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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.

Gary Keller

Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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Dedication Distraction Inspirational Myself
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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Affect Conversation Drink Drive Focus Phone Yourself
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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Family Friendship Health Integrity Shatter Work
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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Big Life Run Success Thinking Time Wall Yourself
Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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Pattern Success
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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Life Live Measurement Regret Way Worth
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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Best End Small Success Way Yourself
Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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Cost Exact Pay Work
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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Determination Money Ourselves Time
A different result requires doing something different.
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Creativity Different Inspirational Result
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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Best Important Result Work Yourself
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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Enough Life Money Purpose Wealth Yourself
You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
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Focus Need Number Yourself
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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Attention Damage Live People Relationship Switch Time
Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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Oneself Opportunity Time
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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Best Combination Master Path

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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