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.
GARY KELLERIt 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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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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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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What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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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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Don’t let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.
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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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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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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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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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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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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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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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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