vital few and trivial many. - Gary Keller

when you can see mastery as a path you go down instead of a destination you arrive at, it starts to feel accessible and attainable.

Be like a postage stamp–stick to one thing until you get there.

I’ve played the board game Risk with my son and witnessed an otherwise guileless, wonderful child morph into a little Napoleon plotting my demise. If everyone, even the sweetest child I know, is capable of this level of competitiveness, why don’t we all apply the same level of strategic thinking and competitiveness to our careers? And, by the way, why shouldn’t our work be just as entertaining? Almost all of the Millionaire Real Estate Agents we’ve worked with or interviewed for this book were, by nature, very competitive people.