To find purpose ask yourself, what impact you want to create in your life? What drives you to wake up in the morning? Live with PurposeĪs mentioned in Man’s Search for Meaning Summary, finding purpose is the most important thing in one’s life. So, your big One Thing is your purpose and your small One Thing is a priority and when you start living with purpose and priority you need to take action which leads to productivity. What visible to people is productivity but the productive people are, the more purpose and priority pushing and driving them. The path to extraordinary results is through purpose, priority, and productivity. This tiny habit can give remarkable results in the long run. For personal life… What is the one thing I can do to find time for my hobby?.For Physical Health … What the one thing I can do to improve my health.For spiritual life… What the one thing I can do to help others?.You can ask this question for every area in your life. Ask daily, “What’s the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?” The focusing can become your success habit. Take little effort to form a small habit and this will lead you to a better life. This question will set a direction to achieve the big picture ( what do you want to achieve in the next 5 years? ) and narrow your focus to take immediate action ( which one thing I can do now, to achieve my long term goal? ). “What’s the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?” So, how do you know what’s your one thing? Start with asking the focusing question. The key to success is not in all things we do but in the handful of things we do well. Well, If these are the lies then what the truth is? The Truth Big thinking lead by bigger actions open doors of opportunities. What you do is determined by what you think. We limit ourselves when we believe this.īut, this is a lie. We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles but by a clear path to lesser goal Robert Braultįor some reason there is fear that big achievement/success brings mental pressure and stress, it will rob our time with friends and family and health. In short, work when you are working and play when you are playing. At work, do just important stuff and avoid unnecessary, so that you will enough time for personal life. You have to give a disproportionate amount of time. Because to achieve mastery you need to go extreme. People always suggest making a balance between work and life, which is actually not possible. This is one of the most important things you can learn from the one thing book summary. Use your willpower for important work before it drains out. Willpower is used when you make a decision to focus your attention, suppress the feelings of impulses or try to build new behavior. so, you should always prioritize important tasks when you are most alert. Once a habit is you can be free in other areas. Usually, it takes 66 days to form a habit. If you form a single habit, it will help you to remain undisciplined in other areas. You just need limited discipline so that you can make a habit. You don’t need your every action to be well disciplined. So, don’t divide your focus too thin and yourself too! 3. We can walk and talk, but can’t focus on both. Multitaskers make more mistakes, experience more stress and do poorer decisions. The residue of your attention stuck thinking about first task.Īccording to research, we lost 28% of an average workday to this ineffectiveness. When we switch from one task to another our attention doesn’t follow. Narrow your to-do list to only one thing. The Pareto or 80/20 principle point out the same. The majority of what you want will come from a minority of what you do. In the real-world results, it is never possible. The word Equality was used for justice and human rights. Before going for the one thing you need to put these lies to bed. These are the six lies between you and your success. Success leaves clue and the clue is doing the one thing.īefore accepting the one thing, there are some lies that need to be clarified so that you can adopt the one thing easily. Steve jobs one thing between 1998 to 2012 changed from iPods to iTunes to iMacs to iPhone, and the result is in front of you. Most of the revenue that Google generates is from “Search”. Bill Gates learned Programming that changed his life forever. If you look at more successful people they have built their success doing the one thing or we can say by achieving mastery or becoming so good at the one thing.įor Ex. If you try to chase two rabbits at a time, you will end up nothing. The one thing summary is all about removing unnecessary and going narrow in life. Author realized the reason behind the extraordinary success is narrowing your focus to the one thing.
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