“You’d be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don’t have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.”

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.

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.

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.

Multitasking is a lie.

Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.

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.

Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.

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.

Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

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.

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.

Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.

Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.

If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.

Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.

It’s always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that.

There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world’s best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.

If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it – then I can achieve it.