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.
GARY KELLERIn 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.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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A different result requires doing something different.
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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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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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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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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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Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level. It just might take you more than your lifetime to run into the walls of a box this big.
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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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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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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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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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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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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