Old habits are hard to break. It doesn’t matter if we know they aren’t good for us. They’re still hard to get rid of. And chances are, bad habits are preventing you from working less and making more.

If you’ve been following the Work Less, Make More program, you’ve learned how to prioritize your tasks and focus on the projects that really matter. These are the high-payoff activities. These are the things that stir passion in your soul, make life worth living, and put you on the road to success.

Prioritizing is a big part of working more and making less. Most people are bombarded with things to do every day. They find themselves moving quickly from one task to the next, from that task to another, all day long. When you’re in that kind of cycle, it’s hard to really get going on any one thing. Your mind is jumping from one thing to the next.

Time is one of our most valuable commodities. That’s why people spend thousands of dollars and, yes—lots of time!—attending time management seminars and reading books about the latest time management theories.

If only we could learn how to better manage time! That would solve everything, right?

It’s funny how we give so much credit to time. When we are feeling frazzled and harried and just plain burnt-out we like to blame it on time, as if it’s something that we can’t control.

One of the keys to Working Less, Making More is focus. Today, I want you to focus on your three highest value activities. For now, forget the other stuff.