Circle of Concern, Circle of Influence #covey #7habits #strategy #perspective

Circle of concern, circle of influence. This is an idea that I talk about quite a lot. What are the things that we have under our control that we can do something about, or at least that we could have an effect on in the course of what we do? And the— and what are the things that we can't control, or that perhaps we might be able to control but are very expensive for us to control, that we're choosing to allow to be external to us and internal? Making clear which of these things, which of these circles a given concern falls into I think it's really helpful because we can make decisions based on things we can control or have some degree of influence on. We cannot make decisions based on things we can't. Those are like the forces of nature that we just go around. We focus our attention on things that we can affect in the world, put most of our energy on that, and just use the rest of it as context. I find that we make much better decisions, but also we make those decisions a lot faster because we can focus in on, okay, what's— what matters? What can we do about it? And then execute on it. This is where the tooling all becomes so helpful, focusing on things that matter.