One is Fear. It carries anxiety, concern, uncertainty, hesitancy, indecision and inaction. The other is Faith. It brings calm, conviction, confidence, enthusiasm, decisiveness, excitement and action. The grandson thought about it for a moment and then meekly asked his grandfather: “Which wolf wins?” The old Cherokee replied, “The one you feed.” -The One Thing, p.211 Continue reading The battle is between two wolves inside of us…
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhleming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one. -Mark Twain, The One Thing, p.103 Continue reading The secret of getting ahead
View work as involving a skill or knowledge that must be mastered. This will cause youto give disproportionate time to your One Thing and will throw the rest of your work day, week, month, and year continually out of balance. 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 One Thing, p.83 Continue reading In your work, you should give disproportionate time to your One Thing
When you gamble with your time, you may be placing a bet you can’t cover. Even if you’re sure you can win, be careful that you can live with what you lose. Do you really think you can ever get back a child’s bedtime story or birthday? -The One Thing, p.79 Continue reading Don’t use your time mindlessly…
When they “multitask,” they switch back and forth, alternating their attention until both tasks are done. People can actually do two or more things at once, such as walk and talk, or chew gum and read a map; but, like computers, what we can’t do is focus on two things at once. There is just so much brain capability at any one time. Divide it up as much as you want, but you’ll pay a price in time and effectiveness. Bounce between one activity and another and you lose time as your brain reorients to the new task. Those miliseconds … Continue reading Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time
Not everything matters equally, and success isn’t a game won by whoever does the most. Yet that is exactly how most play it on a daily basis. -The One Thing, p.34 Continue reading Not everything matters equally
“Going small” is ignoring all the things you could do and doing what you should do. It’s recognizing that not all things matter equally and finding the things that matter most. It’s realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus. -The One Thing, p.9 Continue reading What’s the ONE thing you can do this week such that by doing it everything else would be easier or unnecessary?
It’s pointless to work 15 hours per day… Instead, spend that time carefully monitoring what you spend your time on. It’s so easy to just do this one thing that brings low to zero value. But don’t Basically, you need to pick the right projects with unlimited upside. -Shaan Puri Continue reading What you work on and who you work with is far more important that how hard you work
If you want to improve something or develop something new, Ask yourself: What’s the best case scenario? If the best case scenario is 10-20% improvements… don’t work on this. It’s a waste of time (especially at your level). Aim for the big bets. -Jeff Bezos Continue reading “If you have a 10% chance of a 100x return, you should take that bet every time even if it’s going to feel bad 9 out of 10 times.”
You don’t need to map out every feature of a new habit. You just need to practice it. This is the first takeaway of the 3rd Law: you just need to get your reps in. -Atomic Habits, p.143 Continue reading The key is to start with repetition, not perfection.
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