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.
GARY KELLERUntil my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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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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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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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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You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
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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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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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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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Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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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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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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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