When you start living The ONE Thing, you begin to understand that not everything matters equally. You get clarity on what matters most. You begin doing the most important things first and, then, you earn the right to address everything else. When you do that, results show up and they show up fast. And, as that happens, your life gets bigger.

What people don’t understand is that as your life gets bigger, the number of big rocks in your way increases. And what happens when you get to the point where there are more rocks than you have time for? That’s when you need to address the scale. This moment can be a real challenge for people.

How do we change our outlook towards doing the most important things? And stop assuming that just because it’s important, something has to be hard? Let’s ask a different question: “How can I make it easier to do what matters most?” Greg McKeown, author of “Essentialism” and the brand new book, “Effortless,” answers just that. After tragedy struck his daughter, he wiped the plate clean, took an extremely difficult situation, and found a way to make managing it effortless.

As you journey on, living The ONE Thing, there are specific steps you take: from treading, to implementing, to mastering, to empowering.

Treading is when you’re just trying to keep your head above water. Everything is moving so fast and you’re trying so hard, but it’s just not sustainable. Then you discover the principles of The ONE Thing and you start to implement them. Once you start to experience the benefits they bring, you have to make the decision to commit to mastery. And once you take that path, you really start to pick up momentum and realize that the highest level of success is not your own, but in your ability to empower others.

Elizabeth Curry has gone on this journey. Starting as a working mother and wife and a small business owner, she was treading. Then she discovered The ONE Thing and she implemented a few simple things that had a massive impact on her life. Eventually, she hit the tipping point and committed to mastering The ONE Thing, and now she works within the organization, empowering people on a massive scale.

Have you ever reached the end of a really busy day, only to look up and question what you actually got done?

We’ve all been there. It’s a sign that you’ve been spending your time with no expectation of a return. Start investing your time: treat it as the valuable resource that it is and invest it in ways that will yield something you can measure, both personally and professionally. Most people bounce through their day, reacting to emails, meetings, and coworkers’ obligations, but there is a better way.

It’s called time blocking: scheduling time with yourself to do whatever you deem to be most important. But even if you know what that is, it can be hard to stick to your plans. We’re going to take a peek behind the curtain of the Living Your ONE Thing Community, where thousands of people around the globe find clarity, build power habits that stick, and learn to time block so that their calendars reflect their priorities. Listen in on this workshop and treat it as if you were there, yourself. You’ll learn specific, tactical things you can do to better protect your time.

Something we all struggle with is finding the right balance between thriving professionally and thriving personally.

It’s easy to focus on the professional side of things—your job, business, finances—and lose sight of your personal priorities. The problem is your professional priorities are easy to pick up once you drop them, but if you’re not careful, your personal priorities can be damaged forever. How do we manage to be purposeful in both areas of life?

Craig Kessler is the COO of Topgolf, a husband, and father of three boys. He wants to continue thriving professionally, but he’s identified that what matters most to him is the personal side of life. Instead of acting like an entrepreneur and trying to figure things out, he leveraged his powerful network to ask people who seemed to have it all. He took the advice of everyone he reached out to and created “The Dad Advice Project.” Whether you’re a mother or father, this book is full of simple things you can do to invest in the relationships that matter to you most.

We are 300 episodes into the journey of living The ONE Thing. 

While The ONE Thing is the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results, it’s not necessarily easy, so this podcast exists as a simple way to let people share their The ONE Thing stories to inspire you and everyone else to try it for themselves..

Over 300 episodes, what are the best lessons we have learned? We’re interested in the 20% of what we’ve taught that has provided 80% of the results for you. We’re going to summarize it all in the hopes of creating clarity on the path to achieving extraordinary results.

As you go on your journey of living The ONE Thing, ultimately, you are going to be confronted with tough decisions to make with regard to what you want and how to get it.

This is the challenge of life. You wake up every day and there are all of these things we could know, have, or do. We have to make choices about what we want and how we go about getting it — even when those choices are difficult. It is so, so important. So, how do you get comfortable choosing the difficult, so that you can go on to achieve extraordinary results?

This is an introduction to a brand new podcast from MAPS Business Training & Coaching called, “Choose Difficult,” which shares stories of extraordinary individuals who have chosen the difficult path and changed the world.