Quotes About Commitment

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

Tem de ser determinado. Lute pela única coisa que decidiu conquistar.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The challenge becomes how long you stay on your priority. To be able to address your priorities outside of work, be clear about your most important work priority so you can get it done. Then go home and be clear about your priorities there so you can get back to work.

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.

The answer isn't always clear, but that doesn't make finding it any less important.

When you're supposed to be working, work, and when you're supposed to be playing, play. It's a weird tightrope you're walking, but it's only when you get your priorities mixed up that things fall apart.

When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up. In fact, other areas of your life may experience chaos in direct proportion to the time you put in on your ONE Thing. It's important for you to accept this instead of fighting it.

If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.

Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? Mitch: No. What? Curly: This. [He holds up one finger.] Mitch: Your finger? Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean sh*t.

Success demands singleness of purpose." — Vince Lombardi

The ONE Thing shows up time and again in the lives of the successful because it's a fundamental truth.

Why would we ever tolerate multitasking when we're doing our most important work?

In order to be able to put the principle of The ONE Thing to work, you can't buy into the lie that trying to do two things at once is a good idea. Though multitasking is sometimes possible, it's never possible to do it effectively

Implementing these may require new thinking, new skills, and even new relationships. Probably none of this will feel natural at first. That's okay. Being Purposeful is often about doing what comes "unnaturally;" but when you're committed to achieving extraordinary results, you simply do whatever it takes anyway.