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.
GARY KELLERTaking 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.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a 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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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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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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Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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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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Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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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 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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The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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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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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 can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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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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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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