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If you really want to see the kind of success that others can only dream of then there actually is a surefire way to achieve it. The evidence of this methodology abounds but most people don’t recognize its inherent power because it seems unreasonable and way too hard.
The method is to narrow your focus as much as you can so that you are only shooting for one major goal.
And one means one – not three or four or even two.
Why Most Folk Can’t Swallow This Medicine
Why don’t people tend to see or follow this rule? Because it implies an imbalanced life and this is perceived as undesirable in our day and age. Look at advertising and the media, it is full of claims and recommendations to “achieve balance” or for “a balanced, healthy life” – you’d think balance was the magic panacea to all that ails us!
And maybe it is (I wouldn’t know) but as time scoots by I get more and more convinced that my pet theory, known as Curly’s Law, is sound.
Curly’s Law states simply: “Do One Thing” and despite the fact that it was taken from a cheesy Hollywood movie (City Slickers) I believe that this law is an absolute winner for those who want to do something and do it really, really well. (I also believe this law, obviously minus the name, has been around longer than the film!)
Examples of Monomaniacal Obsessive Types Who Have Achieved Greatness
I would be willing to bet that if you were to pick your five favourite famous or really successful people that they would all be monomaniacs with a one-track mind, obsessed with their own singular vision since very early on in their adult life.
Here are some random over-achievers:
1. Bill Gates: not everybody’s fave or mine particularly but you have to give it to the man: he made the big time. And how? By single-mindedly focusing on only one goal – a computer on every desk.
2. Bob Dylan: one of my favourite musicians. It wasn’t like he spent much time debating with himself whether he wanted to be a sea-lion trainer, the greatest used-car salesman ever or a singer/songwriter – that was what he did and that was all there was to it!
3. Mahatma Gandhi: this dude wanted one thing and one thing only – the non-violent cessation of British rule over India. He did it too, and not by flippin’ and floppin’ and changin’ his mind.
4. Eminem: do you have any trouble identifying what this man’s plan for greatness was? Of course not – he only ever had one strategy out of poverty and that was to be the best rapper in the world.
5. Richard Branson: he might have a bunch of different businesses but what do you think his sole focus is? His brand, Virgin. That’s his meal ticket and he created it by focusing only on that since about one hundred years ago when it was cool to have long hair.
Think (About One Thing) and Grow Rich
If you’ve read Napoleon Hill’s classic, then you’ll know that one of the most powerful concepts in the book is that you should choose and focus on a Definite Chief Aim (i.e. a single major goal).
Think about where you are now.
Up above you is a vast macrocosm which spirals out indefinitely, a spray of more and more stuff that just keeps on going.
Now think about the inside of your body. We can’t see it but we now know that we can hone in on any area of our physical selves and keep reducing until things get so small that our instruments or mathematics can’t perceive them any more. The chances are things just keep getting smaller still, right? But even if they don’t get any smaller than what we know about – that’s still a lot of detail inside your single human body.
Well, that’s what goals are like. You can have a “macrocosm’ of goals, even if it’s just five or ten goals, and accordingly the tasks will just keep spraying out and you will have a very hard time getting a grip on what even needs doing let alone actually getting it all done.
But if you choose just one goal, you will still find a very large amount of things that need doing, and the closer you look the more you will find. You will probably find enough to do in one major goal to keep you going for at least a few years if not many more. And if you don’t complete all of the important stuff that needs doing, then that goal will probably never get done at all! Quite logical, Captain!
So that’s why it is better to have just One Thing, not several, because several unfinished goals aren’t worth a damn, but one successfully completed major achievement is worth so very much – and not just in monetary terms either.
So – forget about balance – become a monomaniacal obsessive and do something truly awesome with your life!
What do you think?
About the writer: Seamus Anthony is the author of two eBooks, Curly’s Law and Psychedelic Meditation and you can check out his music on CD here or via iTunes here.
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译文:
痴迷一件事情的力量
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如果你确实想看到 一种其他人只能幻想的成功，事实上这里确实有一种一定能使其实现的方法。这种方法蕴藏着巨大的力量，但是很多人却没有意识到它的内在力量，因为它看起来不合理而且太难了。
这种方法就是要你尽可能的集中你的注意力，以便你能只针对一个主要目标。一个就意味着一个—不是三个或者四个甚至是两个。
为什么大多数人不能消化这种良药
为什么人们倾向于看不到或者是不遵守这种规则呢？ 因为它意味着一种不平衡的生活，而这在我们生活的时代是被视为不受欢迎的。看看广告和媒体，全是充斥着“实现平衡”或者是“一种平衡的，健康的生活”的决心和建议—你肯定会认为平衡就是我们所拥有一切的灵丹妙药了。
也许确实是这样的（我也不知道），但随着时间的飞逝，我越来越坚信我被视为曲折定律的宠物理论是非常奏效的。
曲折定律的陈述非常简单：“做一件事情”不管它是取自于一部低劣的好莱坞电影的事实（时髦或是世故的城市人）我坚信这条定律对那些想做某件事，而且是做得确实很好很好的人来说，确实是一个屡试不爽的制胜之策。（我同样也坚信这条定律，明显逊色于它那比电影还悠久的名称）。
取得巨大成功的痴迷类型们的例子。
我敢打赌，如果要你选出你最喜欢的五个确实很成功的人士，他们一定全是在自己成年早期，就已经有单向思维，沉浸与自己独特的眼光。以下是一些随机抽取的成绩超好的学生:
1.比尔盖茨: 不是每个人都喜欢或是我所喜欢的很热别，但是你不得不这样评价他：他创造了一个伟大的时代。他是如何做到的呢?那就是通过将所有的精力倾注于一目标。
2. 鲍勃迪伦: 我最喜欢的音乐家之一!这不像他干的事情-—花很多时间的和自己讨论自己是不是想成为一名海狮训练员，有史以来最伟大的二手车推销员或者是一个歌手抑或是作曲家--那是他所做的，这也正是他所取得的成就。
3.圣雄甘地 : 这个人至只想着一件事情—以非暴力方式结束英国在印度的统治。他同样也做到了，而不是通过犯错犯错而后改变自己的主意。
4.阿姆 : 在查这个人的伟大计划是什么的时候你遇到了什么麻烦吗？当然不会，他只有一个人摆脱贫穷的战略，这个战略就是成为世界上最好的歌手之一。
5. 理查德·布兰森 : .他可能有一大堆的不同的业务，但你觉得他唯一的重点是什么？他的品牌维珍。这是他的饭票，他通过集中精力创造了它，因为早在大约一百年前，留长发是一件很酷的事情。
想（只关于一种东西）而后变得富裕。
如果您读过拿破仑希尔的经典，那么你就会知道，这本书里最有力的一个的概念就是您应该选择和集中于一个明确的主要目标（即一个单一的主要目标） 。
想想你现在正处于什么样的位置。
笼罩着你的是一个巨大的宏观世界，这个宏观世界衍生出无限的，越来越多的，不会停止的如雾一般的东西。
现在想想你内心的东西。我们不能看见它，但是现在我们知道我们能够磨练我们身体的任何领域，一点一点的攻克，直到那东西变得很小以至于我们的工具或者是数学都不能觉察到它。机会就是事情会变得越来越小，对吗？但是就算它们不在变得像我们所知道的那么小--但是还是有很多的细节存在你的身体里，因此任务会持续不断的出现，你将很难得到控制甚至需要做什么更不用说完全将这一些做好。
但是如果你选择一个目标，你观察得越仔细就越会发现有大量的事情需要去做。在一个目标里你也许会找到足够的事情做，在不多甚至是几年的时间里使你继续前进。如果你不把重要的事情完全做完的话，这个目标可能永远都不会实现了，长官！
所以这就是为什么只有一个而不是几个目标比较好的原因。因为几个没有实现的目标没有一个成功实现的目标有价值，它是如此的有价值—而且不仅仅是在金钱上。
因此，忘记那些关于平衡的东西吧--变成一个只对一件事痴迷的人，做一些在你的生活中确实值得敬畏的事情。
你认为如何呢？
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