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.
GARY KELLERTo 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.
More Gary Keller Quotes
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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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Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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Don’t let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.
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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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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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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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The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
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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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It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.
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A different result requires doing something different.
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You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
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Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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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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Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
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