80/20 Rule For The Path Of Success!
The 80/20 rule states that 80% of your success in life will be the result of 20% of your most important activities. Now if this 80/20 rule is not applied in prioritizing your activities, your mind will automatically involve you in activities that are easier to do and require less thinking instead of the more important activities.
For example, dropping off your clothes at the cleaners may be an easy activity requiring very little planning, stress, or mental energy, but it certainly won’t bring you closer to your dreams and goals.
If you instead arrange to have your dry cleaning picked up and delivered, and spend the hour you’ve saved working on the resume you’ve been meaning to update to get the new job listed on your goals List, you’re prioritizing your activities according to the 80/20 rule.
Practiced consistently, carefully, and continuously, this rule will eventually develop into a habit of maximum personal effectiveness. You will find that you are getting up to twice as much done in only half the time.
Applying the 80/20 rule also reduces the stress that often occurs when you feel you’re getting behind or just aren’t producing enough results for the time and effort you are expending.
Everything we do has an impact on the outcome of our future, so be careful what we choose to do.
Make sure everything (or, at least most of the things) we do has a positive influence on our desired outcome, else if we make our choice casually without thinking about the 80/20 rule, we are simply wasting our precious time.
Tags:80/20 rule, activities, choice, decision, effort, goals, influence, results, success
December 30th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
Thanks CK, I think I need to remind myself to keep focused on the 20 percent of the things create 80 of the results.
Especially on the internet where there is so much hype, it is important to keep focused, and not be lured away from your focus by “bright shiny objects” that come along the way.
Cheers for a needle focused 2007!