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The Incredible Lightness of Being Focused
by Robert Gunn
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The 80/20 rule applies to careers: our most significant accomplishments result from just a few decisions or actions. How to stay focused on the essential.
After practically every championship game, the athletes on the winning team attribute their success to "being focused." They talk about "getting priorities straight," "eliminating distractions," and "putting extraneous things out of mind."
At moments like these it's obvious that accomplishment simply requires defining the essence of the task and then doing it the best you can. The task itself teaches you the best way to perform it.
Now, does it seem possible that you could go about your work following this simple principle? Let's take a moment and see how you might do it.
What first comes to mind is the need to turn your back on all those distractions that creep into your days. It's the question of being focused, not in the sense of concentrating intensely, but more in the sense of keeping your attention on the most important thing.
Sometimes it's as easy as not acting on the thought, "I'd better check my email" or "I wonder if my boss has left me a voice mail." How much of what we feverishly respond to seems to take care of itself with a bit of benign neglect. It's amazing how many questions, issues, and requests take care of themselves if left alone overnight.
Perhaps, you say, it was easier to concentrate on what's truly essential before the advent of 7/24 communication. But I ask you: Is that capacity there to serve us, or are we meant to serve it?
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