Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.
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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You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
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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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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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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 sequential, not simultaneous.
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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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Don’t let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.
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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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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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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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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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You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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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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Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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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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It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.
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Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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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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To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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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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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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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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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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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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