Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 110

Focus of Effort

You may not know the name Focus of Effort, but you know the thing. This page only introduces the two of you formally.

The idea is simple, and like most simple ideas it is easy to nod at and hard to use. The nod is free. The use costs attention, every day, in small change.

A pressure cooker teaches more about time than any seminar: sealed, steady heat does in twenty minutes what an open pot cannot do in an hour. Attention is the lid.

Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. Print it on a card if you like. Better: print it on a habit.