At first, the small advices, hacks, tips & tricks you see everywhere seem helpful. It’s nice to have something easy to get started with, at least. And most of the time, these tips tend to promise a bigger result than they can actually deliver, or a lesser time within which you can achieve them. Both aren’t visible while we’re consuming these tips.

Here, I’m mainly referring to the content Instagram creators share. How to improve your sales skills, get better at content, market your brand better, wagera wagera. But the point that such tips often take time to give you good results is hidden in hindsight.

We are so focused on improving everything that we start focusing on everything. We wanna be the best at everything. What happens is, over time, you’ll have too many priorities. The word priority itself will lose value.

In my example, I used to have two kinds of workouts before. Gym or run. Then, I got lazy. So I only ran. Eventually, that got out of habit, too so I started doing home workouts. Then there was a time when I used to wake up late and miss the home workout too. So, I only set my eyes on doing 60 pushups and 100 standing crunches every day. Now, there are days when I miss doing that too.

The smallest hacks, yes, they do help. But I lost sight of the main thing, which was to go to the gym or run. Apart from that, I’ll randomly come across a news/ reel where a person suffered cuz he couldn’t fight back. So now I also think about going back to my kickboxing academy.

There are like 10 things I’m trying to do where only 1 or 2 would have sufficed.

Forget about games and social media. Having too many things to think about/ do in itself creates a distraction. Just for the sake of my physical health, I have 10 things to choose from. More options always lead to more confusion, resulting in loss of time.

I could’ve just forced myself to go to the gym. That would’ve been enough.

This applies to everything.

1. You’re trying to get better at marketing, sales, hiring, team management – everything at once.
2. Trying to offer 10 different services.
3. Trying to sell 10 different services.
4. Having dozens of friends and now you have a birthday party and outings every month.
5. Running multiple businesses at a time when all of them need your 100% attention.