

The ONE Thing is a great book that contains tremendous techniques and many life-changing insights that will make you rethink about being productive and getting the most out of your life. More importantly, you want to make sure that you use this technique for your most important task that will give you the most impactful result. During these 3 hours each day, you will do nothing except prospecting for clients. For example, if you are in sales, you can block 9am to 12pm every day for prospecting. This technique is where you block your time for certain to complete it. Once the habit has kicked in, things will be automatic and you will do your work without motivation required.Īnd to build the habit, the authors introduce the time-blocking technique. Motivation is only needed in the beginning where you want to build up the habit. The ONE Thing discloses that motivation is not really that crucial. You will learn that in order to achieve an outstanding result in what you do, you must make it a habit to do each day. If you want to be productive and get more done, you must answer the focusing question and identify the one thing that will get you the most impact in your life and at work. Many people spend too much time doing things that do not really matter and on things that do not give them much result.

In fact, the entire book is written based on this simple, yet powerful question. Ask yourself this, “What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?” The authors of The ONE Thing suggest people to use the focusing question to identify their most important task. You have to learn how to devote 100% focus at your most important work if you truly desire to produce an amazing result from it. The same goes for every other area in your life. This is why people involved in accidents when they try to drive and talk on the phone. Multitasking simply means jumping from one task to another, back and forth. Your mind can only focus on one thing at a time. And when you read, you will stop talking. What will happen is that when you talk, you will stop reading. If you do not believe in this, try to read this article while talking to someone.

Is that really so? Well, according to this book, multitasking is not going to work. They need to learn how to multitask, to do more at the same time so that they can get more done and get better results. The majority of people think that multitasking is something good. Most people get the wrong ideas about being productive, and the authors uncover the essence of how doing your one thing will change your life forever. This book can be life-changing in dealing with your professional and personal life.
