You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
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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A different result requires doing something different.
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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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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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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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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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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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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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Multitasking is a lie.
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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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You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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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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The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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