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.
GARY KELLERYour 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.
GARY KELLERIn 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.
GARY KELLERAll great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
GARY KELLERThe trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
GARY KELLERWhat’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
GARY KELLERA 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.
GARY KELLERWork 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.
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.
GARY KELLERTask switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
GARY KELLEREven 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.
GARY KELLERAnyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.
GARY KELLERSuccess is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
GARY KELLERUntil my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
GARY KELLERJuggling is an illusion. In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. It is actually task switching.
GARY KELLERExtraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
GARY KELLERFind the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
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