When the Glass Breaks

“In his novel Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas, James Patterson artfully highlights where our priorities lie in our personal and professional balancing act: ‘Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls.

The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air.

But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls—family, health, friends, and integrity are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.’”

— The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan

The ONE THING for today: In everything you do, look for those tasks/issues that – if mishandled – something, or mostly likely someone will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Make handling those tasks and issues wisely your determined and sustained focus.