Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
GARY KELLERWhen 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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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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Multitasking is a lie.
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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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What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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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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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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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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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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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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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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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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