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.
GARY KELLERThere 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.
GARY KELLEREven 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.
GARY KELLERThe trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
GARY KELLERYou can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
GARY KELLERIf 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?
GARY KELLERSuccess is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.
GARY KELLERExtraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
GARY KELLERIn 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.
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.
GARY KELLERTo 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.
GARY KELLERYou’d be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don’t have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.
GARY KELLERTaking 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.
GARY KELLERA different result requires doing something different.
GARY KELLERThink 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.
GARY KELLERWork 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.
GARY KELLERTask switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
GARY KELLER