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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

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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Complete Drive Hold On Responsibility Result Success Yourself
Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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Pattern Success
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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Discipline Habit Race Sprint Success
All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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Achievement Focus Greatness Time
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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Achievement Areas Elite Hard Life Yourself
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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Illusion Independent Reality Success Trick
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
Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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Build Success Time
To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
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Enough Fire Focus Life 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
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
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
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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Avoid Break Chain Habit Important Life Magic Powerful Yourself
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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Empathy Possible Result 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
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

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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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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