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files, written explanations, recorded instructions, posted information, checklists, catalogs, directories, and prescheduled training classes can all be used to effectively say yes while still preserving your time block. I started doing this in my first job as sales manager. I leveraged training sessions to cut frequently asked questions off at the pass, and then by either printing or recording them, created a library of answers my team could access whenever I wasn’t personally available.
The rule is simple: A request must be connected to my ONE Thing for me to consider it. If it’s not, then I either say no to it or use any one of the approaches I shared above to deflect it elsewhere.
Your talent and abilities are limited resources. Your time is finite. If you don’t make your life about what you say yes to, then it will almost certainly become what you intended to say no to.
When you give your ONE Thing your most emphatic “Yes!” and vigorously say “No!” to the rest, extraordinary results become possible.
When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up.
If you have to beg, then beg. If you have to barter, then barter. If you have to be creative, then be creative. Just don’t be a victim of your circumstances. Don’t sacrifice your time block on the altar of “I just can’t make it work.”
“When you argue for your limitations, you get to keep them,” but this is one you can’t afford. Figure it out. Find a way. Make it happen.
When you commit to your ONE Thing each day, extraordinary results ultimately occur.
energy; starting the day by connecting with your higher purpose aligns your thoughts and actions with a larger story.
grab your calendar and plan your day. Make sure you know what matters most, and make sure those things are going to get done.
Knowing what you must do and making the time to do it is how you bring the most amazing mental energy to your life.
Calendaring your day this way frees your mind from worrying about what might not get done while inspiring you with what will.
It’s only when you make time for extraor...
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When you get to work, go to work on y...
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Don’t loiter and don’t slow down. Clear the decks and then get down to the business of doing what matters most.
when you spend the early hours energizing yourself, you get pulled through the rest of the day with little additional effort.
Your environment must support your goals.
Anyone and anything at any time can become a thief, diverting your attention away from your most important work and stealing your productivity right from under your nose. For you to achieve extraordinary results, the people surrounding you and your physical surroundings must support your goals.
If your environment is so full of distractions and diversions that before you can help yourself you’ve gotten caught doing something you shouldn’t, you won’t get where you need to go.
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. What you see and hear from the time your alarm rings to when your time block begins ultimately determines if you get there, when you get there, and whether you’re ready to be productive when you do.
eradicate all the sight and sound thieves that you find.
simple things like e-mail, the morning paper, the morning TV news shows, the neighbor...
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Take ownership of your environment.
Make sure that the people around you and your physical surroundings support your goals. The right people in your life and the right physical environment on your daily path will support your efforts to get to your ONE Thing. When both are in alignment with your ONE Thing, they will supply the optimism and physical lift you need to make your ONE Thing happen.
I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” Live with Purpose, Live by Priority, and Live for Productivity.
No matter the objective, no matter the destination, the journey to anything you want always starts with a single step. That step is called the ONE Thing.
The challenge is that living the largest life possible requires you not only to think big, but also to take the necessary actions to get there. Extraordinary results require you to go small. Getting your focus as small as possible simplifies your thinking and crystallizes what you must do.
that at any moment in time there can be only ONE Thing,
when that ONE Thing is in line with your purpose and sits atop your priorities, it will be the most productive thing you can do to launch you toward the best you can be.
Actions build on action. Habits build on habit. Success builds on success. The right domino knocks down another and another and another. So whenever you want extraordinary results, look for the...
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“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
“Go live your life. Live it fully, without fear. Live with purpose, give it your all, and never give up.”
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.
with your ONE Thing at the top of your mind and the top of your schedule; with a single first step we can all take.
When you bring purpose to your life, know your priorities, and achieve high productivity on the priority that matters most every day, your life makes sense and the extraordinary becomes possible.
All success in life starts within you. You know what to do. You know how to do it. Your
next step is simple. You are the ...
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To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
If you try to do everything, you could wind up with nothing.
“What’s the ONE Thing I can do right now to start using The ONE Thing in my life
make doing the answer your first ONE Thing!
