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.
GARY KELLERTo ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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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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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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What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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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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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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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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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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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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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You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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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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The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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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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