The Best Minute: On doing more things, seasons of life, and improving

2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS

I. Peter Drucker on how eliminating distractions helps you get more done:

“Doing one thing at a time means doing it fast. The more you can concentrate time, effort, and resources, the greater number and diversity of tasks one can actually perform…

This is the ‘secret’ of those people who ‘do so many things’ and apparently so many difficult things. They do only one at a time.”

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II. Katherine May on the seasons of life:

“We are in the habit of imagining our lives to be linear, a long march from birth to death in which we mass our powers, only to surrender them again, all the while slowly losing our youthful beauty. This is a brutal untruth. Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.”

2 IDEAS FROM ME

I. There rarely is an optimal time to get started. Improvement happens by doing, not thinking about doing. Getting started changes everything.

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II. The phrases I heard often from my father growing up:

You reap what you sow
You reap later than you sow
You reap more than sow

Will you be happy in the future to sow what you are currently reaping?

1 INTERESTING FACT

You can always see your nose.

The human brain is capable of amazing things, but in order to do those things, it needs to block out distractions through a process called unconscious selective attention. The nose is one of those distractions.

Source: Best Life