Future Me Moment

Your Future Me Is Looking For True North

Future Me Mindset Shift #2

 "I can focus on My One Thing any time” 

The Latin root of the word ‘decision’ – cis or cid – literally means “to cut” or “to kill”

As people, we are always undergoing a process of decision-making. 

Decision making forms a significant element of our life. We make decisions all the time, ranging from what cue to use, what exercise to implement, what to include … and what to cut out. 

Through this process of filtration and elimination, we end up with a final edit that represents our educated ’best guess or hypothesis, for how we can most-effectively achieve a desired outcome. 

Too often however, our decision-making becomes clouded by too many choices because of all of the noise that we have to try to put off while we are in the process of making our decision. 

Michelangelo, perhaps history’s greatest sculptor, understood this concept to his bones. Two of his more famous quotes speak directly to it:

• Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
• I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free

For Michelangelo, the idea was already there, inside the hunk of stone, whether by divine providence or his own imagination. His eyes and hands were merely the vessels by which that idea—the art—was brought forth into the physical world as he or God (or both) originally intended.

What’s Your One Thing?

It's not going to get easier to stay focused

The outside noise will only turn-up: whether in politics, war, economics, future...whatever...

In psychology, the concept " locus of control "  is key - either you place the location of control of your life externally, or internally. 

• Internal locus of control is related to success, happiness, etc. 
• External locus of control is related to depression, poor results, etc. 

Therefore - you have one of two choices:

1. Focus on the future YOU can create that serves others
2. Focus on all the noise that 1) makes our future unknowable and 2) removes your mental agency to act, create and serve.

If you focus on the noise, your time will speed up and you'll lose months and years, which could have been used to move your life forward and service other people instead of staying engaged in your own form of confusion. 

We believe that by using something we call My Focusing Question, it will lead you to the uncommon answers that we desire.

The My Focusing Question is as follows:

“What’s My One Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary.”

The brilliance of My Focusing Question lies in its simplicity which may lead it to be quickly dismissed by some who do not examine it closely.

You see, by using My Focusing Question we can not only arrive at the answers to big-picture questions (where am I headed? What target should I am for?) but also to the small picture ones (what do I need to do right now to get to the big picture? Where is the bulls-eye?)

It can help us figure out not only which basket of eggs to pick up but also the first step toward getting it.

The idea is to keep asking My Focusing Question over and over again to line up tasks in the correct order of importance. That way we are set up to achieve one task after another, so our actions become a natural progression of doing the right thing after the right thing.  It helps us to experience the power of the domino effect.