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Do you have a packed calendar? Full list of to dos? Stressed to the max? Here’s how to lighten your load: “Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing till you get there.” Josh Billings. It’s true. Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you and I can make our focus. Sticking to one simple task, not fifty different things to juggle.
There’s a scene in the movie City Slickers where Curly and Mitch are riding along on horses having a conversation about life. Suddenly, Curly reins his horse to a stop and turns in the saddle to face Mitch.
Curly:
Do you know what the secret of life is?
Mitch : No what?
Curly: This, (He holds up one finger.)
Mitch: Your finger?
Curly: One thing! Just one thing! You stick to that and everything else doesn’t mean anything.
Mitch: That’s great but what’s the one thing?
Curly: That’s what you’ve got to figure out.
Out of the mouth of this grizzled functional character comes this success secret. It’s focusing on one thing. Going small. Most people just think the opposite. They think this big success has to be time consuming and extremely complicated. Full calendars and overloaded with to-dos. Most to-do lists are more of a survival list than of being their intent to success.