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Focus on This

#126 : The Power of Constraints: Do Less, Achieve More

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

Timemanagement, Productivity, Organization, Planning, Achievement, Education, Worklifebalance, Business, Michaelhyatt, Focus, Goals

4.6627 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Doing more doesn’t mean we’re achieving more. Paradoxically, we can achieve more and maximize our return by focusing on less.

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0:00.0

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0:07.6

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0:45.4

Blake, do you ever feel like, you know, especially at the beginning of the year,

0:50.4

that there's a whole bag of 20 of the year, the previous year stuff that you're bringing on top of what you're looking forward to in the new year?

0:54.0

Yeah, that feeling where you kind of just

0:57.0

all the stuff, especially if you didn't hit a specific goal, but even if you did hit a goal,

1:02.6

if it was about your everyday life, like let's say you had an income goal, well, you probably

1:08.5

still want to make an income this year, right? Just because you hit or maybe you came

1:13.2

close last year, or maybe it's a, you know, you had exercise goals, or you had all these other things

1:18.1

or just life commitments. Right. I think it's the temptation sometimes is just to add on top of stuff.

1:26.6

Be like, oh, well, let's do it all again or let's go even

1:29.8

further or let's add five more goals or a bunch of new, a bunch of more things on top of what I was

1:35.9

already doing previously. And especially if you're a high achieving personality, I think the temptation is that, hey, I'm just going to go, just go, just go.

1:49.5

I'm going to 2x, and then I'm going to 2x, 3x, and 5x, and I'm going to 10x my whole life.

1:56.7

And I think that obviously that's, you know, that's admirable to an extent.

2:02.0

But if things never slow down, if things, if you're always just adding, adding, this mentality that you're, it will all just pay off if you just keep doing more and more and more, I think is a flawed mentality.

2:16.6

And for me personally, I don't know

2:20.9

if you've been your verbs, but my physical body will tell me when I've been operating by

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