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You Can Achieve Anything If You Stop Trying To Be Good At Many Things

Thomas Oppong
3 min readFeb 14, 2022
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If you aim at too many shots in life, you are likely to miss all of them.

It’s tough to be successful at everything you do.

As humans, we are limited by time and energy. This means if we want to be successful, we need to focus on one thing at a time.

If you spend your time wisely, there is no limit to what you can achieve.

Many people are too easily distracted.

They are afraid of being mediocre or average. They want to be great, but they don’t know what to focus on. They pursue too many things at once.

The bigger question is: what do you do when you have many opportunities to build a good life?

The answer is simple: focus on one thing at a time until you achieve success!

Start with the idea that brings out the best in you — something that rarely feels like work when you do it.

Or better still, a career path that can guarantee many flow experiences.

Gary Keller explains in his book, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results:

“Success demands singleness of purpose. You need to be doing fewer things for…

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Thomas Oppong
Thomas Oppong

Written by Thomas Oppong

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