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.
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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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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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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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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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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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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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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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Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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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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Multitasking is a lie.
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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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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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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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Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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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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To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
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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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What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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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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A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.
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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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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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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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