Most couples spend plenty of time talking about what needs to happen this week. Far fewer create space to talk about what they want their life to look like years from now. For more than 20 years, Jay and Wendy Papasan have stepped away together for an annual...
Stop Spending The Best Hour of Your Day on Email | Cyril Peupion | Ep. 579
You answer email faster than you did a year ago. The pile is still there tomorrow, now with Slack and WhatsApp too. Your inbox is a battle you can't win, and you're paying for it with your sharpest hours. Cyril Peupion, author of Less Achieves More, has spent 20 years...
Before You Set New Goals, Decide What to Let Go Of
How to simplify your busy life before setting new goals. You raised your hand for a committee years ago, and now it’s just draining time and energy every week. It’s out of alignment - and it’s almost goal-setting season. That work project that seemed like a great idea...
Success Is Boring (and how to show up anyway)
You know the thing you should be doing every day, and most days you find a reason to do it tomorrow. The big goal stays a year or more out. Motivation and willpower are fleeting. The people who show up anyway have figured out their own formula for doing it. Jay...
You’ll Never Get On Top of Everything (And That’s Okay) with Oliver Burkeman
There is no such thing as the perfect productivity system. No matter how optimized your day is, or how many AI agents you have running 24/7, the harsh reality is that you’ll never truly be caught up. And that’s good news. Oliver Burkeman wrote The Guardian's...
Put Down The Business Book. Read Fiction Instead
Look at your bookshelf. Business books, biographies, the ones everyone said you had to read. Now be honest: how many did you finish? Jay Papasan should be the last person making this case. He's spent 30 years in business books - first as an editor at...
The Habit Lab: How to Build Consistency in Business & Life with Kim Zuroff
High achievers aren’t held back because they don’t know what to do. The challenge is always consistency. Habits are so powerful because they are automatic - and in this episode, you’ll learn how to harness the power of habit to help you hit your most elusive goals....
The ONE Thing Isn’t A Productivity Book
Most high performers think they have a productivity problem. They don’t. They have a purpose problem. In this episode, Jay Papasan pulls back the curtain on what The ONE Thing has always been about. Yes, it lives in the productivity section of bookstores. Yes,...
Stop Ghosting Your Goals: How to Stay Committed to Your Future Success
Are you ghosting your goals? By February, most people have already given up on the goals they set in January. But what if the reason you keep ignoring your goals isn’t a lack of discipline, but a lack of relationship? In this episode, Jay Papasan invites you to stop...









