How do you start your day? Looking at your to-do list? Doing little things to get them out of the way? Wishing you’d gotten more done the day before?

What if, every day, instead of that, you asked yourself a question instead. A question like this.

If I could do only one thing today, what would it be?

What would I say? Who would I meet? Where would I go?

Instead, we try to choose everything, and the problem is, it never works.

So, here is the answer: stop trying to do it all.

Today, just once, pick one thing. Focus on it. See what happens.

Here’s what I predict. You will accomplish at least one thing.

Don’t worry. Everything else will keep coming. It always does, like it or not.

But today, you can stop imagining yourself getting things done. You can enjoy the freedom and accomplishment that doing just one thing can bring.

Try it today. I dare you.