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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

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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Build Discipline Enough Habit Myself Need
Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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Build Success Time
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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Determination Money Ourselves Time
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
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
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
Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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Ability Determination Direct Focus Inspirational Result Yourself
What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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Easy Necessary Oneself
Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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Be Yourself Original Simplicity
Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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Dedication Distraction Inspirational Myself
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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Enough Life Money Purpose Wealth Yourself
Multitasking is a lie.
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Lying One Liner
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
Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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Company Fall Leadership Organization
Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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Oneself Opportunity Time
If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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Activity Result Time 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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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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