THE ONE THING: The Surprisingly Simple Truths Behind Extraordinary Results

Rating — 5/5
When I decide to rate a book a 5/5, its because of two primary reasons. First, I deeply resonate with the book to the extent that by applying the lessons from the book, it has the potential to improve me as a person drastically. I must be pumped up to the core reading the book. The second reason is how practical the advice is and how much of it can be readily applied to our lives. This book is going to remain a ready reckoner for a long time in my life.
Chapter 1: The One Thing
- Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
- The way to get the most out of your work and your life is to go as small as possible.
Chapter 2: The Domino Effect
- When one thing, the right thing, is set in motion, it can topple many things. And that’s not all..
- A single domino is capable of bringing down another domino that is actually 50 percent larger.

- Getting extraordinary results is all about creating a domino effect in your life.
- The moon is reachable if you prioritize everything and put all of your energy into accomplishing the most important thing.
- Highly successful people know this. So every day they line up their priorities anew, find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
- Why does this approach work? Because extraordinary success is sequential, not simultaneous. What starts out linear becomes geometric. You do the right thing and then you do the next right thing. Over time it adds up, and the geometric potential of success is unleashed.
- Success builds on success, and as this happens, over and over, you move toward the highest success possible.
- When you see someone who has a lot of knowledge, they learned it over time. When you see someone who has a lot of skills, they developed them over time. When you see someone who has done a lot, they accomplished it over time. When you see someone who has a lot of money, they earned it over time. The key is over time. Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
Chapter 3: Success Leaves Clues
- It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.— Og Mandino
- Extraordinarily successful companies always have one product or service they’re most known for or that makes them the most money.
- The list of businesses that have achieved extraordinary results through the power of the ONE Thing is endless.
- The answer isn’t always clear, but that doesn’t make finding it any less important. Technological innovations, cultural shifts, and competitive forces will often dictate that a business’s ONE Thing evolve or transform. The most successful companies know this and are always asking: What’s our ONE Thing?
- There can only be one most important thing. Many things may be important, but only one can be the most important.— Ross Garber
- If today your company doesn’t know what its ONE Thing is, then the company’s ONE Thing is to find out.
One Passion, One Skill
- You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided. — General George S. Patton
- We each have passions and skills, but you’ll see extraordinarily successful people with one intense emotion or one learned ability that shines through, defining them or driving them more than anything else.
- Pat Matthews, one of America’s great impressionist painters, says he turned his passion for painting into a skill, and ultimately a profession, by simply painting one painting a day.
- Passion for something leads to disproportionate time practicing or working at it. That time spent eventually translates to skill, and when skill improves, results improve. Better results generally lead to more enjoyment, and more passion and more time is invested. It can be a virtuous cycle all the way to extraordinary results.
- Success demands singleness of purpose. — Vince Lombard
- Applying the ONE Thing to your work — and in your life — is the simplest and smartest thing you can do to propel yourself toward the success you want.

CHAPTER 4: EVERYTHING MATTERS EQUALLY?
- Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- And when our lives are defined by our choices, the all-important question becomes, How do we make good ones?
- The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.”— Bob Hawke”
- 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.
- It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?”
- Not everything matters equally, and success isn’t a game won by whoever does the most. Yet that is exactly how most play it on a daily basis.
MUCH TO-DO ABOUT NOTHING
- While to-dos serve as a useful collection of our best intentions, they also tyrannize us with trivial, unimportant stuff that we feel obligated to get done — because it’s on our list.
- If allowed, to do lists set our priorities the same way an inbox can dictate our day. Most inboxes overflow with unimportant e-mails masquerading as priorities.
- Achievers operate differently. They have an eye for the essential. They pause just long enough to decide what matters and then allow what matters to drive their day. Achievers do sooner what others plan to do later and defer, perhaps indefinitely, what others do sooner. The difference isn’t in intent, but in right of way. Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority.
- 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.
- Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list — a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.
- To-do lists tend to be long; success lists are short. One pulls you in all directions; the other aims you in a specific direction. One is a disorganized directory and the other is an organized directive. If a list isn’t built around success, then that’s not where it takes you.
- If your to-do list contains everything, then it’s probably taking you everywhere but where you really want to go?
- Pareto’s Principle, it turns out, is as real as the law of gravity, and yet most people fail to see the gravity of it.
- Richard Koch, in his book The 80/20 Principle, defined it about as well as anyone: The 80/20 Principle asserts that a minority of causes, inputs, or effort usually lead to a majority of the results, outputs, or rewards. In other words, in the world of success, things aren’t equal. A small amount of causes creates most of the results.

- Pareto points us in a very clear direction: the majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do. Extraordinary results are disproportionately created by fewer actions than most realize.
- A to-do list becomes a success list when you apply Pareto’s Principle to it.


- Doing the most important thing is always the most important thing.
CHAPTER 5: MULTITASKING
- Multitasking is a lie.
- Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
- Task switching exacts a cost few realize they’re even paying.

- And yet, here the rest of us are — living another standard. Do we not value our own job or take it as seriously? Why would we ever tolerate multitasking when we’re doing our most important work?
- Your work deserves no less respect. It may not seem so in the moment, but the connectivity of everything we do ultimately means that we each not only have a job to do, but a job that deserves to be done well.

- The results suggest that it takes an average of 66 days to acquire a new habit.
CHAPTER 7: WILLPOWER IS ALWAYS ON WILL-CALL
- Willpower is always on will-call is a lie.
- His hunch was correct — willpower or the ability to delay gratification was a huge indicator of future success.
- Willpower is so important that using it effectively should be a high priority. Unfortunately, since it’s not on will-call, putting it to its best use requires you to manage it.
- Think of willpower like the power bar on your cell phone. Every morning you start out with a full charge. As the day goes on, every time you draw on it you’re using it up. So as your green bar shrinks, so does your resolve, and when it eventually goes red, you’re done. Willpower has a limited battery life but can be recharged with some downtime.
- The more we use our mind, the less minding power we have.
- Willpower is like a fast-twitch muscle that gets tired and needs rest. It’s incredibly powerful, but it has no endurance.
- Willpower is like gas in your car… . When you resist something tempting, you use some up. The more you resist, the emptier your tank gets, until you run out of gas.In fact, a measly five extra digits is all it takes to drain our willpower dry.
- Participants who exercised willpower showed a marked drop in the levels of glucose in the bloodstream.
- The studies concluded that willpower is a mental muscle that doesn’t bounce back quickly. If you employ it for one task, there will be less power available for the next unless you refuel. To do our best, we literally have to feed our minds, which gives new credence to the old saw, “food for thought.” Foods that elevate blood sugar evenly over long periods, like complex carbohydrates and proteins, become the fuel of choice for high-achievers — literal proof that “you are what you eat.
- When in doubt and willpower is low, the prisoner stays behind bars. And if you’re not careful, your default settings may convict you too.

GIVE WILLPOWER THE TIME OF DAY
- There are degrees of willpower strength. Like the battery indicator going from green to red, there is willpower and there is “won’t” power. Most people bring won’t power to their most important challenges without ever realizing that’s what makes them so hard. When we don’t think of resolve as a resource that gets used up, when we fail to reserve it for the things that matter most, when we don’t replenish it when it’s low, we are probably setting ourselves up for the toughest possible path to success.
- So how do you put your willpower to work? You think about it. Pay attention to it. Respect it. You make doing what matters most a priority when “your willpower is its highest. In other words, you give it the time of day it deserves.”
WHAT TAXES YOUR WILLPOWER
- Implementing new behaviors
- Filtering distractions
- Resisting temptation
- Suppressing emotion
- Restraining aggression
- Suppressing impulses
- Taking tests
- Trying to impress others
- Coping with fear
- Doing something you don’t enjoy
- Selecting long-term over short-term rewards”
- When it comes to willpower, timing is everything. You will need your willpower at full strength to ensure that when you’re doing the right thing, you don’t let anything distract you or steer you away from it. Then you need enough willpower the rest of the day to either support or avoid sabotaging what you’ve done. That’s all the willpower you need to be successful. So, if you want to get the most out of your day, do your most important work — your ONE Thing — early, before your willpower is drawn down. Since your self-control will be sapped throughout the day, use it when it’s at full strength on what matters most.
CHAPTER 8: A BALANCED LIFE
- In your effort to attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged and nothing gets its due. Sometimes this can be okay and sometimes not. Knowing when to pursue the middle and when to pursue the extremes is in essence the true beginning of wisdom. Extraordinary results are achieved by this negotiation with your time.

- The reason we shouldn’t pursue balance is that the magic never happens in the middle; magic happens at the extremes.
- Replace the word “balance” with “counterbalance” and what you experience makes sense.
- Trying to get them all done is folly. When the things that matter most get done, you’ll still be left with a sense of things being undone — a sense of imbalance. Leaving some things undone is a necessary tradeoff for extraordinary results. But you can’t leave everything undone, and that’s where counterbalancing comes in. The idea of counterbalancing is that you never go so far that you can’t find your way back or stay so long that there is nothing waiting for you when you return.
- In the world of professional success, it’s not about how much overtime you put in; the key ingredient is focused time over time. To achieve an extraordinary result you must choose what matters most and give it all the time it demands. This requires getting extremely out of balance in relation to all other work issues, with only infrequent counterbalancing to address them.
- In your personal world, awareness is the essential ingredient. Awareness of your spirit and body, awareness of your family and friends, awareness of your personal needs — none of these can be sacrificed if you intend to “have a life,” so you can never forsake them for work or one for the other. You can move back and forth quickly between these and often even combine the activities around them, but you can’t neglect any of them for long. Your personal life requires tight counterbalancing.
- The question is: “Do you go short or long?” In your personal life, go short and avoid long periods where you’re out of balance.
- In your professional life, go long and make peace with the idea that the pursuit of extraordinary results may require you to be out of balance for long periods. Going long allows you to focus on what matters most, even at the expense of other, lesser priorities. In your personal life, nothing gets left behind. At work it’s required.
LIFE IS A BALANCING ACT
- The question of balance is really a question of priority. When you change your language from balancing to prioritizing, you see your choices more clearly
- When you act on your priority, you’ll automatically go out of balance, giving more time to one thing over another.
- The challenge then doesn’t become one of not going out of balance, for in fact you must. The challenge becomes how long you stay on your priority. To be able to address your priorities outside of work, be clear about your most important work priority so you can get it done. Then go home and be clear about your priorities there so you can get back to work.
- When you’re supposed to be working, work, and when you’re supposed to be playing, play. It’s a weird tightrope you’re walking, but it’s only when you get your priorities mixed up that things fall apart.
CHAPTER 9: BIG IS BAD
- No one knows their ultimate ceiling for achievement.
- What set Sabeer apart from the hundreds of entrepreneurs I’ve met is the gargantuan size of his dream. Even before he had a product, before he had any money behind him, he was completely convinced that he was going to build a major company that would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He had an unrelenting conviction that he was not just going to build a run-of-the-mill Silicon Valley company. But over time I realized, by golly, he was probably going to pull it off.
- Thinking big is essential to extraordinary results. Success requires action, and action requires thought. But here’s the catch — the only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with. Make this connection, and the importance of how big you think begins to sink in.

- Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level. It just might take you more than your lifetime to run into the walls of a box this big.
- What you build today will either empower or restrict you tomorrow. It will either serve as a platform for the next level of your success or as a box, trapping you where you are.

- Big gives you the best chance for extraordinary results today and tomorrow.
- Sometimes things are easier than we imagine, and truthfully sometimes they’re a lot harder. That’s when 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!
- 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.
- Big stands for greatness — extraordinary results. Pursue a big life and you’re pursuing the greatest life you can possibly live. To live great, you have to think big. You must be open to the possibility that your life and what you accomplish can become great. Achievement and abundance show up because they’re the natural outcomes of doing the right things with no limits attached.
- Only living big will let you experience your true life and work potential.
CHAPTER 10: THE FOCUSING QUESTION
- Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it. The Focusing Question is that uncommon approach. In a world of no instructions, it becomes the simple formula for finding exceptional answers that lead to extraordinary results.
WHAT’S the one thing I can do such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary.
- Extraordinary results are rarely happenstance. They come from the choices we make and the actions we take. The Focusing Question always aims you at the absolute best of both by forcing you to do what is essential to success — make a decision.
- But not just any decision — it drives you to make the best decision. It ignores what is doable and drills down to what is necessary, to what matters. It leads you to the first domino.
ANATOMY OF THE QUESTION
- Great questions are the path to great answers. The Focusing Question is a great question designed to find a great answer. It will help you find the first domino for your job, your business, or any other area in which you want to achieve extraordinary results.
- The Focusing Question is a double-duty question. It comes in two forms: big picture and small focus. One is about finding the right direction in life and the other is about finding the right action.
- The Big-Picture Question: “What’s my ONE Thing?” Use it to develop a vision for your life and the direction for your career or company; it is your strategic compass. It also works when considering what you want to master, what you want to give to others and your community, and how you want to be remembered. It keeps your relationships with friends, family, and colleagues in perspective and your daily actions on track.
- The Small-Focus Question: “What’s my ONE Thing right now?” Use this when you first wake up and throughout the day. It keeps you focused on your most important work and, whenever you need it, helps you find the “levered action” or first[…]”
CHAPTER 11: THE SUCCESS HABIT
How do you make The ONE Thing part of your daily routine? How do you make it strong enough to get extraordinary results at work and in the other areas of your life? Here’s a starter list drawn from our experience and our work with others:
- Understand and believe it. The first step is to understand the concept of the ONE Thing, then to believe that it can make a difference in your life. If you don’t understand and believe, you won’t take action.”
- Use it. Ask yourself the Focusing Question. Start each day by asking, “What’s the ONE Thing I can do today for [whatever you want] such that by doing it everything else will be easier or even unnecessary?” When you do this, your direction will become clear. Your work will be more productive and your personal life more rewarding.
- Make it a habit. When you make asking the Focusing Question a habit, you fully engage its power to get the extraordinary results you want. It’s a difference maker. Research says this will take about 66 days. Whether it takes you a few weeks or a few months, stick with it until it becomes your routine. If you’re not serious about learning the Success Habit, you’re not serious about getting extraordinary results.
- Leverage reminders. Set up ways to remind yourself to use the Focusing Question. One of the best ways to do this is to put up a sign at work that says, “Until my ONE Thing is done — everything else is a distraction.” We designed the back cover of this book to be a trigger — set it on the corner of your desk so that it’s the first thing you see when you get to work. Use notes, screen savers, and calendar cues to keep making the connection between the Success Habit and the results you seek. Put up reminders like, “The ONE Thing = Extraordinary Results” or “The Success Habit Will Get Me to My Goal.”
- Recruit support. Research shows that those around you can influence you tremendously. Starting a success support group with some of your work colleagues can help inspire all of you to practice the Success Habit every day. Get your family involved. Share your ONE Thing. Get them on board. Use the Focusing Question around them to show them how the Success Habit can make a difference in their school work, their personal achievements, or any other part of their lives.
CHAPTER 12: THE PATH TO GREAT ANSWERS
- The Focusing Question helps you identify your ONE Thing in any situation. “It will clarify what you want in the big areas of your life and then drill down to what you must do to get them. It’s really a simple process: You ask a great question, then you seek out a great answer. As simple as two steps, it’s the ultimate Success Habit.”

ASK A GREAT QUESTION


- When you ask a Great Question, you’re in essence pursuing a great goal.
- A big, specific question leads to a big, specific answer, which is absolutely necessary for achieving a big goal.
- So if “What can I do to double sales in six months?” is a Great Question, how do you make it more powerful? Convert it to the Focusing Question: “What’s the ONE Thing I can do to double sales in six months such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”
FIND A GREAT ANSWER
- The challenge of asking a Great Question is that, once you’ve asked it, you’re now faced with finding a Great Answer.
Answers come in three categories:
- doable: “The easiest answer you can seek is the one that’s already within reach of your knowledge, skills, and experience. With this type of solution you probably already know how to do it and won’t have to change much to get it. Think of this as “doable” and the most likely to be achieved.
- stretch: “While this is still within your reach, it can be at the farthest end of your range. You’ll most likely have to do some research and study what others have done to come up with this answer. “Think of this as potentially achievable and probable, depending on your effort.
- possibility: “High achievers understand these first two routes but reject them. Unwilling to settle for ordinary when extraordinary is possible. “Extraordinary results require a Great Answer.

- Highly successful people choose to live at the outer limits of achievement. “They know this type of answer is the hardest to come by but also know that just by extending themselves to find it, they expand and enrich their life for the better.” “If you want the most from your answer, you must realize that it lives outside your comfort zone. This is rare air. A big answer is never in plain view, nor is the path to finding one laid out for you. ”
- “Benchmark and trend for the best answer. No one has a crystal ball, but with practice you can become surprisingly good at anticipating where things are heading. The people and businesses who get there first often enjoy the lion’s share of the rewards with few, if any, competitors. Benchmark and trend to find the extraordinary answer you need for extraordinary results.”
CHAPTER 13: LIVE WITH PURPOSE
- To Dickens, our purpose determines who we are.
- Who we are and where we want to go determine what we do and what we accomplish.
- A life lived on purpose is the most powerful of all — and the happiest.
CHAPTER 14: LIVE BY PRIORITY
GOAL SETTING TO THE NOW
- As Ebenezer Scrooge profoundly discovered, our life is driven by the purpose we give it. But there’s a catch even he had to confront. Purpose has the power to shape our lives only in direct proportion to the power of the priority we connect it to. Purpose without priority is powerless.
- The truth about success is that our ability to achieve extraordinary results in the future lies in stringing together powerful moments, one after the other.
- Goal Setting to the Now will get you there.
- By thinking through the filter of Goal Setting to the Now, you set a future goal and then methodically drill down to what you should be doing right now.

- “Based on my someday goal, what’s the ONE Thing I can do in the next five years to be on track to achieve it? Now, based on my five-year goal, what’s the ONE Thing I can do this year to be on track to achieve my five-year goal, so that I’m on track to achieve my someday goal? Now, based on my goal this year, what’s the ONE Thing I can do this month so I’m on track to achieve my goal this year, so I’m on track to achieve my five-year goal, so I’m on track to achieve my someday goal? Now, based on my goal this month, what’s the ONE Thing I can do this week so I’m on track to achieve my goal this month, so I’m on track to achieve my goal this year, so I’m on track to achieve my five-year goal, so I’m on track to achieve my someday goal? Now, based on my goal “this week, what’s the ONE Thing I can do today so I’m on track to achieve my goal this week, so I’m on track to achieve my goal this month, so I’m on track to achieve my goal this year, so I’m on track to achieve my five-year goal, so I’m on track to achieve my someday goal? So, based on my goal today, what’s the ONE Thing I can do right NOW so I’m on track to achieve my goal today, so I’m on track to achieve my goal this week, so I’m on track to achieve my goal this month, so I’m on track to achieve my goal this year, so I’m on track to achieve my five-year goal, so I’m on track to achieve my someday goal?”
CHAPTER 15: LIVE for PRODUCTIVITY
- Living for productivity produces extraordinary results.
- The most successful people are the most productive people.
- Productive people get more done, achieve better results, and earn far more in their hours than the rest. They do so because they devote maximum time to being productive on their top priority, their ONE Thing. They time block their ONE Thing and then protect their time blocks with a vengeance. They’ve connected the dots between working their time blocks consistently and the extra-ordinary results they seek.

- If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
- Each and every day, ask this Focusing Question for your blocked time: “Today, what’s the ONE Thing I can do for my ONE Thing such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?” When you find the answer, you’ll be doing the most leveraged activity for your most leveraged work.
- This is how results become extraordinary.
- In the end, putting together a life of extraordinary results simply comes down to getting the most out of what you do, when what you do matters.
- Time blocking is a very results-oriented way of viewing and using time. It’s a way of making sure that what has to be done gets done.
- Time blocking harnesses your energy and centers it on your most important work. It’s productivity’s greatest power tool.
- If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
- Great success shows up when time is devoted every day to becoming great.
To achieve extraordinary results and experience greatness, time block these three things in the following order:
- Time block your time off
- Time block your ONE thing
- Time block your planning time.
Time Block Your Time Off
- The most successful simply see themselves as working between vacations. On the other hand, the least successful don’t reserve time off, because they don’t think they’ll deserve it or be able to afford it. By planning your time off in advance, you are, in effect, managing your work time around your downtime instead of the other way around.
- Resting is as important as working.
Time Block Your One Thing
- After you’ve time blocked your time off, time block your ONE Thing.
- The most productive people, the ones who experience extraordinary results, design their days around doing their ONE Thing.
- Their most important appointment each day is with themselves, and they never miss it
- The key to making this work is to block time as early in your day as you possibly can. Give yourself 30 minutes to an hour to take care of morning priorities, then move to your ONE Thing.
- To experience extraordinary results, be a maker in the morning and a manager in the afternoon. Your goal is “ONE and done.” But if you don’t time block each day to do your ONE Thing, your ONE Thing won’t become a done thing.
Time block your planning time
- The last priority you time block is planning time. This is when you reflect on where you are and where you want to go.
- Block an hour each week to review your annual and monthly goals.
- First, ask what needs to happen that month for you to be on target for your annual goals. Then ask what must happen that week to be on course for your monthly goals. You’re essentially asking, “Based on where I am right now, what’s the ONE Thing I need to do this week to stay on track for my monthly goal and for my monthly goal to be on track for my annual goal?” You’re lining up the dominoes. Decide how much time you’ll need to achieve this, and reserve that amount of time on your calendar.
- Protect your time blocks from all those who don’t know what matters most to you, and from yourself when you forget.
CHAPTER 16: THE THREE COMMITTMENTS
- Achieving extraordinary results through time blocking requires three commitments.
- First, you must adopt the mindset of someone seeking mastery. Mastery is a commitment to becoming your best, so to achieve extraordinary results you must embrace the extraordinary effort it represents.
- Second, you must continually seek the very best ways of doing things. Nothing is more futile than doing your best using an approach that can’t deliver results equal to your effort.
- And last, you must be willing to be held accountable to doing everything you can to achieve your ONE Thing.
Three commitments to your one thing:
- Follow the Path of Mastery
- Move from “E” to “P”
- Live the Accountability Cycle
Live the Accountability Cycle
- Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.
- “Accountable people absorb setbacks and keep going. Accountable people persevere through problems and keep pushing forward. ”
- Excerpt From: Gary Keller. “The ONE Thing.” iBooks.
CHAPTER 18: THE JOURNEY
- ONE step at a time. That step is called the ONE thing.
- Close your eyes and imagine your life as big as it can possibly be. As big as you have ever dared to dream, and then some. Can you see it?
- Write down your current income. Then multiply it by a number: 2, 4, 10, 20 — it doesn’t matter. Just pick one, multiply your income by it, and write down the new number. Looking at it and ignoring whether you’re frightened or excited, ask yourself, “Will my current actions get me to this number in the next five years?” If they will, then keep doubling the number until they won’t. If you then make your actions match your answer, you’ll be living large.
- When you lift the limits of your thinking, you expand the limits of your life. It’s only when you can imagine a bigger life that you can ever hope to have one.
- The challenge is that living the largest life possible requires you not only to think big, but also to take the necessary actions to get there.
- So whenever you want extraordinary results, look for the levered action that will start a domino run for you.
- One evening an elder Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside all people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us. “One is Fear. It carries anxiety, concern, uncertainty, hesitancy, indecision and inaction. The other is Faith. It brings calm, conviction, confidence, enthusiasm, decisiveness, excitement and action.” The grandson thought about it for a moment and then meekly asked his grandfather: “Which wolf wins?” The old Cherokee replied, “The one you feed.”
- Effort is important, for without it you will never succeed at your highest level. Achievement is important, for without it you will never experience your true potential. Pursuing purpose is important, for unless you do, you may never find lasting happiness. Step out on faith that these things are true. Go live a life worth living where, in the end, you’ll be able to say, “I’m glad I did,” not “I wish I had.”


