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7everything. I don't have time to do everything. Pushers, and there are a lot of pushers out there who need to hear this. Pushers think the more they get done, the more satisfied they will be. Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Selection is the name of the game for effectiveness. Concentrating your energy on what God wants you to do, not what everybody else wants you to do. When you hone in on what your real purpose for life is, it not only tells you what you need to do, it also tells you what you don't need to do.Too many of you are very efficient, but you're not effective. Do you know what the difference is between efficient and effective? Efficiency is doing things right, effectiveness is doing right things. I want to make sure I'm doing the right things, rather than just doing things right. If you're not careful, you'll end up arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Have you ever thought about that? It looks good, it's all neat and it's in order, but the ship is sinking. Effectiveness!Peter Drucker was perhaps the leading management guru of this past century. He was asked one time: What's the basic thing that every business owner needs to know? Drucker said, \ are only two questions related to business that the owner needs to know.Number one, what is my business? And number two, how is business?\What is my business in life? And question number two, how's business?Life focus has tremendous power; it's like a light that is focused. Take a light and focus it through a magnifying glass. You will concentrate the energy of the light to where it can set a piece of paper on fire. If you take it and concentrate it even moreyou create a thing called a laser that can cut through anything. Light concentrated has power, light diffused doesn't have that power%u2014the same way with life. Life concentrated has power. Life diffused has no power at all. Paul understood this, he said in Philippians 3:13, \Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on to win the goal.\The number one game in America right now is Trivial Pursuit and I'm not talking about the board game. I'm talking about life. The ridiculous way we fill our lives with things that don't matter.The average American who will live to about age 85 will spend about ten years watching television. Tell me, of all the things that you have watched, have you seen enough that's worth giving up 10 years for?Some of you are too busy. Some of you, some of us, are pulled into too many directions, not doing bad things, but chasing trivial things. The end result is disappointing. The maximum life eliminates distractions.3. It attracts assistance.There are so few people who know where they're going in life that if you'll figure it out; they'll want to go with you. That's the nature of the beast. If they sense you have purpose, they'll want to go. That's true with even purpose-driven people who are headed in the