The secret of more in-depth than in width. How to progress more by doing less?

The secret of progressing more by doing less…

I’m an avid reader. In the last 25 years, I read a lot of non-fiction books. I haven’t summarized most of them.
In the past five years, I’ve reviewed and summarized the books I read more regularly. A few months ago I started to summarize and sometimes share my work.

Each level of depth helps me to understand better, retain, and take action. So the more I review, the more I learn and implement. The execution part is the crucial one. It helps me to progress more.

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Mr. Covey
  • I learned 7 habits that help me manage my personal and professional life every day.
• Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want – Daniel Harkavy and Michael S. Hyatt
  • I learned to make a life plan.
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – Greg McKeown
  • I learned to sleep better.
• The Miracle Morning: The not-so-obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life Before 8 AM – Hal Elrod
  • I learned to implement morning routines.
• The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life by JL Collins.
  • It gave me the courage to simplify my investment strategy and embrace new principles

And the list goes on for my personal and business life.

This concept also works for quite everything you produce.
For example, I’ve been journaling for the past five years. I’ve written hundreds of thousands of words. It helps me to self-reflect on what is happening in my life, clarify my thoughts and define my next essential actions. But I am much more efficient when I do a simple exercise of regularly reviewing what I wrote and summarizing my lessons learned. By doing so, I understand, retain, and implement more in my daily life.

In both cases, it seems obvious, as with every valuable activity. It’s easy to understand but challenging to implement.
Why? We need to be proactive, take time, and build a system that facilitates the implementation of these new routines. The system/processes that allow you to reproduce easily are key.

When you’ve just read a book that impacted you, take time to work on it instead of jumping to the next one. Once a week, journal and summarize what you learned the previous week. You’ll read less but learn and apply more, and as a result, you will get better outcomes.

Often, less is more.