Name: The One Thing
ISBN: 9781885167774

The One Thing

lists - #1 Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today - Won 12 book awards - Translated into 35 languages - Voted Top 100 Business Book of All Time on Goodreads People are using this simple, powerful concept to focus on what matters most in their personal and work lives. Companies are helping their employees be more productive with study groups, training, and coaching. Sales teams are boosting sales. Churches are conducting classes and recommending for their members. By focusing their energy on one thing at a time people are living more rewarding lives by building their careers, strengthening their finances, losing weight and getting in shape, deepening their faith, and nurturing stronger marriages and personal relationships. YOU WANT LESS. You want fewer distractions and less on your plate. The daily barrage of e-mails, texts, tweets, messages, and meetings distract you and stress you out. The simultaneous demands of work and family are taking a toll. And what's the cost? Second-rate work, missed deadlines, smaller paychecks, fewer promotions--and lots of stress. AND YOU WANT MORE. You want more productivity from your work. More income for a better lifestyle. You want more satisfaction from life, and more time for yourself, your family, and your friends. NOW YOU CAN HAVE BOTH -- LESS AND MORE.

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ilrwbwrkhvOct 2022

The book The One Thing by Gary Keller also dives into this idea and is one of the few popular business books which actually left a deep impact on me.

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launchiterateDec 2021

1. The Bhagavad Gita 2. The One Thing 3. Insanely Simple

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muzaniMay 2021

"I was wondering if the community here, such as it is, has any tips for daily exercises or practices that can help me get back on track in a kaizen or incremental way a little bit every day."

I recommend the book The ONE Thing, Gary Keller: https://www.amazon.com/ONE-Thing-Surprisingly-Extraordinary-...

The short of it is exactly what you asked for - working incrementally on one small thing. The core of it is a domino effect, where a small thing pushes over a bigger domino. Most of the advice is on how to pick the next dominos. You pick a large epic goal, as a purpose, and a smaller one, which is your priority, and then line them up.

A lot of people were made in a few years, so really, you just need about 10 years to achieve your dream whatever it is. It sounds like you have more skills than most people your age; don't compare yourself too harshly with HN in general.

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BrianOnHNDec 2020

Single 4K ftw. If you feel like you need more, I recommend "The ONE Thing" by Gary Keller.

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vladmkOct 2020

That’s not being drastic, but I would simply read David Goggins Can’t Hurt Me. Your mind is accustomed to a life of leisure therefore to make progress you should get into the daily ritual of doing things you’d hate to do such as running 3 miles in the morning, etc.

The other potential answer here is maybe you don’t really want it as bad as you say? Often what we think we want and what we really want aren’t the same ;)

Last but not least your procrastination is likely due to you having too many goals or too high goals. Try having 1 daily top priority if you do that the day is a success, most people don’t have one. After you get your top focus done then 60 second tasks if you do them longer that’s just bonus. I think these are much better productivity habits.

There’s a great book on focus written by Gary Keller called One Thing.

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kablamoJul 2020

Leadership:

- Turn The Ship Around (Marquet) - make everyone a leader - The Effective Engineer (Lau) - leadership for engineers - Leadership, Strategy, and Tactics (Jocko) - leadership in military/business - Good To Great (Collins) - good companies vs great ones

How to get better at everything:

- Mindset (Dwek) - growth vs fixed mindset - Atomic Habits (Clear) - automate good decisions w/habits - Change Your Habits, Change your life (Corley) - data driven selection of which habits matter - Ultralearning (Young) - how to learn anything faster - Anything You Want (Sivers)

How to talk to humans

- Difficult Conversations (Stone) - how to talk to humans - Never Split the Difference (Voss) - every conversation is a negotiation - Death By Meeting (Lencioni) - short fable - anything else by Patrick Lencioni

Prioritization and focus:

- The One Thing (Keller) - prioritization - Deep Work (Calport) - focus - Indistractable (Li) - focus

See also anything by: Jason Friedman, Jim Collins, Patrick Lencioni, Peter Drucker and biographies in general

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