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The ability to concentrate singlemindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life. This key insight is the heart and soul of this book.
The key to success is action.
“Failure to execute” is one of the biggest problems
develop the habit of starting and finishing important jobs.
Here is a great rule for success: Think on paper.
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. -ALAN LAKEIN
Resist the temptation to clear up small things first.
Long-term thinking improves short-term decision-making.
Make time for getting big tasks done every day. Plan your daily workload in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big tasks and pursue them to completion.
You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. -THOMAS EDISON
All of life is the study of attention; where your attention goes, your life follows. -Krishnamurti.
The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably, in thought and act. -ORISON SWETT MARDEN
Do not wait; the time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. -NAPOLEON HILL
Highly productive people take the time to think, plan, and set priorities.
Starting a high-priority task and persisting with that task until it is 100 percent complete is the true test of your character, your willpower, and your resolve.
