We live in an age of instant information and gratification.
That’s a blessing and a curse: you can stay up to date with friends across the world but are also interrupted nonstop with meaningless notifications.
It’s mind-blowing for anyone who existed just 10 years ago when text messages cost $0.10 each, and dial-up internet usually loaded half-pages.
Rides are an uber away. You can check investments in seconds. We don’t even type in passwords for many apps and instead use face-ID or fingerprint verification.
But the flood of information can murk clarity.
Focusing on too many things is futile. Take a page from Warren Buffet: write out 25 goals and circle your top five.
Trash the rest.
You complete what you focus on. You manage what you measure. Even if you’re a superhuman, you can’t do 25 things well; instead, you may do three things well, and half-ass the rest.
That’s no way to live.
I love talking to people who’ve completed major feats: topped a million-dollar net worth, built a company, or wrote a book.
All those accomplishments required intense focus: waking up day after day, chasing goals, and leaping hurdles to break the banner to their best life.
Even when they didn’t want to. Even when they were tired. And stressed.
Many people dislike millionaires, including Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates. Starting their companies wasn’t easy.
Bezos started Amazon out of his garage. He grinded to transform shipping and shopping.
In 1982, an 18-year old Bezos wanted “to build space hotels, amusement parks, yachts and colonies for two or three million people orbiting around the earth,” the Miami Herald’s reported.
18 years later, he founded Blue Origin, with a mission to extend life into space.
That’s the power of long-term focus: you can shatter traditional methods of two-week shipping, and literally, leave this hemisphere.