Multitasking is a lie.
GARY KELLERJuggling 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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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’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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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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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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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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A different result requires doing something different.
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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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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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You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
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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 are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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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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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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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