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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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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
A different result requires doing something different.
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Creativity Different Inspirational Result
You’d be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don’t have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.
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Achievement Areas Elite Hard Life Yourself
Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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Pattern Success
Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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Dedication Distraction Inspirational Myself
The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.
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Attention Damage Live People Relationship Switch Time
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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Life Live Measurement Regret Way Worth
You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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Focus Work Yourself
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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Division Life Professional Success Work Yourself
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
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
Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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Oneself Opportunity Time
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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Act Big Bold Inspirational Life Motivational Small Thinking Yourself
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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Best End Small Success Way Yourself
Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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Be Yourself Original Simplicity
Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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Cost Exact Pay Work

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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