In case you’re not familiar with Gary Keller (author of this book), he’s the founder of Keller-Williams Real Estate. In an industry of about a million people, one thing changed our image forever.” Eight years later that one book had not only become a national bestseller, but also had morphed into a series of books with total sales of over a million copies. The one that we decided on was that I would write a book on how to become an elite performer in our industry. The next morning, we narrowed the list down to ten ideas, and from there we chose just one big idea. It took us all day to come up with the list. I challenged our group to brainstorm 100 ways to turn this situation around. “…As fast as we were growing, we were still not acknowledged by the top people in our industry. Use the 80/20 Principle (Then Go Even Deeper And Narrower) Because it’s the ONE most impactful thing they can put their money towards to solve their ONE ultimate focus: to tackle some of the world’s “really tough problems.” (See how it all ties together?) The ONE solution they came up with was vaccination.To do this, they settled on find a solution to the ONE major cause of death - infectious disease….The majority of the foundation’s money went to ONE area, their Global Health Program - which had ONE goal: the use science and technology to save lives in poor countries….After Bill retired from Microsoft, he and his wife Melinda formed ONE foundation that focused on ONE Thing: to tackle some of the world’s “really tough problems” like health and education.which eventually made Bill the ONE richest man in the world for 15 years in a row.Bill’s company, Microsoft focussed on ONE thing - the development and sale of BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800,.Which led to him eventually starting ONE company – Microsoft.

In high school, he got ONE job in the computer programing field.

This led him to develop ONE skill, computer programming.Bill’s ONE passion in high school was computers.But just because it’s simple doesn’t mean it’s easy.Īmerican businessman Bill Gates is a great example of The ONE Thing lifestyle in action. Once you’ve figured that out, you need to identify how many dominoes you need to line up – and then knock down – in order to achieve it. The key to success is figuring out your ONE most important thing in your business/career/life over the long-run. You’ll want to write that down… because the whole entire book is based around that single question, and the power of organizing every area of your life around ONE Thing (per area). Start with “the focusing question.” ↓ “What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”

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