2. Concentrate on strengths and focus your efforts

If you want achievements to come easy or if you are to achieve anything notable in the first place, you must concentrate on your strengths. Little can motivate you as much as performing in a domain in which you can make full use of your strengths.

In addition, focus your efforts on very few endeavors. This way you will notch up remarkable achievements. No mere mortal can be successful in numerous domains. Or as tennis legend Jimmy Connors once put it: “In modern tennis you are either a clay court specialist or a grass specialist or a hard court specialist—or you are Roger Federer.”¹ And John McEnroe, who does not exactly have a reputation for extreme modesty, had this to say about Federer: “Thanks, Roger, for downgrading us all to the status of average players. Never in my life have I seen such a gifted player.”²