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.
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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To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
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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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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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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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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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You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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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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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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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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What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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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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