All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.
There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life.
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.
You’d be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don’t have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.
In the end, the best way to succeed is to go small. And when you go small, you say no – a lot. A lot more than you might have even considered before.
When you give your ONE Thing your most emphatic Yes! and vigorously say No! to the rest, extraordinary results become possible.
A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.
A different result requires doing something different.
To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you’ll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy.
Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.
Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
When we know something that needs to be done but isn’t currently getting done, we often say, I just need more discipline. Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.
The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.
Your work life is divided into two distinct areas – what matters most and everything else. You will have to take what matters to the extremes and be okay with what happens to the rest. Professional success requires it.
Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.