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.
GARY KELLERAll great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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Don’t let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.
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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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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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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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What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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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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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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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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You’d be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don’t have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.
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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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Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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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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