How to Find Your ONE Thing: Advice from Bestselling Author Jay Papasan
Jay Papasan is the bestselling author of multiple books including The ONE Thing, which he co-authored with Gary Keller.
Jay Papasan is the bestselling author of multiple books including The ONE Thing, which he co-authored with Gary Keller.
Fear is something that we all deal with both inside and outside of work. What is fear stopping you from doing today?
What’s the key to continually improving yourself and finding success?
Self-awareness.
After all, you can’t improve if you don’t know where you need to improve.
Each year I try to set out a few business and personal goes for myself but I don’t really share them with people. So this year when I put my goals together I shared them with my entire team of ten people.
If the last year has taught us anything, it’s that we can’t stay stagnant. We always have to be improving and elevating ourselves.
The world around us is changing at a breakneck pace, and we have to be continually improving to be the best versions of ourselves and keep up with it.
Laurent Therivel is the CEO of UScellular, the fourth largest wireless carrier in the United States with 5,000 employees across 23 states. Previously he spent 12 years at AT&T where he most recently served as CEO of AT&T Mexico leading 18,000 people.
Becoming the CEO of a company during a pandemic comes with a unique set of problems. A role that usually requires a lot of face to face interaction with employees, customers, and vendors has been mostly limited to phone calls and online meetings.
I’m super busy…like ultra super crazy busy!
I have kids to take care of, a business to turn, clients to work with, a wife to keep happy, dogs that need to be walked, a team of people I need to lead, plus there’s looking after the house, helping with meals, bed times, etc.
I’M TOO BUSY TO DO ANYTHING ELSE!!!!
What does a typical day look like for you?
It’s a question I’ve asked of hundreds of CEOs and top business leaders around the world. They almost always tell me the same thing: they don’t have a typical day. Every day is different. The most successful business leaders surround themselves with a diverse group of people, they are a part of a variety of projects, they attend different meetings, speak with customers and employees, and they make sure that they aren’t doing the same thing and seeing the same people every single day.
Motivation is key to your success at work. Your boss can try to motivate you, but in most cases, you can’t rely on anyone else and have to find your own internal motivation. No matter if you work in an office or remotely for yourself, everyone needs help from time to time finding motivation to push through and be productive.
My guest this week is Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Hooked and the new book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. He has been studying and writing about behavior design and habit formation for many years.