On the face of it ‘The One Thing’ by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan, seems like another book on productivity. However, it is much more than that. It nudges us toward finding our purpose in life, but more importantly, gives a blue-print on how to achieve that purpose.
How to find that purpose? This simple template usually works. Note down the things you want to achieve in your lifetime. From these choose the ONE Thing such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary. Just like a ball of twine is a speck from afar, this (ONE thing) will seem intangible, impossible at first. However, when you take this intangible, impossible purpose and bring it down to a time frame of 5 years, then it would would seem tangible, but overwhelming. Your speck suddenly is a big ball of twine. This is when most people give up, it is beyond my capacity they say. I can’t do it!
However, you pursue and bring this down to smaller time frames i.e., from 5 years to 3 years to a year to 3 months. The once overwhelming ball of twine is now a continuous string wrapped around itself.
Invert your goal. Ask yourself what do I need to do in 3 months to achieve your goal for 1 year, which will help achieve your goals for 3 years, which will then help achieve your goal for 5 years, which will then achieve your purpose.
The 3-month time frame can now be further broken down into smaller chunks of time – a month, a week, a day, and finally an hour. Now this twine is manageable individual strands. Essentially you are projecting the future into the present. Block time every day to work towards that future goal. When unbroken, the strings will slowly start winding together and your ball of twine will be whole.
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