Concentrate: The Permission to Protect

by Meaning Ring on 2016/09/04

Work double-time part-time now so that later you can have full-time free time.
A priority is any task that rises to such a level of Significance that it is beyond the convenience of what your schedule allows. You force it to be the first focus.
Until you accomplish your next most Significant priority, everything else in life is a distraction.
The Focus Funnel is a tool to help ensure that—as much as possible—you’re always spending your time on your next most Significant thing. The critical question you have to always be asking yourself is: “Is what I’m doing right now the next most Significant use of my time?”
Once a task passes through all the checkpoints of the Focus Funnel, you can have confidence that it is the right thing for you to do and that it must be done at that moment.
Temporarily ignore the small stuff so that you can Concentrate on the big stuff.

We have a very emotional fear of letting other people down that causes us to sacrifice our priorities for other people’s.
“Concentrate” serves both as a great verb to remind us to take action and also as a meaningful noun that represents the skill of quickly identifying what the next most Significant step will be.
Your highest obligation to other people is to be your highest self.
Most Multipliers have a general distaste for e-mail and view it as a way of “organizing other people’s priorities” rather than as a tool to help them focus on what is Significant.
As a Multiplier, it is your obligation to spend time on things today that create more opportunity for those around you tomorrow.

Only 8 percent of people consistently use a written detailed schedule of how to spend their time in a week. Incidentally, that is about the same percentage of the population that we estimate are true Multipliers. Our inference is that Multipliers allow their schedule and their calculations of priorities to proactively dictate how they spend their time rather than allowing their inbox to reactively dictate how they spend their time.

What do you need to give yourself permission to concentrate on? How would concentrating on that create more opportunity for those around you?

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