Article: How To Benefit From The 80/20 Principle

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How To Benefit From The 80/20 Principle
By Michael Hall

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My friend do you find yourself procrastinating, just
wasting time for no good reason? Are you constantly busy
and hard at work? Feeling you have travelled 6 miles, only
to realize that you only made it 6 feet ahead?

The 80/20 principle basically states that 80% of whatever
was accomplished is a result of only 20% of the effort
used to attain the accomplishment.

In other words the fundamental problem you are experiencing
may very well be a direct result of your lack of focus on
the 20% that matters.

The problem is that you are most likely spending most of
your time completing the minor stuff - the 80%. But you are
not focusing FIRST on the important 20%. If you focus on
completing the least important stuff first - the 80%, you
will find that you often never get around to even starting
to work on the important 20%.

The Solution?

Try this now ...

Sit down and look at your list of things to do today,
(HINT:You do have a list right?), and suppose you have 10
tasks to complete today. This rule is saying that only 2 of
the 10 scheduled tasks are really important and the other
8 can be done later or maybe not at all.

Just ask yourself ...

1. What will be gained if I do no.3 today?
2. What will be the consequence of not completing no.3
today?

Do that for all 10 tasks, and assign each a priority, 1-10
or a-z.

Now get started on the 2 most important tasks right now!

If you do this each day, you will find that you got a lot
done by doing just 2 items; The 2 most important items.

It's sort of like spending all day getting your nails or
hair done, it takes all day(80%) but you never got around
to picking out a great outfit(20%). No matter how nice your
hair and nails look you aren't going out without a nice
outfit.

Or cleaning up the kitchen(80%) and not washing the dishes
and cleaning the floor(20%). The kitchen still appears to
be filthy because you spent your time doing the easier,
quicker tasks, and neglected the 2 tasks that make a big
difference.

By the time you finish reading Brian Tracy's, "Eat That
Frog: 21 Ways to Overcome Procrastination" you will be a
lot more efficient and organised, the short article above
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[PhilC]

I fell asleep ....

[kwvarga]

yeah i did too..

[LazyJim]

hmmm now how do i force myself to make a list and choose the most important tasks?

Does playing couter-strike count as a task?

[Therese]

I think it was a great article. Now let me make my list

1) Wake Up
2) Get out of bed
3) Walk to Kitchen
4) Fill Coffee pot
5) Measure Coffee
6) Turn Coffee Pot ON
7) Turn on Computer
9) Read Email
10) Check Forums

Ok So this is my list for today

The two most important are
1) Turn on Computer
2) Check Forums

Yea, thats what I'll do today!

[ccarte2]

the pareeto effect is golden

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[ToddW]

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