Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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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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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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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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The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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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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A different result requires doing something different.
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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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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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What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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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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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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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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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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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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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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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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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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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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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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