I’m at a point where I must make a selection between things I need to do to accomplish my goals. At work, I’ve narrowed down the field from about 10 things now to four, one obligatory, with the future option to drop one, leaving me with three. Of course one option is the one I truly want to pursue full-time, and that is what I’m ultimately after.
With that set, the focus strategy comes into play. How can I climb out of mere task completion into a realm of actionable vision? How can I fuse disparate elements of my life into one powerful flow? I accomplished this before in my early 20s but the problem was that I wasn’t doing anything important with my life.
One curious strategy is what I’ll call “riding the wave of greatness.” I seem to experience incredible, awe-inspiring moments or encounters with greatness and people that have a mass effect on me, but it only happens, say once a year or even less.
Why can’t I start manifesting this greatness as much as possible, starting with once a month, then once a week, then per day, and hell why not just embody pure greatness itself so I can pass it onto other people?
With selectivity, less is more. The less things I have to focus on, the better I’ll become at them. That’s pretty elementary. The less (harmful or useless) people I can eliminate from my life, the less problems I’ll have.
Selectivity is about temperance and discipline and truly seeing what it takes to succeed. It’s useless to become all things to all people, but we constantly seek recognition from as many as possible.
I’m okay without small bits of recognition. I’m okay knowing people aren’t yet paying attention. What I’m not okay with is losing my freedom to select my destiny. There is no substitute or consolation for lost freedom.