The concluding chapter encourages readers to take action and identify their own ONE Thing, emphasizing that the journey to extraordinary results starts with this crucial step.

Chapter 12: What's Your ONE Thing?

Chapter 7: The Habit-MakerKeller emphasizes the importance of habits in making extraordinary results sustainable. He discusses the time it takes to build a habit and the power of consistency.

Chapter 7: The Habit-Maker

Keller provides practical steps and strategies for identifying your ONE Thing in different areas of your life and developing the habits necessary to pursue it relentlessly.

Chapter 11: The Path to Your ONE Thing

This chapter explains that willpower is a finite resource that gets depleted throughout the day. Relying solely on willpower is unsustainable, making it crucial to prioritize your ONE Thing when your willpower is strongest.

Chapter 4: Willpower Is Always on Will-Call

Chapter 5: A Balanced LifeKeller challenges the conventional notion of a perfectly balanced life, suggesting that extraordinary results often require an imbalance in favor of your ONE Thing, with other areas being sequenced over time.

Chapter 5: A Balanced Life

This section introduces the Focusing Question and the power of habit in achieving your ONE Thing.And begins with introduces the core of the book: the Focusing Question. This powerful tool helps you identify the single most important thing you can do right now to achieve your desired outcome.

Part 2: The Simple Path To Creativity... Chapter 6: The Focusing Question

Keller redefines discipline, not as an inherent trait, but as a habit developed through consistent focus on your ONE Thing.

Chapter 3: A Disciplined Life

This final section explores how focusing on your ONE Thing can lead to remarkable achievements in all aspects of life. Keller illustrates how applying the ONE Thing principle consistently can transform your work, personal life, relationships, and finances.

Part 3: Extraordinary Results... Chapter 9: Living the ONE Thing

This chapter dismantles the myth of multitasking, explaining how it actually reduces productivity and increases errors. Focusing on one task at a time yields far better outcomes.

Chapter 2: Multitasking

This chapter delves deeper into how to ask and answer the Focusing Question effectively, emphasizing the importance of thinking big and being specific.

Chapter 8: The Path to Great Answers

This section debunks common misconceptions about success that often lead to overwhelm and mediocre results. Keller argues that the belief that everything matters equally is a lie that leads to diffused effort and prevents true focus on what's most important.

Part 1: The Lies They Told You...Chapter 1: Everything Matters Equally

This chapter revisits and expands on the initial lies, providing strategies to overcome these limiting beliefs and embrace the power of focus.

Chapter 10: The 6 Lies Between You and Success

Gary Keller's The ONE Thing champions the power of focus and prioritization to achieve extraordinary results in any area of your life. It argues that by identifying and concentrating on the single most important thing, you can unlock your full potential...

• More than 500 appearances on national bestseller 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. In The ONE Thing, you'll learn to * cut through the clutter * achieve better results in less time * build momentum toward your goal* dial down the stress * overcome that overwhelmed feeling * revive your energy * stay on track * master what matters to you The ONE Thing delivers extraordinary results in every area of your life--work, personal, family, and spiritual. WHAT'S YOUR ONE THING?

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Professionally, Gary’s ONE Thing is teaching. He excelled as a real estate salesperson by teaching clients how to make great buying and selling decisions. As a real estate sales manager, he recruited agents through training and helped them build careers the same way. As co-founder and chairman of the board, he built Keller Williams Realty International from a single office in Austin, Texas, to one of the largest real estate companies in the world by using his skills as a teacher, trainer, and coach. Gary defines leadership as “teaching people how to think the way they need to think so they can do what they need to do when they need to do it, so they can get what they want when they want it.

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