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.
GARY KELLERTask switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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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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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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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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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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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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The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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A different result requires doing something different.
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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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You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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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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To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
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Multitasking is a lie.
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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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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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What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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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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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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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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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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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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