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.
GARY KELLERIf 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?
More Gary Keller Quotes
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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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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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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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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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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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Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level. It just might take you more than your lifetime to run into the walls of a box this big.
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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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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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Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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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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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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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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