TLDR: Focus drives momentum—they’re not the opposing forces most people believe they are.
Gravitation equilibrium is essentially the delicate balance between a star or planet’s intensely hot core creating outward pressure to explode and the force of gravity pulling to collapse it.
Truthfully, I don’t really understand it, but according to some old astronomy tests I came across this weekend while cleaning out my childhood home, I at least memorized the answer.
And I’ve written about equal and opposite forces in business before, as well as about space, so this may not be too much of a stretch for us after all.
Whether a founder or a salesperson, there is always an intensely hot core—the pressure to do more, sell more, grow faster, be better, etc.
And at the same time, without focus—fewer things done better, as we say—a constant force keeping the energy contained and exerted in productive ways, everything will fall apart.
So the question we have to reflect on is whether we are the type of people who are all grind and no strategy, all theory and no execution, or intensely focused creating incredible momentum?
The third state is true professional equilibrium, and not opposing forces at all.
Focus, or even just a common language across a team, will teach people how to think instead of what to think. It will enable leverage through decentralized decision making, and it will create the space for progress your peers simply cannot compete with.
See you Monday.