Jan 18 2008
Living the 80/20 Way
Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More
by Richard Koch (14100)
By doing less, you can actually end up achieving more.
The key is to make sure you’re doing less of what adds only marginal value (most likely 80 percent of your current tasks) and focus instead on doing better whatever generates the majority of the value you add (the other 20 percent). To find the time to do this, don’t even try doing your marginal value tasks. Instead, focus on your key tasks and completely drop everything else.
In practice, the best way to ahieve this is to work backwards from where you want to end up.
First, describe your destination — something personally motivating that cuts through all the irrelevancies and spells out where you want to end up in terms of personal development, career, money, relationships and quality of life. Define what you really want.
Next, figure out your 80/20 route possibilties. Usually there will be a number of options for reaching your specified destination. Your 80/20 route will be many times more productive than all the other options, and it will be easier for you to do.
Finally, get into action. Do the very few things that will hel pyou achieve more with less effort than you ever thought possible. It is only when you actually take action rather than merely knowing what you should be doing that changes will start to occur.
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