What is better, working on a lot of recurring tasks throughout the day that keep you busy for hours on end, or finishing a small task that makes a huge difference? Sounds like a stupid question, but I submit to you that most people choose to do the former every day. We tend to believe that feeling busy means that we are making a difference. However, being busy for business sake is really just being lazy – laziness in the form of not looking for what is really going to make a difference in your day, week, month, or year.
The 20/80 rule (Pareto’s law) helps us to find the little things that make big impacts in our lives. Rather than becoming inundated with a thousand different tasks, by focusing our effotrs on the big wins, you can be more productive and have better results.
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