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The 80/20 rule is one of the most helpful concepts of time and life management. It’s also called “Pareto Principle”, after the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who first wrote about it in 1895. He divided society into to parts, one called the “vital few”,the top 20%, and the other, the “trivial many”, the bottom 80%. This principle says that 20% of our activities will account for 80% of our results. This means that if you have a list of 10 things to do, two of those items will turn out to be worth five or ten times or more than the other eight items put together.
Start doing the most important job first, here is the rule, “If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first”. Also remember the second rule of frog eating: “If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn’t pay to sit and look at it for long time”. So prioritize your work and start taking action, don’t just sit and procrastinate.
The 80/20 rule is one of the most helpful concepts of time and life management. It’s also called “Pareto Principle”, after the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who first wrote about it in 1895. He divided society into to parts, one called the “vital few”,the top 20%, and the other, the “trivial many”, the bottom 80%. This principle says that 20% of our activities will account for 80% of our results. This means that if you have a list of 10 things to do, two of those items will turn out to be worth five or ten times or more than the other eight items put together.
Start doing the most important job first, here is the rule, “If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first”. Also remember the second rule of frog eating: “If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn’t pay to sit and look at it for long time”. So prioritize your work and start taking action, don’t just sit and procrastinate.