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.
GARY KELLERThe 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.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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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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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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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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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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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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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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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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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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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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You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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Multitasking is a lie.
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Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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