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 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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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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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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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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A different result requires doing something different.
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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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Multitasking is a lie.
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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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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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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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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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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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What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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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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