Leaders obsess about the mission, not the task
Don’t confuse your mission with your tasks.
Don’t give them equal energy.
Focus on your mission. Pay attention to everything necessary to complete it.
When you concentrate on the task, you put on metaphoric blinders, consequently making yourself ignorant to anything else. This tactic can work. However, it’s rare and often unhealthy. Ignoring doesn’t make something go away.
If you focus on the mission, you give yourself the opportunity to see a multitude of answers. You tap into divergent thinking. Divergent thinking can open the door to cool solutions. Furthermore, you’ll get insights you may have missed had you focused entirely on the task.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 