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Jake Burhans argues you're not lazy, you're unfocused. Pick one highest-leverage task each day, finish it, then move to the next. Multitasking dilutes focus and stalls progress. Work less, achieve more.
Jake Burhans argues you're not lazy, you're unfocused. Pick one highest-leverage task each day, finish it, then move to the next. Multitasking dilutes focus and stalls progress. Work less, achieve more.
Being overwhelmed comes from not knowing what to focus on. You have this destination or this goal or whatever you want to achieve laid out in front of you, and you have to get from A to B, and there's a million different things you could be doing to get there. You have not identified what is the single highest leverage thing I could be doing in the moment to get there. You're trying to do 4 or 5 different things at once, which obviously is overwhelming because you can't actually wrap your mind around it. You can't get any traction doing it. So in order to reduce your overwhelm as you are pursuing your goals and your visions and doing whatever you want to accomplish, you need to identify what is the single highest leverage task I can be doing today, right now. And you do that thing, you do that thing until you're done. Then you move on to the next highest leverage thing and you do that thing until you're done. And that's how you work in a regulated, calm state of being every single day and get a lot done. It's not about working really hard and stress and pressure and push, push, push, push, push. It's not about hustle. It's about focus. Can you continue to focus your energy and your effort on the single thing that moves the needle the most?
