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.
GARY KELLERAll great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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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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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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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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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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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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Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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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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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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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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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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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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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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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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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