The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

by Gary Keller

FOR MY SPIRITUAL LIFE...

What’s the ONE Thing I can do to hel...

FOR MY PHYSICAL HEALTH...

What’s the ONE Thing I can do to ensure that I exercise... ?

FOR MY PERSONAL LIFE...

What’s the ONE Thing I can do to improve my skill at ________... ?

FOR MY KEY RELATIONSHIPS...

What’s the ONE Thing I can do to improve my relationship with my spouse/partner... ?

What’s the ONE Thing I can do to make my family stronger... ?

FOR MY JOB...

What’s the ONE Thing I can do to ensure that I h...

FOR MY BUSINESS...

What’s the ONE Thing I can do to make our product the best... ?

What’s the ONE Thing I can do to make us more profitable... ?

What’s the ONE Thing I can do to improve our custome...

FOR MY FINA...

What’s the ONE Thing I can do to increase my...

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Understand and believe it.

The first step is to understand the concept of the ONE Thing, then to believe that it can make a difference in your life.

Use it.

Start each day by asking,

“What’s the ONE Thing I can do today for [whatever you want] such that by doing it everything else will be easier or even unnecessary?”

“What’s the ONE Thing I can do today for [whatever you want] such that by doing it everything else will be easier or even unnecessary?”

Make it a habit.

Research says this will take about 66 days.

stick with it until it becomes your routine.

Leverage reminders.

“Until my ONE Thing is done—everything else is a distraction.”

“Until my ONE Thing is done—everything else is a distraction.”

“The ONE Thing = Extraordinary Results”

“The ONE Thing = Extraordinary Results”

“The Success Habit Will Get Me to My Goal.”

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“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” —F. M. Alexander

It will clarify what you want in the big areas of your life and then drill down to what you must do to get them.

It’s really a simple process: You ask a great question, then you seek out a great answer.

Your one-two punch for extraordinary results.

Great questions, like great goals, are big and specific. They push you, stretch you, and aim you at big, specific answers.

Four options for framing a Great Question illustrated.

Quadrant 4. Small & Specific: “What can I do to increase sales by 5 percent this year?” This aims you in a specific direction, but there’s nothing truly challenging about this question.

Low goals don’t require extraordinary actions so they rarely lead to extraordinary results.

Quadrant 3. Small & Broad: “What can I do to increase sales?” This is not really an achievement question at all. It’s more of a brainstorming question.

Quadrant 2. Big & Broad: “What can I do to double sales?”

Here you have a big question, but nothing specific.

Quadrant 1. Big & Specific: “What can I do to double sales in six months?” Now you have all the elements of a Great Question. It’s a big goal and it’s specific.

You’ll need a big answer. You’ll have to stretch what you believe is possible and look outside the standard toolbox of solutions.

See the difference? When you ask a Great Question, you’re in essence pursuing a great goal.

A big, specific question leads to a big, specific answer, which is absolutely necessary...