Keep the MAIN THING the MAIN THING🔑If there's a stark reality which we all share in life, it's the fact that our homes, our place, our lives just got too many things all over us, from left to right, from top to bottom, many of which criss-crossing each other, things cutting across.
Too many aberrations, complications, disruption, diversions, disturbances, interferences, interruptions and a plethora of variables and problems further complicating lives that are already as complex as it can be.
End-result ? Bedlam. Confusion. Demoralization. Which then leads us to the misjudgments, misstep, miscalculations.
Stephen Covey, one of America's most respected author and speaker kept preaching that 'the MAIN THING is to keep the MAIN THING the MAIN THING'. Once you lose sight of the MAIN THING, you're off-track and soon you'll be a LOST case. But the truth is, who wants to lose sight of the MAIN THING ? Human nature, though, tells us that when we get confused or disrupted or get diverted in a scenario not even least anticipated, we end up with an ill-advised decision, a miscall at the very least. And before you know it, that MAIN THING is not in the picture anymore. Suddenly, when you are caught in the middle of a large conflagration of fire, you will likely end up fighting the fire engulfing you. What is it we lose in the midst of all these bedlam ? It's that focus, that concentration on the very MAIN THING. And for a darts player, he won't lose sight that his MAIN THING is to hit the bullseye and nothing less. This is the best known secret of the most successful stories be they are sportsmen or business moguls. They remain as cold as steel as they grapple with the challenges that confronts them every step of the way,
And what's our latest distraction ? It's this Covid thing engulfing our global village. Many of us lost sight of the MAIN THING. And worst, many lives seem to be in 'SUSPEND' mode and their timers were scripted to kick-in when the vaccines will finally kill this pestering Covid virus. And this where our problem lies. That 'TEMPORARILY CLOSED' mark should not have been plastered right on our chests, right on our very nose. There's our life to live. We got to trudge on. And suddenly, we end up running full circle and back to Stephen Covey [again !]. But it just can't be avoided. Without infringing the author's intellectual property rights, we'd like to piggy-back on those '7 HABITS HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE' ought to have, namely: be PROACTIVE, begin with the END in MIND, put FIRST things FIRST, think WIN-WIN, UNDERSTAND before being UNDERSTOOD, synergize and never stop 'sharpening that saw'. What next ? All we need is your buy-in and let's start off from the gates with the gusto and fervor we need.
