Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.
GARY KELLERMulti-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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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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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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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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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 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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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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Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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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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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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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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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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The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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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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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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