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总结：

全书最重要的一句话：“What’s the ONE Thing I can do right now to start using The ONE Thing in my life such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”

最大的收获：每天必须有充足的睡眠。

The Contents

Part 0 引子：

“What’s the ONE Thing I can do right now to start using The ONE Thing in my life such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”

The One Thing

1. 只做一件事

   1. 1. 1. 1. ​

   • One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don’t mean sh*t.
   • The ONE Thing is the best approach to getting what you want.
   • I had never considered how so few could change so much.
   • It’s realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you
   • can make your focus.
   • You have only so much time and energy, so when you spread yourself out, you end up spread thin. You want your achievements to add up, but that actually takes subtraction, not addition.

2. 多米诺效应

   • the more you line up, the more potential energy you’ve accumulated.
   • So when you think about success, shoot for the moon.
   • So every day they line up their priorities anew, find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
   • The key is over time. Success is built sequentially. It’s one
   • thing at a time.

3. 成功有迹可循

   • “It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.”
   • The most successful companies know this and are always asking: “What’s our ONE Thing?”
   • Applying the ONE Thing to your work—and in your life—is the simplest and smartest thing you can do to propel yourself toward the success you want.
   • The ONE Thing sits at the heart of success and is the starting point for
   • achieving extraordinary results.

Part 1 谎言，误导并阻碍成功

The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we’ve unfortunately bought into too many others—and more often than not those “other things” muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success.

1. 每件事都很重要

   • Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business.
   • They pause just long enough to decide what matters and then allow what matters to drive their day.
   • “vital few and trivial many.”
   • Juran’s great insight was that not everything matters equally;
   • That’s thinking big, but going very small.

2. 你可以同时处理多件事

   • It’s not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it’s that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.
   • “We call it multitasking, which makes it sound like an ability to do lots of things at the same time. ... A Buddhist would call this monkey mind.” We think we’re mastering multitasking, but we’re just driving ourselves bananas.
   • Figure out what matters most in the moment and give it your undivided attention.

3. 过上有规律的生活

   • you can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.
   • The results suggest that it takes an average of 66 days to acquire a new habit.
   • It’s why those with the right habits seem to do better than others. They’re doing the most important thing regularly and, as a result, everything else is easier.
   • Harness the power of selected discipline to build the right habit, and extraordinary results will find you.

4. 意志力触手可及

   • Willpower has a limited battery life but can be recharged with some downtime.
   • The more we use our mind, the less minding power we have.
   • Most of our conscious activity is happening in our prefrontal cortex, the part of our brain responsible for focus, handling short-term memory, solving problems, and moderating impulse control.
   • You make doing what matters most a priority when your willpower is its highest.
   • When it comes to willpower, timing is everything.
   • Don’t fight your willpower. Build your days around how it works and let it do its part to build your life. Willpower may not be on willcall, but when you

5. 平衡工作和生活

   Time on one thing means time away from another. This makes balance impossible.

   In your effort to attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged and nothing gets its due.

6. 大即不佳

   • It’s quite possibly the worst lie of all, for if you fear big success, you’ll either avoid it or sabotage your efforts to achieve it.

   • When big is believed to be bad, small thinking rules the day and big never sees the light of it.

   • When you allow yourself to accept that big is about who you can become, you look at it differently.

   • Believing in big frees you to ask different questions, follow different paths, and try new things.

   • Thinking big is essential to extraordinary results. Success requires action, and action requires thought. But here’s the catch—the only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with. Make this connection, and the importance of how big you think begins to sink in.

   • how big you think becomes the launching pad for how high you achieve.

   • What you build today will either empower or restrict you tomorrow.

   • Think big. Avoid incremental thinking that simply asks, “What do I do next?” This is at best the slow lane to success and, at worst, the off ramp. Ask bigger questions. A good rule of thumb is to double down everywhere in your life. If your goal is ten, ask the question: “How can I reach 20?” Set a goal so far above what you want that you’ll be building a plan that practically guarantees your original goal.

   • Don’t let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.

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Part 2 真理，提高效率的极简之道

I learned that success comes down to this: being appropriate in the moments of your life. If you can honestly say, “This is where I’m meant to be right now, doing exactly what I’m doing,”

1. 关键问题

• the quality of any answer is directly determined by the quality of the question.
• How we phrase the questions we ask ourselves determines the answers that eventually become our life.

2. 成功的习惯

• Start with the big stuff and see where it takes you.
• “Until my ONE Thing is done —everything else is a distraction.”

3. 如何找到正确答案

They push you, stretch you, and aim you at big, specific answers. And because they’re framed to be measurable, there’s no wiggle room about what the results will look like.

Part 3 成就卓越，释放你的内在潜力

Achieving extraordinary results: purpose, priority, and productivity.

1. 找到生活的目标

• Live with purpose. Live by priority. Live for productivity.
• our purpose sets our priority and our priority determines the productivity our actions produce.

2. 确定优先事务

• Purpose without priority is powerless.
• What you do in any given moment determines what you experience in the next.

3. 高效的生活

• Getting “everything else” done may help you sleep better at night, but it’s unlikely to earn you a promotion.
• Block an hour each week to review your annual and monthly goals.
• Extraordinarily results-oriented people—the very people who have the most demands on their time—do this every day. They keep their most important appointment.

4. 三个承诺

1. Follow the Path of Mastery
2. Move from “E” to “P”
3. Live the Accountability Cycle

• As intimidating as it might initially seem, when you can see mastery as a path you go down instead of a destination you arrive at, it starts to feel accessible and attainable.
• More than anything else, expertise tracks with hours invested.
• When coaching top performers, I often ask, “Are you doing this to simply do the best you can do, or are you doing this to do it the best it can be done?”
• Accountable people achieve results others only dream of.

5. 四个小偷

1. Inability to Say “No”
2. Fear of Chaos
3. Poor Health Habits
4. Environment Doesn’t Support Your Goals

• You can’t please everyone, so don’t try.
• When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up.
• when you spend the early hours energizing yourself, you get pulled through the rest
• of the day with little additional effort.
• Your environment must support your goals.

6. 生命的旅程

A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.

后记，在工作中只做一件事。

The one thing