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 KELLERSuccess is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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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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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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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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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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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 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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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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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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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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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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A different result requires doing something different.
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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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