When progress stalls, focus beats friction.

If you’ve ever sat at your desk with twelve important things staring back at you — all urgent, all overdue — you know that particular brand of leadership fatigue. It’s the kind that comes not from laziness, but from caring about too many things at once.

When everything feels equally important, nothing moves. Energy spreads out, like sunlight across a field — warm, but not transformative. The leaders who get unstuck aren’t the ones who work harder. They’re the ones who learn to focus better.

That starts with a single question:
If I could accomplish only one thing in the next three months, what would it be?

That question cuts through the noise. It helps you identify the one goal that, if achieved, would move all the others forward.

Focus isn’t about giving up on everything else — it’s about giving your best effort to the thing that matters most right now.

I recently shared a story about how I learned this the hard way (twelve new product launches, zero real traction). The lesson was simple but not easy: diffused effort is wasted effort. Concentrated effort creates momentum.

You can read the full story here — including a practical process for clarifying your top goal and identifying the one barrier that’s holding you back:

Read: Getting Unstuck — Focus Beats Friction

If you’re feeling stuck this week, start by narrowing your aim.
Clarity isn’t a luxury — it’s leverage.

Warmly,
Jared