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.
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?
More Gary Keller Quotes
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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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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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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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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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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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Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.
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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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You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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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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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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To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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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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