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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.

Gary Keller

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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Complete Drive Hold On Responsibility Result Success Yourself
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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Family Friendship Health Integrity Shatter Work
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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Avoid Break Chain Habit Important Life Magic Powerful Yourself
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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Empathy Possible Result Yourself
You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
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Focus Need Number Yourself
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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Feeling Need Perspective Time
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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Best Combination Master Path
To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
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Enough Fire Focus Life Yourself
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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Illusion Independent Reality Success Trick
Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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Company Fall Leadership Organization
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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Discipline Habit Race Sprint Success
The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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Choice Discipline Enough Establishment Habit Right Success Trick
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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Best Important Result Work Yourself
Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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Dedication Distraction Inspirational Myself
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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Big Life Run Success Thinking Time Wall Yourself
Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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Be Yourself Original Simplicity

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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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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