jbjb Hello, this is Brian Tracy and welcome to Make It Happen Mondays. The 80/20 rule
is one of the most profound concepts of time and life management. This rule states that
20% of your activities will account for 80% of your results, 20% of your customers will
account for 80% of your sales, 20% of your products or services will account for 80%
of your profits. And, 20% of your tasks will account for 80% of the value of everything
you do and so on. This means that if you have a list of 10 items to do, two of those items
will turn out to be worth as much or more than the other eight items all put together.
You often see people who appear to be busy all day long, but they seem to accomplish
very little. This is almost always because they are busy doing things that are of low
value while they procrastinate on the one or two activities that if they completed them
quickly and well, could make a real difference to their lives. Does this sound like you at
anytime? The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex,
but the rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous. The fact is
that the amount of time required to complete an important job is often the same amount
of time as the time required to doing an unimportant job. Many people make the mistake of dividing
up their time over a number of items rather than over the importance of items that have
to be done. Now the difference is when you completed an important task, you get a tremendous
feeling of satisfaction from the completion of something valuable and significant. When
you complete a low value task using the same amount of time and energy, you get little
or no satisfaction at all. In fact, it tires you out and stresses you because when you
re looking and working on small tasks, you re not working on your big tasks and they
re building up like an avalanche overhang builds up. You must adamantly refuse to work
on tasks in the bottom 80% while you still have tasks in the top 20% left to be done.
Before you begin work, always ask yourself, Is this task in the top 20% of my activities
or in the bottom 80%? And if it s in the bottom 80% don t do it, just say no. BrianTracy-8020Rule-MM-2011-07-18
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