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

Gary Keller

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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Family Friendship Health Integrity Shatter Work
A different result requires doing something different.
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Creativity Different Inspirational Result
The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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Choice Discipline Enough Establishment Habit Right Success Trick
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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Common Discover Dreams Live Seek
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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Avoid Break Chain Habit Important Life Magic Powerful Yourself
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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Determination Money Ourselves Time
What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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Easy Necessary Oneself
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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Best End Small Success Way Yourself
You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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Focus Work Yourself
Don’t let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.
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Act Big Bold Inspirational Life Motivational Small Thinking Yourself
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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Build Discipline Enough Habit Myself Need
You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
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Focus Need Number Yourself
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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Empathy Possible Result Yourself
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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Attention Damage Live People Relationship Switch Time
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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Affect Conversation Drink Drive Focus Phone Yourself
If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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Activity Result Time Yourself

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