In the end, the best way to succeed is to go small. And when you go small, you say no – a lot. A lot more than you might have even considered before.
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.
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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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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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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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Juggling is an illusion. In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. It is actually task switching.
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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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Don’t let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.
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The path of mastering something is the combination of not only doing the best you can do at it, but also doing it the best it can be done.
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Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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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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Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.
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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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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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Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.
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Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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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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