Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.
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.
Everyone has the same amount of time, and hard work is simply hard work. As a result, what you do in the time you work determines what you achieve. And since what you do is determined by what you think, how big you think becomes the launching pad for how high you achieve.
Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.
To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.
All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
If everyone has the same amount of time and yet some earn more than others, can we say then say that it’s how we use our time that determines the money we make?
Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.
Multitasking is a lie.
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.
Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level. It just might take you more than your lifetime to run into the walls of a box this big.
What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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.
Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
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.