Jay Papasan

Authors of The ONE Thing - Achieve extraordinary results today!

Before Jay Papasan co-authored the bestselling Millionaire Real Estate series with Gary Keller, he worked as an editor at Harper Collins Publishers. There he worked on such best-selling books as Body-for-Life by Bill Phillips and Go for the Goal by Mia Hamm. Jay also co-owns a successful real estate team affiliated with Keller Williams Realty in Austin, TX.

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The ONE Thing

The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan

The ONE Thing. What's yours? Gary Keller (his Keller-Williams real estate is THE largest real estate company in the world--I bet that was a ONE Thing goal at some point!) shares his wisdom in this BRILLIANT book. We'll have fun exploring a few of my favorite Big Ideas: dominoes + extreme Pareto and other goodness.

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Ready to Amplify Your Latent Potential by 2 Billion?

Are you familiar with the physics of dominoes? It’s fascinating. And wonderfully applicable to the power of lining up a series of micro-goals to generate a ton of momentum in the process. (Check out this awesome two and a half minute video by an equally awesome Physics professor!) Here’s the short st...

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The #1 Power Tool for Great Days and a Great Life (You Using Them?)

Continuing our theme of making TODAY (and every day!) a Masterpiece Day, let’s take a quick look at Time Blocks. Gary Keller wrote The ONE Thing. He also created the largest real estate agency in the world. In his great little book, he tells us how important it is to ruthlessly focus on what’s mo...

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Throw Away Your To-Do List & Focus Here

In our last +1, we talked about adding a To-Be List to go with your To-Do List. But, you know what? We should really start with our To-Be List and then throw out the To-Do List—replacing that one with a Success List. That’s what Gary Keller tells us in his great book The ONE Thing. In his words: “T...

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How to Make Our Lives an Elegantly Simple Masterpiece

As you may have noticed, I’m a bit obsessed about the etymology of cool words. 😃 I like to open up my Apple dictionary, read the definition and then scroll down to see the ancient roots of a word I find interesting. One of my big things lately has been “simplicity.” Quick context: As our busines...

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How to Calculate the Odds of Your Success

Matt McCall is one of the leading venture capitalists in the world. He also happens to be a friend and advisor and personal investor in Optimize. (And, perhaps most importantly, his license plate says “KARMA” which I think is pretty epically cool.) So, the other day we were having a strategic chat ab...

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Dominoes - Part 2

Way back in the very early days of our +1 journey together, we talked about dominoes. As you may recall, I introduced you to a physics professor who taught us that a domino can knock over another domino that’s 50% bigger than it. Start with a tiny little finger-nail sized, tweezer-placed domino and inc...

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Someday > 5 Years > 1 Year > 1 Month > 1 Week > Today > NOW!

In our last +1, we talked about building/taking a dominoes staircase to the moon. As we discussed, dominoes provide an awesome metaphor on the power of geometric growth. Today I want to chat about how Gary Keller and Jay Papasan encourage us to think big but then go super (!) small. They have a process t...

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A Key Feature of Your Hero’s Journey

In our last couple +1s, we talked about the art and science of lining up our dominoes in one neat and shiny staircase to moon-heaven. 🚶 🌝 It all sounds so nice and easy when it’s mapped out like that, eh? (Hah.) But… Alas, there are a few important asterisks to that little story. As important a...

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