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What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

Gary Keller

You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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Focus Work Yourself
Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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Dedication Distraction Inspirational Myself
All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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Achievement Focus Greatness Time
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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Achievement Areas Elite Hard Life Yourself
What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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Easy Necessary Oneself
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
Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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Pattern Success
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
Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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Ability Determination Direct Focus Inspirational Result Yourself
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
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
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
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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Big Life Run Success Thinking Time Wall Yourself
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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Best End Small Success Way Yourself
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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Empathy Possible Result 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

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