EP151 One Thing and One Thing Only

BOL 151

Transcript

Episode 151

[INTRODUCTION]

KC:

Welcome to The Business of Life Podcast. My name is Keith Callahan, your host, and today I want to talk to you about having a single-minded focus on the things that you’re doing in life and how you’re going about your life and yeah, during the moments of your life.

So, so many times – here’s the opposite of single-minded focus. You’re with your kids. The TV is on in the background and you have your cell phone and you’ve got some form of social media up, right? How many people are guilty of this? It’s such a common thing, right?

What happens in the purpose, the reason that I’m sharing about single-minded focus is because you can’t be 100 percent with anything when you don’t have single-minded focus. If you’re with your kids, be with your kids.

Look them in the eye. Connect with them from your heart. If you’re with your spouse, be with your spouse. Look them in the eye. Connect with them in your heart.

If you do use social media and – you know, don’t get me wrong. My business runs on social media. Get in and get out. Like let’s say that you really enjoy Facebook or Instagram or something like that. Get in quick and get out. Like, set a time for it. I honestly don’t think there’s anything wrong with using social media, with enjoying social media. But it’s the exact same thing as a drug or alcohol. Alcohol is a good example.

There’s nothing wrong with a glass of wine I think a couple of nights a week. There’s something very wrong with 10 glasses of wine every night. There’s nothing wrong with checking in on social media and enjoying it. There’s something very wrong with losing your life force because you’re getting consumed in social media, because when you get to a red light, you pick up your phone. When you get to a line in a – at a register, you pick up your phone. At the end of the day from 7:30, 8 o’clock at night until 10 o’clock, 11 o’clock at night, you’re on your phone.

So what happens with that is we’re losing our life force. Just like any other addiction, it becomes an addiction and we do it unconsciously and it’s hard to break it.

So be where you’re at. When you’re doing your work, do your work. When you’re checking your emails, check your emails. When you’re – you know, whatever. Whatever it is that you do for work, do one thing at a time. I know this is a guy telling – I have a lot of female listeners. I know it’s different when you’re a mom. But be a mom. You’ve got all this stuff going on with the kids. Maybe you’re multitasking by parenting the kids and cooking dinner. You don’t need the social media thrown in there as well.

When you’re at the kids’ games, you don’t need to be checking your phone. So think about it. Think about the different aspects of your life, the different things that you’re doing. Can you have single-minded focus? If you’re going to sit down and watch a show, watch a show. Don’t watch a show and surf on Facebook at the same time. It’s something that overloads your system over time.

I guess this is on the tip of my tongue. So I have to throw it in there. A lot of times, for me, my resetting for my single-minded focus is sitting down for 20 minutes in prayer or meditation or doing 20 minutes of physical exercise, something like that, and having that single-minded focus.

So there you go, single-minded focus throughout your day. Have a beautiful, beautiful day. I will see you on the next episode. Peace!

[FINAL MESSAGE]

KC: Hey, Keith here, and today I have a free gift for you. Listen this free gift is a list of the 12 most influential books that I’ve ever read. These are the books that have helped me to create the mindset, learn the philosophies, learn the skills to really create this big, beautiful, life that we’re living now.

I read a crazy amount of books, I really do. I’ve probably read thousands of books and these are the top 12 books that – they’re the ones that I go to, they’re the ones that I work with over, and over, and over again. They are highlighted, outlined, dog-eared. And I put this list together for you because I want it to be a shortcut.

I don’t want you to have to – you don’t have to go out and read the thousands and thousands of books. These are the 12 that I highly recommend. I have a detailed review for each book, explaining why I recommend them, why I like them, when I worked with them in my life, what part of my life they helped me to improve.

So I put this together for you, and made it super each for you to get this list. All you have to do is send a text to the number 33444 and then in the body of that text, type in “12books” with no space. So that’s the number “12books”. Again, send the text message to the number, address it to 33444 and then type in “12books” as the message and just send that. And that’ll get you setup to receive those top 12 most influential books that have had the biggest impact on my life.

[SPONSOR MESSAGE]

KC: Today’s episode is brought to you by our sister podcast, All About Beachbody Coaching. So All About Beachbody Coaching really allows us to do this podcast without having all those annoying commercials in the beginning for you. So All About Beachbody Coaching, the Beachbody business that Amy and I run, actually funds this podcast.

So yes, it does cost money to run this podcast, we do not charge you anything, we don’t throw in commercials or anything like that, it really is, it’s funded by our business and by our other podcast, All About Beachbody Coaching. And for me, I’m just eternally grateful for this opportunity because it’s allowed me to really create the life that I love to live.

It’s given me the opportunity to do what I want, when I want, with who I want, and even deeper than that, it’s allowed me to help others to create the same for themselves. It’s allowed me to help hundreds of other people become part time or full time Beachbody coaches, to leave that corporate 9 to 5 job and create passive income in their lives.

And really there’s nothing like that. It’s cool when you have success, it’s so much more rewarding when you help others. So I mention this or a few reasons, the first reason is, that’s actually the way that I work with people and mentor people. I don’t do anything outside of Beachbody coaching because I know that it’s such a powerful life changing tool.

So if you’re curious about working with me, interested in working one-on-one, interested in creating the type of life that you wanna live, I suggest swinging over there. The other reason is, even if somebody’s just curious, like you’ve heard about Beachbody, you know there’s a lot of Beachbody coaches out there. Maybe some of them you get a little annoyed with.

It really dives into what this business is really about, which is life transformation. So if you’re just curious, swing over there. And then the other piece is, if you’re really considering becoming a Beachbody coach, I highly, highly recommend you listen to that first.

Alright, much love guys. Again, that is the All About Beachbody Coaching Podcast, our sister podcast.

ANNOUNCER: Thank you for listening to the Business of Life Podcast. Apply what you learned today and you’ll be one step closer to creating the life you love to live.

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