Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
GARY KELLERYou can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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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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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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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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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 can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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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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Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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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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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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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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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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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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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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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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Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.
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Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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A different result requires doing something different.
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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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The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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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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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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Multitasking is a lie.
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