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.
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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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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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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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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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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What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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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 trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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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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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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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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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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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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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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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