You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
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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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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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.
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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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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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The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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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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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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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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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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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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Multitasking is a lie.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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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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You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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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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A different result requires doing something different.
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