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

Gary Keller

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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Achievement Focus Greatness Time
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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Illusion Independent Reality Success Trick
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
A different result requires doing something different.
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Creativity Different Inspirational Result
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
If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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Activity Result Time Yourself
Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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Oneself Opportunity Time
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
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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Division Life Professional Success Work Yourself
Multitasking is a lie.
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Lying One Liner
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
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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Discipline Habit Race Sprint Success
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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Best Important Result Work Yourself
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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Enough Life Money Purpose Wealth 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
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.
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Life Live Measurement Regret Way Worth

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