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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.

Gary Keller

Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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Ability Determination Direct Focus Inspirational Result Yourself
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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Affect Conversation Drink Drive Focus Phone Yourself
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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Complete Drive Hold On Responsibility Result Success Yourself
Multitasking is a lie.
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Lying One Liner
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.
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Enough Life Money Purpose Wealth Yourself
Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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Pattern Success
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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Best Important Result Work Yourself
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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Common Discover Dreams Live Seek
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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Family Friendship Health Integrity Shatter Work
All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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Achievement Focus Greatness Time
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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Division Life Professional Success Work Yourself
If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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Activity Result Time Yourself
The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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Choice Discipline Enough Establishment Habit Right Success Trick
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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Attention Damage Live People Relationship Switch Time
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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Discipline Habit Race Sprint Success
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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Illusion Independent Reality Success Trick

Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.

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