How do you stay focused in a world filled with so many distractions?
How can you accomplish more, by simply doing less?
How do you knock down a big goal that seems impossible at the moment?
I’m Aaron Tupaz of Positively Brainwashed, and in this video I will cover The ONE Thing by Gary Keller
and explain why not everything is equal, Why Multitasking is a myth, how disciplines can turn to habits,
discuss how to make the most of our Will Power,
How to Balance our work and Personal lives,
and lastly talk about some important focusing questions to help us towards success
Growing up, I was a juggler, did yoga, could memorize hundreds of numbers,
was breaker dancer, studied over 10 languages and much more.
I was good at these things, but I never reached world class level
because I did too much and there wasn’t enough time in the day
My mind was too scattered. It would have been better if I had just focused on ONE THING
The lesson here is that we have only so much time
and that it’s better to specialize than to be a Jack of all Trades
Like not everyone deserves a Gold medal in the olympics
It belongs only to the people who put in the work, time and was dedicated to their One Thing
For Michael Phelps it’s swimming, for Usain Bolt it’s sprintin
It’s rare to find someone who is a master of more than one thing.
Our goal should be to take our To-Do List, and to turn it into a Success List
that is to keep applying Pareto's 80/20 principle and to narrow it down until there is only One Thing left
I made a video on the 80/20 principle and it’s many layers.
Just remember not to get hung up on the numbers.
In reality, it could be 90/20 or 65/10 or whatever.
But once you establish your one thing,
Gary says aim to do it for at least 4 hours before doing anything else.
The second myth is Mult-tasking
This was a term originally used to describe computers
that would switch tasks back and forth in such a fast pace
that it simply looked like they were doing multiple tasks at the same time
Now unlike computers, we can do two or more things at the same time like walking and talking
but like computers we can only focus on one thing at the same time.
Like multi tasking is just an opportunity to screw up more than one thing at the same time
Like I just did
and it’s one of the reasons tragedies liker a toddler being left in the bathtub happens
But believe me, multitasking like juggling is just an illusion
n reality, I’m just catching and tossing, one ball at a time
And remember distractions like from all our social media and cell phones can make us lose momentum
A 10 minute distraction can cost us another 10 minutes trying to get back to being focused
So do your ONE THING in an environment that you won’t get distracted
People often think we just simple need more discipline to accomplish more
But success is really like a short race
or a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over
When you discipline yourself, you’re essentially training yourself to act in a specific way
And so many times, when you see others who look like “disciplined” people,
what you’re actually seeing is a person whose trained a handful of habits into their lives.
Research from the University College of London suggests
that it takes an average of 66 days to form a habit
So remember once a new behaviour becomes a habit,
it takes less discipline to maintain.
Try to build only 1 new habit at a time.
Next, willpower is not on call
It’s like a battery that run out, and once it runs out you will revert back to your default behaviour
So Gary says to use our Will Power first on what matters most, which is our One Thing
I talk more about why our Will Power is not reliable on one of my videos
Next Gary says to picture juggling 5 balls representing work, family, health, friends and integrity,
with work being made out of rubber that if you drop it will bounce
and the rest being made out of glass that it can shatter.
He says to separate these for counter balancing purposes
Now when it coms to work, it’s okay to be out of balance
and neglecting other less important things
for a long period of time, , while you’re focusing on your One Thing
This is the only way to produce extraordinary results
But when it comes to your personal life,
you can’t neglect any of it for too long, or you’ll feel like you have “No Life"
So what you want to do, is to ask yourself this focusing question...
What’s the ONE thing I can do (right now/ this year) such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
You can ask this question for any aspect of your work or personal life
for both short term and long term goals
But avoid questions like, “What do I do next?”
Instead think big, and ask yourself what your someday goal is,
and then work your way backwards
Ask yourself, based on your someday goal,
what’s the One Thing you can do in the next five years?
Then Based on your five year goal,
what’s the best thing you can do this year?
Keep doing this until you have figured out what’s the One Thing you can do right now.
As for me, my One Thing I’ve chosen, is to make videos likes this and to Positively Brainwash the world.
Now Imagine your goals were like Dominos
Dominos have the power to knock down another domino 50% bigger than itself.
So if you line up all your goals and keep knocking down your One Thing again and again and again,
over time you will knock down a Football Player,
then the Leaning Tower of Pisa,
then the Eifle Tower,
before you know it, Mount Everest,
and eventually you’ll reach the Moon and Beyond.
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