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.
GARY KELLERSuccess is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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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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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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You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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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.
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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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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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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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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than 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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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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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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Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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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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Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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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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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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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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A different result requires doing something different.
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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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The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.
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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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