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GARY KELLER & JAY PAPASAN’S THE ONE THING: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results | Summary
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People are using this simple, powerful concept to focus on what matters most in their personal and work lives. Companies are helping their employees be more productive with study groups, training, and coaching. Sales teams are boosting sales. Churches are conducting classes and recommending from the pulpit. By focusing their energy on one thing at a time people are living more rewarding lives by building their careers, strengthening their finances, losing weight and getting in shape, deepening their faith, and nurturing stronger marriages and personal relationships.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
How can we be our strongest selves in life's most challenging situations? We often approach these situations - job interviews, difficult conversations, speaking up for ourselves - with anxiety and leave them with regret. Moments that require us to be genuine and powerful instead cause us to feel phoney and powerless, preventing us from being our best selves.
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In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country..
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In Essentialism, Greg McKeown shows you how to achieve what he calls the disciplined pursuit of less. Being an Essentialist is about a disciplined way of thinking.
Using the experience and insight of working with the leaders of the most innovative companies and organisations in the world, McKeown shows you how to put Essentialism into practice in your own life, so you too can achieve something great..
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Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success—but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn’t foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success.
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Gary Keller
& Jay Papasan’s
The ONE Thing
THE SUPRISINGLY
SIMPLE TRUTH BEHIND
EXTRAORDINARY
RESULTS
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Table of Contents
A GIFT FOR YOU
THE ONE THING
THE FOCUSING QUESTION
USE THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE THEN GO EVEN DEEPER AND NARROWER
IDENTIFY WHAT’S MOST IMPORTANT; GIVE IT YOUR UNDIVIDED ATTENTION
A SMALL DOSE OF DISCIPLINE DEVELOPS INTO A LONG-LASTING HABIT
LIFE IS A QUESTION
ICEBERG-ING AND LIVING BY PRIORITY
GOAL SETTING TO THE NOW
TIME BLOCKING, MASTERY AND BEING ACCOUNTABLE
THE FOUR THIEVES OF PRODUCTIVITY (AVOID THESE AT ALL COSTS)
IT’S ABOUT THE JOURNEY
NO REGRETS
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The ONE Thing
We want less. We want less stress. We want fewer things to distract us. With today’s constant bombardment from all kinds of technologically induced communication, as well as busyness from meetings, work, and responsibilities of personal life, we get tired. The results are that we don’t handle any of it well; the quality of our work declines, we miss deadlines, our paychecks get smaller, and our promotions don’t happen.
But we also want more. We want increased productivity from work. We want more income so we can improve our lifestyle. We want life satisfaction. We want more time to spend on ourselves, with our families, and with our friends.
Having both less and more is not mutually exclusive!
The ONE Thing Teaches How To:
Eliminate clutter
Achieve more in less time
Build momentum in reaching goals
Tone down stress
Overcome the feelings of being overwhelmed
Get rejuvenated
Stay focused
Master what is important
Following the principles taught in The ONE Thing will bring about amazing results that affect everything in all areas of your work, your personal life, your family life, and your spiritual life.
The Focusing Question
What's the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
Write this question down—the whole book centers on that one question. There is power in organizing your life around ONE main thing.
The Domino Effect
The key is to figure out the ONE thing—the most important focal point covering every area of your life. This includes your business, your career, and your life. What is your long-term someday
goal? After you have identified that, then you must figure out the dominoes that must be set up, and then knocked down, to achieve that goal. It’s simple, really; not easy, but simple.
The ONE Thing in Action
Bill Gates, the American businessman, is an example of how The ONE Thing lifestyle works:
Bill's ONE passion in high school was computers.
So he developed ONE skill, computer programming.
While in high school, he got ONE job working in computer programming.
Eventually, this led him to start ONE company, Microsoft.
Bill's company, Microsoft, also focused on ONE thing -- the development and sale of BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. This led to Bill’s becoming the ONE richest man in the world for 15 years in a row.
When Bill retired from Microsoft, he and his wife Melinda formed ONE foundation that, again, focused on ONE Thing: to tackle some of the world's most difficult problems involving health and educational issues
Most of the foundation’s money was earmarked for ONE area, the Global Health Program -- which had ONE goal: using science and technology to save lives in poor countries.
In order to work toward this goal, they decided to work on finding a solution to the ONE major cause of death in these countries-- infectious disease.
The ONE solution they came up with was vaccination, which is the ONE area where they could focus the money that had the most impact on their main focus: tackling some of the world’s most difficult problems. As you can see, it all flows from one thing to another.
Use the 80/20 Principle Then Go Even Deeper and Narrower.
...As fast as we were growing, we were still not acknowledged by the top people in our industry. I challenged our group to brainstorm 100 ways to turn this situation around. It took us all day to come up with the list. The next morning, we narrowed the list down to ten ideas, and from there we chose just one big idea. The one that we decided on was that I would write a book on how to become an elite performer in our industry. It worked. Eight years later that one book had not only become a national bestseller, but also had morphed into a series of books with total sales of over a million copies. In an industry of about a million people, one thing changed our image forever.
The author of The ONE Thing, Gary Keller, is the founder of Keller-Williams Real Estate. This quote shows how he applied the 80/20 Principle to move his company, Keller-Williams, up the ladder of success in their field. He says that a To-Do List isn’t necessary, but a