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.
GARY KELLERThink 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.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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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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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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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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To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
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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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Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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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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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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