All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
GARY KELLERExtraordinary 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 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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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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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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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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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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You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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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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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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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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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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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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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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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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