What is the single most important thing you can do?

I’ve been enjoying employing a lot of self-improvement by self-learning it over the years and one of the things I heard written one way or another has to do with productivity and results. That’s to ask yourself the question, “What is the single most important thing I can do right now that will help move me closer to my goal?”

Interestingly when I was in school as a child, nobody ever talked to me about such a question or concept. Doesn’t seem like something that should be held back from discussing within an educational establishment because doing so means that nobody got that valuable concept implanted in their brain.

That wonderful and useful idea of doing the most important thing now became a secret and wasn’t taught to the masses, what a shame. I can hardly image what our world might be like, not only if this idea was taught in school, but everyone implemented it or even some percentage did.

If everyone knew about the concept of doing what’s most important first or right now, then people would ultimately live more aligned with their potential. And we all know that most of us don’t even come close to living at our potential. This in and of itself is a real problem because think about it …

Image if everyone or even a percentage of everyone bumped up their potential by utilizing the concept of doing the most important thing first. If this was the case, everything we create, do and implement, now and in the future, would most likely be done much better than it is now. And more things in general would be created and implemented because people would be doing (and as a result having) more. This is the power that comes from following the principle of doing what’s the single most important thing first.

What’s that leave us, a better world, with better things, with better results. One of my good mentors, Jim Rohn says “Leave things better than you found them.” And I agree. It’s a concept that fits exactly with the “What’s the one most important thing I can do right now?” philosophy. It’s easy to leave things the same or worse, but it takes work and effort to make things better.

We all have the capacity to make things better by asking ourselves that all important question, “What’s the single most important thing I can do right now?” and after answering it, carrying out the actions that answers that question. Not only will things get and be better for the person who turns this action into a habit, but they’ll become a better person for having taken this path and feel better too.

Until next time,

Kevin

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