The ONE Thing

Do you believe that hustling and working long hours will eventually make you successful? Gary Keller says that if you work long enough, you can muscle your way to a result… but you end up cheating yourself out of an extraordinary life. In this episode, we’re going to talk about how you can begin to make shifts so that you work a set number of hours, and then you actually live a life outside of you...

Do you ever feel like you're working hard... but not getting the results that you deserve? So many of us feel isolated by this feeling, but you are NOT alone. We are sharing a conversation we had with one of you, Lizzie Grant, to demonstrate how common this feeling is. We failed Lizzie, but we called her because we always want to learn from our failures. We never intended for this conversation to...

A lot of people have read The ONE Thing and listen to the podcast every week, but they still struggle to take action. If that sounds like you, you're not alone. In this episode, Demir & Carey Bentley share the reason that most of us struggle to take action and teach you how to shorten the gap between gaining knowledge and taking action You can over to LifeHackBootcamp.com/onething to download the...

No one succeeds alone. Most of us understand that recruiting top talent into our world is the ONE thing we can do to grow our businesses... but no one ever trained us how to do it. That's why we're sharing this conversation with recruiting expert Matt Schwartz, President of MJS Executive Search. We discuss why hiring transformational talent is the key to focusing on your ONE thing, and how you can...

Society has set you up to waste your time. We believe in offering support so you can get the clarity and control of your time necessary to live the extraordinary life you deserve. That's why we're releasing this bonus module from the Time Blocking Mastery course, which we created to provide practical examples for people who are serious about forming power habits that stick.  The ONE Thing to Imple...

We know that the world dealt many of you challenging hands, and we want you to know that you're not alone. There's hope on the other side if you choose to seek it. The low points in life can feel overwhelming, but those challenges are often where the growth is. In this episode, we share a story about how overcoming adversity helped Whitney Baker – another fan living The ONE Thing and an online ent...

How much would you pay to learn what Gary Keller has to teach about building wealth? Today, you don't have to pay anything. Gary Keller recently spent two hours teaching people about what it means to build wealth, and we're going to share the biggest takeaways so you can get value from it too.   The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode: These lessons have the capacity to dramatically change th...

Do you know what your values are? Dina Dwyer-Owens is a successful author and Co-Chair of The Dwyer Group, an organization that unites franchises such as Mr. Rooter, Molly Maid, and Mr. Electric under one Neighborly brand. Dwyer Group has been around for 36 years and, in just the last three years, grown over 100%. At the heart of their success is a Code of Values and a system that ensures these va...

Many of the members of our Living Your ONE Thing community have asked the same question: How do I discover my purpose? So many people asked us that we decided to sit down with Brian Schoenbaum, Founder & CEO of Vuka Collective, to create an exclusive training video for the ONE thing community. We talked to Brian because he operates on another level and a single purpose drives everything he does: h...

Do you believe that thinking big and acting small, every day, will create extraordinary results? We've found that many people who try to live The ONE Thing don't trust The Domino Effect. We can cast a big vision for our life, but we often struggle to take daily action. This episode is a case study examining how, over four years, someone like you identified a specific daily action that made everyth...

Many of you have reached out to tell us that you read The ONE Thing and you love the book... but you struggle to live the book. If this is you, it's okay – take yourself off the hook. We all start at the beginning of the journey. This episode will walk you through the four phases of the journey that we see people going through on the road to mastering their own time and help you identify the way f...

Are you taking daily action that contributes to your legacy? Today's guest, Lee Cockerell, is the former Executive Vice President of Operations for Walt Disney World Resorts. As a senior operating executive, he led a team of more than 40,000 cast members and left a legacy that includes the Disney Great Leaders Strategies, which has been used to train more than 7,000 leaders. In this episode, Lee s...

If you aren't building a database - if you aren't building a community to engage with your customers - your business is vulnerable. Our guest, Josh Dorkin, is Founder and CEO of BiggerPockets, the leading real estate investing community and media company. They help more than 750,000 members focus on networking, dealmaking, and education by fostering an active community, publishing books, and recor...

We engage with fans like you because we know the transformational power of support and accountability. We want you to see that we are practice leaders – when we teach you something, we take action on it. Thank you for supporting us with your time so that we can continue to offer more value every week. That’s why we’re talking to Manny Torres, a fan like you, about how time blocking, daily action,...

Today we're answering questions asked by people just like you: fans of The ONE Thing who are trying to follow the road to mastery one step at a time. We understand that it's a long journey, and even we stumble sometimes. That's why we're sharing this keynote designed to help you wake up, every day, with the intention of getting just a little bit better at your ONE thing.   The ONE Thing to Impleme...

Are you spending too much time working in pursuit of freedom? We can't work more hours in the day and have a more flexible lifestyle – something else has to change. Today's guest, Gene Rivers, understands how anyone can achieve the work-life balance they deserve. He and his wife run nine successful businesses while still finding time to vacation four months out of the year and devote time to their...

We've heard a lot of you reach out and ask a simple question: How do I find a mentor? Most of us realize that we can live a richer life by upgrading the five people we spend the most time with, but first, we need guidance from people who have already achieved what we want to achieve. We were honored to have Geoff Woods featured on the Access to Anyone podcast with Michael Schein & Michael Roderick...

Do you ever feel like you work so hard and so long that you don't have time for your health, family, or spiritual practice?  You know that this pace will lead to burnout... but saying no and putting yourself before anything else can feel like a huge challenge.  Tammy Duncan, like many of us, struggles with being a workaholic every day. In this episode, we teach workaholics to say no, put themselve...

What would happen if, at the stroke of midnight, your financial resources completely went away? If you don't like the answer, you need work on creating passive income. Today's guest, Linda McKissack, is the Queen of Passive Income. She will help you understand more about building wealth that isn't dependent on your day job, your time, or the economy.   The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode:...

Many of you have read The ONE Thing... but have you ever given yourself permission to take a step back and consider what it means to live the book?  Today's guest, Matt Johnson, understands the power of taking action after reading The ONE Thing. He picked up a copy of the book in an airport and, ultimately, used it to bring more purpose, priority, and time into his business.  We originally recorde...

Do you struggle to control your time? Today's guest, Craig Ballantyne, is an expert on the habits and routines that successful people use to accomplish their top priorities and stop wasting time.   He is on the show to reveal the BIG mistake that most people are making in their morning routine and share how you can avoid it with just three simple steps.   The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episo...

Are you struggling to upgrade your five?  A lot of us understand why we need to upgrade our five, but we don't understand how. Today we're talking to one of you, Jeff Nigh, about the consistent daily actions that make every other part of upgrading your five easier or unnecessary.   The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode: If you want to upgrade your five and you don't know how, this is a grea...

Do you ever feel like you can't find the right balance between work, family, and yourself? You're not alone. There's so much that we need to do in a day and, when we try to narrow our focus to one thing, we can feel guilty about neglecting something else. Sophie Kendall, a mother of two and a health and fitness coach, is all too familiar with this guilt... but she learned how to gain control of he...

Do you want more grit?  Today's guest, Angela Duckworth, is a world-renowned psychologist and author of the New York Times Bestseller GRIT: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. She has advised the White House, The World Bank, NFL teams, Fortune 500 CEOs... and now she's going to help YOU get grittier, cast a focused vision, and understand the psychology of high achievers. We recorded this conver...

Is stress hurting your performance at work or home? We all deal with stressful situations, but high achievers understand how to get beyond them and avoid getting burnt out. In the last episode, we met Dana Cavalea, who was the Director of Strength and Conditioning for the New York Yankees when they won the 2009 World Series. Today he will share how professional athletes and high achievers use simp...