Preface: Great businesses are built one productive person at a time – The ONE Thing
A Book Summary | The ONE Thing
The ONE Thing — Gary Keller
Book Summary: Samuel Thomas Davies
The Book in Three Sentences
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- The ONE Thing is the best approach to getting what you want.
- Success is a result of narrowing your concentration to one thing.
- Success is built sequentially, one thing at a time.
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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.
The Focusing Question collapses all possible questions into one: “What’s the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”
Anders Ericsson observed that “the single most important difference between {the} amateurs and the three groups of elite performers is that the future elite performers seek out teachers and coaches and engage in supervised training, whereas the amateurs rarely engage in similar types of practice.”
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 be willing to be held accountable to doing everything you can to achieve your ONE Thing.
Accountable people achieve results others only dream of.