Almost nothing is important.
And yet, the Universe is on a mission to make us believe it was.
If you’re leading an organization, you’re bombarded with tons of information and decisions and each one of ’em likes to suggest that it’s rather important.
But from a distance, in that huge pile of stuff, most things aren’t that big a deal. Don’t you agree?
That email? It can wait.
That third bullet point on slide 15? Nobody would have missed it.
That new study that’s all over social media? It’s not even relevant to our scale.
To say it straight: Most things are utterly unimportant.
Treating them as if they were important distracts not only you but the whole team from what really matters.
I think that’s one of the main aspects of lighting the path. To arrive at a clear (and joint) understanding of what’s truly important and what’s not.
So that you can focus on the former and keep the latter from distracting you.
Once you become used to it, it can become hard to bear it when people obsess over unimportant stuff.
Now, this may sound like you wouldn’t care for the details and only the big picture. But I think it’s the opposite.
When the detail matters, you deeply care for getting them right. It’s going to make a huge difference.
But if you let the details of stuff that doesn’t even matter distract you, well it’s going to hold your team back from making a difference.