Gary Keller

Author of The ONE Thing - Achieve extraordinary results today!

Gary Keller is the founder and chairman of the board for Keller Williams Realty, the world’s largest real estate franchise by agent count.Keller is recognized as one of the most influential leaders in the real estate industry, leading his company to 30 consecutive years of growth and profitability. Keller has written three nationally best-selling books: The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, and SHIFT: How Top Real Estate Agents Tackle Tough Times. As a coach and keynote speaker, he has helped countless others find success narrowing down their ONE thing.

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The ONE Thing

The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan

The ONE Thing. What's yours? Gary Keller (his Keller-Williams real estate is THE largest real estate company in the world--I bet that was a ONE Thing goal at some point!) shares his wisdom in this BRILLIANT book. We'll have fun exploring a few of my favorite Big Ideas: dominoes + extreme Pareto and other goodness.

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Ready to Amplify Your Latent Potential by 2 Billion?

Are you familiar with the physics of dominoes? It’s fascinating. And wonderfully applicable to the power of lining up a series of micro-goals to generate a ton of momentum in the process. (C...

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The #1 Power Tool for Great Days and a Great Life (You Using Them?)

Continuing our theme of making TODAY (and every day!) a Masterpiece Day, let’s take a quick look at Time Blocks. Gary Keller wrote The ONE Thing. He also created the largest real estate agency in the world. In his great little book, he tells us how important it is to ruthlessly f...

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Throw Away Your To-Do List & Focus Here

In our last +1, we talked about adding a To-Be List to go with your To-Do List. But, you know what? We should really start with our To-Be List and then throw out the To-Do List—replacing that one with a Success List. That’s what ...

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How to Make Our Lives an Elegantly Simple Masterpiece

As you may have noticed, I’m a bit obsessed about the etymology of cool words. 😃 I like to open up my Apple dictionary, read the definition and then scroll down to see the ancient roots of a word I find interesting. One of my big things lately has been “simplicity.” Quick...

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How to Calculate the Odds of Your Success

Matt McCall is one of the leading venture capitalists in the world. He also happens to be a friend and advisor and personal investor in Optimize. (And, perhaps most importantly, his license plate says “KARMA” which I think is pretty epically cool.) So, the other day we were having a strateg...

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Dominoes - Part 2

Way back in the very early days of our +1 journey together, we talked about dominoes. As you may recall, I introduced you to a physics professor who taught us that a domino can knock over another domino that’s 50% bigger than it. Start ...

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Someday > 5 Years > 1 Year > 1 Month > 1 Week > Today > NOW!

In our last +1, we talked about building/taking a dominoes staircase to the moon. As we discussed, dominoes provide an awesome metaphor on the power of geometric growth. Today I want to chat about how Gary Keller and

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A Key Feature of Your Hero’s Journey

In our last couple +1s, we talked about the art and science of lining up our dominoes in one neat and shiny staircase to moon-heaven. 🚶 🌝 It all sounds so nice and easy when it’s mapped out like that, eh? (Hah.)

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