Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
GARY KELLERWhat’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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A different result requires doing something different.
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Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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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 built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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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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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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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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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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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If everyone has the same amount of time and yet some earn more than others, can we say then say that it’s how we use our time that determines the money we make?
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You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
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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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It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.
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