Gary Keller Quotes

It’s important to realize that on the journey to achieving big, you get bigger. Big requires growth, and by the time you arrive, you’re big too! What seemed an insurmountable mountain from a distance is just a small hill when you arrive — at least in proportion to the person you've become. Your thinking, your skills, your relationships, your sense of what is possible and what it takes all grow on the journey to big. As you experience big, you become big.

Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching.

Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.

Being needed is incredibly satisfying, and helping others can be deeply fulfilling. Focusing on our own goals to the exclusion of others, especially the causes and the people we value the most, can feel downright selfish and self-centered. But it doesn’t have to. Master marketer Seth Godin says, “You can say no with respect, you can say no promptly, and you can say no with a lead to someone who might say yes. But just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.” Godin gets it. You can keep your yes and say no in a way that works for you and for others.

The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.

While decisions tap our willpower, the food we eat is also a key player in our level of willpower.

success comes down to this: being appropriate in the moments of your life.

When we fear big, we either consciously or subconsciously work against it.

To-do lists inherently lack the intent of success. In fact, most to-do lists are actually just survival lists — getting you through your day and your life, but not making each day a stepping-stone for the next so that you sequentially build a successful life.

You need to be doing fewer things for effect instead of doing more things with side effects

be a maker in the morning and a manager in the afternoon.

Saying yes to everyone is the same as saying yes to nothing. Each additional obligation chips away at your effectiveness at everything you try.

Multitasking is a scam.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

buying into The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we’ve unfortunately bought into too many others — and more often than not those “other things” muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success.