The article is about 4 tips on how to gain more focus in our everyday lives. We can do anything, but not everything. There is a limit to what we can do. Only a few things matter. We must separate the vital few from the trivial many. Our ability to choose is forgotten but never taken away.
“If you seek tranquility, do less.” Or (more accurately) do what’s essential.
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome)
Because most of what we say and do is not essential.
If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time.
Ask yourself at every moment, “Is this necessary?”
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Focus on the Essentials
To achieve this, we must explore and evaluate where we are in life. We must gather all our tasks or commitments and sieve out what is not necessary.
The next step is to decide on eliminating the non-essentials from the collection. We must take the initiative to discard what is non-essential.
We must implement our decisions. You cannot do every investment, so you choose and bet heavily.
Single-Tasking
Single-tasking involves your ability to focus on the activity you engage in. You must always decide on the essentials. And not everything matters in equal measure. This applies to everything from business to reading to relationships.
Success is built sequentially over time. It’s one thing at a time. You do not decide your future, you decide your habits. And your habits decide your future. Build one habit at a time. And give each habit enough time to develop. Success is sequential, not simultaneous.
Big and Small Focus Questions
You should apply focus questions on both the big and small things. Your big one thing is your purpose, and the small one thing is the priority of your actions list.
To focus on the big things, you ask yourself; What’s the one important thing I can do that will change my life?
To focus on the small things, you ask yourself; What’s the one important thing I can do right now?
You must apply the big and small focus questions to your health, finance, business, relationships, job, spiritual life, emotional life, and mental life.
How far you go depends on who you follow
You can only run as fast as the person you are following. You must find the constraints in your life. The constraints can be in business, relationships, exercise, and learning. You must then adjust and improve the constraints. By tackling the constraints, you will improve the entire system.
My Take
We have unlimited potential, but we cannot achieve everything at once. You must drop the non-essentials and focus on the vital few.
Practical Insights
- Focus on Single-tasking
- Develop your list of essentials and drop everything else
- Do the most difficult task first
- Set boundaries on people who absorb your psychic energy
- Work within your Biological Prime Time
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