(Below from the book, The One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan)

When everything feels urgent and important, everything seems equal. We become active and busy, but this doesn’t actually move us any closer to success. Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business.

As Henry David Thoreau said, “It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?”

Knocking out a hundred tasks for whatever the reason is a poor substitute for doing even one task that’s meaningful. Not everything matters equally, and success isn’t a game won by whoever does the most.
Yet that is exactly how most play it on a daily basis.

~Evolution of Self
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