It didn’t matter whether it was the first hour of the working day or the last, he appeared to have genuine focus and energy. I remember years ago working with a colleague who always looked busy. This is where you over-analyze or over-think a situation or decision, with the result that you become frozen and end up taking no action. It may also lead you into a state called ‘analysis paralysis’. This is unproductive and will leave you feeling exhausted. When you start with details, you can end up expending your energy on the wrong things. You’ll also waste time on decisions that are likely to change. You’ll doom your project from the very start by putting your focus on things that don’t really matter. However, becoming obsessed with details too early leads to endless disagreements, changes, meetings and delays. ĭon’t get me wrong, details are important and definitely make a difference. Once you’ve decided on the big picture, the rest becomes easier as you just need to fill in the gaps required to reach your target. And it’s only at this time that you need to pay attention to the details. Once you start building on the big picture, you’ll begin to see what’s missing. One reason for doing this, is that you often won’t recognize the details that matter most until after you’ve created your end goal. The big picture is all you should be concerned about in the beginning. ⌄ Scroll down to continue reading article ⌄ Seek the big picture first We’re not so good at seeing the big picture and long-term things. This can happen easily to anyone, as our brain is wired to see things in the short-term. We may find ourselves keeping our head down and working very hard on small things that don’t contribute much to our ultimate goal. In our daily grind, we can work feverishly, yet aimlessly – unsure of how it all fits together. For many people, it may even be a big question mark. Now, to be fair, our vision of what we want, who it is that we want to grow into and where we’re going is blurry most of the time. You can no longer see the forest for the trees. Your initial clear end goal is now lying in tatters. In other words, you’ve allowed yourself to become lost in the details. Ultimately, this starts you thinking that you need to change the content of your project in it entirety. Which then leads to you changing the whole paragraph.
This then leads to you to choose to rephrase the whole sentence. Unfortunately, you interrupt your fluent writing to fix a typo. Several hours of focused work sees you making great progress. This type of scenario is actually quite common in life.įor example, imagine for a moment that you’re writing an important document or thesis. I’m sure you’ve come across the expression: “You can’t see the forest for the trees.” This simply means that if you’re walking within a forest, you can only see trees around you – not the forest itself.
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