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Gary Keller
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January 8 - January 8, 2018
extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
Equality is a lie. Understanding this is the basis of all great decisions.
Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority.
Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list—a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.
If your to-do list contains everything, then it’s probably taking you everywhere but where you really want to go.
Internalizing this concept is like being handed a magic compass. Whenever you feel lost or lacking direction, you can pull it out to remind yourself to discover what matters most.
There is just so much brain capability at any one time. Divide it up as much as you want, but you’ll pay a price in time and effectiveness. The more time you spend switched to another task, the less likely you are to get back to your original task. This is how loose ends pile up. Bounce between one activity and another and you lose time as your brain reorients to the new task. Those milliseconds add up. Researchers estimate we lose 28 percent of an average workday to multitasking ineffectiveness. Chronic multitaskers develop a distorted sense of how long it takes to do things. They almost
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what you’re really seeing is people who’ve trained a handful of habits into their lives. This makes them seem “disciplined” when actually they’re not. No one is.
You don’t need to be a disciplined person to be successful. In fact, you can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.
What you will be is someone who has something regularly working for you because you regularly worked on it.
Harness the power of selected discipline to build the right habit, and extraordinary results will find you.
Everyone accepts that limited resources must be managed, yet we fail to recognize that willpower is one of them.
The more we use our mind, the less minding power we have.
So how do you put your willpower to work? You think about it. Pay attention to it. Respect it. You make doing what matters most a priority when your willpower is its highest. In other words, you give it the time of day it deserves.
do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early,
In your effort to attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged and nothing gets its due.
Knowing when to pursue the middle and when to pursue the extremes is in essence the true beginning of wisdom. Extraordinary results are achieved by this negotiation with your time.
magic happens at the extremes.
Time waits for no one. Push something to an extreme and postponement can become permanent.
When you gamble with your time, you may be placing a bet you can’t cover.
the pursuit of extraordinary results may require you to be out of balance for long periods.
No one knows their ultimate ceiling for achievement, so worrying about it is a waste of time.
It’s about bold ideas that might threaten your comfort zones but simultaneously reflect your greatest opportunities. Believing in big frees you to ask different questions, follow different paths, and try new things. This opens the doors to possibilities that until now only lived inside you.
Thinking big is essential to extraordinary results.
what you do in the time you work determines what you achieve.
Big requires growth, and by the time you arrive, you’re big too!
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.
If you can honestly say, “This is where I’m meant to be right now, doing exactly what I’m doing,” then all the amazing possibilities for your life become possible.
Answers come from questions, and the quality of any answer is directly determined by the quality of the question. Ask the wrong question, get the wrong answer.
How we phrase the questions we ask ourselves determines the answers that eventually become our life.
One of the best ways to do this is to put up a sign at work that says, “Until my ONE Thing is done—everything else is a distraction.
A big, specific question leads to a big, specific answer, which is absolutely necessary for achieving a big goal.
Highly successful people choose to live at the outer limits of achievement.
If you want the most from your answer, you must realize that it lives outside your comfort zone.
The research and experience of others is the best place to start when looking for your answer.
A new answer usually requires new behavior,
Personal productivity is the building block of all business profit.
the most productive people receive the greatest rewards from their businesses.
A life lived on purpose is the most powerful of all—and the happiest.
Happiness happens on the way to fulfillment.
financially wealthy people are those who have enough money coming in without having to work to finance their purpose in life.
The truth about success is that our ability to achieve extraordinary results in the future lies in stringing together powerful moments, one after the other.
you’re training your mind how to think, how to connect one goal with the next over time until you know the most important thing you must do right NOW. You’re learning how to think big—but go small.
Your last step is to write down your answers. Much has been written about writing down goals and for a very good reason—it works.
If money is a metaphor for producing results, then it’s clear—a time-managing system’s success can be judged by the productivity it produces.
the most successful people are the most productive people.
They time block their ONE Thing and then protect their time blocks with a vengeance.
So, go to your calendar and block off all the time you need to accomplish your ONE Thing.
Each and every day, ask this Focusing Question for your blocked time: “Today, what’s the ONE Thing I can do for my ONE Thing such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?” When you find the answer, you’ll be doing the most leveraged activity for your most leveraged work. This is how results become extraordinary.
