First, we need to understand what is one thing and why it is important. We will know about the 5 keys how to focus on one thing.
- Nowadays we have different types of options.
- Thinking of taking important decisions.
- Or choose a career from your life.
- Our mind thinks that we will do this and that also.
- Most people don’t know what is the one thing that they should focus on.
- That’s why they are confused.
- In day-to-day life, they don’t get productivity or lifelong success.
- Not only from doing 10 things but 1 thing, form 1 thing focus we can achieve success.
- So to solve this confusion and unproductivity life we have to follow Garry Kaler and J Papason’s written book the one thing.
- This book brings focus and productivity to our life and gives clarity.
In simple terms, this book teaches us smart work rather than hard work.
Table of Contents
5 #Keys
- What is one thing?
- What is the Domino effect?
- Three lies that distract from our goals?
- How can we increase our productivity?
- Three biggest thieves. that steal our times.
The one thing
- This is the key concept of the book the one thing.
- One thing is that is important to us, and we can give our focus and can create great results for us.
- Basically, to get success, we don’t need to learn more things.
- Rather we should focus on one thing and get mastery in it.
- For example:
- For Ronaldo one thing is football.
- Dalai Lama for peace.
- Elon Mask for a better future and humanity.
If this famous person has not followed the one thing.
This person will be doing those things now, they don’t have an interest in.
These same things you can use for your daily decision and choosing any task.
Ask yourself every day.
What is the one thing that is important for me?
To understand one thing you can use the help of this quote:
“If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one”
The domino effect
The author of the book said that taking the example, that one domino can be used to fall a double size bigger domino.
In the same way, we can take small steps in our life and we can achieve big life goals in our life.
This concept seems to be very simple.
The author teaches us the domino effect of power with practical figures.
- The starting domino is 2 inches, and we judge the power.
- The same domino with its effect accordingly increases the size by double and arrange in one line.
- The 31st domino height is 3000 feet above Mount Everest.
- The 57th domino height is almost the distance to the moon.
I hope, you have understood the power of consistency.
This type of effect you can apply in everyday habits and for daily work.
Three lies
At this point, the author is talking about three lies, which we have heard from other people.
and we think it’s true and we follow it.
1. Everything matters equally.
- Justice and human rights equality is very much important.
- But in personal life, everything is not equally important.
- It is not important how the teacher gives marks, 2 students cannot be equal.
- Equality is a big lie.
- When people are in hurry, every work seems to be equally important.
- And then the work which is less important.
- We give it equal importance and then we waste our time and energy.
2. Multitasking is productive.
- Most people think that multitasking is productive.
- This is a lie.
- Studies have shown that the human brain at the same time cannot focus 100% on other work.
- Peoples do multitasking thinking that they will do other work in less time.
- The result becomes unproductive.
- Or else, it takes more time for the same work.
3. A balanced life.
- It is a lie.
- If you want to get extraordinary results, and in life, you want to achieve extraordinarily.
- For this, you have to give little sacrifice.
- If you stay busy with small things and give less time to your goals.
- You will achieve your goals lately.
- We can’t balance both in our life.
Increase productivity
1. Live with purpose.
- Our purpose sets our priorities.
- And our productivity depends on our actions.
- If we have only one thing we want to achieve in life.
- And anyhow you get the achievement.
- According to time our motivation gets down.
American psychological association former president Dr. Martin Seligman says that
How happiness depends on 5 factors:
- Positive emotion
- Pleasure
- Achievement
- Relationship
- Engagement
- Meaning
You will be happy when you have a meaningful life and you have a purpose for it.
When your daily activities, fulfill your purpose, then happiness will stay for a long time.
2. Live with priority
- Your purpose is powerless without priority.
- To achieve your purpose and move to move forward you have to set your priority.
- And you have to mind your priority and then start taking action.
- Without doing your work, you spend your time on social media.
- It seems subconsciously your priority is social media, not your work.
- This is the wrong priority.
- The best way is your purpose is aligned with your priority.
- Priority should be like that in the long term you get the achievement.
3. Live with productivity
- People’s productivity depends on productivity not on how many hours are spent on the work.
- The more one is productive the more successful they are or they will be.
- Productive people focus on the most important task.
- They don’t focus on multitasking or unimportant work.
- If you want to be productive in less time.
- You can manage your time with time blocking.
4. The focusing questions
- Ask yourself daily about your focusing questions.
- Such as
- One thing after doing that will be easy?
- Think about which things are unnecessary?
- If you make a habit of asking questions daily.
- You can get your focus and you will achieve success early.
- If you ask this question, your brain focuses on one important thing that gives more results.
6 habits that can change your life
Three thieves
1. You can’t say “no”
- People don’t want to be bad behind others.
- So those people don’t say “no,” they say “yes”.
- They might be wasting their time by saying “yes”.
- It is like saying yes is like you are saying ‘no” to your feelings, opinion, goals.
- The author says don’t say no to your work or anyone.
- We have to say yes to those things which are important.
- We have to say no to those things which are unimportant or waste our energy.
2. Your poor health habits.
- If you don’t take care of your health.
- You cannot survive healthily.
- From bad health, our body and mind energy go down.
- But few people for success sacrifice their health.
- They work the whole night.
- And they don’t rest their mind or have proper sleep.
- They miss their meals and completely ignore exercise.
- Real success, is with wealth and good health.
- You should follow daily exercise and have a healthy diet lifestyle.
3. Your environment doesn’t support your goals.
- From our Soul and thought our outside environment is very important.
- Which helps us to achieve our goals.
- Environment means our neighborhood areas, situation, weather, and people including our family and friends.
- If your environment is bad.
- Your performance will be bad.
- You should be in contact with those persons who support your goals and influence positivity, productivity.
- If you think that you don’t have such people near you.
- Those who don’t support your goals or make advice.
- You can join online groups, study books. read articles etc.
