I had a brilliant conversation with my friend Larry several weeks ago. Years ago Larry used to bike competitive in races as a strong hobby. These days he's up to several engineering projects and teaching. So we were talking about vision and big picture ideas (living out who you're supposed to be and doing what you're supposed to do). We also discussed the micro picture of creating to do lists and being faithful to them.

Here is the major nugget of the conversation. Larry said in racing 1,000 things will prevent you from winning the race. There are 1,000 distractions of things you could be doing but won't help and there are only 5 things you can do or be.  Those are the 5 things that will help you win the race. Larry continued "...And if you can narrow down the 1,000 distractions to just 100, you will win the race."