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.
GARY KELLERThe trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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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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A different result requires doing something different.
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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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Multitasking is a lie.
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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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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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What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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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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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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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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If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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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 everyone has the same amount of time and yet some earn more than others, can we say then say that it’s how we use our time that determines the money we make?
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Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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