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What's your ONE thing?

People are using this simple, powerful concept to focus on what matters most in their personal and work lives. Companies are helping their employees be more productive with study groups, training, and coaching. Sales teams are boosting sales. Churches are conducting classes and recommending for their members.

By focusing their energy on one thing at a time people are living more rewarding lives by building their careers, strengthening their finances, losing weight and getting in shape, deepening their faith, and nurturing stronger marriages and personal relationships.

YOU WANT LESS. You want fewer distractions and less on your plate. The daily barrage of e-mails, texts, tweets, messages, and meetings distract you and stress you out. The simultaneous demands of work and family are taking a toll. And what's the cost? Second-rate work, missed deadlines, smaller paychecks, fewer promotions--and lots of stress.

AND YOU WANT MORE. You want more productivity from your work. More income for a better lifestyle. You want more satisfaction from life, and more time for yourself, your family, and your friends.

NOW YOU CAN HAVE BOTH ― LESS AND MORE. In The ONE Thing, you'll learn to:

cut through the clutter
achieve better results in less time
build momentum toward your goal
dial down the stress
overcome that overwhelmed feeling
revive your energy
stay on track
master what matters to you

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The ONE Thing delivers extraordinary results in every area of your life--work, personal, family, and spiritual. WHAT'S YOUR ONE THING?

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Gary Keller is the executive chairman of KWx and cofounder of Keller Williams Realty, Inc, which holds the #1 position as the largest real estate company in the world. His New York Times bestselling books have sold more than 4 million copies.

Jay Papasan, former editor at HarperCollins Publishers, coauthorsGary's books and is vice president of learning at Keller Williams. He is a frequent event speaker and corporate trainer.

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Gary Keller is chairman of the board and cofounder of Keller Williams Realty, Inc., one of the largest real estate companies in the world. His New York Times bestselling books have sold more than 1,300,000 copies.
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Jay Papasan is the vice president of publishing and executive editor at Keller Williams Realty, Inc. In 2003, with the release of The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, co-authored by Gary Keller and Dave Jenks, Papasan became a best-selling author when the book spent time on BusinessWeek's best-seller list. In 2005, they co-authored their second bestseller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor. After working on Rick Villani and Clay Davis's best-selling FLIP: How to Buy, Fix and Sell Houses for Profit in 2007, he co-authored Your First Home with Gary Keller and Dave Jenks in 2009.
In 2009, he also co-authored SHIFT: How Top Agents Tackle Tough Times which reached #2 on Amazon, #3 on the USA Today Money List, #4 on the WSJ Business list and #5 on the NY Times Business list, and #10 on the New York Times Hardcover Advice List. At the same time, he co-authored Soci@l with Ben Kinney which garnered the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) Bronze Award.
In 2011, he served as executive editor for Green Your Home and co-authored SHIFT Commercial (also a NAREE Bronze award winner) with Buddy Norman. And in 2012, he co-authored HOLD: How to Find, Buy, and Keep Real Estate Properties to Grow Wealth which became a USA Today National bestseller.
His latest book, The ONE Thing, co-authored with Gary Keller, came out April 1, 2013 and debuted at #6 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list and reached #1 on May 3, 2013. Since then it has made more than 500 appearances on national bestseller lists and has been translated into 30 languages.
Papasan was born and raised in Memphis, TN. After attending the University of Memphis, he spent several years working abroad in Paris before attending the New York University graduate writing program. At Harper Collins Publishers, he worked on such best-selling books as Body-for-Life by Bill Phillips and Go for the Goal by Mia Hamm. Today, he lives in Austin, TX with his wife, Wendy and their kids, Gus and Veronica. They run a top residential real estate team, The Papasan Property Group, which can be found at www.AustinsBestHomeSearch.com .
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Andrew

It was really just one lesson.

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2017

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It was really just one lesson. In every aspect of life prioritize to one thing that is most important, period. Point made, no need to read the book.

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Timothy R. Arn

Don't waste your time and money on this

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2018

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Don't waste your time and money on this. This author actually could have written this in a 2 or 3 paragraph blog. Reading it was a bit like watching Rachel Maddow. The concept was repeated over and over like we, the readers, are stupid and don't quite get the point. This was a best seller? YIKES!

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mmaghoney

Eye opener for simple yet life changing ideas that are immediately actionable.

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2016

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I don't even know how or where to begin. Which is ironic because this book is about the opposite.

Ok.

Focus.

Have you stumbled upon books that changed your life around? Have you ever felt the Universe arranged everything for you to be at the right time on your computer, reading the right article that mentioned the perfect book you were meant to read at that specific point in your life? As if it was written specifically for you?

That's how it felt with this book. Now that I'm 2 chapters away from the end, I feel like I don't want it to. It now looks way thicker than when I got it, with almost every few pages dog eared. I've never read any book with so much actionable ideas after each sitting and this just might be the first book I'll consider re-reading. Not because it wasn't understood the first time around, but because I simply want to inundate myself with all its the ideas.

Below are some of the highlights that profoundly resonated with me but I invite you to grab a copy and read the whole book. Its simple, direct, honest and immediately actionable.

1. Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

2. Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority. Instead of a to do list, you need a success list -- a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.

3. The majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.

4. Success is actually a short race -- a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

5. It takes an average of 66 days to acquire a new habit.

6. You make doing what matters most a priority when your willpower is at its highest. Do your most important work -- your ONE thing -- early.

7. How we phrase the questions we ask ourselves determines the answers that eventually become our lives.

8. Focusing question: What's the ONE thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

9. Our purpose sets our priority and our priority determines the productivity our actions produce.

10. Who we are and where we want to go determine what we do and what we accomplish.

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Barbara A Clay

I absolutely LOVE this book

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2017

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This book is amaaazing. I wasn't going to buy this book at first because at that time I was looking for a book about self-confidence. As I was scrolling through the thousands of books on self-confidence I came across this one book that stood out like a bright light in the dark. I was going to pass right by this book because I didn't think it would help me with my lack of confidence. After reading the great reviews I gave this book a try and I am sooo happy I bought this book. What is funny is that this book IS what I was looking for. This book gave me the confidence that I needed to do some amazing things in my life and it helped me to have a laser like focus on what I love to do. It helped me to focus on my ONE Thing. After reading this book I finally have something that is solid and achievable.

I always wanted to be a writer and a designer. I have a blog and I wrote over 75 posts in the last year and a half but I started to feel like I didn't have a clear idea for my writing or my business period. I was starting to lose confidence in what I was doing. After reading this book not only do I have a clear vision for my writing I also created digital art memes for every article I write. I am having sooo much fun creating my blogs and my art. I have put each design up for sale online and I am making passive income from my designs. Soon I will be finished writing my book and I will be making even more passive income.

I did each step that was suggested in this book and it really helped me tremendously. I am having soo much fun right now. I feel like the weight of the world is off my shoulders and I have a life purpose because of this book. I have never been more confident about my future than I am right now. I highly recommend this book. Thank you, Gary and Jay, for writing this amazing book. It really changed my life.

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Luke

Excellent advice for life!

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2017

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If you are on the fence about buying thus book because you think it's just 'another self help' book, think again. This is easily one of the best books I've ever read, with clear and understandable principles concerning what you want out of life. What's your One Thing? Gary works backwards from your answer. What's the one thing you want in 5 years? In one year? In the next 6 months? In a month? This week? Today? What can you do today that will, in essence, get you where you want to be in life?
You won't regret the things you do, it will be the things you chose not to do, that will result in regret. Don't let not buying this book become a regret. I personally regret not getting it sooner! It's one of those books you can reread over and over and get something new out of it every time. Don't hesitate! Buy it today and change how you think about life!

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Paul Simister

Ask yourself why The One Thing is a long book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 4, 2018

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This book caused me to have mixed feelings.

The idea that you should focus on the area where you can have the biggest impact on performance makes a great deal of sense. It's the logic for the weakest link of the chain and the main idea behind the Theory of Constraints.

On the other hand, one is a number that scares me because it leaves you vulnerable. One person to love, one source of income, if you're a business owner, one product, one customer, or one way of finding customers. In these terms, it doesn't make sense.

The idea can be twisted too far. I felt that some readers would take the idea of concentrating on one literally.

I'm a fan of the 80/20 rule. Concentrate on the 20% of activities that brings 80% of rewards. That seems more balanced to me.

In the first section of the book, about the lies used to mislead us, I felt the author was setting up straw men, that is, false parodies of ideas to then debunk.

It seems ironic to me that's a book about the one thing is quite long and talks about many things to live this way.

I think part of my problem is that I refuse to accept the concept of the one thing. I prefer the idea of the critical few. Focus is great ask and you should ask yourself a version of the question so you keep a clear priority and work to it.

The book encourages you to plan backwards (an excellent idea) by continually focusing on the one thing that is needed previously.

Let's say but you decide the one thing you want to do is to be a great father. A very worthy objective.

And then you ask yourself what's the one thing you can do to be a great father and decide it's to prepare the children for a life of independence so they can stand on their own, if needs be.

And you decide the one thing to do that best is to make sure they have an excellent education and through it commit to a lifetime of learning.
The one thing to do that is to send them to an excellent private school so they have every advantage.

That means you need to earn a great deal of money, so either have to work extremely hard to become a successful employee who is regularly promoted or through your own business. And that means long hours away from home.

I feel this chain of logic makes sense until you recognise what it might cost you. It means missing out on your children growing up and all the pleasures and special memories that brings. It also probably means you're divorced because your wife hasn't been a priority. The sad result is that despite your best intentions, you'd look back on your life and realise that you hadn't been a great father.

Rather than focusing on the one thing, if you focus on the critical few, you can get a better result because you're able to find balance. True it never balances but you can see which bit is most out of kilter and focus on that one thing until something else comes the weakest link.

The book makes some excellent points but I also worry about where it can take you. I find I can't give it a strong recommendation but my three stars means that it is worth reading.

Paul Simister, business coach

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Arupratan

Clichéd, pretentious

Reviewed in India on May 11, 2019

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Very old and stale and clichéd philosophy has been served in a well-marketed hardcover. The writer duo pretends like they have "discovered" the idea themselves for the first time in history and doing a service to the mankind in such selfless fashion by writing the book, but truth be told, there is nothing new or novel in the book. Now my dear fellow reader, do "The One Thing" yourself, give this book a pass and read something more substantial, like Jordan B Peterson's "12 Rules for Life" and thank me later.

Btw, if you are so eager to know the whole substance of the book in one sentence here it goes: If you want to be successful in your endeavor then don't scatter your mind and work into various direction but keep just one thing in your mind, have a focused and singular attention to your goal only, and that's it.

What an unique idea, right?

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T.W.

asking yourself that question of the one thing you need to work on to either make everything else easier or unnecessary is incredible

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2017

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Very interesting read and solidified some thoughts I've been having about focus. This book would be very helpful to those who feel bogged down by distractions from the one thing they really need to be working on. However, I think there are some people (like me) who need help with clearing the path (including clutter, small nagging to-do items) to being able to focus on that one thing. For example, I can't work very well in chaos and he says you have to get used to this -- a point I don't necessarily agree one. Some people need to be be organized and have other things out of the way to allow themselves to be creative and focused. But I am finding the principal tenet of this book to be extremely helpful: asking yourself that question of the one thing you need to work on to either make everything else easier or unnecessary is incredible. I'm using it in many different aspects of my life already.

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Anna Daniel

Fantastic!!!! Highly recommend the book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 5, 2018

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The book had been recommended by another person to me as a book that could help me to focus more on achieving my business goals. I have read a ton of books about goal setting, and achievement but none helped me in the way this one did. I am a typical 'multitask' worker and it seems to take me ages to finish a project because I generally have several on the go. Not now! By focusing down on the one is helping me to move forward to achieve my goals at a faster pace. Highly recommend the book. Enjoy the read,

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Quack Quack

Recommended

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 23, 2021

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I was recommenced this book and it didn't disappoint, do one thing well, focus and stick with it. I do keep referring back to it to make sure I don't come up with more business ideas and stick to the 'one thing'. I'd really recommend it to anyone who runs their own business or people who simply have too many ideas and never see anything through to the end. Sometimes it's nice to read what you already know. It would also make a great present. Quite short as Im not great reader but it was easy to follow, inspirational and a pretty quick read.

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