Quotes from Gary Keller

When you choose a big life, by default, you'll have to go small to get there. You must survey your choices, narrow your options, line up your priorities, and do what matters most. You must go small. You must find your ONE Thing.

giving the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.

In a buyers market, sellers are often going through the five stages of grief: 1. Denial, 2. Anger, 3. Bargaining, 4. Depression, then 5. Acceptance. My job is to counsel them through it. Martin Bouma, Ann Arbor, MI

irrelevancy.

they make getting to the heart of things the heart of their approach.

Whether you say "later" or "never," the point is to say "not now" to anything else you could do until your most important work is done.

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.

realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

high multitaskers are suckers for irrelevancy.

Live with purpose and you know where you want to go. Live by priority and you'll know what to do to get there.

big success comes when we do a few things well

Multitaskers were just lousy at everything." Multitasking is a lie.

The unintended consequence of abundance is that we are bombarded with more information and choices in a day than our ancestors received in a lifetime.

But it's actually a "way of lie," for the truth is multitasking is neither efficient nor effective. In the world of results, it will fail you every time.

In your professional life, go long and make peace with the idea that the pursuit of extraordinary results may require you to be out of balance for long periods.

You want your achievements to add up, but that actually takes subtraction, not addition. You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more

The question of balance is really a question of priority. When you change your language from balancing to prioritizing, you see your choices more clearly and open the door to changing your destiny.

What's the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

Extraordinary results demand that you set a priority and act on it. When you act on your priority, you'll automatically go out of balance, giving more time to one thing over another.

Viva como um selo postal – cole-se num único objetivo até alcançá-lo." Josh

Highly successful people know this. So every day they line up their priorities anew

Researchers estimate that workers are interrupted every 11 minutes and then spend almost a third of their day recovering from these distractions.

The brain makes up l/50th of our body mass but consumes a staggering 1/5th of the calories we burn for energy.

Because they study it all the time, they think they are investing—but they're not. Figure