You most definitely need breaks and time to rest, but there are some great ways to do it other than zoning out. Moreover, they don’t leave us feeling refreshed, motivated, or recharged.
Spend less time on counterfeit rest: things like television, video games, social media, mindless internet surfing - these things can be time sinks. We all will have ideas that we want to do, but the existence of them doesn’t mean we are now obligated to flesh them out. One of the benefits to this exercise is that you learn you have more ideas than time, and you don’t have to be a slave to your good ideas. In the Focus Course, we have a day dedicated to ideation and strengthening our creative imagination. Learn to say no: to your own ideas, and to other peoples. Get help: consider delegating and/or hiring others to help you. Reduce your project load: do you have to be doing all the projects right now? Can one or more of them be put on pause? Instead of doing three projects all simultaneously, can you do one at a time? Even on a week-to-week basis? And consider lowering your bar of perfectionism - my friend Sean McCabe says we ought to aim for 90% complete (instead of 99%). Reduce the scope: consider scaling back what “1.0” looks like, so it’s something that is attainable.
#FOCUS ON ONE THING HOW TO#
Here are some suggestions for those who have several projects and ideas all going at the same time, but don’t know how to juggle them all… Instead of working on multiple things simultaneously, perhaps it would be better to work on just one thing at a time. To have multiple projects and areas of interest, you have to be okay with letting one or more of them be neglected for a time while you work on the others. Even though I know that I do my best work when I am head down and focused on just one project and it’s all I think about until I’m done.īut sometimes, that sort of single-minded focus is not an option. There is too much to do.Īnd, thus, one very common question is How do I get it all done?Īt times I feel stretched thin. We have so many interesting, exciting, and important projects we are working on that we don’t know where to start. We take on every new idea we have, we say yes to too many incoming opportunities, and we just generally have too much going on at any given time. This is one of those things that we know in principle, but many of us do not actually walk it out. When you have these things you work with greater efficiency, you produce a higher quality of work, and you have more fun doing so.
There is significant value in having a clear goal, a single focus, and a deadline.
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