“Juggling is an illusion. In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. It is actually task switching.”

Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.

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.

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.

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.

Multitasking is a lie.

Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.

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.

Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.

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.

Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

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.

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.

Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

You’d be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don’t have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.

Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.

Life balance is a myth. It’s an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it’s about proportion – it’s really a work hard/play hard equation.

You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.