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A chart shows that juggling multiple tasks yields 40% effectiveness, while focusing on one or two tasks reaches 80%. The argument: doubling your results doesn't require working harder, just narrowing your focus to a single priority.
A chart shows that juggling multiple tasks yields 40% effectiveness, while focusing on one or two tasks reaches 80%. The argument: doubling your results doesn't require working harder, just narrowing your focus to a single priority.
I just want to show you this chart really quick, highlighting how doing less and focusing more stack up against one another. The gray bar is the chaotic effort. This is somebody that's trying to do more than 3 things at any given moment. On the far right, we have the blue chart. This is the focused effort. This person doesn't do more than 2. Primarily, it's only 1. Look at the difference in terms of their results of effectiveness in any given direction. The person who has focused effort, only on one thing is able to have 80% effectiveness in that direction. The other person is just at 40%. And if we're looking at a scale, 40% is less than 60%. So if you have chaotic effort, chances are you're working against yourself, making it harder for you to succeed. The point of this is that you understand success is not from you having to work harder, but from you having to work smarter. And I know that sounds cliché, work smarter, not harder, but the smartness behind working harder is actually in the simplicity of doing less and doing more of it.
