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Today’s Big Idea

Managing finances essentially comes down to just two things: The amount of money you are bringing in and the amount of money you are spending.

What is The ONE Thing Workshop

My name is Josh Friberg. I am a lifelong trainer. I am a certified trainer of The ONE Thing Workshop, built off the best-seller by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. Who is this for? The entrepreneur, business owner, or leader looking for greater productivity, lower stress, and how to balance well in your professional and personal life. We are going to go deep into making your life amazing, not by doing more, but by doing less.

Three suggestions:

Have a written budget and review it.

Keep a spending journal. Write down everything that you spend.

Calculate your net worth.

Give: don’t let your money own you.

Today’s episode is the final segment in a series examining how you can apply the focusing question to key areas of your life represented by 7 circles: Spiritual life, Physical health. Personal life, Key relationships, Job, Business and Finances. Series begins at episode 46. Visit the website to download the 7 circles worksheet.

Excellent resource on the psychological and spiritual aspects of money: Thou Shalt Prosper: 10 Commandments for Making Money by Daniel Lapin

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Today’s Big Idea: The purpose of business is not just to make a profit, but to allow people to flourish. Building a business means doing something that increases the ability for others to be involved in your world. Apply these principles to your business or other areas where you have an opportunity to lead and help people grow.

What is The ONE Thing Workshop: My name is Josh Friberg. I am a lifelong trainer. I am a certified trainer of The ONE Thing Workshop, built off the best-seller by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. Who is this for? The entrepreneur, business owner, or leader looking for greater productivity, lower stress, and how to balance well in your professional and personal life. We are going to go deep into making your life amazing, not by doing more, but by doing less.

Three suggestions:

• Define your company’s value proposition: What is it that you do that makes the world a better place?

• Articulate your company’s vision: Build a great vision to get great people and communicate it well.

• Develop and commit to a thorough hiring and training process: Don’t hire off your gut.

When you truly understand how your business makes people’s lives better, then it’s easy to sell your services.

Are you casting a big enough vision? View employee’s as an investment rather than an expense. If you hear your employees repeating your vision back to you, that’s success.

Be willing to let your business grow big enough so that other people can fit their vision into it.  Don’t focus on your comfort, focus on providing opportunity for others.

Hiring quality people and leading them well will cause incremental growth.

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Today’s Big Idea:

How to maintain your focus and reach your goals in a whirlwind of competing priorities.

What is The ONE Thing Workshop

My name is Josh Friberg. I am a lifelong trainer. I am a certified trainer of The ONE Thing Workshop, built off the best-seller by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. Who is this for? The entrepreneur, business owner, or leader looking for greater productivity, lower stress, and how to balance well in your professional and personal life. We are going to go deep into making your life amazing, not by doing more, but by doing less.

Three steps to achieve your goals:

1. Write them down: You more likely to succeed just by writing down your goals.
2. Time Blocking: Once you have a goal, set aside time to work on it and protect it.
3. Coaching and Accountability: A good coach asks good questions, forces you to face reality and find solutions.

Try to distinguish between your job (what you do)  and your business (what we do).

Format for Goal setting GPS: Goals, Priorities, Strategies.

Dr. Gail Matthews, research on goal setting and achievement.

You are 40% more likely to succeed just by writing down your goals.

You are 76.7% more likely to achieve your goals if you just have to send progress reports weekly.

Smarter, Better, Faster book by Charles Duhigg

Use both stretch goals (vision) and smart goals (attainable).

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Today’s Big Idea:

Most people want better relationships and yet we often don’t know how to get there. Four practical steps to building better relationships.

What is The ONE Thing Workshop

My name is Josh Friberg. I am a lifelong trainer. I am a certified trainer of The ONE Thing Workshop, built off the best-seller by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. Who is this for? The entrepreneur, business owner, or leader looking for greater productivity, lower stress, and how to balance well in your professional and personal life. We are going to go deep into making your life amazing, not by doing more, but by doing less.

Steps to improve your key relationships:

1. Time - good relationships take time. Spend time with the key people in your life. 2. Communication - be intentional about communicating with the key people in your life. 3. Know about people: use social media to your advantage to move beyond small-talk. 4. Bring something to the relationship: don’t be a taker only.

Who you are in your personal life affects your professional life. Your skill set in your job will only grow as much as you grow in your personal life.

Adam Grant’s book, “Give and Take” finds that strategic givers are more successful and happy than people who just match, and much more than people who only take.

Today, do one thing to strengthen a relationship. If you don’t know where to start, just write one hand-written note to someone who would appreciate it. It’s so simple, but is one of the most powerful tools in building relationships.

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Today’s Big Idea:

What’s the one thing I can do for my personal life? It might be time to get a hobby.

What is The ONE Thing Workshop

My name is Josh Friberg. I am a lifelong trainer. I am a certified trainer of The ONE Thing Workshop, built off the best-seller by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. Who is this for? The entrepreneur, business owner, or leader looking for greater productivity, lower stress, and how to balance well in your professional and personal life. We are going to go deep into making your life amazing, not by doing more, but by doing less.

Some suggestions on how to “re-create” your personal life through recreation and rest.

1. Engage in a hobby or leisure activity that honors your personality.

2. Respect and engage in the rest/work cycle.

3. Engage in reading.

If you aren’t healthy, you’re going to have a hard time getting others healthy.

Find a hobby or leisure activity that fills you up, gives you energy and takes your mind off the constant push of productivity.

Recognize and honor the rest/work cycle that has endured for generations. We’ve really lost track of the rest/work cycle. Cultivate habits of daily, weekly, and seasonal rest. Take a step back, in order to take ten steps forward.

Recognize your personality in how you spend your leisure time. Look at where you get your energy. Do you get it from being alone or from being with people? Do you process internally or externally? It’s important to be intentional about how you spend your leisure time.

Wealthy and successful people are often asked what superpower they would like to have. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet both said they wish they could read and comprehend faster. When we read a lot, we learn through the experience of others. Reading is such a valuable tool for plotting our own experience against the experience of others.

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Today’s Big Idea: Your physical well-being affects every other area of your life? What’s the one thing you can do to improve your physical health?

What is The ONE Thing Workshop My name is Josh Friberg. I am a lifelong trainer. I am a certified trainer of The ONE Thing Workshop, built off the best-seller by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. Who is this for? The entrepreneur, business owner, or leader looking for greater productivity, lower stress, and how to balance well in your professional and personal life. We are going to go deep into making your life amazing, not by doing more, but by doing less.

Most people agree that eating right and exercising are important to physical health, but actually, getting enough sleep is the first step in getting your body healthy. Lack of sleep causes impaired performance, higher rates of illness, injury and overeating.

How to get adequate, quality sleep: 1. Go to bed at the same time every night. 2. Give yourself 7-9 hours. 3. Don’t sleep in.

“Anything worth doing, is worth doing poorly at first” - Joel Salatin. Keep going after it. Don’t let failure derail you.

Eating: Have the right food on hand. When we are hungry our willpower is the lowest. Eliminate the choice to eat something bad at home.

Exercise: Don’t try to be an olympic athlete. What’s the best form of exercise? The one you will do. When is the best time? When you will do it. Use the power of peer pressure. Join a class. Get a trainer.

If interested in training, contact [email protected]

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Today’s Big Idea: Figuring out your purpose and growing in your spiritual life, is one of the most important things you can do for your business, productivity & growth.  

What is The ONE Thing Workshop My name is Josh Friberg. I am a lifelong trainer. I am a certified trainer of The ONE Thing Workshop, built off the best-seller by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. Who is this for? The entrepreneur, business owner, or leader looking for greater productivity, lower stress, and how to balance well in your professional and personal life. We are going to go deep into making your life amazing, not by doing more, but by doing less.

Living a life that is just for you lack’s purpose. Our purpose is to bring value to the world. When you know your life purpose, you know the manner in which you are bringing value to the world. What is the one thing you can do this week to affirm the value that I bring to the world?

Common practices that encourage growth: 1. Daily habit of prayer and meditation. 2. Reduce stress. 3. Connect with a faith community.

Your business will not grow until you grow.

Consider writing out your purpose statement every day, for 90 days. As you do this, you will begin to see how to revise it to better reflect and affirm your purpose and value. This will be reflected in your business as well as all other areas of your life.

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Today’s Big Idea: Who you are anywhere is who you are everywhere. Our behavior in one area of our lives, affects every other area.

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What is The ONE Thing Workshop. My name is Josh Friberg. I am a lifelong trainer. I am a certified trainer of The ONE Thing Workshop, built off the best-seller by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. Who is this for? The entrepreneur, business owner, or leader looking for greater productivity, lower stress, and how to balance well in your professional and personal life. We are going to go deep into making your life amazing, not by doing more, but by doing less.

Being a person of integrity means being the same person, wherever you go and in whatever circumstances. Social media is changing the way we view privacy. We can’t compartmentalize - each area of our life touches the other. Integrity = Integrated. Learn the process of growth and you can apply it to any area of your life. This is about growing you.

Draw 7 circles around in the shape of a clock and label:

1. Spiritual Life
2. Physical Health
3. Personal
4. Key Relationships
5. Job
6. Business
7. Financial

1. Rate yourself numerically on the 7 areas of your life represented by the circles. (See worksheet) 2. Focus on the area you scored highest in to move it from good to great for a win. 3. Focus on the area you scored lowest in to see the largest amount of growth

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Today’s Big Idea: The goal is non-negotiable.

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What Is The One Thing Workshop: My name is Josh Friberg. I am a lifelong trainer. I am a certified trainer of The ONE Thing Workshop, built off the best-seller by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. Who is this for? The entrepreneur, business owner, or leader looking for greater productivity, lower stress, and how to balance well in your professional and personal life. We are going to go deep into making your life amazing, not by doing more, but by doing less.

Josh had a recent breakthrough related to goals (a topic he’s had a life-long struggle with). His new team keeps saying “the goal is non-negotiable.” How does that work?

Many think that having a goal and not accomplishing it is bad. Goals aren’t an accomplishment - they are a way to get you to think differently.

Are your goals big enough that you’re never going to hit them?

Our goals are going to help us determine our actions.

Goals need to be within bounds (ethical and physical).

Goals need to be sustainable.

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Today's Big Idea: The ONE Thing is not just for business - it's for life.

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What Is The One Thing Workshop: My name is Josh Friberg. I am a lifelong trainer. I am a certified trainer of The ONE Thing Workshop, built off the best-seller by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. Who is this for? The entrepreneur, business owner, or leader looking for greater productivity, lower stress, and how to balance well in your professional and personal life. We are going to go deep into making your life amazing, not by doing more, but by doing less.

This Podcast episode isn't just "based on a true story" - it's Josh's true story. It's a story of a 30 year old water heater, and what Josh actually did in the midst of some real chaos.

Although things were crazy, he still had the chance to ask the ONE question. And in that process, found his creativity sped up. Josh saw his water heater was dead and, while watching his son taking in the chaos too, wondered "what is he seeing?"

He realized, it wasn't an issue of turning off the water, it was an issue of "turning off the water with my son."

The next action can make the next domino easier ... or harder.

"The most important thing I can do as a Dad is to teach my kids to trust in God." @YouDaDad"

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Today's Big Idea: A great question beats a great answer every time.

What Is The One Thing Workshop: My name is Josh Friberg. I am a lifelong trainer. I am a certified trainer of The ONE Thing Workshop, built off the best-seller by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. Who is this for? The entrepreneur, business owner, or leader looking for greater productivity, lower stress, and how to balance well in your professional and personal life. We are going to go deep into making your life amazing, not by doing more, but by doing less.

Today we look again at the all important focussing question.

When we get a great question, we now have a great tool.

But, it's more than a tool - a question taps into your creativity in a way an answer simply can't.

Balance comes from doing less.

it's not about doing less - it's about doing the right things.

The focussing question helps you figure out what the right things are.

If you look at all the things you have to do, many of them are distractions from what you ought to be doing.

Many times, success in finding the right question leads to success in other areas.

When we focus on the one thing, everything else becomes easier (or unnecessary).

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