Not More. Better.
Daily Chase #273
High performance doesn’t require more hours.
This is the thing most people get wrong. They hear “high performer” and imagine someone working at 6 AM, replying to email at midnight, squeezing productivity out of every minute. That’s not it. That’s grinding. And grinding on the wrong things at the wrong times is just noise.
What we’re actually after is doing the right things at the highest level we’re capable of doing them.
Not more. Better.
Strategic prioritization — one of the five characteristics of high performers — means being as disciplined about what you don’t do as what you do. Until your most important thing is done, everything else is a distraction. Busyness and productivity are not the same thing, and every day we spend confusing them is a day we move away from the work that actually matters.
Early in our High Performance Challenge, you’ll be asked to do one thing before you start work: write down the single most impactful thing you could do today. Then do it before everything else.
Note that it doesn’t ask you to do the most urgent or the most comfortable, but the most impactful.
Most people skip this because they already know the answer — and doing it is harder than what they were planning to do first.
That gap, between what you know and what you do, is where drift lives.
Your job is to close it.
We’re kicking off our 21-Day High Performance Challenge today. If you want to practice doing the right things at your highest level — one day at a time — we’d love you to join us.
→ Join us inside the Chase Club
→ Do it solo inside the ChaseTracker app
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