Great photo Cameron. Great points you are making here. I too find myself distracted and off focus frequently.

Thanks Bobby. Hope you’re awesome. It’s hard as a leader to say no. a) to oneself and b) to your team. It’s too easy to say yes though.

Growth is about getting the critical few things done, versus the important many.

Cameron,
So true and so hard to remember at times! I am so guilty of multi-tasking all the time! One trick I use is blocking off time slots on my calendar to work on a specific project, and nothing else gets my attention during that time slot. It really helps. Clearly, I’m not doing that now, since instead of working, I’m commenting on your blog! Back to work!
Jessica

Couldn’t agree more.

All you end up doing is many things poorly or not as good as you could have.

I’m trying to get better at this, recently I realised how bad it was when in a hotel room one morning.

I was brushing my teeth and after circa 5 seconds I started thinking, what else can I be doing whilst brushing my teeth.

I’m always thinking what else can I do to be more productuve and effective which often takes me back to doing many things at once.

However, it’s only when you step back and realise how counter-productive it actually is, do you get the lightbulb moment!

My lightbulb moment was the example above.

Great advice Cameron.

Kevin

Thanks for the the blog comment on this Cameron. I am so attracted to those ‘big shiny objects’ you speak of. I had a new one placed in front of me this week. I pulled a soft ‘no’ with a “show me how you think it can work without any of my time or money invested before it pays off” response. It will be interesting to see if it comes up again anytime soon. Cheryl Dawn

Fantastic advice Cameron. Steve Jobs of Apple said something very similar about the iPod:

“”People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully,” Jobs said.

Source: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/05/17/steve_jobs_to_nike_ceo_get_rid_of_the_crappy_stuff.html