Kassie King
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Kassie King
It’s also very important to manage your “not-to-do” list, and I like to decide what I’m going to quit doing any time I decide to start something new.
David C. Baker, Emily Mills, • Secret Tradecraft of Elite Advisors: Covert Techniques for a Remarkable Practice
Say, “Yes. What should I deprioritize?”
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
“Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.”
Gary Keller • The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results: Achieve your goals with one of the world's bestselling success books
If you hope to scale your success further, you must choose more wisely and decline more opportunities.
Scott Belsky • The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture
Some people already have the first list—a to-do list—though there’s usually too much on it. Very few have the second—the ignore list.
Peter Bregman • 18 Minutes
Michael Porter’s best, when he said, “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
amazon.com • The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”
William Green • Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life
The real measure of any time management technique is whether or not it helps you neglect the right things.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
Recently Charlie Rose asked Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the blockbuster musical Hamilton, what set him apart from some of the smarter, more talented kids he had gone to school with. Miranda answered: “’Cause I picked a lane and I started running ahead of everybody else … I was like, ‘All right, THIS.’”