Story: ignoring the reality of trade-offs is a terrible strategy for organisations.
Only with real clarity of purpose can people, teams, and organizations fully mobilize and achieve something truly excellent.
Kairos is qualitative.
With repetition the routine is mastered and the activity becomes second nature.
What if we stopped being oversold the value of having more and being undersold the value of having less?
This would matter less if it were not for the fact that clarity of purpose so consistently predicts how people do their jobs. In
The Essentialist THE WISDOM OF LIFE CONSISTS IN THE ELIMINATION OF NON-ESSENTIALS. —Lin Yutang
One simple answer is we are unclear about what is essential.
Multitasking itself is not the enemy of Essentialism; pretending we can multi focus is.
John Maxwell has written, You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.9
Jim Collins’s Good to Great, in
It is not just information overload; it is opinion overload.
I can do anything but not everything.
While we may not always have control over our options, we always have control over how we choose among them.
It in one?
Without clarity and purpose, pursuing something because it is good is not good enough to make a high level of contribution.
William James once wrote, My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
Will this activity or effort make the highest possible contribution toward my goal?
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular.
Similarly, in our own professional or private lives we can make corrections by coming back to our core purpose.