Let’s face it. We live in an age of increase.
Everything is bigger and better.
Except for one thing: our attention spans.
Henry Ford once said, “A weakness of all human beings is trying to do too many things at once. That scatters effort and destroys direction. It makes for haste, and haste makes waste. So we do things all the wrong ways possible before we come to the right one.”
Too many things are pulling at us these days.
There are too many things to distract us. Let’s be honest.
- It’s not a lack of opportunity that holds us back in most cases.
- It’s that many times we don’t see the opportunity that’s right in front of us.
- It’s not a lack of time that keeps us from getting our work done.
- It’s the fact that we can’t decide what’s the most important thing that we should be focused on. (It is a flaw in a business setting, but it’s “fatal” in our personal lives.)
- It’s not that the problems that we’re facing are insurmountable.
- It’s that we don’t have the time to think about them and come up with the solutions to these problems.
We all are so busy that we wish we had more time to see the opportunities, decide what’s important, and come up with more solutions to our problems.
It’s just that we can’t seem to find the time.
But what if our problem isn’t that we don’t have enough time?
What if we’ve been looking in the wrong direction for a solution and actually missing the real issue in the process?
In my next article, I’ll explain why I believe that time management isn’t the real problem and I’ll explain what our real problem is.
Stay tuned.
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