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In my travels around my world, I’ve seldom been asked “How to you focus on so many things all at once and manage to be so amazing at them?” After looking around to see if they are talking to me, I eventually respond by telling them that by focusing on a phlegmora of things (like a plethora, but more regurgitative in nature – you know, like what you’re doing now) I am able to blend them all into one task – thus increasing my overall focus.
Let me paint a picture for you as an example; and by that I mean not actually painting but saying a picture.
I wake up in the morning with several things that need to eventually get done. In addition, I have several things that can be done even more eventually. First and foremost, I take the first four most pressing tasks and remove them from the equation, as they clearly can be done really eventually. Next up, I take the four least important tasks and move them to the top of the list, then remove the former first and four most important tasks and remove them as well. Normally I end up with about eight less tasks to do that day if I’ve done this correctly. keeping a calculator handy is a good idea to keep yourself sharp with this technique.
With the remaining tasks, I simply write them all down. I’ll list four tasks here as an example of the example I’m already exampling:
Go to the store and buy milk.
Call and make an appointment at the dentist.
Go to Home Depot to get paint stripper.
Drink 3 beers.
Now I’ll combine all the tasks (removing words that repeat and capital letters) into one task because, well, less is more.
Go to the store and buy milk call at dentist make an appointment home depot get paint stripper drink 3 beers.
Then I’ll remove the words I’m unclear of as far as meaning is concerned or never have had a use for in the past six months.
Go to the store and buy call at make an appointment home get stripper drink 3 beers.
Then I rearrange all the words at random, adding punctuation where needed. Here’s what happened with this list:
Go to the store. Buy 3 beers. Drink. Call and make an appointment. Get stripper at home.
It’s as simple at that. The bonus is the beer enhances the single-focus mentality as everything blends together better with alcohol and the “mental” part of mentality seems to slip away along with other self-related qualities.
So give this method a try. Even if it doesn’t work for you, you can be certain that failing at failure is the best kind of failing and failure there is. Oh, and an even bigger bonus is that since so many self-related qualities disappear when you give this an eventual go, you know you’re not being self-ish.
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