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You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.

Gary Keller

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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Illusion Independent Reality Success Trick
Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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Be Yourself Original Simplicity
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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Family Friendship Health Integrity Shatter Work
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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Avoid Break Chain Habit Important Life Magic Powerful Yourself
You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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Focus Work Yourself
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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Discipline Habit Race Sprint Success
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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Division Life Professional Success Work Yourself
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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Attention Damage Live People Relationship Switch Time
To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
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Enough Fire Focus Life Yourself
All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
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Achievement Focus Greatness Time
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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Affect Conversation Drink Drive Focus Phone Yourself
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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Best Combination Master Path
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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Empathy Possible Result Yourself
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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Achievement Areas Elite Hard Life Yourself
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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Enough Life Money Purpose Wealth Yourself
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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Life Live Measurement Regret Way Worth

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