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The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results QUOTES

121 " Since there is always another level to learn, mastery actually means you’re a master of what you know and an apprentice of what you don’t. In other words, we become masters of what is behind us and apprentices for what is ahead. This is why mastery is a journey. Alex "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

122 " We know that multitasking can even be fatal when lives are at stake. In fact, we fully expect pilots and surgeons to focus on their jobs to the exclusion of everything else. And we expect that anyone in their position who gets caught doing otherwise will always be taken severely to task. We accept no arguments and have no tolerance for anything but total concentration from these professionals. And yet, here the rest of us are—living another standard. Do we not value our own job or take it as seriously? Why would we ever tolerate multitasking when we’re doing our most important work? Just because our day job doesn’t involve bypass surgery shouldn’t make focus any less critical to our success or the success of others. Your work deserves no less respect. It may not seem so in the moment, but the connectivity of everything we do ultimately means that we each not only have a job to do, but a job that deserves to be done well. "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

123 " To understand how Goal Setting to the Now will guide your thinking and determine your most important priority, read this out loud to yourself: Based on my someday goal, what’s the ONE Thing I can do in the next five years to be on track to achieve it? Now, based on my five-year goal, what’s the ONE Thing I can do this year to be on track to achieve my five-year goal, so that I’m on track to achieve my someday goal? Now, based on my goal this year, what’s the ONE Thing I can do this month so I’m on track to achieve my goal this year, so I’m on track to achieve my five-year goal, so I’m on track to achieve my someday goal? Now, based on my goal this month, what’s the ONE Thing I can do this week so I’m on track to achieve my goal this month, so I’m on track to achieve my goal this year, so I’m on track to achieve my five-year goal, so I’m on track to achieve my someday goal? Now, based on my goal this week, what’s the ONE Thing I can do today so I’m on track to achieve my goal this week, so I’m on track to achieve my goal this month, so I’m on track to achieve my goal this year, so I’m on track to achieve my five-year goal, so I’m on track to achieve my someday goal? So, based on my goal today, what’s the ONE Thing I can do right NOW so I’m on track to achieve my goal today, so I’m on track to achieve my goal this week, so I’m on track to achieve my goal this month, so I’m on track to achieve my goal this year, so I’m on track to achieve my five-year goal, so I’m on track to achieve my someday goal? "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

124 " No matter how many to-dos you start with, you can always narrow it to one. Keep going. You can actually take 20 percent of the 20 percent of the 20 percent and continue until you get to the single most important thing! "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

125 " Saying yes to everyone is the same as saying yes to nothing. Each additional obligation chips away at your effectiveness at everything you try. "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

126 " When life happens, you can be either the author of your life or the victim of it. Those are your only two choices— accountable or unaccountable. This may sound harsh, but it’s true. Every day we choose one approach or the other, and the consequences follow us forever. "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

127 " Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” —Alan Lakein "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

128 " BIG IDEAS Distraction is natural. Don’t feel bad when you get distracted. Everyone gets distracted. Multitasking takes a toll. At home or at work, distractions lead to poor choices, painful mistakes, and unnecessary stress. Distraction undermines results. When you try to do too much at once, you can end up doing nothing well. Figure out what matters most in the moment and give it your undivided attention. "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

129 " you can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right. The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it. That’s it. That’s all the discipline you need. As this habit becomes part of your life, you’ll start looking like a disciplined person, but you won’t be one. What you will be is someone who has something regularly working for you because you regularly worked on it. You’ll be a person who used selected discipline to build a powerful habit. "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

130 " In fact, you can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right. "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

131 " The problem is we tend to act on what we believe even when what we believe isn’t anything we should. "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

132 " Mastery is a commitment to becoming your best, so to achieve extraordinary results you must embrace the extraordinary effort it represents. "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

133 " Multitasking is a lie. "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

134 " The truth is, balance is bunk. It is an unattainable pipe dream... . The quest for balance between work and life, as we’ve come to think of it, isn’t just a losing proposition; it’s a hurtful, destructive one.” Keith H. Hammonds "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

135 " Cosby read some advice that he took to heart: “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” This "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

136 " Purpose, meaning, significance—these are what make a successful life. Seek them and you will most certainly live your life out of balance, criss-crossing an invisible middle line as you pursue your priorities. "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

137 " The desire for balance makes sense. Enough time for everything and everything done in time. It sounds so appealing that just thinking about it makes us feel serene and peaceful. This calm is so real that we just know it’s the way life was meant to be. But it’s not. If you think of balance as the middle, then out of balance is when you’re away from it. Get too far away from the middle and you’re living at the extremes. The problem with living in the middle is that it prevents you from making extraordinary time commitments to anything. In your effort to attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged and nothing gets its due. Sometimes this can be okay and sometimes not. Knowing when to pursue the middle and when to pursue the extremes is in essence the true beginning of wisdom. Extraordinary results are achieved by this negotiation with your time. "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

138 " The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” —William James "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

139 " When we connect big with bad, we trigger shrinking thinking. "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

140 " Purpose without priority is powerless. "

― Gary Keller , The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results