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.
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.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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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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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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You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
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Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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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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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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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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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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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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Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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Multitasking is a lie.
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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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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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