Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
GARY KELLERIf 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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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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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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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 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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Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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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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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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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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The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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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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To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you’ll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy.
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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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A different result requires doing something different.
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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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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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