The main thing

Is to keep the main thing, the main thing.

If you have signed up for a meditation class, your goal is to learn meditation. Not to gossip about your neighbourhood aunty. 

If you have been hired to do a job, your job is to do the job better than is expected out of you. Not to chat about how your boss makes money for doing no work. 

If you have signed up to train for marathon, your job is to show up for the practice every day, eat right, and sleep on time. Not to indulge in junk food every week and blame the program.

Focus in the macro means understanding what you are supposed to do and at what time. Sometimes when we lose focus, we accomplish exactly opposite of what we set out to do in the first place. 

The main thing is to do the boring main thing. Even when (especially when) everyone around you has lost focus.

You can’t put a price tag on doing one thing incredibly well.