Juggling is an illusion. In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. It is actually task switching.
GARY KELLER
What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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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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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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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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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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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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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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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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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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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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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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