21Single Handle Every Task

Single handling means that once you have started a task, you keep working on it until it is complete. Each time you get off task, the task takes longer to complete—as much as 500 percent longer. The more you discipline yourself to work nonstop on a single task, the more and better quality work you get done in less and less time.

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1. In the end, success requires large amounts of self-discipline. By focusing on your more valuable tasks until completion, you build good habits—you become a better person.

Use the space below to pledge to yourself that once you start your most important task, you’ll work until you finish it, without distraction or diversion.

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