{"id":3772,"date":"2020-04-20T06:37:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloomsoup.com\/?page_id=3772"},"modified":"2021-09-19T15:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T15:51:22","slug":"the-one-thing-gary-keller-jay-papasan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloomsoup.com\/the-one-thing-gary-keller-jay-papasan\/","title":{"rendered":"The One Thing Summary (Gary Keller & Jay Papasan)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Want extraordinary results in every area of your life?

More productivity<\/a>, time<\/a>, success and satisfaction?

The One Thing summary, based on the bestselling book by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan<\/a> is a good place to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What\u2019s the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a fundamental question to ask ourselves.

Many of us lead lives of distractions and disarray, making it impossible to achieve our goals.

Gary Keller, founder of one of the world’s most successful real estate companies, argues that successful people go small.

Extraordinary focus on the one thing we must do each day drives extraordinary success.

The whole book is formed around this guiding principle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The domino effect<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Decide the most important goal in your life long term…

Then you can set up the dominoes needed to achieve it.

Dominoes can start small but a single domino can bring down another domino that\u2019s 50% bigger.

Focussing on the next domino is essential. Success is built one domino at a time, sequentially, not simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Success myths<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Everything is created equal<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Equality is an ideal, but not applicable to our daily to-do’s.

Some things on our list are more essential than others and deliver bigger and better results.

We should focus on these. Instead of a to-do list, reframe it as a success list.

Using the Pareto Principle<\/a> is helpful, a law of nature which states that 20% of inputs deliver 80% of outputs.

What are the 20% of items on our list that will deliver 80% of the results?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Achieving more with multitasking<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Multitasking is ineffective and inefficient.

Task switching is attention-draining and energy-consuming.

Dividing our resources between multiple tasks means we don’t make sufficient progress in any one thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can do two things at once, but you can\u2019t focus effectively on two things at once.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All we need is discipline<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This might shatter your traditional concepts of success.

Keller argues that discipline is a verb, not a noun. It’s something we do, not something we have.

Discipline is a habit<\/a>, where correct behaviours become almost automatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can rely on our willpower<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If we’re struggling with our discipline we can’t rely on willpower.

It’s a finite resource.

When it’s gone, we revert to default, easy behaviours, such as eating crappy food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willpower is drained in many ways, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n