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.
GARY KELLERWhat’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
More Gary Keller Quotes
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Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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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 need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
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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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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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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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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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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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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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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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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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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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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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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