What Is Your One Habit?

I recently read The One Thing by Gary Keller. It’s an insightful book that can help you get the most out of your life.
The message of the book is simple: you should focus on just one thing that gives you the most impact. Not a few things, but just one thing. So it goes further than the Pareto principle that says you should focus on a few important things. That’s why the book calls its principle extreme Pareto.
A key reason why the approach works is that the most important thing is usually difficult to do. It’s not something we are comfortable doing. It’s not something we would naturally do. As a result, we tend to procrastinate doing it. How? By doing the less important things! But, by removing the less important things, we have no choice but to do the most important one.
This mindset can be applied to different areas of your life. Here, though, I’d like to apply it to habit building.
Applied to habit building, it means that you should focus on building just one habit that will give you the most impact. Don’t try to build too many habits at once. Instead, pick just one habit and focus on building it.
In The Power of Habit, such a habit is called a keystone habit. This is the habit that can start a chain reaction of positive events in other areas of your life.
How do we choose this habit?
The One Thing suggests using the so-called Focusing Question to help you decide. Here is the question:
What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything e...

Source: Life Optimizer - November 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Time management Source Type: blogs