If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.

The path of mastering something is the combination of not only doing the best you can do at it, but also doing it the best it can be done.

When you give your ONE Thing your most emphatic Yes! and vigorously say No! to the rest, extraordinary results become possible.

Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls - family, health, friends, integrity - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

In the end, the best way to succeed is to go small. And when you go small, you say no - a lot. A lot more than you might have even considered before.

Your work life is divided into two distinct areas - what matters most and everything else. You will have to take what matters to the extremes and be okay with what happens to the rest. Professional success requires it.