Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
GARY KELLERExtraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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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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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a 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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Even 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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Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.
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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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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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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.
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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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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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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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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