Do you ever notice that when you are focusing on an idea, a concept or a task that resources appear. A blog post, a tweet, a book, a newspaper article, a movie or a conversation somehow relates to your thoughts.
Sometimes it happens the other way around and something inspires you to focus on something but I tend to find that it’s when I’m focused that ideas come and inspiration appears.
So, why do I try to do 100 things at once? And why have I been saying that since, well forever?
Do less better.
It’s the memo Jerry McGuire wrote in the 1996 movie. It’s the thing we all tell ourselves when we are swamped or up against a deadline.
Leo Babauta of Zen Habits fame has put virtual pen to paper and written :Focus, a simplicity manifesto in the Age of Distraction… and he’s giving away a free version.
And by free I mean no cost and no copyright (when was the last time you gave something away for free?).
It’s well worth a look. It chimes with some of the stuff we have talked about here about Sabbath, getting stuff done, creativity and relationship.
Now, what was I supposed to be doing?