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Martin Messier On February - 9 - 2010
focus

Everyone and anyone interested in increasing productivity has, at one point or another, crossed the following instruction:

The secret to productivity is focus. Do only one thing at a time.

And then, the inevitable question surfaces:

“How do I do that?”

I venture to say that Merlin Mann has answered the question.

Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely.

[...] So, first, care. Then, as you’ll happily and unavoidably discover, all that “focus” business has a peculiar way of taking care of itself.

There you go. The missing link has been found.

Merlin Mann: First, Care

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