A collection of arguments favoring a **[[focus]] on one thing for better overall success & satisfaction**. A question to ask yourself, that was highly beneficial to the author's company: > [!tip] What is the **ONE thing** you can do this week such that, by doing it, everything else would be easier or unnecessary? They suggest you should **go small**, not go big[^1]. Shrink the number of things you're trying to accomplish to the one most important thing. Also make this one thing big enough to truly matter! A passage from the book I like: > (Most people) think big success is time consuming and [[complicated]]. As a result, their calendars and to-do lists become overloaded and overwhelming. Success starts to feel out of reach, so they settle for less. Unaware that big success comes when we do a few things well, **they get lost trying to do too much and in the end accomplish too little**. > You want your achievements to add up, but that actually takes subtraction, not addition. You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects. The problem with trying to do to much is that even if it works, adding more to your work and your life without cutting anything brings a lot of bad with it: missed deadlines, disappointing results, high [[stress]], long hours, lost sleep, poor diet, no exercise, and missed moments with family and friends- all in the name of going after something that is easier to get than you might imagine. ## Big and Specific The book goes on to suggest that your ONE THING should be **big** and **specific**. What John Doerr would call a [[OKR Benefits|Big Hairy Aidacious Goal]]. If your one thing doesn't appreciably move the needle then you need a new one thing. ![[screenshot 6.png]] **** # More ## Source - [[The One Thing (book)]] [^1]: Somewhat confusingly later on they suggest going big with the thing you go small on. Don't make your "one thing" to improve your sales, but to DOUBLE your sales within six months. Big and specific.