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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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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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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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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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You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
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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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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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Multitasking is a lie.
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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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Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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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 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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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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A different result requires doing something different.
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