It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.
GARY KELLERTo ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
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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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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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Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
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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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A different result requires doing something different.
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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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Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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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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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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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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Multitasking is a lie.
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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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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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