The Four Thieves

• Our purpose sets our priority and our priority determines the productivity our actions produce.
• Who we are and where we want to go determine what we do and what we accomplish.
• How circumstances affect us depends on how we interpret them as they relate to our ...

• Achieving extraordinary results through time blocking requires three commitments.
• First, you must adopt the mindset of someone seeking mastery.
• Second, you must continually seek the very best ways of doing things.
• And last, you must b...

• At any moment in time there can be only ONE Thing, and when that ONE Thing is in line with your purpose and sits atop your priorities, it will be the most productive thing you can do to launch you toward the best you can be.
• A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the...

The ONE Thing is the best approach to getting what you want.

1. Success is a result of narrowing your concentration to one thing.
2. Success is built sequentially, one thing at a time.
3. Not everything matters equa...

• To achieve an extraordinary result you must choose what matters most and give it all the time it demands.
• Achievement and abundance show up because they’re the natural outcomes of doing the right things with no limits attached.
• The key to success isn’t in all...

• Answers come from questions, and the quality of any answer is directly determined by the quality of the question. Ask the wrong question, get the wrong answer. Ask the right question, get the right answer. Ask the most powerful question possible, and the answer can be life-a...

• Success is actually a short race—a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.
• When you discipline yourself, you’re essentially training yourself to act in a specific way. Stay with this long enough and it becomes routine—in other words, a...

• When you try to do two things at once, you either can’t or won’t do either well.
• You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
• Every time you try to do two or more things at once, you’re simply dividing up our focus and dumbing down all...

• When everything feels urgent and important, everything seems equal. We become active and busy, but this doesn’t actually move us any closer to success. Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business.
• Achievers always work from a clear ...