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 KELLERAnyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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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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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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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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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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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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Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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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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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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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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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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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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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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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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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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