By Danel The book “The One Thing” by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan teaches us to identify the one thing that brings the greatest and most effective results in our daily lives or work and focus our full energy and attention on it. When people try to do many things at once (multitasking), their effectiveness decreases significantly. Therefore, the key to success is not to do many things at once, but to choose and do only the right and most important “one thing”.
To illustrate this point, the book compares success to the falling of large dominoes. Just as it takes a small domino to fall in the right place to make a large domino, doing the right “one thing” first in life paves the way for subsequent successes to occur in a sequence and with ease.
To find and identify this key “one thing,” the book recommends asking a powerful elimination question. It is: “What is the one thing I can do… that one thing… that when it is done… makes everything else easy or unnecessary?” Asking this question every day can help you identify the main issue and focus your attention on it, leading to greater results.
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