We lose clarity on what The ONE Thing is. We struggle to protect our time blocks when life happens. We are taking on more and looking for higher levels of achievement, but the models and systems we have in place are being stres...

Do you feel overwhelmed? We live in a fast-paced world with a lot of expectations, and as a result, it’s easy to fall into the trap of overwhelm — and as we all know, it’s extremely easy to fall off the wagon and stop living the principles of The ONE Thing when life happens. But our guest, Tiffany Cavegn, shows us that you can keep living Your ONE Thing even when everything is falling apart around...

Are you on the road to mastery? It doesn’t matter what we endeavor to master – but if we want to live a life with extraordinary results, we have to master something. So, in this episode, we will share what walking this path looks like in our lives and offer you some practical advice that you use to begin walking your own path to mastery. If you want more support and accountability on your road to...

Have you ever found that the principles we discuss in this show and in the book sound easy – but then, in practice, end up being really difficult to make a consistent part of your life? We get it, and we know that stumbling along the journey to living Your ONE Thing can feel isolating. That’s why our #1 priority this year has been nurturing the Living Your ONE Thing community that supports people...

What does it mean to have accountability in your life? Because there are different levels of accountability. We can hold ourselves accountable by using tools like a 411, 66-Day Challenge, or The ONE Thing Planner. We can bring accountability into our world by recruiting an accountability partner. Then, when we want the highest level of accountability possible, we have to look to an expert – to a c...

Does your organization have a culture of accountability? In the last episode, Abe Shreve taught us that one of the critical mistakes that many businesses make is not creating a culture of accountability. It is a necessary part of sustainable business growth, but as many of us have experienced, it’s not an easy thing to do. So, today, Gene Rivers is going to teach us how he created a culture of acc...

Are you accountable – to yourself and other people? We all want accountability in our lives, in one way or another, but developing habits around accountability and then building a culture of accountability within an organization are both a lot harder to do than they sound. So we invited a couple of our favorite accountability experts to join us for a three-part series that will help you bring more...

200 episodes is a major milestone for us, in no small part because of the tremendous support and feedback we’ve received from all of you.  To show our appreciation, we huddled together to figure out the ONE thing we could do to provide the most value to you in this episode. So, today, your co-hosts Geoff Woods and Kaelyn Loes are going to dissect the different mindsets that we adopt after we achie...

Imagine you are on an airplane and, along the way, it starts to deviate just a few degrees off course – if the plane does not correct course over the length of that flight, do you think you’ll end up in the right destination? Probably not, and who knows where we would end up! But this is the way that most people live their lives – they wake up, take action, and move forward, but they’re not always...

Do you have a habit of taking time to ask yourself big questions? In the last episode, we learned about how Keith Cunningham lost $100MM dollars – and why it was worth it because he developed this habit of thinking time. Really, we could all benefit from blocking off time in our calendars to purposefully sit down with great questions that truly evaluate how we’re showing up in the world and help u...

Do you know what it’s like to be so busy taking action that it feels like you don’t have time to slow down and create a plan? We all feel this way sometimes. It’s become the norm in society – we wake up, we check email, we show up to work, we check email, we go to meetings, other people need our help so we stop to help them, and on and on. We race through the day feeling like we are so busy and th...

This show is often very inspiring, motivational, and simple, but life isn’t always that way – and sometimes things happen that rock you to our core.  The grief that we feel as a result can be debilitating, causing us to feel stuck and hopeless. But that isn’t really the case. We all have the power to overcome any obstacle, even when life throws us unfair and unexpected curveballs. Our guest, Casey...

Do you ever feel guilty because you’re not perfectly prioritizing Your ONE Thing, or because you’re not as successful as you’d like to be? We have to remember that living The ONE Thing isn’t about being perfect – and we don’t need to apologize if we stumble a little on the journey! We can give ourselves some grace. Today’s guest, Rachel Hollis, is the bestselling author of Girl, Wash Your Face and...

What does it actually mean to live The ONE Thing? Sometimes we have an idea of what we think it means to live The ONE Thing at the highest level. We start to take action, but things aren’t quite as easy as we thought they would be. So, today, we are going to demystify what it means to live The ONE Thing. Our guest has been living The ONE Thing at a pretty high level for over a year. She was a litt...

Around this time of year, things can start to get a little crazy. We all start the year with certain goals, but life often throws us these curveballs that we don’t see coming – and, before we know it, we’re struggling to find clarity and dealing with overwhelm. But, in the midst of all of that, there’s ONE thing we can do that will make everything else easier or unnecessary. In this episode, Jay P...

When you think of the word “struggle,” what comes to mind? Many of us think of struggle as something negative, and it’s not a great feeling when you’re going through adversity, but we think today’s guest is going to change your mind about that. Bobby Herrera teaches us that inside of struggle is a gift – a gift that can truly change the way that we lead. Fair warning: this episode will probably pu...

How is your health right now? For many of us, The ONE Thing is our health – or it should be. We get so busy and stuck in the day-to-day that we often neglect healthy choices and, instead, opt for convenience. Or we just feel so busy that making a healthy meal or going to the gym just feels impossible. Today, we want to introduce you to someone who has spent the last few years making health Her ONE...

Everything you want in your career comes down to ONE thing – the relationships that you have. So when we neglect our relationships, we are limiting our own ability to accomplish our goals and live extraordinary lives. But you don’t have to settle for anything less than extraordinary, and as an extra bonus, cultivating great relationships will just make your personal and business life that much bet...

How do you bring change into an organization? The truth is, we don’t have to be in the C-suite of our organizations to spark change, or to even be a leader within our organization – because all leadership begins with self-leadership. So, when it comes to bringing The ONE Thing into an organization, it all begins with ONE person. In this episode, Geoff Woods and Jay Papasan share how leaders can be...

It’s relatively easy for an individual to start practicing The ONE Thing in their daily lives... but how do you scale The ONE Thing throughout an organization? Behind the scenes, we’ve been asking ourselves this question, and we’ve been working hard to come up with an answer that will help all teams, from a local real estate office all the way up to a Fortune 50 company, make living The ONE Thing...

Have you taken any time to be grateful today? When we think about forming power habits, we often think about doing something that will improve our productivity or health. We rarely consider the transformative power of mindset habits, and one of the most powerful habits is gratitude. That may seem like an easy or trivial thing, but in practice, embodying a state of gratitude every day is both surpr...