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.
GARY KELLERJuggling is an illusion. In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. It is actually task switching.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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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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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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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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You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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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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Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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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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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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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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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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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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A different result requires doing something different.
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