THE ONE THING REVIEW

Gary Keller

Link of book: https://pdfseva.com/the-one-thing-book/

What this book taught me?

1. Live with Purpose. Live by Priority. Live for Productivity.

2. Efficiency is doing right things. Effectiveness doing things right.
3. Find One Thing to focus on in life, make it a priority, make your life orbit around it, make it
purposeful and achieve greater than boundaries set.
4. Go Big and Specific on the focusing question in order to achieve big outcomes.
5. Make goals to achieve daily, weekly, monthly, yearly orbiting the one thing.

Quotes:

1. Going small is a simple approach to extraordinary results, and it works. It works all the time,
anywhere and on anything. Why? Because it has only one purpose—to ultimately get you to the
point.
2. Success builds on success, and as this happens, over and over, you move toward the highest
success possible. The key is over time. Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.
3. Everyone has one person who either means the most to them or was the first to influence, train,
or manage them. No one succeeds alone. No one.
4. He results suggest that it takes an average of 66 days to acquire a new habit.
5. As powerful as my motivation was, my willpower wasn’t just sitting around waiting for my
call, ready at any moment to enforce my will on anything I wanted. I was taken aback. I had
always assumed that it would always be there. That I could simply access it whenever I wanted,
to get whatever I wanted. I was wrong. Willpower is always on will-call is a lie.
6. 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.
7. There are five factors that contribute to our happiness: positive emotion and pleasure,
achievement, relationships, engagement, and meaning.
8. Pick a direction, start marching down that path, and see how you like it. Time brings clarity and
if you find you don’t like it, you can always change your mind. It’s your life.
9. Live with purpose and you know where you want to go. Live by priority and you’ll know what to
do to get there
Models:

1. The 6 lies between you and success

2. Pareto effect (80/20 rule)

3. Choosing box- choses outcome

4. Focusing Question
5. My life and the areas that matter most in it.

6. Four options for framing a Great Question.

7. The Success Habit unlocks possibilities

8. Productivity is driven by purpose and priority. In business, profit and productivity are also driven
by priority and purpose.
9. Future purpose connects to present priority

10. Your ONE Thing gets the time of the day it deserves
11. Three commitments: follow path of mastery, move from Entrepreneurial (E) to Purposeful (P)
and live the accountability cycle
12. The highly productive person’s daily energy plan

13. Create a productivity specific environment to support your ONE Thing.