Geoff Woods wants to inspire you to do the one thing that matters to you most!
He’s the co-founder of ProduKtive, the training company behind the best-selling book The ONE Thing and he’s the host of The ONE Thing podcast.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
- Why your time is more valuable than your money.
- Life is about searching for the answers to your questions.
- Focus on acquiring skills, not getting your dream job.
- Why it took experiencing pain to decide to work for himself.
- How to reach out to one of your entrepreneur heroes.
- Discovering the one thing that matters to you most.
Life Skills That Matter In This Episode
- Build community
- Self-directed learning
- Habit alignment
How Geoff Works and Thinks
- Wake up time: 5:30 am
- Ideal work environment: It varies, sometimes it’s first thing in the morning, just thinking or journaling to find an answer to a question. He’s at his best when doing lead generation, connecting with people for deals, and being an ambassador for the brand and the message.
- What he’s working for: Living his calling and purpose through his work.
- Definition of success: Fulfillment – how many people he can truly impact and shifting what they perceive to be possible.
- Regains focus by: Using his 411 tool to check his priorities.
- 6-month goal: Hit their membership community target by hitting specific retention goals, hit very specific gross member goals, address specific things in their technology stack.
Inspirational Quotes
“So many people go through their days spending their time, not investing it.”
“These are not tactics, these are timeless truths that have been proven to unleash extraordinary results.”
“The path to getting everything you want starts by knocking down one thing at a time.”
“Why do we struggle to focus? It’s because we’re not actually clear on what we should be focusing on.”
“This is not a job for me, this is a purpose-based movement, for me. This is a commitment for my life.”
Coaching Advice
Are you unclear about what your ONE thing is? Geoff shared this guidance for narrowing in on what it might be:
1) If you’re unclear about what your ONE thing is, then figuring it out is now your ONE thing. Make that your top priority.
2) Really sit with the idea of finding what your thing is and search. Don’t just stop when you feel like you don’t know.
3) List out everything you could possibly do, find the 20% of those things that will generate 80% of your results to identify what you should do, and then order them by priority by asking if you could only do one, which would it be?
Resources + Bonus Materials
The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
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