“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.”
Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results“Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.”
Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results“Lacking a clear formula for making decisions, we get reactive and fall back on familiar, comfortable ways to decide what to do. Pinballing through our day like a confused character in a B-horror movie, we end up running up the stairs instead of out the front door. The best decision gets traded for any decision.”
Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results“Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list - a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.”
Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results“find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.”
Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results“When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up.”
Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results“It’s important to realize that on the journey to achieving big, you get bigger. Big requires growth, and by the time you arrive, you’re big too! What seemed an insurmountable mountain from a distance is just a small hill when you arrive—at least in proportion to the person you've become. Your thinking, your skills, your relationships, your sense of what is possible and what it takes all grow on the journey to big. As you experience big, you become big.”
Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results“If today your company doesn’t know what its ONE Thing is, then the company’s ONE Thing is to find out.”
Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results“You need to be doing fewer things for effect instead of doing more things with side effects”
Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results“Happiness happens when you have a bigger purpose than having more fulfills, which is why we say happiness happens on the way to fulfillment.”
Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results