When we know something that needs to be done but isn’t currently getting done, we often say, I just need more discipline. Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.
GARY KELLERYour 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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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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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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Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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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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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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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
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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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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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Multitasking is a lie.
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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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Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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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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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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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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