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The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth about Extraordinary Results

by Gary Keller

A focus-first approach to personal and professional goals

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  • Bestseller

    #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller

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A focus-first approach to personal and professional goals

Gary Keller’s book centers on a practical question: what deserves your attention most? It presents concentration on one priority at a time as a way to manage competing demands across work and personal life. The discussion connects this approach with goals such as improving productivity, building a career, strengthening finances, and making time for relationships and wellbeing. Its organizing idea is deliberately broad, spanning professional, family, personal, and spiritual areas rather than treating focus as a workplace skill alone. The book is aimed at the everyday problem of scattered attention and an overloaded schedule, and frames prioritization as a route toward doing more meaningful work with fewer distractions.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • People seeking a structured way to prioritize work and personal goals
  • Readers interested in productivity and personal-success guidance
  • Those balancing professional aims with family, relationships, or wellbeing

Themes

Focus and prioritizationProductivityGoal-settingWork-life balancePersonal success

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Book overview

What's your ONE thing?



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 book has:


  • Made on more than 575 appearances on national bestseller lists



  • Been #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, New York Times bestseller, and USA Today bestseller



  • Been translated into 40 languages



  • Won 12 book awards



  • Voted Top 100 Business Book of All Time on Goodreads


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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