A different result requires doing something different.
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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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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What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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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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The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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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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Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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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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Multitasking is a lie.
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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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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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Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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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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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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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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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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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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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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