EP42: Defining Your ONE Thing to Transform Your Daily Productivity, with Jay Papasan
Imagine how much more you could achieve if you were focused on completing the ‘One Thing’ that was going to move you towards achieving your goals each and every day?
Jay Papasan is a creative executive leading the best-selling publishing team at Keller Williams Realty, Inc and In 2014, he was named one of the Most Powerful People in Real Estate by Swanepoel Power 200.
In 2003, with the release of The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, co-authored by Gary Keller and Dave Jenks, Papasan became a best-selling author when the book spent time on BusinessWeek’s best-seller list. In 2005, they co-authored their second bestseller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor.
Jay’s most notable published work came in 2013, when he co-authored one of the leading personal productivity books in the world; The ONE Thing with Gary Keller, which has sold over 1.3 million copies since its release in 2013. The ONE Thing has been translated into 31 languages and has more than 425 national bestseller list appearances, including #1 on the Wall Street Journal.
In this interview, Jay and I discuss his relationship with Gary Keller as not only his co-author, but also his boss and mentor. We then move into discussing the methodology behind ‘The One Thing’ and answering the question; ‘What’s the one thing that I can do, such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary?’
Jay shares some wonderful insights into business success, mindset and productivity throughout this conversation, so get your notebooks ready!
Daily Discipline
Checking in with my annual, monthly and daily goals and making sure they are aligned with my calendar.
Rejection Recall
It’s always revolved around people
Enter The Mentor
Gary Keller – Keller Williams Realty
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IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN
The story behind Jay having to go and interview 120 net worth millionaires
Why setting a goal to be a millionaire with his wife was the turning point in his life
The fascinating truth behind the writing of ‘The One Thing’ and why the process took them five years
The thing that will drive your business forward is down to one thing: lead generation and sales
Research has shown that it takes 66 days to form a habit
That it’s not so important ‘what’ you do, it’s important ‘that’ you do
Why entrepreneurship isn’t for everybody and sometimes you just have to get out there and give it a go in order to find out
Why anyone looking to make the jump from employee to entrepreneur should have at least 3-6 months savings in the bank to ride out the bumps along the way
Why you should always look to find a niche where you at least have a chance of becoming the Number One
Jay’s fantastic advice for how to engage with a mentor and earn the right to their time
QUOTES
‘Of all the things that you could do, there’s only real a handful that we should be doing’-Jay Papasan
‘A lot of things masquerade as priorities, but they’re often just things that other people have told you what to do – especially as an entrepreneur’-Jay Papasan
‘Everything in life, the minority of what we do get’s us the majority of the results, it’s Pareto’s Law’-Jay Papasan
‘What’s the one thing that I can do, such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary?’-Jay Papasan
‘Willpower is the mental energy to say ‘yes’ to what you need to do and ‘no’ to everything else. And guess what, that’s absolutely strongest in the morning.’-Jay Papasan
‘If you can focus on bringing value [to your customers] you have the best chance of success’-Jay Papasan
‘What’s good about fear is that it tells us that it matters to us. We’re not afraid of things that don’t matter’-Jay Papasan
GUEST DETAILS
Jay Papasan LinkedIn Profile -https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaypapasan/
The One Thing – Jay Papasan -https://www.the1thing.com/authors/jay-papasan/
Jay Papasan Twitter- https://twitter.com/jaypapasan
LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
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The Millionaire Real Estate Agent [Book]- https://amzn.to/2qAn7Ey
Gary Keller & Jay Papasan ‘Shift’ [Book]- https://amzn.to/2IXTG7f
Give & Take – Adam Grant [Book]-https://amzn.to/2EMT4il
Listen & Download the Audio version: https://www.etrr.online/jaypapasanpodcast