The One Thing

A colleague, who shall remain unnamed, confided, "I don't have time for anything. Too many emails. Too much to do. "

Sounds familiar. 

There is a simple way to address this challenge. The formula is to focus on things that you can include in your resume. In other words, don't just work on doing things but focus on doing things which matters. As an example, don't worry about responding to emails within 10 mins but perhaps focus on creating a process to address an important issue that the organization is facing. Help move the yardstick forward. Doing mundane tasks will not be the way to go about doing it

Come to think of it, we can apply the same principle in our personal lives. By focusing on things which matter, we can weed out the other 100s of things that we have to do but it does not matter if they really get done.

If you have not defined that One Thing that is important to you, then you may be finishing 100s of things but are not really accomplishing anything.

Do you know what that One Thing is for you?