You can’t worry about other people and what they’ve got going on. Your focus has to be on yourself and whatever you need to do in order to get done what you need to get done. The outside world using your concern. What is happening outside of you, what is occurring outside of your own mind, can’t be your concern at all. You don’t have the capacity to be worried about and involved in the problems and affairs of other people AND reach your fullest potential. That’s just not the way the game works. 

If you want to become the best version of yourself that you could possibly become, it’s going to take the whole of you.  It’s going to take all of your ability, all of your energy, all of your focus. You can’t become the best in your field, the elite of the elite, while simultaneously helping everyone else put out their fires. No. You’ve got to use all that you have within yourself to focus on doing the things that are going to get you where you want to be. And you really need to be, and should be, absolutely unapologetic about it. 

Of course you are going to love the people that you have in your life. Of course you are going to be concerned about them if they bring a problem to your desk. This is only natural. This is a part of being a human.  But it is imperative that you let them know that you have to there all of your energy and focus on your what you are doing and what you have to accomplish. And the beauty of it is once you start achieving the grand results they you want to achieve, you’re going to be in a position where you’re able to help others. In fact, the most unselfish thing that you can do in life is spend a considerable amount of time being absolutely selfish in order to put yourself in a position to EFFECTIVELY help others and be a blessing to the ones that you love, and be a blessing to others as well. 

In order to help other people cure their thirst, you need to have a cup that is overflowing, which means that you have to fill your own cup up in the first place.  Once your cup is full, you’re in position to assist the next man in getting a drink. You want your cup to be so full that it can overflow into many other cups. Be so on point that you a cup isn’t even worthy anymore, because you need a full bucket. You need full BUCKETS. And once you’re able to attain that status, you’ll be able to fill up the buckets of many others. 

But none of that is possible unless you are able to reach your own levels, unless you are able to expand your own limits. The MOST unselfish thing you can do in life is to be selfish enough to maximize your own potential and expand your own limits. Your friends, your family, your coworkers, and society at large will all be benefitted by you becoming the best version of yourself. So before you even consider anything else, make sure you max out your own potential.