The Everyday Focus
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do
with it.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you know that you have only
thirty minutes to live, and if you have the time to do only one most important
thing, what will you do?
This hypothetical question will
make you to invest your time on the most vital activity on hand to the
exclusion of anything else. We should cultivate such a focus and priority.
Today write down the following question on a sheet of paper, laminate and fix
it at a conspicuous place:
‘What is that one thing that I should do every day,
which if I do well, will make a tremendous positive difference in my life? Have
I done it today?’
Keep reading this question all
through the day. Don’t go to sleep unless you’ve answered this question
positively.
During a busy day, we may be
tempted to fill up our day doing the easiest things and say ‘no time’ for the
most important things. Everyday choose
one important critical value adding activity and invest your ‘prime time’ doing
that activity.
Follow this principle for one
full month and notice what happens to the quality of your life!
(From my book '365 Exciting Ways to Live')
N C Sridharan
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