Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.
GARY KELLERYou need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.
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You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls – family, health, friends, integrity – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.
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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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When you give your ONE Thing your most emphatic Yes! and vigorously say No! to the rest, extraordinary results become possible.
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To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
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A different result requires doing something different.
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Your work life is divided into two distinct areas – what matters most and everything else. You will have to take what matters to the extremes and be okay with what happens to the rest. Professional success requires it.
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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you’ll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy.
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A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.
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The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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When we know something that needs to be done but isn’t currently getting done, we often say, I just need more discipline. Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.
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