Gary Keller

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.
Mitch: That’s great, but what’s the “one thing”?
Curly: That’s what you’ve got to figure out

You have only so much time and energy, so when you spread yourself out, you end up spread thin. 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 things with side effects.

When you go as small as possible, you’ll be staring at one thing. And that’s the point

the path to more is through less

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
—Mark Twain

The 80/20 Principle says the minority of your effort leads to the majority of your results.

A to-do list becomes a success list when you prioritize it

Don’t focus on being busy; focus on being productive. Allow what matters most to drive your day.

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time