10 ‘One Thing’ self-coaching questions to make your life easier, simpler and happier

Alex Mathers
3 min readOct 12, 2024

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I was blown away by Gary Keller’s book The One Thing when I read it on the top floor of a Bangkok apartment complex in 2016.

I’d been going through plenty of stress back then.

I had taken on too many projects and felt stuck and confused.

The fluff-busting approach of asking the right, cutting questions to get to the heart of what’s most essential (ONE thing) helped me immensely.

I went from Procrastination Central to having one of the most creatively prolific years ever.

I’m borrowing Gary’s approach and weaving it into some self-coaching questions so you can enjoy the relief of identifying simple, high-leverage solutions for various challenges.

The emphasis here is on narrowing down the range of solutions to the best, most impactful, highest-priority answer.

Grab a pen and work through these questions. Feel free to list as many answers you can think of for each. The more, the better. Once you have a list, you can pick the most impactful one for each.

You may surprise yourself with how much impact a single question can introduce.

Here we go…

  1. What is the one thing I can do

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