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

Gary Keller

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
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
The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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Choice Discipline Enough Establishment Habit Right Success Trick
Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.
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Common Discover Dreams Live Seek
What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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Easy Necessary Oneself
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
Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
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Ability Determination Direct Focus Inspirational Result Yourself
Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
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Build Success Time
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
Multitasking is a lie.
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Lying One Liner
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
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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Best Important Result Work Yourself
Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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Dedication Distraction Inspirational Myself
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
Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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Company Fall Leadership Organization
If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
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Activity Result Time Yourself

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