All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
GARY KELLEREven an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same effect as being drunk.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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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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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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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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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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The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life.
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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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Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.
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Multitasking is a lie.
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You’d be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don’t have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.
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