the one thing by gary w keller and jay papasan

Your energy and attention is like a battery, which has to be charged when it runs out (also see the summary of: The Corporate Athlete of K.Gonnissen & A.Goudsmet). By changing tasks we lose on average 33% of our time, and dividing our attention can even have serious consequences for our personal relationships when we are not 100% focussing during a conversation with a loved one but keeping one eye on the TV or on our phone. Like any other self-development book, these authors also describe that this is not true. Lie 4: Getting more done by multitasking. It should of course be noted that you do not cross the border and completely neglect another part of your life.

The most successful people in one area (like a top athlete or, for example, a top manager in a company) sacrifice other parts of their lives to spend time on what is important to them. Extraordinary things never happen in the middle, they happen at extremes. Make focussing on 1 thing your new habit and push one small domino over every day. A habit just happens, you do not need discipline to hold on to your habits. Lie 2: you need discipline to be successful. (Also see the summary of: the 80/20 Manager, by Richard Koch) Use the Pareto principle (20% most important tasks with which you achieve 80% of the result) just as often, until you only have one task left. Here are the six reasons why you might not make your dream come true. Success is built sequentially, and not in one go.Ĭhapter 4-9 describes THE SIX LARGE LIES THAT BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR SUCCESS. The longer you focus on the same goal, the greater the results become and the more successful you are. When you perform a small action related to your goal today, you can carry out a slightly larger action tomorrow, and in the end you can move mountains with it. The same counts for achieving your goals. The beauty of dominoes is that each stone can push a next stone that is twice as big.

Of course, you only focus on that one domino and do not be distracted from your goal. The challenge is just to find that first domino that you have to push over to reach your goal. Each domino in this line represents an action that you can do to reach your final goal (the last domino). This book consists of four parts, each of which is briefly described in this article: the metaphor of the dominos, six lies that stand between you and your success, the simple path to productivity, and four tips to become even more productive.Ĭhapter 1-3 describes THE METAPHOR OF THE DOMINOS. In the words of the authors: 'be like a stamp, and hold on to that one thing until you have arrived'. In their book The One Thing, Gary Keller and Jay Papasan describe the power of focus when you want to be productive.

The one thing by gary w keller and jay papasan