When everything feels urgent and important, everything seems equal. We become active and busy, but this doesn’t actually move us any closer to succes… - Gary Keller

In an attempt to make it all work, I began to bear down even harder. You might say that I started to clench my way to success. I really did. I thought that this might be the way you went through life — with your jaw clenched, your fist clenched, your stomach clenched, and your butt clenched.

Give each habit enough time. Stick with the discipline long enough for it to become routine. Habits, on average, take 66 days to form. Once a habit is solidly established, you can either build on that habit or, if appropriate, build another one.

It’s realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.