“If everything’s a priority, nothing is.” · ReadyOpsGo by Lena Gallagher

“If everything’s a priority, nothing is.”

That’s the punchline from Alex Hormozi’s latest Mozi Minute (newsletter) which really got under my skin.

Hormozi explains that the word “priority” literally means the thing that comes first. As in, singular. Not five things. Not three things. One.

But most of us? We’ve got lists a mile long. And then we wonder why we feel pulled in ten different directions. ✋guilty as charged

He goes on to say that the kicker is: real prioritization hurts. Choosing one thing means saying no to a dozen others. It feels uncomfortable. But that’s the signal you’re finally doing it right.

Funny enough, I often say “if you say yes to one thing, you’re saying no to another but reading this newsletter made me realise I am not applying this all the way down into the granular parts of how I work.

So, in a nutshell, Hormozi’s point is simple:

Pick the one thing that, if nailed, makes the rest irrelevant.
Go all in.
Forget the rest.

And everything else? It’s just distraction dressed up as strategy.

❓So my question is: what’s your one thing right now? ❓

(My sarcastic sense of humor has its own reply, which is: my one thing is this single sheet of paper…the one that has a list of ‘priorities’ on both sides 🤪)

My real answer: finishing up my current project (which I’m not loving) but I've had to tell me, myself, and I that I can’t do the other fun things I really want to do until it’s finished.

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