Make it big by going small
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Have been reading this amazing book The One Thing by Gary Keller. Counter-intuitive at first, it actually made me look back at the patterns which got me success in the past, as an individual or as a part of the team. And that prompted me to share this excerpt from the book.
“If everyone has the same number of hours in the day, why do some people seem to get so much more done than others? How do they do more, achieve more, earn more, have more? If time is the currency of achievement, then why are some able to cash in their allotment for more chips than others?
The answer is they make getting to the heart of things the heart of their approach. They go small. Going small is ignoring all the things you could do and doing what you should do. It’s recognizing that not all things matter equally and finding the things that matter most. It’s a tighter way to connect what you do with what you want. It’s realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.”
― Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Do that one most important thing, with a strong focus, at a time. Other things take a back-seat, and are just managed at threshold level till that one thing works out.
What’s the one thing you can do now - the one thing that would make most other things easier or redundant?
I can attest to that, life gets easier by doing one small thing at a time. It's like cleaning a very messy room, you got clutter everywhere and things are just a mess. By picking up one object at a time the mess begins to clear away and the task becomes less stressful. A funny story whenever I am washing dishes, a family member would always come and pile all the dirty dishes in the sink as I'm washing them. I would yell at them to put them you the side so I can have room to clean them better and not have worry about trying to get too many things done at once.