Do fewer things but do them better with greater focus and intensity.
Success breeds all kinds of new opportunities, requests, and competing demands for your time, energy, and resources. The great dichotomy is that to continue to be successful, we must further reduce commitments.
The overcommitted person is ineffective, scrambling from one event or meeting to the next and paying a significant tax in the administrative overhead associated with all his commitments. Burnout is the most likely result, and very few burned-out people continue to exponentially increase their success.
The key is to focus. Limit your Mission and Goals to just a handful of items at the intersection of what you’re passionate about, what you can be best in class at, and what creates value for others. Limit the projects you take on in each of these areas to just a handful of the things you can do your very best work on.
And when you begin to see the one thing that calls you with more intensity than all the others, don’t just double down on it, go “all in” in an almost obsessive way, and at the expense of nearly all other work.
As success increases, don’t try to do more. Do less, but do it with focus, intensity, and a deep passion for being the absolute best at that small group of things.
Fewer things, but done better.
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