Welcome to Your World Within Daily.

Today I'm going to talk about an idea, not necessarily intuitive, but when implemented changes everything about your life.

It is a foundation, the art of cutting away. So it's no secret that our first instinct when we don't have what we want.

When we are in a position of longing or we have a goal or an expectation, it's to acquire. What can I do? What can I

obtain to get myself closer to that end point? And the reality is the most important thing

you can do is chip away, cut away, remove. In the book Good to Great by Jim

Collins that we just did on the books to business podcast, he talks about an excess of

opportunity being much more likely to be the reason a company fails than a wrong decision.

Having too many options, being spread too thin, trying to do too much.

The companies that succeed, they are hedgehogs.

They are good at one thing.

They have mastered the art of saying no.

Of identifying what's important there and going all in. Identifying is that one thing.

One of the books that pushed me forward was Essentialism by Greg McEwen, the idea of simplification.

We're just trying to do too much.

And what that does is prevents the clarity needed to be methodical in your approach.

It's like the hamster on the wheel thing.

I remember reading that, going through my closet and throwing out, like, half my stuff.

Like, we just, there's too much clutter.

And Gary Keller's one thing, same concept.

What is your one thing?

What is that one thing you can master?

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