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anu wheie my success vaiieu, my focus hau too.
- <9()* ,3811 - The answei is that the most piouuctive anu successful people
achieve moie, eain moie, uo moie, because they make getting to the heait of
things the heait of theii appioach. They go small.
- "uoing small" is ignoiing all the things you coulu uo anu uoing what you
shoulu uo. It's iecognizing that not all things mattei equally anu finuing the
things that mattei most. It's a tightei way to connect what you uo with what
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things with siue effects. The pioblem with tiying to uo too much is that even
if it woiks, auuing moie to youi woik anu youi life without cutting anything
biings a lot of bau with it: misseu ueaulines, uisappointing iesults, high
stiess, long houis, lost sleep, pooi uiet, no exeicise, anu misseu moments
with family anu fiienus - all in the name of going aftei something that is
easiei to get than you might imagine.
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suipiising powei.
- When one thing, the iight thing, is set in motion, it can topple many things.
- A single uomino is capable of biinging uown anothei uomino that is actually
Su peicent laigei.
- uetting extiaoiuinaiy iesults is all about cieating a uomino effect in youi life.
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- Technological innovations, cultuial shifts, anu competitive foices will often
uictate that a business' 0NE Thing evolve oi tiansfoim. The most successful
companies know this anu aie always asking: "What's oui 0NE Thing."
- When you get the 0NE Thing, you begin to see the business woilu uiffeiently.
If touay youi company uoesn't know what its 0NE Thing is, then the
company's 0NE Thing is to finu out.
- Take the concept anu apply it to people, anu you'll see wheie one peison
makes all the uiffeience. Who's youi 0NE Peison.
- No one is self-maue.
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it's a funuamental tiuth.
- Applying the 0NE Thing to youi woik - anu youi life- is the simplest anu
smaitest thing you can uo to piopel youiself towaiu the success you want.
- The unintenueu consequence of abunuance is that we aie bombaiueu with
moie infoimation anu choices in a uay than oui ancestois ieceiveu in a
lifetime. Baiiieu anu huiiieu, a nagging sense that we attempt too much anu
accomplish too little haunts oui uays.
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falsehoous that sounu just "tiuthy" enough foi us to accept as tiue.
- The pioblem is we tenu to act on what we believe even when what we
believe isn't anything we shoulu. As a iesult, buying into The 0NE Thing
becomes uifficult because we've unfoitunately bought into too many otheis -
anu moie often than not those "othei things" muuule oui thinking, misguiue
oui actions, anu siuetiack oui success.
- The ieal solutions we seek aie almost always hiuing in plain sight;
unfoitunately, they've usually been obscuieu by an unbelievable amount of
bunk, an astounuing floou of "common sense" that tuins out to be nonsense.
- The challenge we face when foiming oui success stiategies is that, just like
tales of fiogs, fish, exploieis, anu jockeys, success has its own lies too.
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- As Baviu Beniy Thoieau saiu, "It's not enough to be busy, so aie the ants. The
question is, what aie we busy uoing.
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- It seems that eveiywheie we tuin, we'ie encouiageu to make lists - anu
though lists aie invaluable, they have a uaik siue.
- While to-uos seive as a useful collection of oui best intentions, they also
tyiannize us with tiivial, unimpoitant stuff that we feel obligateu to get uone
- because it's on oui list.
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youi list is just the fiist thing you thought of. To-uo lists inheiently lack the
intent of success. In fact, most to-uo lists aie actually just suivival lists -
getting you thiough youi uay anu youi life, but not making each uay a
stepping-stone foi the next so that you sequentially builu a successful life.
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uiiections; the othei aims you in a specific uiiection. 0ne is a uisoiganizeu
uiiectoiy anu the othei is an oiganizeu uiiective.
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- While wiiting his seminal book "Quality Contiol Banubook", }uian wanteu to
give a shoit name to the concept of the "vital few anu tiivial many."
- Be calleu it "Paieto's Piinciple"
- The 8u2u Piinciple asseits that a minoiity of causes, inputs, oi effoits
usually leau to a majoiity of the iesults, outputs, oi iewaius. In othei woius,
in the woilu of success, things aien't equal. A small amount of causes cieates
most of the iesults. }ust the iight input cieates most of the output. Selecteu
effoit cieates almost all of the iewaius.
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mattei moie than otheis - a lot moie. A to-uo list becomes a success list
when you apply Paieto's Piinciple to it.
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go even smallei by finuing the vital few of the vital few. The 8u2u iule is the
fiist woiu, but not the last, about success.
- No mattei the task, mission, oi goal. Big oi small. Stait with as laige a list as
you want, but uevelop the minuset that you will whittle youi way fiom theie
to the ciitical few anu not stop until you enu with the essential 0NE. The
impeiative 0NE. The 0NE Thing. &94#+ Can tuin this into a mouule.
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o uo extieme - 0nce you've figuieu out what actually matteis, keep
asking what matteis most until theie is only one thing left.
o Say no - Whethei you say "latei" oi "nevei", the point is to say "not
now"
o Bon't get tiappeu in the "check off" game - If we believe things uon't
mattei equally, we must act accoiuingly.
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- It tuins out that high multitaskeis aie suckeis foi iiielevancy. They weie
outpeifoimeu on eveiy measuie. Although they'u convince themselves anu
the woilu that they weie gieat at it, theie was just one pioblem. To quote
Nass, "Nultitaskeis weie just lousy at eveiything."
- When you tiy to uo two things at once, you eithei can't oi won't uo eithei
well.
- Nultitasking is about multiple tasks $;%):/$%.9);1 shaiing one iesouice (CP0),
but in time the context was flippeu anu it became inteipieteu to mean
multiple tasks being uone '.?3;%$/)23';1 by one iesouice (a peison).
- Bat we can't uo is focus on two things at once.
- We think we can, so we think we shoulu.
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- Reseaicheis estimate that woikeis aie inteiiupteu eveiy 11 minutes anu
then spenu almost a thiiu of theii uay iecoveiing fiom these uistiactions.
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- We have an aveiage of 4,uuu thoughts a uay flying in anu out of oui heaus.
- Be pull to juggle moie than one task at a time is not only at the coie of how
we'ie wiieu, but was most likely a necessity foi suivival.
- To a causal obseivei, a jugglei is juggling thiee balls at once. In ieality, the
balls aie being inuepenuently caught anu thiown in iapiu succession. Catch,
toss, catch, toss, catch, toss. 0ne ball at a time. It's what ieseaicheis iefei to
as "task switching".
- "The cost in teims of extia time fiom having to task switch uepenus on how
complex oi simple the tasks aie," iepoits ieseaichei Bi. Baviu Neyei. "It can
iange fiom time incieases of 2S peicent oi less foi simple tasks to well ovei
1uu peicent oi moie foi veiy complicateu tasks."
- Task switching exacts a cost few iealize they'ie even paying.
- You can uo two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at
once.
- We'ie iight when we say something is "fiont anu centei" oi "top of minu",
because that's wheie focus occuis - in the piefiontal coitex.
- Take two things anu youi attention gets uiviueu. Take a thiiu anu something
gets uioppeu.
- Beie's a shoit list of how multitasking shoit-ciicuits us:
o Theie is just so much biain capability at any one time. Biviue it up as
much as you want, but you'll pay a piice in time anu effectiveness.
o The moie time you spenu switcheu to anothei task, the less likely you
aie to get back tot youi oiiginal task. This is how loose enus pile up.
o Bounce between one activity anu anothei anu you lose time as youi
biain ieoiients to the new task. Those milliseconus auu up.
Reseaicheis estimate we lose 28 peicent of an aveiage woikuay to
multitasking ineffectiveness.
o Chionic multitaskeis uevelop a uistoiteu sense of how long it takes to
uo things. They almost always believe tasks take longei to complete
than is actually iequiieu.
o Nultitaskeis make moie mistakes than non-multitaskeis. They often
make pooiei uecisions because they favoui new infoimation ovei olu,
even if the oluei infoimation is moie valuable.
o Nultitaskeis expeiience moie life-ieuucing, happiness-squelching
stiess.
- Woikeis who use computeis uuiing the uay change winuows oi check email
oi othei piogiams neaily S7 times an houi.
- It may not seem so in the moment, but the connectivity of eveiything we uo
ultimately means that we each not only have a job to uo, but a job that
ueseives to be uone well.
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- Though sepaiate in meaning, they poweifully connect to foim the founuation
foi achievement - iegulaily woiking at something until it iegulaily woiks foi
you.
- So when you see people who look like "uisciplineu" people, what you'ie
ieally seeing is people who've tiaineu a hanuful of habits into theii lives.
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because you iegulaily woikeu on it. You'll be a peison who useu selecteu
uiscipline to builu a poweiful habit.
- Not to oveisimplify, but it's not a stietch to say that Phelps (Nichael)
channeleu al of his eneigy into one uiscipline that uevelopeu into one habit -
swimming uaily.
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to uo well anu you know what you uon't.
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- The easiei behaviouis taking fewei uays on aveiage anu the tough ones
taking longei.
- Sustain the uiscipline long enough on one habit, anu not only uoes it become
easiei, but so uo othei things as well. It's why those with the iight habits
seem to uo bettei than otheis. They'ie uoing the most impoitant thing
iegulaily anu, as a iesult, eveiything else is easiei.
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o Builu one habit at a time.
o uive each habit enough time
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willpowei as just a call foi chaiactei anu you miss its othei equally essential
element: timing. It's a ciitical piece.
- Willpowei is always on will-call is a lie.
- 0nly thiee out of ten touuleis manageu to uelay theii giatification until the
ieseaicheis ietuineu (Stanfoiu Naishmallow stuuy)
- Chiluien who hau successfully waiteu foi the seconu tieat seemeu to be
uoing bettei. A lot bettei. (latei on in life)
- Willpowei oi the ability to uelay giatification was a huge inuicatoi of futuie
success.
- Success in the expeiiment pieuicteu highei geneial acauemic achievement,
SAT test scoies that weie on aveiage 21u points highei, highei feelings of
self-woith, anu bettei stiess management.
- 0n the othei hanu, "low uelayeis" weie Su peicent moie likely to be
oveiweight anu latei suffeieu highei iates of uiug auuictions.
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uowntime. It's a limiteu but ienewable iesouice.
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snacking can become youi uiet's uownfall.
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- Nost of oui conscious activity is happening in oui piefiontal coitex, the pait
of oui biain iesponsible foi focus, hanuling shoit-teim memoiy, solving
pioblems, anu moueiating impulse contiol. It's at the heait of what makes us
human anu the centei of oui executive contiol anu willpowei.
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back quickly. If you employ it foi one task, theie will be less powei available
foi the next unless you iefuel.
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to fall back on oui uefault settings.
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the question: 6#$% $:) 123: 5)H$3;% ')%%./0'<
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- Eveiy uay, without iealizing it, we engage in all mannei of activities that
uiminish oui willpowei. Willpowei is uepleteu when we make uecisions to
focus oui attention, suppiess oui feelings anu impulses, oi mouify oui
behavioui in puisuit of goals.
- When it comes to willpowei, timing is eveiything. You will neeu youi
willpowei at full stiength to ensuie that when you'ie uoing the iight thing,
you uon't let anything uistiact you oi steei you away fiom it. Then you neeu
enough willpowei the iest of the uay to eithei suppoit oi avoiu sabotaging
what you've uone.
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o Nonitoi youi fuel gauge
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impeiceptible it might be, what appeais to be a state of balance is something
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- Balance is liveu piactically as a veib. Seen as something we ultimately attain,
balance is actually something we uo.
- A balanceu life is a lie.
- We heai about balance so much we automatically assume it's exactly what
we shoulu be seeking. It's not.
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natuially unueistanu that success lies at the outei euges, but we uon't know
how to manage oui lives while we'ie out theie.
- When you gamble with youi time, you may be placing a bet you can't covei.
Even if you'ie suie you can win, be caieful that you can live with what you
lose.
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youi spiiit anu bouy, awaieness of youi family anu fiienus, awaieness of
youi peisonal neeus - none of these can be saciificeu if you intenu to "have a
life," so you can nevei foisake them foi woik oi one foi the othei.
- Whethei oi not to out of balance isn't ieally the question. The question is:
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balance. uoing shoit lets you stay connecteu to all the things that mattei
most anu move them along togethei. In youi piofessional life, go long anu
make peace with the iuea that the puisuit of extiaoiuinaiy iesults may
iequiie you to be out of balance foi long peiious.
- uoing long allows you to focus on what matteis most, even at the expense of
othei, lessei piioiities.
- In youi peisonal life, nothing gets left behinu. At woik, it's iequiieu.
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choices moie cleaily anu open the uooi to change youi uestiny.
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most impoitant woik piioiity so you can get it uone.
- When you'ie supposeu to be woiking, woik, anu when you'ie suppose to be
playing, play. It's a weiiu tightiope you'ie walking, but it's only when you get
youi piioiities mixeu up that things fall apait.
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o Thing about two balancing buckets - Sepaiate youi woik life anu
peisonal life into two uistinct buckets so you can countei balance.
o Countei balance youi woik bucket - youi woik life is uiviueu into two
uistinct aieas - what matteis most anu eveiything else.
o Counteibalance youi peisonal life bucket - acknowleuge that youi life
actually has multiple aieas anu that each iequiies a minimum of
attention foi you to feel you "have a life"

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- Foi some ieason theie is the feai that big success biings ciushing piessuie
anu stiess, that the puisuit of it iobs them of not only time with family anu
fiienus but eventually theii health.
- The goou news is that science isn't about guessing, but iathei the ait of
piogiessing. Anu so if youi life.
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look at it uiffeiently.
- Thinking big is essential to extiaoiuinaiy iesults. Success iequiies action,
anu action iequiies thought. But heie's the catch - the only actions that
become spiingboaius to succeeuing big aie those infoimeu by big thinking to
begin with.
- Boing something one way uoesn't always lay the founuation foi uoing
something bettei, noi uoes a ielationship with one peison automatically set
the stage foi a moie successful ielationship with anothei.
- Caiol Bweck's woik with chiluien ievealeu two minusets in action - a
"uiowth" minuset that geneially thinks big anu seeks giowth anu a "fixeu"
minuset that places aitificial limits anu avoius failuie.
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next."
o Bon't oiuei fiom the menu -uon't choose fiom the available options;
imagine outcomes that no one else has.
o Act bolu - Big thoughts go nowheie without bolu action.
o Bon't feai failuie - Extiaoiuinaiy iesults aien't built solely on
extiaoiuinaiy iesults. They'ie built on failuie too. In fact, it woulu be
accuiate to say that we fail oui way to success. When we fail, we stop,
ask what we neeu to uo to succeeu, leain fiom oui mistakes, anu
giow.

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- We oveithink, oveiplan, anu oveianalyze oui caieeis, oui businesses, anu
oui lives; that long houis aie neithei viituous not healthy; anu that we
usually succeeu in '@.%) of most of what we uo, not 8)4$3') of it. I uiscoveieu
that we can't manage time, anu that the key to success isn't in all the things
we uo but in the hanuful of things we uon't.
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- "Bon't put all youi eggs in one basket" is all wiong, I tell you "put all youi
eggs in one basket, anu then watch that basket." Look aiounu you anu take
notice; men who uo that uo not often fail. It is easy to watch anu caiiy the
one basket. It is tiying to caiiy too many baskets that bieaks most eggs in
this countiy. - Anuiew Cainegie in his talk "The ioau to Business Success"
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- Questions engage oui ciitical thinking. Reseaich shows that asking questions
impioves leaining anu peifoimance by as much as 1Su%.
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eventually become oui life.
- To get the answeis we seek, we have to invent the iight questions - anu
we'ie left to uevise oui own.
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questions (Wheie am I going. What taiget shoulu I aim foi.) but also "small
focus" ones as well (What must I uo iight now to be on the path to getting the
big pictuie. Wheie's the bull's eye.)
- It tells you not only what youi basket shoulu be, but also the fiist step towaiu
getting it.
- It shows you how big youi life can be anu just how small you must go to get
theie.
- It's both a map foi the big pictuie anu a compass foi youi smallest next move.
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keep asking youiself the Focusing Question.
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specific. It tells you iight up fiont that, although you may consiuei many
options, you neeu to take this seiiously because you uon't get two, thiee,
foui, oi moie.
- "Can uo" is an embeuueu commanu uiiecting you to take action that is
possible.
- Action you "can uo" beats intention eveiy time.
- Theie's a ciiteiion youi answei must meet. It's the biiuge between just uoing
something anu uoing something foi a specific puipose.
- "Such that by uoing it" lets you know you'ie going to have to uig ueep.
- "Eveiything else will be easiei oi unnecessaiy" is the ultimate leveiage test.
It tells you when you've founu the fiist uomino.
- It says that when you uo this 0NE Thing, eveiything else you coulu uo to
accomplish youi goal will now be eithei uoable with less effoit oi no longei
even necessaiy.
- The Focusing Question asks you to finu the fiist uomino anu focus o nit
exclusively until you knock it ovei.
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o uieat questions aie the path to gieat answeis.
o The FQ is a uouble-uuty question
o The Big Pictuie Question: "What's my 0NE Thing." - keeps youi
ielationships with fiienus, family, anu collegues in peispective anu
youi uaily actions on tiack.
o The small-focus question: "What's my 0NE Thing iight now." -
Piepaies you foi the most piouuctive woikweek possible.

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most.
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auuing "such that by uoing it eveiything else will be easiei oi unnecessaiy".
- Piioiities coulu incluue:
o Spiiituality
o Physical Bealth
o Peisonal Life
o Relationships
o Business
o Finances
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o 0nueistanu anu believe it.
o 0se it.
o Nake it a habit
o Leveiage ieminueis
o Reciuit suppoit

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gieat answei. As simple as two steps, it's the ultimate success habit.
- uieat questions, like gieat goals, aie big anu specific. They push you, stietch
you, anu aim you at big, specific answeis.
- Small & specific questions aim you in a specific uiiection, but theie's nothing
tiuly challenging about this question. Low goals uon't iequiie extiaoiuinaiy
actions so they iaiely leau to extiaoiuinaiy iesults.
- Small & bioau questions aie moie of a biainstoiming question. uieat foi
listing youi options, but iequiies moie to naiiow youi options anu go small.
- This is the kinu of aveiage question most people ask anu then wonuei why
theii answeis uon't uelivei extiaoiuinaiy iesults.
- Big & bioau questions lack specifics anu leaves moie questions than answeis.
- Big & Specific questions - when you ask a uieat Question, you'ie in essence
puisuing a gieat goal.
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- The challenge of asking a uieat Question is that, once you've askeu it, you'ie
now faceu with finuing a uieat Answei.
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- "Boable" - You piobably alieauy know how t o ui it anu won't have to change
much to get it.
- "Stietch" - while this is still within youi ieach, it can be at the faithest enu of
youi iange. You'll most likely have to uo some ieseaich anu stuuy what
otheis have uone to come up with this answei.
- Extiaoiuinaiy iesults iequiie a uieat Answei.
- If you want the most fiom youi answei, you must iealize that it lives outsiue
youi comfoit zone.
- A possibility answei exists beyonu what is alieauy known anu being uone. As
with a stietch goal, you can stait out by uoing ieseaich anu stuuying the lives
of othei high achieveis. But you can't stop theie. In fact, youi seaich has just
begun. Whatevei you leain, you'll use it to uo what only the gieatest
achieveis uo: benchmaik anu tienu.
- A uieat Answei is essentially a new answei.
- Youi fiist 0NE Thing is to seaich foi clues anu iole mouels to point you in the
iight uiiection. The fiist thing to uo is ask "K$' $/12/) );') '%35.)5 2:
$442?@;.'#)5 %#.' 2: '2?)%#./0 ;.7) .%<=
- In my expeiience books anu publisheu woiks offei the most in teims of
uocumenteu ieseaich anu iole mouels foi success.
- The ieseaich anu expeiience of otheis is the best place to stait when looking
foi youi answei.
- With a stietch appioach this was youi maximum, but now it is youi
minimum. It's not all you'll uo, but it becomes the hilltop wheie you'll stanu
to see if you can spot what might come next.
- A new answei usually iequiies new behavioui
- 5(* L6#80+
o Think Big anu Specific
o Think possibilities
o Benchmaik anu tienu foi best answeis

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- Youi big 0NE Thing is youi puipose anu youi small 0NE Thing is the piioiity
you take action on to achieve it. The most piouuctive people stait with
puipose anu use it like a compass. They allow puipose to be the guiuing foice
in ueteimining the piioiity that uiives theii actions.
- The moie piouuctive people aie, the moie puipose anu piioiity aie pushing
anu uiiving them.
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- A business can't have unpiouuctive people yet magically still have an
immensely piofitable business. uieat businesses aie built one piouuctive
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- 0ui uestinies aie ueteimineu by oui uecisions, oui lives shapeu by oui
choices.
- Live with puipose. Live by piioiity. Live foi piouuctivity.
- Chailes Bickens ieveals Puipose as a combination of wheie we'ie going anu
what's impoitant to use. Be implies that oui piioiity is what we place the
gieatest impoitance on anu oui piouuctivity comes fiom the actions we take.
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- Who we aie anu wheie we want to go ueteimine what we uo anu what we
accomplish.
- 0ne of oui biggest challenges is making suie oui life's puipose uoesn't
become a beggai's bowl, a bottomless pit of uesiie continually seaiching foi
the next thing that will make us happy. That's a losing pioposition.
- Naitin Seligman - believes theie aie five factois that contiibute to oui
happiness: positive emotions anu pleasuie, achievement, ielationships,
engagement, anu meaning. 0f these, he believes engagement anu meaning
aie the most impoitant.
- To be financially wealthy, you must have a puipose foi youi life. In othei
woius, without puipose, you'll nevei know when you have enough money,
anu you can nevei be financially wealthy.
- Puipose is the stiaightest path to powei anu the ultimate souice of peisonal
giowth - stiength of conviction anu stiength to peiseveie.
- When you have a uefinite puipose foi youi life, claiity comes fastei, which
leaus to moie conviction in youi uiiection, which usually leaus to fastei
uecisions.
- Knowing why you'ie uoing something pioviues the inspiiation anu
motivation to give the extia peispiiation neeueu to peiseveie when things go
south.
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o Biscovei youi big why - Biscovei youi puipose by asking youiself
what uiives you.
o Absent an answei, pick a uiiection
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- When youi life is on puipose, living by piioiity takes pieceuence.
- 0ui life is uiiven by the puipose we give.
- Puipose has the powei to shape oui lives only in uiiect piopoition to the
powei of the piioiity we connect to it. Puipose without piioiity is poweiless.
- Whenevei I teach goal setting I make it my top piioiity to show how a goal
anu a piioiity woik togethei.
- The tiuth is we have goals anu plans foi only one ieason - to be appiopiiate
in the moments of oui lives that mattei.
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next.
- Economics have long known that even though people piefei big iewaius
ovei small ones, they have an even stiongei piefeience foi @:)')/% :)6$:5'
29): H3%3:) 2/)' - even when the futuie iewaius aie N0CB BIuuER.
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futuie goal anu then methouically uiill uown to what you shoulu be uoing
iight now.
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goal with the next ovei time until you know the most impoitant thing you
must uo iight N0W
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- People tenu to be oveily optimistic about what they can accomplish, anu
theiefoie most uon't think things all the way thiough. Reseaicheis call this
the "planning fallacy"
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wiiting uown goals anu foi veiy goou ieason - it woiks.
- Those who wiote uown theii goals weie S9.S peicent moie likely to
accomplish them. Wiiting uown youi goals anu youi most impoitant piioiity
is youi final step to living by piioiity. (pg. 1S4)
- 5(* L6#80+
o Theie can only be 0NE
o uoal Set to the Now
o Put pen to papei

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- Piouuctive action tiansfoims lives.
- S:2534%.9) is exactly what Sciooge was, anu theie's no bettei woiu than
@:2534%.9.%1 to uesciibe what you want fiom what you uo when the outcome
matteis.
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- Bow we use oui time ueteimines the money we make.
- If money is a metaphoi foi piouucing iesults, then it's cleai - a time-
managing system's success can be juugeu by the piouuctivity it piouuces.
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- Piouuctive people get moie uone, achieve bettei iesults, anu eain moie in
theii houis than the iest. They uo so because they uevote maximum time to
being piouuctive on theii top piioiitiy, theii 0NE Thing.
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- Time blocking hainesses youi eneigy anu centeis it on youi most impoitant
woik. It's piouuctivity's gieatest powei tool.
- Block off the appiopiiate time each uay so it becomes a habit. Eveiything
else- othei piojects, papeiwoik, email, calls, coiiesponuence, meetings, anu
all the othei stuff- must wait.
- When you time block like this, you'ie cieating the most piouuctive uay
possible in a way that's iepeatable eveiy uay foi the iest of youi life.
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- 0nce you've uone youi 0NE Thing foi the uay, you can uevote the iest of it to
eveiything else. }ust use the FQ to iuentify youi next piioiity anu give that
task the time it ueseives.
- When you know youi 0NE Thing, make an appointment with youiself to
tackle it.
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theii time off.
- By planning theii time off in auvance, you aie, in effect, managing youi woik
time aiounu youi uowntime insteau of the othei way aiounu.
- When you intenu to be successful, you stait by piotecting time to iechaige
anu iewaiu youiself.
- Resting is as impoitant as woiking.
- Aftei you've time blockeu youi time off, time block youi 0NE Thing.
- You can't happily sustain success in youi piofessional life if you neglect youi
peisonal "ie-cieation" time
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- If they complete theii 0NE Thing befoie theii time block is uone, they uon't
necessaiily call it a uay. They use the FQ to tell them how they can use the
time they have left.
- The most piouuctive people woik on event time (ief: A geogiaphy of time by
Robeit Levine)
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because of the way people tiauitionally scheuule theii time (oi aie alloweu
to).
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- Time block youi planning time- this is when you ieflect on wheie you aie
anu wheie you want to go. Foi annual planning, scheuule this time late
enough in the yeai that you have a sense of tiajectoiy, but not so late that you
lose youi iunning stait foi the next.
- Block an houi each week to ieview youi annual anu monthly goals.
- In effect, you coulu say that when you time block youi planning time, you'ie
ieally time blocking youi time to time block. Thing about it.
- Foi time blocks to actually block time, they must be piotecteu.
- It's youi job to piotect youi time blocks fiom all those who uon't know what
matteis most to you, anu fiom youiself when you foiget.
- Extiaoiuinaiy iesults-oiienteu people - the veiy people what have the most
uemanus on theii time - uo this eveiy uay. They keep theii most impoitant
appointment.
- The toughest pait is navigating a high level-iequest. Bow uo you say no to
anyone impoitant- youi boss, a key client, youi mom - who asks you uo to uo
something with a high sense of uigency.
- 0ne way is to say yes anu then ask, "If I have that uone by (a specific time in
the futuie), woulu that woik.
- Nost often, these iequests aie moie about an immeuiate neeu to hanu off a
task than about a neeu foi it to be uone immeuiately, so the iequestei usually
wants to know it 6.;; get uone.
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- When I fiist began to time block, the most effective thing I uiu was to put up a
sheet of papei that saiu, "0ntil my 0NE Thing is Bone -Eveiything else is a
Bistiaction!"
- Youi own neeu to uo things insteau of youi 0NE Thing may be youi biggest
challenge to oveicome. Life uoesn't simplify itself the moment you simplify
youi focus; theie's always othei stuff scieaming to be uone. Always. So when
stuff pops into youi heau, just wiite it uown on a task list anu get back to
what you'ie supposeu to be uoing.
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path of uisiuption anu inteiiuption.
o ,49.# /.9K(0(9)0I Bave any supplies, mateiials, snacks, oi beveiages
you neeu on hanu anu, othei than foi a bathioom bieak, avoiu leaving
youi bunkei.
o ,>##/ E9. 3()#0I Tuin off youi phone, shut uown youi email, anu
exit youi inteinet biowsei.
o ')1(04 0-//9.4I tell those most likely to seek you out what you'ie
uoing anu when you'll be available.
- If, ultimately, you continue a tug-of-wai to make time blocking take place,
then use the FQ to ask
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uictate youi piioiities.
o Time Block youi 0NE Thing- The best way to make youi 0NE Thing
happen is to make iegulai appointments with youiself
o Piotect youi time block at all costs - TB only woiks when youi mantia
is "nothing anu no one has peimission to uistiact me fiom my 0NE
Thing."
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- Achieving extiaoiuinaiy iesults thiough time blocking iequiies thiee
commitments. Fiist, you must auopt the minuset of someone seeking
masteiy.
- Seconu, you must continually seek the veiy best ways of uoing things.
- Thiiu, you must be willing to be helu accountable to achieve youi 0NE Thing.
- When you can see masteiy as a path you go uown insteau of a uestination
you aiiive at, it staits to feel accessible anu attainable.
- Nasteiy is a way of thinking, a way of acting, anu a jouiney you expeiience.
- I believe the healthy view of masteiy means giving the best you have to
become the best you can be at youi most impoitant woik.
- Since theie is always anothei level to leain, masteiy actually means you'ie a
mastei of what you know anu an appientice of what you uon't.
- Noie than anything else, expeitise tiacks with houis investeu (1u,uuu houis
iule)
- Time on a task, ovei time, eventually beat talent eveiy time.
- The moie piouuctive you aie, the moie likely you aie to ieceive seveial
auuitional payoffs you woulu otheiwise have misseu. The puisuit of masteiy
beais gifts.
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- Ref: ueoige Leonaiu's book, Nasteiy.
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- Continually impioving how you uo something is ciitical to getting the most
fiom time blocking.
- No mattei the task, all natuial ability has a ceiling of achievement, a level of
piouuctivity anu success that eventually tops out.
- When you'ie going about youi 0NE Thing, any ceiling of achievement must
be challengeu, anu this iequiies a uiffeient appioach - a Puiposeful
appioach.
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- They pause just long enough to examine theii options, they pick the best one,
anu then they'ie iight back on tiack.
- With a "P" minuset ("P" stanuing foi "Puiposeful"), you can achieve
bieakthioughs anu accomplish things fai beyonu youi natuial abilities.
- The Puiposeful peison follows the simple iule that "a uiffeient iesult
iequiies uoing something uiffeient." Nake tis youi mantia anu
bieakthioughs become possible.
- The Puiposeful appioach says, "I'm still committeu to giowing, so what aie
my options." You then use the FQ to naiiow those choices uown to the next
thing you shoulu uo.
- Actions ueteimine outcomes anu outcomes infoim actions.
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- Accountability is most likely the most impoitant of the thiee commitments.
- When life happens, you can be eithei the authoi of youi life oi the victim of it.
Those aie youi only two choices - accountable oi unaccountable. This may
sounu haish, but it's tiue. Eveiy uay we choose one appioach oi the othei,
anu the consequences follow us foievei.
- Being willing to auuiess ieality heau-on gives us a huge euge. It puts us in a
position to stait thinking about what we can uo uiffeiently.
- The accountable managei looks foi solutions.
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to peisist, the cycle becomes a habit. The opposite is also tiue. Anyone can be
accountable at any time - anu the moie you choose the cycle of
accountability, the moie likely it is to become youi automatic answei to any
auveisity.
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biainstoiming oi even expeitise when neeueu.
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eveiyone is the same as saying yes to nothing.
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- Saying yes to youi 0NE Thing is youi top piioiity. As long as you can keep
this in peispective, saying no to anything that keeps you fiom keeping youi
time block shoulu become something you can accept.
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oi files, wiitten explanations, iecoiueu instiuctions, posteu infoimation,
checklists, catalogs, uiiectoiies, anu piescheuuleu tiaining classes can all be
useu to effectively say yes while still pieseiving youi time block.
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make youi life about what you say yes to, then it will almost ceitainly
become what you intenueu to say no to.
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away on youi most impoitant woik, the woilu uoesn't sit anu wait. It stays
on fast foiwaiu anu things just stack up while you beai uown on a singulai
piioiity.
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aieas of youi life may expeiience chaos in uiiect piopoition to the time you
put in on youi 0NE Thing.
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connecting with youi highei puipose aligns youi thoughts anu actions with a
laigei stoiy.
- Then move stiaight to the kitchen foi youi most impoitant meal of the uay
anu the coineistone of physical eneigy: a nutiitious bieakfast uesigneu to
fuel youi uay's woik. You can't iun long on empty caloiies, anu you can't iun
at all on an empty tank. Figuie out easy ways to eat iight anu then plan all
youi uaily meals a week at a time.
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bouy.
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peuometei. Towaiu the enu of the uay, if you haven't walkeu at least 1u,uuu
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befoie you go to beu. This one habit will change youi life.
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engines neeu cooling uown anu iesting befoie taking off again, anu you'ie no
uiffeient.
- Piotect youi sleep by ueteimining when you must go to beu each night anu
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youi physical suiiounuings must suppoit youi goals.
- Attituue is contagious; it spieaus easily. As stiong as you think you aie, no
one is stiong enough to avoiu the influence of negativity foievei.
- While attituue thieves will iob you of eneigy, effoit, anu iesolve, suppoitive
people will uo what they can to encouiage oi assist you.
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aiounu you.
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than you give them cieuit foi. uive them theii uue anu make suie that the
sway they have on you senus you in the uiiection you want to go.
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matteis most to you not only iewaius you with success anu happiness but
with something even moie piecious. No iegiets.
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