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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

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
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
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
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
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
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
If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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Activity Result Time Yourself
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
Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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Pattern Success
Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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Ability Determination Direct Focus Inspirational Result Yourself
Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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Dedication Distraction Inspirational Myself
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
Multitasking is a lie.
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Lying One Liner
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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Affect Conversation Drink Drive Focus Phone Yourself
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
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
Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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Cost Exact Pay Work
A different result requires doing something different.
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Creativity Different Inspirational Result
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
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
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
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
Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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Build Success Time
All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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Achievement Focus Greatness Time
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
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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Common Discover Dreams Live Seek
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

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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