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Gary Keller
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January 8 - January 8, 2018
By planning your time off in advance, you are, in effect, managing your work time around your downtime instead of the other way around.
block four hours a day.
No matter who you are, large time blocks work.
Block an hour each week to review your annual and monthly goals.
They keep their most important appointment.
Most assume mastery is an end result, but at its core, mastery is a way of thinking, a way of acting, and a journey you experience.
When what you’ve chosen to master is the right thing, then pursuing mastery of it will make everything else you do either easier or no longer necessary. That’s why what you choose to master matters.
Time blocking is essential to mastery, and mastery is essential to time blocking. They go hand in hand—when you do one, you do the other.
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.
Highly productive people don’t accept the limitations of their natural approach as the final word on their success.
*Here is ONE resource that will shatter your ceiling of achievement at the1thing.com/shatter.
It could be to follow a new model, get a new system, or both. But be prepared. Implementing these may require new thinking, new skills, and even new relationships.
Highly successful people are clear about their role in the events of their life.
When you say yes to something, it’s imperative that you understand what you’re saying no to.
When you give your ONE Thing your most emphatic “Yes!” and vigorously say “No!” to the rest, extraordinary results become possible.
Focusing on ONE Thing has a guaranteed consequence: other things don’t get done. Although that’s exactly the point, it doesn’t automatically make us feel any better about it.
“anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.”
Figure out easy ways to eat right and then plan all your daily meals a week at a time.
Your environment must support your goals.
No one succeeds alone and no one fails alone. Pay attention to the people around you.
What is around you will either aim you toward your time block or pull you away. This starts from the time you wake up and continues until you get to your time-block bunker.
Your physical surroundings matter and the people around you matter.
Let me share a way you can do this. Write down your current income. Then multiply it by a number: 2, 4, 10, 20—it doesn’t matter. Just pick one, multiply your income by it, and write down the new number. Looking at it and ignoring whether you’re frightened or excited, ask yourself, “Will my current actions get me to this number in the next five years?” If they will, then keep doubling the number until they won’t. If you then make your actions match your answer, you’ll be living large.
One evening an elder Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside all people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us. One is Fear. It carries anxiety, concern, uncertainty, hesitancy, indecision and inaction. The other is Faith. It brings calm, conviction, confidence, enthusiasm, decisiveness, excitement and action.” The grandson thought about it for a moment and then meekly asked his grandfather: “Which wolf wins?” The old Cherokee replied, “The one you feed.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” —Mark Twain
So make sure every day you do what matters most. When you know what matters most, everything makes sense. When you don’t know what matters most, anything makes sense. The best lives aren’t led this way.
Put yourself together, and your world falls into place.
To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
