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.

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.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.

You'd be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don't have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.

Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.

A different result requires doing something different.