Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.
GARY KELLERJuggling 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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Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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A different result requires doing something different.
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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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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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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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You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
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Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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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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What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.
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Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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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 can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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Multitasking is a lie.
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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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